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RUG Alumni Dinner 2005
Date: Saturday, February 5th 2005 Time: 18.00 – Place: Bebek Bali Resto, Taman Ria Senayan Attended by: 45 – 47 persons
In the efforts to more integrate RuG and her alumnae, RuG ambassadors for Indonesia planned an alumni dinner on Saturday, February 5th 2005 at Bebek Bali Resto. This event took the occasion of NEC’s Holland Education Fair. The RuG Ambassadors are:
Madeleine, Wil Verwey, Karsten, and Henk left HEF for Bebek Bali at 5.30. They wanted to be there before the first arrives. Robert Manurung, Rowena, and Lessy were coming with them. The firsts finally arrived at 6.10. At 7.15 there were already more than 20 people in the resto, including Prof. Wahyudi Wisaksono (RuG alumni of year 1958! He’s the oldest alumni who came that evening. Now he is a professor in Trisakti University ) and Dr. Andreas Budihardjo.
We started that evening by inviting everyone to take their meal (from the buffet). After some more came, Madeleine started at 8.00 pm by giving the audience the description of RuG internationalization. The fun facts are:
After delivering the facts, Madeleine read the letter from the head of PPI-Groningen, Febrian. The message was to integrate the alumni and the current students of RuG, to unite the diverse ideas and beliefs into one great community. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Ibu, Following is the "message" from us for Alumni that we'd like Ibu read in the gathering. Please also send my personal greeting to Pak Kus (if it is available).
Thank you verymuch, and I'll keep in touch with you.
Jabat erat, Febdian -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Words from current RuG students to Alumni
Dear Alumni, We are honored to have Ibu madeleine as messenger for our greeting to the Alumnis.
At this moment, please allow us to inform you that our beloved association, PPI-G, is in a great condition. Starting on last 20 Nov, we began a new era of PPI-G. Election was followed by 120 participants to select 3 candidates. That's an incredible number; in fact a record high in the number of election participants in the history of election in all PPI cities in the Netherlands since 1999. "Quantity of participants determines the quality of government" (Eep Syaifullah Fatah, Nov 04 in Den Haag).
PPI-G, with new vision, is trying to convert the plurality to power and beauty, a concept already well known to us, stated in the national motto "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika". We are spreading out our network, to PPIs in other cities and countries, to universities, to local student associations, to the embassy, to the government of the Republik Indonesia , to NGOs in Indonesia , and many more. The instant result we got from this good relationship, in reactions of tsunami 26/12, is that we were able to organize 4 days big action in the Grotemark (10 - 13 January 2004) and to collect EUR 3530*.
Now, it's time to embrace our own Alumni, a potential community, that we believe, has a strong emotional bounding with us. Together, we can do many positive activities and programs. We open our hands for Alumni, wish that we can walk together, for two clearvisions: helping our members (both PPI-G and Alumni) and developing our beloved country.
On behalf of current Indonesian students in Groningen Febdian Rusydi (aka Buyung)** President of PPI-G --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
After Madeleine’s speech, Henk de Sol presented his lecture on the reputation race the RuG is facing. His lecture could give some insight to us combine academic theories and practical solutions. To compete in the race, he has several solutions, which of them are:
He also made a SWOT Analysis, and the result is: Strength: Groningen is a comfortable city (gezellig) Weakness: Opportunities: coordination among programs and its entrepreneurship Threat: Reputation race
The third speaker was Stefanus Djoni, as the Secretary General of IK Rug. He reminded all the alumni about the vision and the aims of our IK-RUG, which is to assist RuG in every aspects possible, to enhance alumnae’s entrepreneurship by building networks and inviting all the alumni to be involved in our association. He also talked about constraints we are facing as an association trying to get members. And finally, he introduced our first newsletter as a contribution from the association to the members.
The last but not least was Robert Manurung as our advisor. He introduced Edo as the president of IK RUG and invited the alumni to contribute some of their wealth into the IK-RuG. The hat was distributed and the fund raised was Rp 1.030.000. That was not bad for a day work J .
Right after that, the music started and everybody started to dance. The dinner was successful and everybody seemed to be happy. The place is nice, the band is terrific, the food is scrumptious, and we are among the family. We hope that our next alumni dinner would be as successful as this one. Thank you everyone.
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