Launching of the “Indonesia Facing the Pandemic” Book and the Scholarship Fund Raising

12/30/2020 12:00:00 AM

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The Scholarship Office, together with the Unika Atma Jaya Institute of Public Policy (IPP), held a fund-raising event as well as a book launching.  Indonesia Menghadapi Pandemi (Indonesia Facing the Pandemic) is the book composed by the lecturers of Unika Atma Jaya, consisting of insights and perspectives in dealing with current world situation. The book is also sold as a display of care towards the students who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, with all the sales of the book allocated to the distribution of scholarship. The book launching was held on December 14, 2020, with an opening remark from the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia, Minister of Research and Technology, Directorate General of Higher Education, Executive Director of the Communication Department of Bank Indonesia, The Head of Bank Mandiri Semanggi Branch Office, and Museum of Indonesian Record (MURI).

 

The event can be viewed online through the YouTube Platform of Unika Atma Jaya and Zoom Meeting, featuring some entertaining performances, such as “Scholastic,” which is a band consisting of the student grantees, and “Cadati,” a dance group of student grantees from Papua. This event, which was attended by 177 online participants, was awarded by MURI as “The First University to Hold Fund-Raising using QRIS.” Through this event, the Scholarship Office was able to sell 500 books as initially targeted, with the total amount of money collected reaching Rp99.448.112,-. This fund-raising effort will continue in the next one year, with the target of up to Rp1 billion.