The crowd and happy faces of all International Relations (IR)
student of Pelita Harapan University (UPH) are visible in the hype of their biggest
annual event at Maxxbox Lippo Karawaci, last Saturday. Namely, International
Relations Fiesta (IRF) is the annual event of IR-UPH student. The closing ceremony
started at 7 P.m. and attracted people’s attention, through their marvelous performances and sharing of valuable
knowledge about international relations. The event filled with music, dances
and winner announcement from the competition that they held days before the
closing event. The event located in the outdoor area of Maxxbox Lippo Karawaci,
and definitely hooked the crowd!
(25 November 2017: Closing Event of IRF 2017)
International Relations Fiesta is an annual event that conducted
by the International Relations students of Pelita Harapan University. Every
year, IR students promote a new theme for a whole week event that will be held
in around October. IRF are an event that targeted to socialize the importance
of relations between states, in the world. The events itself include, seminar,
band competition, dance competition, and Model United Nation (MUN) competition
as the identity of the IR. All of the event are open for all students from any
university, especially IR-UPH students, and targeted to develop and improve
their academic and non-academic skills.
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| Danner Jordan Tampubolon, Head of Comittee |
This year is a chance for people to know more about a special and
closely related region to our own country, Indonesia, as the year’s theme is “ASEAN: The Epitome of
Southeast Asia”. As mentioned by Danner
Jordan Tampubolon, Head of Committee, on our interview: “This year event is more special than years’ before, because we pick a theme that is really related to our own
state, and with proud, it feels so special to spread awareness of our own
identity to other people”. IRF 2017, also has
made a lot of success by achieving significant progress from last year, in the
terms of participants. There’s almost 300 people
who contributed in the event’s competitions and seminar. But on the other
side, success can’t be achieve without
challenges. As Jordan said, it is really quiet a struggle too, to manage the
huge unexpected number of participants. Furthermore, to unite numbers of
committee and the re-scheduled event make it more challenging to manage all
unexpected problems. For example, this year event held on 19-25 November, many
participants’ schedule didn’t match the date and some could not make it.
But well, as we can see in the closing ceremony…
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| Khazni, Visitor |
Hard work will never results a zero! The event attracted people to
come and enjoy the closing ceremony. As the interview goes to one of the
audience, Khazni, “I don’t know there’s an university
event like this. And to be honest, I am happy to know and agree with this event
to spread more awareness about what our country do in the international
community, because lots of people, even my friends, don’t really know and care about it”. So, people give positive feedback to the show and the event
reached its target, to spread the awareness of nationalism through ASEAN , as
Indonesia’s identical region.
So let’s wait for the next event
next year, see you in IRF 2018!
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