Indonesia
The Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies (FCS) Universitas Brawijaya (UB) received a thank you from the H3 (Hurip, Hurup, Handarbeni) Cultural Community for assisting them until they are now incorporated. The activity took place on Friday (11/5/2024) at the Grand Mercure Hotel, Malang City, at the 6th Anugerah Sabda Budaya event in the framework of the 15th Anniversary of FCS UB.
The community, located in Mangliawan Village, Malang Regency, gave the speech as a form of appreciation to FCS UB, which has assisted them since 2018 through the activities of lecturers in various research and community service activities.
The head of the H3 Culture community, Achmad Junaidi, revealed that the gratitude was given as a form of appreciation for the FCS UB lecturers who had accompanied them on the community’s journey from the beginning to the current status of the H3 Foundation.
“We feel very honored to be noticed by academics from Universitas Brawijaya. In our minds, Brawijaya is the King of Majapahit, and we became more confident because the King himself accompanied us. We are small people, so experiencing something like this is really extraordinary,” he said.
The secretary of the H3 Cultural Community, Orin Haryono, added that the presence of FCS UB lecturers in their midst provided a source of encouragement.
“We feel the presence of FCS UB Lecturers as something else and different. After we looked closely and tried to reflect on it, it turned out that it was because our togetherness was not limited to the program but togetherness that had entered into a family relationship. We often meet and discuss over coffee at home or in a café. That’s what’s impressive, and it affects the assistance to our community until today it has become a legal community,” he said.
Responding to the expression of gratitude, the Dean of FCS UB, Assoc. Prof. Hamamah, Ph.D., emphasized that the work of academics who are integrated with the community will bear fruit and have ‘more’ impact like the experience of the H3 community. It will be different if academics are present only to complete the program.
“I believe that the work of lecturers who truly assist community groups will bear fruit and have a good impact. The community will tell their own stories about the presence of lecturers in their midst. That is the good practice done by lecturers in academic work. I hope that in the future, academics are not just present to work on programs, but are genuinely present in total for the community or community that is assisted,“ he said.
Dr. Hipolitus Kristoforus Kewuel, a lecturer assisting the H3 Cultural community since 2018, said that what he has been doing is normal because he has always collaborated with other lecturers in research and community service. The difference is that outside of the program work, he still takes the time to be with the community in informal discussions.
“Indeed, I initiated the collaboration with this community, but I am never alone in its journey through research and community service programs. I always join hands with fellow lecturers as partners in the tri dharma of higher education,” he said.
“Outside of that, I always meet and communicate with the community just to joke with them. Beyond my expectations, these communications flowed naturally until they led us to talk about seeking the legal entity of their community. Of course, this happened because of the experience of encountering various kinds of problems that did not escape the dynamics of meeting with various parties,” he said.
Finally, H3 community advisor Hassoyo Joko Pitono said that intensive togetherness in working relationships with academics would naturally produce many positive things.
“Every encounter with academics is not impossible to produce many benefits. The evidence is that the six years of togetherness have benefited our community. We are sure, in the journey ahead, all of that will continue to be dynamic, and it is not impossible that it will produce many other things that are even more developed,” he hoped. [trans.dts/PR FCS]