Han2cute’s Blog

Bank Internasional Indonesia Inc. (BII) on Friday (5/12) gave scholarships for 50 students, provide the Success Students Award and Research funds for students. The cooperation letter was signed by the President Diretor of BII Henry Ho, UGM’s Rector Prof. Sudjarwadi and the Head of Supervisor Council of Fourth Salemba Foundation (KSE) Mirza Adityaswara at the multimedia room of Balairung UGM.

The cooperation will be done through the KSE, a non-profit and education-centered organization which focuses on the educational support, including giving scholarships in order to improve the quality of Indonesian people.

”It is important to give support to potential students so they can finish their education well and become best men/women for people around them,” said Henry Ho.

Rector of UGM Prof Sudjarwadi expressed his thanks to BII and KSE who have provided scholarships and research fund for UGM’s high-achieving students. He said that BII support is significant to increase students’ chance to accelerate their study and have high achievement while doing it.

Riyani said on Tuesday (2/12) at the Auditorium of BRI at MSi Building of UGM that A lot of other Corporate Social Responsibility program focuses only on environment issues, poverty eradication issues, etc, but the Mandiri Bank is pretty serious in their role in the educational field.

In the General Lecture entitled “The Role and Function of Internal Audit: The Application in Mandiri Bank”, Riyani explained that the CSR program in educational field can be separated in several activities, such as infrastructure, system, technology, educational tools-supporting activities.

Therefore Mandiri Bank expected their contribution can be shared equally from basic education to higher education, therefore Mandiri chose UGM as their partner. Moreover, UGM is one of the Mandiri’s biggest customers and also one of the biggest universities in Indonesia.

Rector expressed his thanks for the 2004-2008 dean deputies of UGM. He said that the former dean deputies have given great contributions and sacrifices in their four years of services as executives of UGM.

UGM also hoped that the next dean deputies can fulfill the expectations from many sides. Moreover, they are also expected to continue the effort of developing qualified persons and knowledge creation.

Thus, the inauguration is the right time to collect the help from all the UGM society. It can take form of either constructive criticisms or advices for the executives of UGM for its actions, planning, and the implementation of UGM programs as the embodiment of UGM Mission.