Recently, the team comprising of experts from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI), University of Florida (UF), and Milenium Solutions (now EnviroECOats) won the global Million Cool Roofs (MCR) Challenge conducted by Kigali Cooling Efficiency Program (now Clean Cooling Collaborative) in collaboration with the Global Cool Cities Alliance (GCCA). The prize money will be used to scale up the deployment of solar-reflective “cool” roofs in the Republic of Indonesia and to establish a Building Energy Testing and Certification Center (BETCC) at UPI.

As international visiting scholars to the UF and with the support of WinBuild Inc., an energy consulting company in Fairfax, Virginia, Dr. Beta Paramita (Project Lead of MCR) and Try Ramadan of UPI are exploring opportunities for further research collaboration with other US universities. During their visit here, in the US, they will be visiting the US national laboratories such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL) whey they will undergo necessary trainings for the establishment of BETCC at UPI. The team will also meet with key Climateworks Foundation and US- Department of Energy’s (DOE) Net Zero World (NZW) Program staff to explore collaboration.

This fits well with objectives of US collaboration with the Republic of Indonesia in the NZE Program and provide capacity building for the Indonesian partners as well. These activities are supported by World Class University (WCU) Program of UPI, funded by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP). The visiting scholars started their journey on October 18^th. They met with Prof. Diah Ayu Maharani (Education and Culture attaché ) and Bambang S. Achirudin (Education and Culture attaché affairs ) at the Embassy of The Republic of Indonesia on Wednesday 19^th of October. They briefed the embassy staff about their program in the USA. Dr. Diah Ayu Maharani and Bambang S. Achirudin both were very supportive and excited about the NZW opportunity, and especially the University collaboration.

Currently, the visiting scholars are at UF with whom they have signed an international collaborative agreement for mutual exchange of research, faculty, and students. Under this agreement, project leads Dr. Beta Paramita from UPI and Dr. Ravi Srinivasan from the M.E., Rinker School of Construction Management at UF continue to work on education curriculum and sustainable low-income housing design and development.

The visiting scholars will also work with Mr. Bipin Shah, WinBuild Inc. which is already engaged with UF on several collaborative research and development of niche energy technologies. WinBuild was instrumental in facilitating the cool roof technology transfer to Indonesia under license agreement to UPI. In addition, WinBuild is helping these researchers to establish an energy and testing center at the UPI and on design of prefabricated sustainable low-income housing for developing countries.

The engagement with the US Net Zero World (NWZ) program will help to works closely with its Indonesian partners on high-performance building technologies, laboratory testing, and standards development. The Building Energy Testing and Certification Center at UPI will support implementation of the building energy codes and standards development and widespread implementation in the archipelago. They will be engaging with NZW program and US national laboratories from Oct 30 to Nov 14 on testing building envelope technologies and standards developments.

The Indonesian researchers will visit Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a part of the US NZW initiative to learn about the instruments used for the testing of building insulation materials, sun exposure and window durability, and reflective roof materials. During the training workshop at these labs, the Indonesian researchers will learn how to test and measure cool roof material solar reflectance, and thermal emittance. LBNL researchers will demonstrated how to conduct cool roof accelerated aging, an R&D 100 Award-winning, to test cool roof aged thermal properties and adopt the same for Indonesia, while ORNL will showcase the world-renowned 3D-Printing laboratory and NREL will showcase the Durability and Solar laboratory and it state of an art equipment’s. These knowledgebases will assist in incorporating the requirements in the Indonesian building energy codes. During their visit to ORNL the scholars will also visit University of Tennessee and explore collaboration opportunities.

The NZW building sector technical lead Dr. Wei Feng from LBNL introduced to the visiting researchers on long-term energy and CO₂ emissions modeling research and cost-benefit analysis. The modeling work showed that both passive and active cooling technologies can help Indonesia effectively reduce its cooling energy demand.

NZW program aims to help its partner countries to build capacity for energy-efficient technology testing and standard development. The knowledge from laboratory training will be used to develop standards of building envelope technology testing, develop technology rating methods, and upgrade building codes and standards in Indonesia.

Bandung UPI

Chairman of the Board of Trustees (MWA) of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) Dr. (H.C.). Agum Gumelar, M.Sc., said that the students’ commitment to studying at UPI must be greater, and they must have a strong will as well as a strong desire to be able to engage in all educational programs with an indomitable spirit since they are the selected ones.

He stated it in the interview session after carrying out the procession of the Campus Orientation Period and Public Lecture “Masa Orientasi Kampus dan Kuliah Umum” (MOKAKU) 2022.

Which was conducted offline at the Gymnasium Building, UPI Campus, Jalan Dr. Setiabudhi No. 229 Bandung, Monday (29/08/2022).

“Saya katakan, kalau mengalami satu kegagalan, ya jangan terus putus asa, justru karena kegagalan ini dia harus berusaha untuk menggapai sukses sesuai dengan apa yang di harapkan, karena banyak sekali contoh kesuksesan itu diawali dengan kegagalan, itu penekanan saya”

“I said, if you have one failure, don’t give up; it is precisely because of this failure that you must endeavor to achieve success in accordance with what is anticipated because so many examples of success begin with failure; that is my emphasis,” he said.

He also cited several examples of success or failure. This occurs because success begins with a pretentious, conceited, and arrogant attitude. So, if you encounter a setback, don’t quit, and if you experience success, don’t be arrogant.

”Jika dilihat dari jumlah peminat dan jumlah mahasiswa yang diterima UPI, terlihat sangat tinggi sekali. Ini menunjukan bahwa UPI semakin diterima dan diminati serta diakui oleh masyarakat luas. Lebih dari itu, sistem pendidikan yang dijalankan UPI, diterima masyarakat. Kita patut bersyukur untuk itu dan pencapaian tersebut harus kita pertahankan.”

He also stated, “The number of people who applied to UPI and the number of people were accepted are both increasing.” This indicates that UPI is becoming more well-known and accepted by the general public. More than that, the UPI education system has been adopted by the general public. We must be patient to achieve our goal, and we must work hard to achieve it.” (Dodiangga,Humas UPI/Translate R.R. Nabiila, kontributor Humas UPI)

Bandung – UPI

dr. Putu Moda Arsana, SP PD-KEMD., FINASIM, Chairman of the Indonesian Medical Council (KKI), was the primary speaker at the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) event for the formation of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, which was held in the Parterre building (05/09/2022). dr. Putu Moda Arsana, SP PD-KEMD., FINASIM presented information on the Challenges of Indonesian Medical Education in the Globalization Era, as well as research and suggestions for the creation of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, during this Focus group discussion.

The FGD was attended by several officials from Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, including UPI Chancellor Prof. Dr. M. Solehuddin, M.Pd., MA, Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Affairs Prof. Dr. Didi Sukyadi, M.A., University Secretary Prof. Dr. Memmen Kustiawan, SE., Ak., M.Sc., MH., Dean of the Faculty of Sports and Health Education Prof. Dr. Boyke Mulyana, M.Pd, leaders, and lecturers of FPOK, the team of lecturers for the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine, UPI and lecturers for the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine from Padjadjaran University.

Prof. Dr. M. Solehuddin, M.Pd., MA emphasized that this forum was created to demonstrate UPI’s commitment to building the Faculty of Medicine.

UPI has collaborated with and received guidance from Padjadjaran University in the process of establishing this Faculty of Medicine and has appointed doctors to become lecturers and prepared lecture buildings that will be equipped with laboratories and other facilities.

Dr. Putu Moda Arsana, SP PD-KEMD., FINASIM talked about the difficulties of Indonesian medical education in the face of globalization in the first FGD session. Human existence, according to him, has evolved from an agrarian culture to an industrial society, an information society, and a super smart society. The challenges of Indonesian doctor education in the face of the Globalization Era are met with world developments in the 4.0 era, which is marked by unlimited medical services, regenerative medicine, digital brain, nanotherapy, new diseases, real-time diagnosis, artificial intelligence, gene therapy, and virtual medicine/telemedicine. (Yana Setiawan, Humas UPI/Translate R.R. Nabiila, kontributor Humas UPI)

Five students from different departments at UPI had an opportunity to be selected to participate in a 10-day program of Campus Asia Summer School with a total of 24 college students from China, Korea, Thailand, and Japan which took place from 23 to 31 August 2022. This program is part of a consortium of universities in five countries, i.e. Hiroshima University (Japan), Beijing Normal University and Chancun University (China), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (Indonesia), and Kasetsaart University (Thailand), which agree to conduct international collaboration to improve the quality of highly diverse human resources in Asia in order to shape college students who have inclusive perspectives.

There are four schemes in the Campus Asia, in which Summer Program is an annual program launched in 2021 and will be carried out up to four years from now. The other three schemes are joint e-course which began in 2022; short exchange visit to UPI which will be held this early September 2022; and one semester exchange, in which UPI will send two delegates to Hiroshima University in October 2022.

UPI’s participants in Summer School are Ahmad Fauzy (Physics Education), Aninda Putri Gunawan (English Language Education), Chintia Khorunnisa and Andlily Aprilia Rahmawati (Special Education), and Nisaudzakiah Utami (Technology and Vocational Education). Some of these participants have taken part in an e-course themed Inclusion and Diversity which was taught collaboratively by Dr Norimune Kawai (Hiroshima University) and Arif Hidayat, Ph.D. Ed. (Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia) since January 2022

This Summer School was organized into lectures, group discussions, idea mining seminar, workshop, and excursion. The participants were given opportunities to engage with superior research from lecturers in Hiroshima University, which include Ultrasound in Linguistics, Learning Engineering in STEM learning, research in Cultural and Religious Diversity, and neuroscience of cognitive aspect in foreign language studies. By the end of the program, the participants presented their knowledge and experience in exploring one of the topics after having direct discussion with the researcher from the chosen topic.

The coordinator of Campus Asia from Hiroshima University, Professor Kazuhiko Koike expressed his gratitude for the presence and contribution from UPI’s delegates who had actively involved and presented the work well. Meanwhile, the supervisor from UPI, Arif Hidayat PhD Ed, who was present in the location, said that this program is beneficial to give global and multi-perspective horizon for the students in the effort to build and support a more inclusive individual and society. 

According to Aninda Putri Gunawan, one of the participants of Summer School, the activities in the Summer School had opened a new perspective on inclusive education. In addition, the lectures by the professors were very useful to be applied in the classroom teaching learning process. Aninda successfully got the third place in the presentation session with her presentation “Inclusive Education in Teaching Foreign Language” with Kim Sumin from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and Wang Dejiang from Beijing Normal University.  

Another participant, Andily Aprilia Rahmawati, said that the most impressive from this program was that learning about inclusivity and diversity in different countries was very fun. There were many benefits, such as exploring theories on inclusive education, getting introduced to various technologies to support inclusivity, and sharpening language skills by interacting with students from many countries. In the end of the program, all students had final presentations assessed directly by all the professor. The last presentation delivered by Andily was even assessed by Professor Delakorda Yawashima, the Director of CEDAR, a world peace organization.  

Campus Asia Programs can be found further in the consortium website https://inclusive-asia.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/en/

Back in twenty years ago while national educational improvement in Indonesia was assisted by JICA through series of project including a building inaugurated by President Megawati Soekarno Putri and Ambassador of Japan Mr. Hideaki Domichi; Faculty of Mathematics and Science Education (FPMIPA) commemorates this reflecting on experience of JICA cooperation in education, to share best practice in Indonesia and beyond, and to explore of driven status of lesson study development and partnership.

The committee chairman, Sumar Hendayana, said the FPMIPA have been set up three activities since February 2022: (1) Faculty members training for enhancing science and mathematics learning through lesson study for learning community at FPMIPA UPI, (2) development of Memoar Essay book, there are 42 out of 52 articles lesson learnt of learning improvement with authors (nationwide, from Aceh to Papua), (3) JICA Reflective meeting (26 August 2022), along with launching of Asia-Africa Learning Improvement Network (AALIN), the 13^th ICLS & 3^rd ICLIm (27 August 2022), ALSI meeting (28 August 2022), dan  open class at UPI-Labschool (29 August 2022).

About three hundred sixty-nine participants joined the event, which 93% of the participants participated online. Also, about Ninety-four presenter shared their papers include 5 keynote speakers, 12 plenary speakers, 3 symposium speakers, and 66 parallel speakers across from various background in education such as from teachers, principals, board of education, Ministry of education, students, and academicians both national dan internationally.

Prof Tatang Herman, Dean of FPMIPA, explained the success of the 20 years commemoration of JICA cooperation in education is made possible by the supports of strong commitment of organizing committee members for their hard work over the last one year to provide interesting and stimulating the commemoration program for all participants.

Furthermore, JICA Indonesia Representatives, Mr. Kenji OKAMURA feels proud and happy and express JICA thanks-full on the 20th years of commemoration of cooperation between JICA-UPI, through a collaborative study of classroom-based learning that develop as a good practice that we called it as “Lesson Study”. He explained that this Japanese “lesson study” has been adopted in many collaborative education projects. JICA started its first technical collaboration aimed at improving the quality of basic education in the mid-1990s, responding to the global commitment to quality basic education, and Indonesia was one of the first five countries in basic education partnership emphasis on “ownership”, “partnership”, “independence” as the basic philosophy.

Up to date, UPI in collaboration with other Indonesian stakeholders have successfully localized the implementation of lesson study for quality learning for all in the Indonesian context and continues to devote itself to that end (such as implemented through LPTK=Lembaga Pendidikan Tenaga Kependidikan/Educational Staff of Education Institution). The effective and strategic partnership have been established between UPI and other teacher education universities, education policy makers, and local education administration to support schools with lesson study as a means of improving quality of lessons.

Lesson Study Development in Indonesia is getting bigger and spread throughout Indonesia through various programs, and UPI committed continues efforts towards quality learning for all with Lesson Study continues and is even stronger. Since last 20 years, We believe that stages of lesson study in Indonesia have evolved from adoption and adaptation becoming sustain, resilience, and driven which is indicated by launching of Asia-Africa Learning Improvement Network (AALIN) initiated by UPI scholars (Arif Hidayat and Sumar Hendayana ) with national and international network supports, as teachers and other educators network on learning improvement practices in Asia-Africa.