IPIREL VISIT 2015 : awal kebangkitan IPIREL COMMUNITY?

Acara berjudul “IPIREL VISIT 2015 : Visualizing the Goals of International Relations’ Students” telah diikuti oleh 65 peserta yang tersebar dari mahasiswa IPIREL angkatan 2012, 2013, dan 2014. Acara tersebut terbilang sukses, setelah semua yang direncanakan oleh Ainun Maidi selaku ketua panitia pelaksana dan kawan – kawan terlaksana dengan lancar sesuai rencana hingga kembalinya semua peserta dan panitia ke kampus UMY pada hari Rabu, 11 Maret 2015 dengan selamat.

Sesuai dengan tema yang telah ditentukan oleh pihak panitia, acara satu hari kunjungan tersebut memang ditujukan untuk memberi gambaran kepada mahasiswa Jurusan Hubungan Internasional, khususnya mahasiswa International Program on International Relations (IPIREL UMY) tentang beberapa pilihan konsentrasi studi yang akan dihadapi pada tahun ke 3 perkuliahan yaitu Diplomasi, Multinational Company, atau International Governmental/Non Governmental Organization.

Dengan maksud dan tujuan tersebut, panitia memilih PT. Coca Cola Amatil, Konsulat Jenderal Amerika Serikat, dan World Wildlife Fund sebagai destinasi kunjungan dari rangkaian acara ‘IPIREL VISIT 2015'.

   

Dimulai dengan kunjungan ke PT. Coca Cola Amatil, para peserta mendapat penjelasan tentang seluk beluk perusahaan pembuat merk minuman terkenal tersebut dari mulai sejarah perusahaan, proses perekrutan pegawai, sampai melihat langsung proses pembuatan dan pengemasan minuman soda terkenal seperti Coca-Cola, Sprite, dan Fanta.

Sebagian foto peserta di PT. Coca Cola Amatil Pandaan

Setelah sampai di destinasi ke dua yaitu Konsulat Jenderal Amerika Serikat, para peserta diajak berdiskusi langsung oleh Carolina Escalera, Public Affairs Officer Konjen AS Surabaya tentang peran institusi tersebut dalam hubungan diplomasi Indonesia – AS. Tidak lupa, para peserta juga mendapat banyak informasi tentang peluang beasiswa yang disediakan oleh pemerintah AS untuk mahasiswa Indonesia.

Diskusi dengan Carolina Escalera, Public Affairs Officer Konjen AS Surabaya.
Courtesy : Facebook US Consulate General Surabaya

Pemberian pelakat dari advisor IPIREL VISIT 2015, Mr. Takdir Ali Mukti kepada pihak US Congen SBY.
Courtesy : US Facebook Consulate General Surabaya

Foto bersama para peserta di Congen US SBY.
Courtesy : Facebook US Consulate General Surabaya

Berikutnya rombongan peserta dan panitia menuju ke Agrowisata Mangrove Surabaya untuk mendapat penjelasan dari pihak WWF tentang peran mereka dalam usaha perlindungan alam Indonesia dari ancaman kerusakan yang diakibatkan oleh perilaku manusia yang semakin tidak peduli terhadap lingkungan di Indonesia.

Acara yang diusung oleh ‘IPIREL COMMUNITY’ ini sangat patut untuk diapresiasi. Setelah kurang lebih satu periode komunitas tersebut terbilang vacuum, ‘IPIREL VISIT 2015’ menandai dimulainya periode baru yang kembali menggalakkan semangat komunitas kecil ini untuk kembali aktif membuat acara – acara yang bersifat mendukung aktivitas akademik mahasiswa.

Thanks to the Board partners (Yuni, Novan)

Merbabu : A Short Story of A Beginner

Having a holiday was never this ‘exhausting’. It was all started when a friend of mine, Linda, informed me that she was about to make a 2 days trip to Merbabu mountain in Central Java. Without taking any longer, saying ‘yes, I come’ was all I wanted to do once I heard the invitation came into these ears.

The date was set, we decided to go on 21st of Feb 2015. I forced my self to go back to Yogyakarta from Tasikmalaya earlier than what I already scheduled previously. It doesn’t matter anyway, i’ll spend the rest of this holiday on such of fun trip, I thought.

Long story short, the d-day finally came. Since it was my first time to go hiking, I was sort of too enthusiastic in preparing the stuffs that I should carry on within the trip. Eventually, I spent around Rp.500.000 in total to cover all the things I needed. I know...I supposed to just rent them, what a dull!

We went there via Selo, Magelang (recommended track). It was around 2,5 hours from Yogyakarta by motorbike until we finally arrived at the base camp at 17.00 WIB to have meals, final check preparation, and registration procedure. I barely forgot how much the cost of registration was, but pretty sure it was less than Rp.15.000.

views from the base camp.
(pict. idh) 

For some reasons, we decided to start walking at 20.00 WIB. Fortunately, even it was completely dark, but It wasn’t raining at all. As it was my first experience in hiking, what I expected about the track was, frankly speaking, easy and solid. But totally, it wasn’t!

Although the track wasn’t (not even close) like what I imagined, the trip was totally fun! It took 6 hours (cause we took so many breaks) from the base camp to reach the camping ground which was located around 2500 mdpl (maybe). Since the trip was dominated by the newbies just like me, we decided to build the tent in the camping ground at 02.00 WIB and we would continue walking by tomorrow morning.

Apparently, the super cold air and leg injury that I had right before reaching the camping ground forced me not to continue the trip to the peak at the next morning. I decided to wait and going around to the hills in the surrounding area behind the camp as some of my friends continue the trip up to the peak.

Views from The Camping Ground
(pict. idh)

Track to the top
(pict.idh)

It was really disappointing that I couldn’t make it to the peak, but for the first experience, reaching this high was kind of personal pride to me.

Direct views to Magelang & Jogja.
(pict. idh)

We were having fun!
(courtesy : ulfa)

Bonus View : Merapi
(pict. idh)

Although I knew how exhausting it was, But I won’t reject any invitations to go again for the similiar trips! :)