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Unesa.ac.id, SURABAYA-State University of Surabaya (UNESA) won two national awards at the same time in the 2021 Diktiristek Award which was held by the Directorate General of Higher Education, Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Directorate General of Diktiristek, Kemendikbudristek), at Building D Complex Kemendikbudristek, Jakarta, on Thursday, January 13, 2022.
On that occasion, UNESA received the Best Public Relations Award in the category of Public Service Complaint Management (LAPOR) and the 2nd best Cooperation Award in the category of Data Management of Public Service Universities Cooperation with Public Service Agencies (PTN BLU).
Director General of Diktiristek, Kemendikbudristek, Prof. Ir. Nizam, M.Sc., DIC, Ph.D., IPU, Asean Eng., stated that the award program is held annually for journalism and public relations awards. However, in 2021 the Independent Campus Award and Cooperation will be added. The four awards are aimed at encouraging pentahelix collaboration in universities. "One of the keys is how campuses and stakeholders including the media collaborate to build optimism for a better Indonesia," he said.
The award is also to encourage the transformation of the implementation and service of the education sector in the country through the important role and innovation of higher education institutions. “I hope that the support of all university leaders can allow children (students, ed) to find their future, let them fly freely to find tomorrow and the new world that is their world. Our job is to provide them with a strong foundation,” he said.
Meanwhile, UNESA Chancellor Prof. Dr. Nurhasan, M.Kes, who immediately received the award, thanked the Directorate General of Higher Education for the award. In addition, I appreciate all levels of cooperation and public relations of UNESA for their dedication so that the national award has 'fruited'.
This award is an honor that can be a trigger in improving the quality of cooperation, public information services and public relations at UNESA. "I am very grateful, this is motivation for us, especially the award for the LAPOR category, UNESA is the only BLU PTN that gets the best predicate," he said.
Vice Chancellor for Planning and Cooperation, Dr. Sujarwanto, M.Pd., added that recently UNESA has indeed collaborated with many domestic and foreign parties, including the business world and the industrial world (DUDI). "The MBKM spirit also ends in the collaboration section, therefore we cooperate with many parties, so that students and lecturers can develop their competencies through internship programs, research and other programs," he said.
He continued, UNESA continues to expand cooperation in various fields as well as with the central, provincial and district and city governments. Recently, for example, UNESA signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation with 837 SMKs in East Java to break the MURI record.
Institutionally, the field of cooperation forms a Task Force team from university to faculty and unit levels. Content-wise, cooperation is in accordance with key performance indicators (KPI) and other technical strategies through internal and external cooperation leagues. All study programs at UNESA are 100 percent cooperative.
UNESA's target is not only to increase collaboration, but also to pay attention to the quality and impact generated in each collaboration, especially for students and the community. "To get there, we need good cooperation and management and that is what I continue to encourage," he said.
Likewise with public relations, he continued, the focus is on providing information to the public as well as providing a space for interaction and communication between the public and public relations as the mouthpiece of higher education. Any information that comes in from the public becomes an important part in the development of higher education institutions that are more advanced and superior in the future. [UNESA PR]
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