ALYA LEDIAS ANSHAR's Reflection
Program Information
Date : 12 December 2019
Venue : Kolej Perdana Hall
Organizer : UTM International
Graduate Attributes : Communication Skills
Position / Rule in The Program : Indonesian Representative
Mini Report and Reflection :
CULTURE CORNER 25.0 TYING THE KNOT is a UTM International event themed "Love and Toast." This is an event where countries from all over the world come to view and display their culture for their wedding ceremony. As one of the Indonesian representatives, my team and I delivered a full explanation of the wedding procession from one region in West Sumatra, with Minang Kabau customary ceremonies. We present it in detail, from the commencement of the wedding procedure to the outfits. We presented Suntiang. Suntiang is used to present the Minang Kabau wedding culture. Which Suntiang is a custom that is extremely important to that represents the responsibility of a woman in a marriage. Suntiang weights between 3 and 5 kilograms, implying that a woman's role in the houshold should not be overlooked. Similarly, some countries' customs have a deep meaning of their own and it makes me stunned in each of the diversity.
This event was a fascinating experience for me because I was able to learn about many cultures through wedding processions from around the world. I also learned an important lesson from this occasion, which was the diversity in this sacred wedding procession, which has its own deep meaning for each culture. With this event, I gained a greater understanding of how to respect variety in the procession of a sacred event from each culture.
Program Information
Date : 12 October 2021
Venue : Zoom Cloud Meeting
Organizer : Asosiasi Karsa Wicara ISS Indonesia
Graduate Attributes : Personal Branding, Communication Skill, Leadership, Creative Thinking
Position / Rule in The Program: General Secretary, Moderator of Event.
Mini Report and Reflection :
AKW Berdialog 2.0 is a personal branding event with the theme "CREATE YOUR PERSONAL BRANDING BY KNOWING YOURSELF." This webinar event discusses Personal Branding knowledge as well as providing insight into the importance of good Personal Branding and its positive impact on society and its influence on the quality of human resources so that a person becomes innovative and adaptive in building their quality character in a dynamic environment.
The discussion of this webinar is also linked to the development of trust, the expansion of connections, the development of credibility, and the development of self-creativity. This webinar provided me with solutions to a variety of challenges that I was experiencing due to a lack of information and understanding about the value of Personal Branding.
In this webinar, I collaborated with my partner and become a moderator who led the webinar with an exceptional speaker. This webinar is not only entertaining but also really beneficial. With this webinar event, I became more conscious of the need for personal branding, not just being qualified but also understanding how to demonstrate current skills.
Serving as secretary at this webinar event also gave considerable experience in the development of my leadership skills, as being in control of this event taught me how to be responsible and trustworthy in any work that exists. Overall, the AKW Dialog 2.0 webinar event aided my personal development by teaching me about personal branding, polishing my leadership abilities as general secretary, and honing my communication skills as event moderator.
Program Information
Date : 04 November 2019
Venue : UTM
Organizer : FESCO UTM
Graduate Attributes : Communication Skill, Leadership, Creative Thinking
Position / Rule in The Program: Indonesian Representative
Mini Report and Reflection :
Global Village 3.0 is an activity in which various students from around the world unite to introduce one other's cultures. This event showcases and teaches about many various cultures, from the costumes to the food to the diverse interactions. As the Indonesian representative, we prepare several types of wedding ceremonial clothes from Indonesia. Many guests are interested in the outfits and even get to put them on and snap pictures in them. We also provide some traditional Indonesian delicacies.
All of the activities in this global village provide very deep lessons on thinking and how one sees the world with all of its differences. Every diversity in each country has its own beauty. Every difference in each country has its own charm and individuality. Looking at the globe's diversity opens up my mind and makes me wonder how there can be controversies over differences in the world, even if the world is more beautiful and exciting with this diversity. This experience made me realize that everyone should appreciate the beauty of the differences that exist in every corner of the earth in order for human peace to be realized. Overall, this event was a very positive experience for me.
In this week class, we were taught about effective communication. Effective communication is a some kind of process in giving and taking knowledge, informations, thoughts, and even ideas of such that with a purpose or intention is being fulfilled in the best possible manner. In simple words, it is nothing but the presentation of views by the sender in a way best understood by the receiver.
Communicatioon is a very impoertant things in our life and because of that, effective communication is needed. If communication does not work properly, bad things will happen for example, miscommunication. Mis communication can lead towards fighting between the person who communicate with each other and that also affect their social life.
There are many ways to communicate and the most commmon ways are with spoken word, visual images, written word and body language. All of these ways has its process and the stages are all the same. It begins with the sender (encodes) giving some information with some medium and then received by the receiver (decodes) and after that, the receiver giving feedback or response and received by the sender. It is just a simple process but the things that gets in the way of communication is the barrier around the process.
The barriers are things that disturb the way of the communication. Some examples of the barriers are, noise, inappropriate or misconceptions, emotions, language differences, poor listening skills and distractions. There are many more but all these are the common things that become the disruption.
There are two types of action in communicating with someone. It is hearing and listening. Hearing is a process that are done physically and have a trait of natural and passive. Meanwhile, listening is also done physically but the trait are more active, more focussed on taking the information and it is also a skill and as a mental process.
In the two types of action in communicating with someone, the listening type are very difficult. It is very difficult because the person that involved in the conversation should participate in all of the process happened in listening. If they do not participate, they will lose the information that are should have been received.
There are so many values in having type of communication of listening. The first is, listening to other person is an elegant art as it is also reflects the attitude and courtesy with good manners. Second, in listening carefully to the instructions of someone can improve competence and performance. Third, all of the cause of poor listening skill could be disastrous in business, employment and social relations. There are many more of the values that can bring positivity in every work and things that we do.
There are some essentials of communication that should be done. The first and the most important one is, we should always think of everything beneath the things that we are going to say. We can use simple words as the objectives and purposes of our communication is to make other understand in all the things that we say. Second, we should increase all the knowledge that are required for us of all things that we wanted to tell. We should speak clearly and audibly. Third, we should always make a double check on everything that we said to the listeners as have they understood us or not. We also should do a little recap of what has been said in situations that have some interruption. There are many more and everything that are opposite of all the things that should be done are prohibited in order to achive the purposes of the communication.
In communications, not only how we listen and how we give informations that should be checked. Our body language are as important in th way of communications. We should maintain a good bady language and we should always improve our body language skills. The first one is, we should keep an appropriate distance to anyone that we communicate with. We should keep the appropriate way of touching others in necessariness. Second, we should always take care of our appearance in communicating with others as we wanted our communications become success. Third, we have be aware of anything that happened that makes people may give false cues towards us. There are many more of the body language that we should keep in mind when communicating with others.
In conclusion, the learning of this class thought us to be extra carefull of our way of communication with others. All of the impact that can be caused by wrong communication are very dangerous in our life as we all want a good and better life in the future. All of this learning are teaching us how precious communication are in every situations that we are going to face not only in the future but also now and forever.
This week learning were about Scholarship skills. Scholarship Skills or Kesarjanaan in malay language is Information Management Skills and Lifelong Learning Skills. Information Management Skills is the collection, storage, dissemination, archiving and destruction of information. This means that this skills enables someone to use their time, resource and expertise effectively to make decisions and to fulfil their roles. Lifelong Learning Skills is the “ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated” pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Therefore, it not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship, and personal development, but also self-sustainability, as well as competitiveness and employability.
There are some components of these scholarship skills. The first one is ability to find and manage relevant information from multiple sources. This ability enable someone to have resources anywhere and not stuck into one and a few resources. The second is ability to receive new ideas and capabilities for autonomous learning. This ability lets someone to explore ideas not only in their mind but also from something else around them and this ability also eenable someone to learn something new by self-study. The third is ability to develop a curiosity mind and hunger for knowledge. This ability change a mind of someone to have a curiosity towards something that are necessary for them to know and this ability also develop a non- satisfying feelings towards knowledge. The last one is ability to use systematic research methods. This ability is a very necessary ability because in finding informations, someone should search it in facts and not just some fiction kind of information and make it up.
All of those components should be apply because all of those components are abilities that can ensure us to be success in whatever we for example our jobs in the future and whatever we do in the future. It is an important lesson for us for our better future.
For livelong learning skills, it is some ability that can make someone motivated to learn and develop with their own willingness and can also be said voluntary act. This ability can enhance someone understanding of the world around and can provide more and better opportunities and improve our quality of life.
There are lots of benefits from this ability that includes improving self-confidence, learning practical life skills, keeping the brain healthy and making mind sharp and also having a lesson for leisure. There are some ways to improve lifelong learning skill. The ways are encourage learning ownership, turning mistakes to opporturnities, setting learning goals and many more.
In this week, we were also taught about plagiarism. Plagiarism is something that are vatally bad for everyone. It is an act of taking or stealing someone else work or anything that has been made by someone and claimed one’s own. Plagiarism can also be called as thieves but not in itself a crime, but like counterfeiting fraud can be punished in a court for prejudices caused by copyright infringement, violation of moral rights, it is a serious ethical offense.
Plagiarism is also known by the presenting the words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of others as your own. Even a bit of impostering as taking the sound of things by someone is plagiarism. That is how fatal a plagiarism are. That is the reason of this learning in this class. Our lecturer are teaching a way to avoid all of those actions of plagiarism in order for us to be success in the future without any trouble and any obstacle regarding plagiarism.
In order to avoid all of the plagiarism, we should make some citation if we are using some resources. We should make it clear that everything that we use as resources are created or made by someone else. We can also put the name of the resources near the words or ideas. This is very important because, we should appreciate all hardwork of the people we choose to resources.
Some reasons that made someone to do a plagiarism are commonly because of their excuses. They made thousands of excuses to not finding a new words, ideas, images, sounds, or the creative expression of their own. That are the reasons that we should stop giving excuses in trying to do something and prevent plagiarism.
In conclusion, in this class, we learned that we should always be thirsty in having knowledge in the world as it is are very usefull throughout our lifes. We also should never give excuses if we want to gain success and the most importantly is, we should never try to take others ideas as we called a plagiarisms.
Graduate success attribute for this first week of learning taught about some outlines and attributes that are important to be understand by graduate students to achieve their success. It is important because these outlines and attributes are the most forgettable things that can cause huge impacts for graduate students.
The first learning were understanding graduate employability and soft skills. In this part of learning, we were asked to identify the reasons and factors that can cause fresh graduate to be rejected in job or getting extra advantages in finding jobs. The reasons and factors were simple but it causing fatal problems for the fresh graduates. For example, it took 68% of the fresh graduate to fail from getting a job just because they were asking for unrealistic salary/benefits to the company.
The next learning are about employability. Employability is about being capable of getting and keeping fulfilling work. It means that employability is a skill that are needed and important that can benefit themselves, the workforce and the community. It was also an integrity of a graduate to gain their employment and be successful in their chosen occupations. The examples of employability are communication skills, creativity and innovation, teamwork, professionalism and etc.
Then, there are soft skills. Soft skills are a cluster of productive personality traits that characterize one’s relationship in a milieu. It means that soft skills are a particular skills that can benefit a person in a way to survive in some situation and lifes. These skills are a bit similar to employability because it is also needed and important to the society. Things that differs it are that employability is a must for someone who wants to get hired in some jobs and soft skills is an ability that can give extra advantages for a person in any situations. The example of soft skills are language skills, cognitive or emotional empathy, leadership traits and etc.
The last learning is about utm graduate attributes. It is some soft skills that can ensure fresh graduate to be success in their occupation. There are 7 skills that consists of communication skills, thinking skills, scholarship, leadership and teamworking skills, adaptability, global citizen and enterprising skills.
First, there is communication skills. Communication skills is an ability that includes languages not only verbally but physically. By verbally means ability that is used to make a clear conversation and physically means ability to use some body language as a way to communicate. The examples of this communication skills are negotiate to reach agreement, clarity and concision and etc.
Second, there is thinking skills and scholarship. These two skills are different but can be classified into one ability and it is about mind developing. For thinking skills, it is more appertain to a skill that defining things complexly and beyond a normal thinking. As for scholarship, it is more to the side of a skill to think far of a system and more developing and innovating thinking.
Next, skills of leadership and teamworking. These skills are really general but really important because every little things that are being organised need leaders and teamworks. Leadership skills is about how a leader can influence its teams. Teamwork skills is about understanding and respecting decision that are made in some discussion. These skills must came along with each other and if not, all the effort of a team is futile.
After that, there is adaptability. Adaptability is a skill to overcome some foreigness that happened in new places. This ability is to maintain the developing things that happened around job’s environment and also the ability to initiate and implement changes. It is also a way to work affectively in any situations that occured.
Last but not least, there is global citizen and enterprising skills. Global citizen is an ability that take part in sociality. It is an ability to understand the different kinds of impact such as socio-cultural, economic, environmental and politics on professional practises. It is also an ability to make desicion with a prioritize principles of sustainability. As for enterprising skills, it is an ability to seek opportunities and having entrepreneurial mindset in dealing problems.
Overall, in this class, we were taught some imprtant informations that we should and must remember because it was very useful for our needs in the future occupation’s world. All of the learning in this class are very precious that we should keep it in mind if want a victory and success in our future life.
In the Webinar the discussion are about how some opportunities and strategies in a crisis that made a huge scar in human's history with Captain Caryno Latiff and his Terbang & Teroka team speak up about what happened and how they dealt with the aftermath crisis.
The impact of the aftermath crisis put out a huge trauma for the survivors of the incident especially the pilots and the crew of the airplane. They witnessed everything from minutes before it's happened to minutes after it all happened. By being the survivors, they became someone that are responsible to all that happened and receive bad treatments from the families of the one that aren't survived. They even called as 'murderer'. It gives a lot of pain to them with having to face the trauma and the bad treatments itself.
In this talk, Captain Caryno shared how he felt back then and told us that the pain itself can not be erased. The pain itself give opportunities to the future. It gave courage to move on and to identify what was wrong and what should be changed. Everything that happened are occurred for some reasons. It is usual to feel the pain and felt weak and not wanting to move on. Captain Caryno said that it took time to move on wanting to process all the things that happened.
Captain Caryno explained the things that caused the incident. First of all, its because the weather at that time is bad. The weather is not a usual rainstorm but it was a type of typhoon rain and that cause the monitoring tower find difficulties in seeing the plane whether they are in the right track to takeoff. Because of the weather, the pilots could not identify the track and end up in the wrong track and that when the incident happened.
Then, the incident become more disastrous because the fuel in the wing side cause some fire and make the plane to lose balance. The fatal side of the crash is in the middle and that made a great number of victims.
After the incident happened, the are some core issues that are faced by the captain. The first one is they have to face the aviation accident investigation. It is to find out the most probable cause of the accident. This also represents a technical investigation in nature. At the practical level, however, this report is often used as legal evidence before the court. The second is prosecution. They are facing the institution and conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge and also having a legal implications that are the results or consequences of being involved in something according to the law. Then the third is the industrial or employment issues of the company. However, the company are supporting them and help them to face difficulties of the accident.
Regardless all of the issues, Captain Caryno told that there are several lessons that can be gained from the incidents. For the aftermath, he said that the pain that he felt are prolonged, extended and traumatic for him but from the pain, he learned that family, connectedness and network are very important that it gave him and his friend all the support that they need and become resilient to difficulties that they are facing. And from the pain, he realized that by feeling the pain, he can change all things that came wrong and make it a lesson to do better in the future.
Community Service STEM Program At SK Taman Daya
The programme of STEM at SK Taman Daya was held on the 15th of November. It was all started at 10 o’clock in the morning infront of the college 9’s bus stop. All of us gathered there as the one that are responsible of this programme are giving some briefing of things that all of us should do when we arrived.
We arrived at SK Taman Daya for about 10 minutes with bus. When we arrived, we found that the school are having some event. There so many people in the school and there are so many activities being held there. When we arrived, we went to our given place to prepare all activities that we have been preparing.
There are so many activities that we are helding. The first one is, cup flyer. Cup flyer is a game that consist of 2 paper cup being glued together and some rubber to make it fly. The way to make it fly is almost the same with bayblade because it should be spin but in the air. The second is popsicle stick catapult. Popsicle stick catapult is a game that requires some rubber, some popsicle sticks and some papers to make it look like some ball. This game is played like a tank of war. In this game, we should compete with others to put the balls in its place.
The third one is, baloon power car. Baloon power car is a game that are using some carton. It is used to make it to be alike with cars. The fourth game is, paper helicopter. Paper helicopter is a game that are using some papers, marker, paperclips and scissor. This game first are made with the papers being cut in a long shape and cut half of the shape. Then, the paper are fold and hold by the paperclips. After that, the paper helicopter are done. It is played by spinning it in the air.
The fifth game, is paper parachute. Paper parachute is also a game that are using paper. This game also need to use some strings. It is made by attaching the strings to the papers and played as if it is a real parachute. The last game is pyramid cup. Pyramid cup is a game that are using some paper cups. This game need to use some speed when we are playing it. It is a bit difficult but it is a very intersting game to be played. All of the students in SK Taman Daya are very interested in all of our games.
All of us prepared the materials that are needed for all of the games. When the preparation are finished, there are many students come to us and join all the game. It was a very well accepted things by the students. All of them very enjoyed every each of our games. Some of them even can not take their eyes away from the games.
We were also enjoying the activities. Then suddenly, heavy rain came pouring to our location. All of us came panicking all over the place because some of our stand are near to the outside of the tend. We move all the stuff that are needed as fast as we can. It was some kind of a shock to us and our stand are no longer very crowded because the heavy rain.
It is very difficult for some kids, but it is quite a good situation for the students that are trapped in our tend. There are also some people that went to our tend to take shelter from the heavy rain. All of that situation made our stand not very crowded but it can make people to stay longer in our stands to enjoy all the games that we have prepared.
After some times, the heavy rain went away and the day become bright again. After that, some students went to our stands again. After a while, we have finished our games and we went on break. We eat some lunch together and some of us went to other stands in the school because the school has some event. Some of us also anjoying our own game and laughing together.
This trip to SK Taman Daya is very fun and memorable. All of us are working together to attract other’s attention to go to our stands and we get to play with all of the students that came by to play. In this trip, we were taught how to work together, attract people and act with any circumstances and situations that happened , eventhough it was already planned or not planned at all.
This trip also taught us how to communicate and how to socialize with others. All of that are important for us because we will face so many different types of person in the world of job. All of that also can have some impact in our job’s future because, if we don’t know how communicate with others, we would not know gain informations. If we don’t know how to attract someone’s attention, we can not make people know our ability and others will even ignore us. Then teamwork, that are the most important lesson of today’s trip. Teamwork is the keyword of our future because we are living in a society and we will never succeded if we do all things by our own. We need others in our life.