YOGYAKARTA (9/3) – International Program of Government Affairs and Administration, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (IGOV) UMY always keep developing the international environment and facilitating students to expand their intellectual capacity, core competency, skills about essential issues on a global scale, especially in a governmental and political case. Thus, IGOV UMY continuously allows international students to grow and learn together to create a global environment.
IGOV UMY interviewed two foreign candidates as the registration requirements of IGOV UMY student college. They are Chernet Masresha Asmamaw from Ethiopia and Osid Ahmed Abdullah Hageb came from Yemen. Previously, the candidates consisted of three who registered for IGOV at first, but one candidate left the position due to his case. The agenda was held at the Zoom Meeting because the participants could not attend the offline meeting. The selection was led by the Head of the UMY Government Science Study Program, Dr. Tunjung Sulaksono, M.Sc., and Adibah Dhivani Gusmi, S.IP., as International Mobility and Cooperation IGOV UMY.
With this program, the Head of the UMY Government Science Study Program said it would assess the candidates to get the best score. Furthermore, the elected students properly get the fully funded scholarship from UMY as their facilitation as an international student.
One participant said he has lived in Bogor, West Java, for six years. He started living in Indonesia from about 2015 to 2017, and he took a one-year gap to rest as the conflict in his country raised his trauma, then he got into senior high school. He lives alone in a refugee because his parents still live in Yemen. Furthermore, he decided to take IGOV as his following study in Indonesia. The agenda is run systematically from start to end, and the problem comes only from the connection at the beginning of the meeting.
