(Unila): An international student from Palestine studying at Universitas Lampung (Unila) has completed an internship at Sevima Education Technology Company in Surabaya as a part of the Independent Learning – Independent Campus (MBKM) program.
A cloud-based academic system’s electronic signature feature was one of Mohammad’s responsibilities while working at this company (siakadcloud).
“With the feature I developed during my internship, students will no longer need to seek permission from their lecturers, and lecturers also have no trouble finding students just to sign letters.
Everything is electronic and digitally possible,” said the sixth semester student majoring in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Unila, when welcoming Unila internship students on Wednesday, 9 February 2022 at the Sevima Building, Surabaya.
He believes that his capacity to create digital technologies will enable him to advance his career in the future. He aspires to contribute to the improvement of education in Indonesia and Palestine after completing college.
Early in 2019, Mohammad and four other Palestinian students were awarded scholarships through the Unila-Palestinian collaboration initiative to attend Unila. Mohammad noticed a flyer advertising the Unila scholarship that was put on his campus wall when he was enrolled in his second semester of studies in Gaza.
Because Unila’s educational environment is regarded as being more hospitable and superior to Gaza’s, he decided to pursue his study with the fully paid scholarship. A military invasion of Gaza border in May 2021, one year after he graduated from Unila, devastated mosques, schools, hospitals, and peoples’ homes, including his parents’ homes.
His entire family was injured and hospitalized. “I found the tragedy from the media, instead of having direct news from my family members. I noticed that my house the pictures of which were posted online was demolished. This necessarily disperses my studies,” said Mohammad.
The tragedy has made Mohammad desperate, whether to return to Gaza or to sort out his study. He initially decided to quit studying at Unila and to shortly go back to Gaza to aid his family after the communication access in Gaza was enhanced to his parents. But his parents disapproved of his decision.
“My parents do hope that I can finish my study so that I ultimately have a better job in Indonesia. I still have a strong enthusiasm for computer science because of this. For instance, I leave for Surabaya today to begin an internship at SEVIMA,” he remarked.
He decided to follow his parents’ advice to continue his studies and become self-reliant. He was aware of his tremendous responsibility to complete his study, earning a bachelor’s degree, and ultimately having employment in a higher field.
Mohammad had some difficulties during his study, including having to fast pick up Indonesian in order to improve his ability to pay more attention in class. He demonstrated his good performance for every single subject, achieving a 3.8 of GPA.
According to Prof. Suharso, Vice-Rector for Planning, Cooperation, and ICT, Mohammad began his participation at Unila due to the university’s collaboration with Palestine. Five Palestinian students were awarded fully-funded scholarship from Unila to attend the green campus, Unila.
“We are raising money for scholarships and helping Mohammad and his other friends in their fight to finish their study. The program is also intended to foster international goodwill and to aid the struggling Palestinian people,” said Suharso. [PR Team]
