University of Brawijaya students were delegates the 2016 Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN). The event held on Friday until Monday (11-14/Mar/2016) in Boston, The United States of America. In the competition, UB was represented by 10 inter-faculties students including Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and also Faculty of Economics and Business.
A delegate, Hasto Khoirru from Faculty of Cultural Studies explained, the event is a simulation. “In the event, we had simulation on the United Nations General Assembly. Along with other participants, we discussed global issue. The event is a debate simulation, and utilized as skill and knowledge training on communication, diplomacy, negotiation and international congregation system,” he said.
In the HNMUN, UB delegated a team of each theme, like Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Hasto Khoirru Rachman/FIB 2012 and Tri Selli Martianti/FISIP 2013), Disarmament and International Security Committee (Risky Amanullah/FEB 2012 and Meyla C G Noya/FT 2014), legal Committee (Kristiyanto/FH 2013 and Pradipto Bhaskoro Susilo B./FEB 2014), World Health Organization (Sefrina Trisadi/FK 2012) and also World Conference on Women (Rivani Ratna Juwita/FISIP 2013).
In the similar occasion, UB delegates also succeeded to pierce of Social Venture Challenge finalist in HNMUN. The event, according to Hasto, is a student empowerment event to convey ideas in form of social venture project.
In the competition, Hasto Khoirru Rachman, Kristiyanto and Tri Selli Martianti joined in a team named “PDG: Portable Decomposer Garbage” in a theme of technology and environment in Indonesia.
The team also had a social project in form of organic waste management to be directly utilized after processing. “the duration of waste processing is a week. Afterwards could be used as compost. The device capacity is able to contain household waste up to 5 kilograms. We will implement this in Cemoro Kandang area,” he said.
By the device, PDG team of University of Brawijaya succeeded to qualify the final step as 9 best finalist at the 2016 HNMUN Social Venture Challenge, side by side with 10 Nopember Institue of Technology, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesian Education University and some other delegates from Africa. [Vicky/Humas UB/trans. Denok]
