Yogyakarta, July 31, 2024 – Universitas Prasetiya Mulya and Universitas Gadjah Mada marked a significant milestone in Indonesian higher education with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The collaboration aims to drive innovation, research, and development to address national challenges and contribute to Indonesia’s progress towards its Golden Centennial in 2045.
This strategic partnership is expected to yield substantial benefits for both institutions and the nation as a whole. By combining their strengths and expertise, Prasetiya Mulya and UGM aim to cultivate a new generation of leaders equipped to shape Indonesia’s future.
“We have just celebrated a greatly Momentous event: the signing of an MOU. With this MOU new pages are open for both of us: Universitas Prasetiya Mulya which is widely praised as an entrepreneurial institution and Universitas Gadjah Mada as a globally recognized institution rooted in rich local heritage and wisdoms.
Allow me to signify this collaborative initiative as a transformative contribution to Indonesia’s higher learning landscape. While co-evolving on the complexifying “man-computer symbiosis”, to borrow a term coined over sixty years ago by Licklider, diversity-based actions are indispensable to safeguard us against random walk and to orient us to the goal of contributing positively to an ever better fitness of the Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
We Indonesians are aspiring to ascent to good developed status, hoping to celebrate a Golden Centennial in 2045, or in less than one generation from now. We have to hurry in generating a set of sources of progress: re-embedding our economy to society and nature and acquiring science-driven technologies, not just diffusion thereof, for which a growing perception of science is a conditio-sine-qua-non, and smart opening in turbulent geopolitics.
As citizens of learning all of us at Universitas Prasetiya Mulya and Universitas Gadjah Mada are obliged to serve as agent or attractor to a rapidly narrowing deficit of science’s positive perception in our “Ibu Pertiwi”, our beloved homeland.
It is our shared duty to work together to nurture this rare homeland of gen-culture diversity to be a warm and rewarding arena for positively ambitious citizens in academia, business, society and politics.
In closing, on behalf of Universitas Prasetiya Mulya, I extend my deepest gratitude to Ibu Rektor, Prof. dr. Ova Emilia, Ph.D., the entire team of Wakil Rektor and Dekan at Universitas Gadjah Mada and the rest members of this towering almamater for this pioneering collaborative initiative and for the hospitality extended to us during the preparation and formal signing of the MOU.
We owe it to our respective stakeholders and to Indonesia to deliver at a rapid speed the promises contained in this MOU.”
Prof. Djisman S. Simandjuntak
Rector of Universitas Prasetiya Mulya
