(Unila): Some 1,987 students from the University of Lampung (Unila) participated in the Independent Campus, Freedom to Learn (MBKM) program, taking the forms of student exchanges, thematic community service, humanitarian projects, teaching assistance, and internships in companies as stated by Head of the Center for Curriculum Development and Management of the Merdeka Campus, Unila, Dr. Feni Munifatullah Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
Unila, as pointed out by thee rector, Prof. Karomani, shortly established a special team to follow up the implementation of MBKM at Unila once the program was launched by the Minister of Education and Culture in January 2020.
Feni said that it was around June, the draft of curriculum was amended from a monodisciplinary mode, focusing on one study program to multidisciplinary, including a number of study programs.
The revised version of the curriculum enables students commencing 2016-2020 to actively get involved in a range of MBKM activities. At the beginning, the MBKM program in which the Unila students participated was a student exchange with the theme, Love the Country.
This constitutes a program launched by the ministry, where approximately 46 universities across Indonesia took part and some 166 Unila students participated in the student exchange activity.
Unila also initiated a humanitarian project in the form of thematic community service on Legundi Island. This was intended to help the people, who were affected by the tsunami disaster, relieve their problems.
Feni added that 10 Unila students were accepted to attend the Bangkit program launched by the Ministry of Education and Culture in the form of internships at technology-based companies, Google, Tokopedia, Gojek, and Traveloka, among others.
Another four students participated in a certified internship at PTPN VII, and some 16 students took part in the Indonesian Student Entrepreneurship Program.
Unila provided students with MBKM activities, each of which is equivalent to 20 credits for one semester. The program facilitates students to have beneficial outcomes for themselves, particularly for the community or the company where their internship program is located.
Unila has targeted some 9000 (30%) of 30,000 Unila students in total to attend MBKM activities as stipulated in the Unila rector’s work contract with the Ministry of Education and Culture. [PR Team]
