From UNDIP To Harvard (Report for Faculty)

all Indonesian Delegates.

B O S T O N .

megang kakinya John Harvard, katanya bisa ketrima di Harvard, amin :)

in front of the venue

libertyyyyy!!!

It was fun and unforgettable to be one of the ‘Harvard National Model United Nations’ (HNMUN) delegates. Although we were not get any awards because this is the first time for us but being a delegate for Diponegoro University (UNDIP) and even Indonesia was a great experience. Moreover, this is the first time for me going aboard while join the world event, and it is in the United States. Here, I would share to all of the people about my experience there, both the conference and other memorable activities. If you are UNDIP students, prepare yourself to join the selection next year because HNMUN is a great chance to develop your skill and personality.

SQ Airlines brought us from Indonesia to Singapore. We were 15 people together with Mr. Sapto as a faculty advisor ready to face the conference in February 11-14 2010. The journey spent about 23 hours and we transit to some airport such as Changi Airport, Singapore – Narita, Tokyo – St Paul, Minneapolis – Logan, Boston. Our flight was also change from SQ Airlines moved to Delta Airlines in the Narita, Tokyo. We met Padjadjaran University delegates in the flight so we just start the conversation with them during the journey. Since this is the first time for UNDIP join HNMUN 2010 so we can ask some questions to other universities in Indonesia which have joined this event couple years ago such as Padjadjaran University.

After the long journey, here we stand in the Logan Airport, Boston. It was very late in the night and finally we found the shuttle bus which brought us to Radisson Hotel. The HNMUN conference actually held in the Park Plaza Hotel but we stayed across the Park Plaza and we have to walked from the hotel to the venue. That’s quite difficult in the first time since the weather was winter and snowy.

During the conference, we were separated into different committee. We joined 9 committee this year. Disarmament and International Security committee was filled by Buna (Engineering) and Yoga (Humanities). Social Cultural and Humanitarian was filled by me (Dini) and Cresti (Humanities). Legal Committee was filled by Anindya Nastiti (Law) and Rizky Febrianto (Medical). Economic and Crisis was filled by Resha and Rizky Yulianisa (Economic). SPECPOL committee was filled by Ary (Social&Politics) and Ardhy (Humanities). World Conference on Women was filled by Satrio (Law). Economic for Latin America&Carribean was filled by Nadya (Engineering). Social Development was filled by Echo (Engineering) and Narottama (Medical). And the last but not least, Historical General Assembly committee was filled by Achmat (Humanities).

In my committee, we were talked about the ‘Ending World Hunger’. We discussed many things related to the topic then we made the working paper with our alliance. Since UNDIP was represented Paraguay therefore most of our alliance were the Latin America countries. All we have to do in the HNMUN is like other Model United Nations. We did many things to do about International Relations such as negotiation, expand alliance, work together to create resolution related to the problem, etc. Since this is the first time for us, therefore we didn’t work as great as other delegates who have many experiences about Model UN. Actually, Model UN is very popular in the western culture. It is like the popular competition which held not only by Harvard but also other universities. Therefore, after this event, Indonesian delegates from 6 university (UNDIP, UI, ITB, UNPAD, UGM, UNPAR) desire to create Model UN competition and want to promote the Model UN from senior high school. We consider that Model UN able to create a great leader for this nations and also for the world.

After the 4 days conference, it is time to us to explore the city. Boston was a nice city. We went to Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Downtown Crossing, Public Garden, Quincy Market, etc. In the February 16, we got a dinner invitation from the Kon Jen RI (KJRI) in New York therefore we took a bus from Boston-New York. New York is quite crowded than Boston. We went to Statue of Liberty, Times Square, and KJRI in the night. We gathered with all of Indonesian delegates in the KJRI. They were all nice and great persons and it was very great opportunity to meet all of them in this nice event. We sang Indonesian song together in KJRI and talked so many things. This is a great chance to expand the networking therefore someday if we want to work in the Embassy of Indonesia, we can contact them. The winter outside was very terrible but the dinner inside was very warm and amazing. We will not forget all of those moments and someday hopefully we can come back to these nice places.

After spent 10 days in Boston and New York, February 18^th 2010 was the time to go home. We took the same way as before but with different feeling. Now we have something useful to share and by experiencing Harvard National Model United Nations, it is expanding our horizon and enlarges our knowledge and mind. Next year, UNDIP delegates must perform better than us. Since UNDIP wants to be an International University and an Excellent Research University, it is very useful to attend and send delegates for such kind of event like this. For me, this is very great opportunity in my life to join the Harvard National Model United Nations. Meet a lot of great people in the whole world, share ideas with them, negotiate each other to find the best solution for the world problem are very useful to improve our personal development to make a better future. Thank you for give me a chance to join this great event with other 14 great delegates from UNDIP. Thank you for making my dream comes true, flight from UNDIP to Harvard.