Erasmus+ IN2FOOD National Seminar on Food Waste Management on 7-8 October 2021 with the theme: &ldquo;Sustainable Food Waste Management Towards National Food Security&rdquo;.
This National Seminar is conducted online for two days with the following main programs:
&bull; presentations from 4 resource persons from academia and industry,
&bull; presentations in parallel sessions attended by lecturers, students, and/or public actors
who have been engaged in research or activities related to Food Waste Management.
&nbsp;
This seminar is organized and hosted by academics who are the Indonesian members of the Erasmus+ IN2FOOD project consortium, and is in collaboration with a college consortium called NUNI (Nationwide University Network in Indonesia) to provide an understanding , awareness, and insights on food waste, which is something that needs to be considered and managed properly;&nbsp; provide education about food waste management among universities; share information on the best practices and research related to food waste management; share information about food waste management methods according to cultural values ​​and local wisdom; and optimize technology in food waste management.
Through this National Seminar, leading scientists, academics, researchers, and industry practitioners can meet to exchange and share experiences about their research outcomes and conduct activities regarding all aspects of Food Waste Management. The forum can also provide a key interdisciplinary opportunity to discuss the latest innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges, and solutions adopted in this area.
Speakers and Participants of the National Seminar can choose one Seminar Track according to the topic of interest as follows:
&bull; Food Waste Management in Public Facility
About the management of food waste in public facilities such as bus terminals, airports, train stations, and so on.
&bull; Food Waste Management for SME
About food waste management among small and medium industry players.
&bull; Food Waste Management in the Tourism Industry
About the management of food waste in the tourism industry.
&bull; Technology Use in Food Waste Management
About the use of technology in food waste

Seminar Nasional Erasmus+ IN2FOOD bidang Food Waste Management tanggal 7-8 Oktober 2021 di Indonesia dengan tema &ldquo;Pengelolaan Food Waste Berkelanjutan Menuju Ketahanan Pangan Nasional&rdquo;.
Seminar Nasional ini dilakukan secara daring selama 2 hari dengan pokok acara sebagai berikut:
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">presentasi dari 4 narasumber dari akademisi dan industri, dan</li>
<li class="li3">presentasi di sesi paralel yang diikuti oleh dosen, mahasiswa, dan/atau pelaku publik</li>
</ul>
yang bergerak di bidang penelitian ataupun kegiatan terkait Food Waste Management.
Seminar ini terlaksana karena adanya dorongan dari para akademisi yang tergabung dalam project Erasmus+ IN2FOOD di beberapa perguruan tinggi lokal dan bekerjasama dengan konsorsium perguruan tinggi NUNI (Nationwide University Network&nbsp;in Indonesia) untuk memberikan pemahaman dan meningkatkan wawasan bahwa food waste adalah sesuatu yang perlu diperhatikan dan dikelola dengan baik; memberikan edukasi tentang food waste management di kalangan Perguruan Tinggi; berbagi informasi mengenai praktik-praktik yang baik (best practices) dan penelitian terkait food waste management; berbagi informasi mengenai metode food waste management yang sesuai dengan nilai-nilai budaya dan kearifan lokal; serta mengoptimalkan teknologi dalam food waste management.
&nbsp;
Melalui Seminar Nasional ini, diharapkan para ilmuwan, akademisi, peneliti, dan praktisi industri terkemuka dapat bertemu untuk bertukar pikiran dan berbagi pengalaman tentang hasil penelitian dan kegiatan mereka mengenai semua aspek Food Waste Management. 
Forum ini juga dapat menyediakan kesempatan interdisipliner utama untuk mendiskusikan inovasi, tren, dan masalah terbaru serta tantangan praktis yang dihadapi dan juga solusi yang diadopsi di bidang ini.
&nbsp;
Presenter dan Peserta Seminar Nasional bisa memilih satu Track seminar sesuai dengan topik diskusi yang diminati seperti yang tertulis di bawah ini:
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">Food Waste Management in Public Facility</li>
</ul>
Tentang pengelolaan limbah makanan di fasilitas umum seperti terminal bus, lapangan terbang, stasiun kereta api, dan sebagainya.
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">Food Waste Management for SME</li>
</ul>
Tentang pengelolaan limbah makanan di kalangan pelaku industri kecil dan menengah.
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">Food Waste Management in the Tourism Industry</li>
</ul>
Tentang pengelolaan limbah makanan di industri wisata.
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">Technology Use in Food Waste Management </li>
</ul>
Tentang penggunaan teknologi dalam pengelolaan limbah makanan.
<ul class="ul1">
<li class="li3">Policies and Regulations on Food Waste </li>
</ul>

Erasmus+ IN2FOOD National Seminar on Food Waste Management on 7-8 October 2021 with the theme: “Sustainable Food Waste Management Towards National Food Security”

Seminar Nasional Erasmus+ IN2FOOD bidang Food Waste Management tanggal 7-8 Oktober 2021 di Indonesia dengan tema “Pengelolaan Food Waste Berkelanjutan Menuju Ketahanan Pangan Nasional”

National Seminar Food Waste Management

Seminar Nasional Food Waste Management

Food waste management is something that increasingly needs to be considered in all scientific fields, from engineering to English literature. Especially if the English Literature major has a concentration in tourism and hospitality like Ma Chung University has. In the midst of high demands for production and innovation, we must not forget what are the side effects of the process, such as food waste, for example.
It is an honor for me to be selected as a participant in the Training of Trainers (TOT) in the Erasmus+IN2FOOD Project program. This consortium grant program for Capacity Building Higher Education involves 8 universities (5 universities in Indonesia and 3 universities in Europe), namely:
<ul>
<li>Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung (Coordinator)</li>
<li>Ma Chung University, Malang</li>
<li>Bina Nusantara University, Jakarta</li>
<li>Jaya Development University, Tangerang</li>
<li>Prasetya Mulya University, Jakarta</li>
<li>Universiteit Ghent, Belgium</li>
<li>Tampere University, Finland</li>
<li>Hotelschool The Hague, Netherlands</li>
</ul>
<h2>Food Waste Management Themed Course</h2>
One of the &ldquo;Work Packages&rdquo; in the program aims to modernize courses with the theme Food Waste Management. Interestingly, one of the courses in the Tourism Concentration of the English Literature Study Program, namely Introduction to Hotel Management, is involved here. My next task is to include the theme of food waste in the course. After that, it is necessary to design design thinking to modernize the RPS towards a student project that can grow a soft skill that is currently needed.
During this pandemic, the ToT implementation was held in a hybrid manner where the activities of ToT participants were carried out offline and online. Because Ma Chung University is the Host (Organizer) of the ToT activity, I had the opportunity to meet offline with fellow lecturers who teach other courses from 5 universities in Indonesia.
<h2>ToT Material</h2>
As part of the hybrid event, participants gathered together at Harris Hotel Malang for 2 days (24-25 June 2021) to take part in a number of ToT materials, namely:
Discussions and brainstorms about the course activities being taught. This activity contains sharing about how to carry out courses with the theme of Food Waste that have been carried out by several lecturers in TA. 2020/2021. From this activity, I gained insight on how to incorporate the theme of food waste management into the Introduction to Hotel Management course which will be held in the Odd Semester of FY. 2021/2022.
 Sharing session with Garda Pangan. This activity really opened the eyes of my conscience and the other participants who were present because they received stories about the process of food rescue activities, some of whose members were students in the cities of Surabaya and Malang. Food Waste Management. The resource person in this session is Assoc. Prof. Elina Narvanaen from Tampere University. In this session, the material given is how to integrate this theme into the course. With a complete explanation of the understanding of this concept (understanding, stakeholders, framework, and solutions to food waste problems), this session is very useful for raising the issue of food waste in the courses that will be applied. Mastery of Critical Method
In addition to these cutting-edge themes, there is also a critical set of methods included in this ToT:
Design Thinking Tools. The resource persons in this session are Prof. Jelle Saldien of Ghent University. This session introduces one application that can be used as an online learning medium, namely Miro. Beginning with a warm-up session using the miro application, all ToT participants enthusiastically tried to participate in making pictures by pasting colorful post-its on a large blackboard according to the examples provided. More deeply, this session teaches how to create a &ldquo;persona&rdquo; to a &ldquo;storyboard&rdquo;. How to use this miro application can be seen in full at this <a title="Miro App" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pULLAEmhSho">link</a>.
 Sharing the Design thinking application from the Coordinator University. This session was delivered by Dr. Johanna Renny Octavia as Erasmus Program Coordinator in Indonesia. Mrs. Johanna shared her experience on how to apply design thinking in social innovation courses as a student project. The material is very inspiring and ToT participants can see what stages are needed to apply design thinking in student projects. This session was very special for me because I had the opportunity to share about student projects that I had initiated, namely integrating 3 courses from 3 study programs at Ma Chung University with the output of making exhibitions. Frankly, I feel small and inferior because I don't feel worthy to present my experience, let alone being in the midst of participants who come from big and well-known universities.&nbsp; More about this source text

Pengelolaan sampah makanan atau&nbsp;food waste management&nbsp;adalah satu hal yang kian perlu diperhatikan di semua bidang keilmuan, mulai teknik hingga Sastra Inggris. Apalagi bila jurusan Sastra Inggris itu memiliki konsentrasi di bidang pariwisata dan perhotelan seperti yang dimiliki&nbsp;<a href="https://machung.ac.id/prodi-sastra-inggris/">Universitas Ma Chung</a>. Di tengah tingginya tuntutan untuk berproduksi dan berinovasi, kita tidak boleh melupakan apa yang menjadi efek samping dari proses itu, seperti sampah makanan, misalnya.
Merupakan sebuah kebanggaan bagi saya dapat terpilih menjadi peserta&nbsp;Training of Trainer (TOT)&nbsp;pada program Erasmus+IN2FOOD Project. Program hibah konsorsium untuk Capacity Building Higher Education ini melibatkan 8 universitas (5 universitas di Indonesia dan 3 universitas di Eropa) yaitu :
<ol>
<li>Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Bandung (Koordinator)</li>
<li>Universitas Ma Chung, Malang</li>
<li>Universitas Bina Nusantara, Jakarta</li>
<li>Universitas Pembangunan Jaya, Tangerang</li>
<li>Universitas Prasetya Mulya, Jakarta</li>
<li>Universiteit Ghent, Belgium</li>
<li>Tampere University, Finland</li>
<li>Hotelschool The Hague, Netherlands</li>
</ol>
<h2>Mata Kuliah Bertema Food Waste Management</h2>
Salah satu &ldquo;Work Package&rdquo; dalam program tersebut bertujuan untuk modernisasi mata kuliah dengan tema Food Waste Management. Menariknya, salah satu mata kuliah di Konsentrasi Pariwisata Prodi Sastra Inggris, yaitu Introduction to Hotel Management, dilibatkan di sini. Tugas saya berikutnya adalah memasukkan tema sampah makanan dalam mata kuliah tersebut. Setelah itu perlu perancangan design thinking untuk memodernkan RPS ke arah project mahasiswa yang bisa menumbuhkan satu&nbsp;soft-skill&nbsp;yang sedang dibutuhkan ini.
Dalam masa pandemi ini, pelaksanaan ToT diadakan secara hybrid dimana aktivitas peserta ToT dilakukan secara offline dan online. Karena Universitas Ma Chung adalah Host (Penyelenggara) kegiatan ToT tersebut, maka saya mendapatkan kesempatan bertemu secara offline dengan rekan-rekan dosen pengampu mata kuliah lainnya yang berasal dari 5 universitas di Indonesia.
<h2>Materi ToT yang Mutakhir</h2>
Sebagai bagian dari acara hybrid tersebut, peserta berkumpul bersama di Hotel Harris Malang selama 2 hari (24-25 Juni 2021) untuk mengikuti sejumlah materi ToT, yaitu :
<ol>
<li>Diskusi dan brainstorm&nbsp;mengenai kegiatan mata kuliah yang diampu. Kegiatan ini berisi sharing mengenai bagaimana melaksanakan mata kuliah dengan tema Food Waste yang sudah dilaksanakan oleh beberapa dosen di TA. 2020/2021. Dari kegiatan ini, saya mendapatkan insight bagaimana memasukkan tema pengelolaan limbah makanan ini ke dalam mata kuliah Introduction to Hotel Management yang akan dilaksanakan pada Semester Ganjil TA. 2021/2022.</li>
<li>Sharing session with Garda Pangan.&nbsp;Kegiatan ini sungguh membuka mata nurani saya dan peserta lainnya yang hadir karena mendapatkan cerita mengenai bagaimana proses kegiatan food rescue yang beberapa anggotanya adalah mahasiswa di kota Surabaya dan Malang.</li>
<li>Food Waste Management. Narasumber pada sesi ini adalah Assoc. Prof. Elina Narvanaen dari Tampere University. Dalam sesi ini, materi yang diberikan adalah bagaimana mengintegrasikan tema ini ke dalam mata kuliah. Dengan paparan lengkap mengenai pemahaman konsep ini (pengertian, pemangku kepentingan, kerangka berpikir, dan solusi terhadap permasalahan limbah makanan), sesi ini sangat bermanfaat untuk mengangkat issue food waste dalam mata kuliah yang akan diaplikasikan.</li>
</ol>
<h2>Penguasaan Metode Kritis</h2>
Selain tema-tema mutakhir ini, ada juga seperangkat metode kritis yang disertakan dalam ToT ini:
<ol>
<li>Design Thinking Tools.&nbsp;Narasumber pada sesi ini adalah Prof. Jelle Saldien dari Ghent University. Sesi ini memperkenalkan salah satu aplikasi yang bisa digunakan sebagai media pembelajaran online yaitu Miro. Diawali dengan warming-up session yang langsung menggunakan aplikasi miro, seluruh peserta ToT dengan semangat mencoba berpartisipasi untuk membuat gambar dengan menempelkan post-it warna-warni pada papan tulis besar sesuai contoh yang diberikan. Lebih mendalam lagi, sesi ini mengajarkan bagaimana membuat &ldquo;persona&rdquo; hingga &ldquo;storyboard&rdquo;. Cara menggunakan aplikasi miro ini dapat dilihat selengkapnya pada link&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pULLAEmhSho">ini</a>.</li>
<li>Sharing aplikasi Design thinking dari Universitas Koordinator.&nbsp;Sesi ini disampaikan oleh Dr. Johanna Renny Octavia sebagai Koordinator Program Erasmus di Indonesia. Ibu Johanna menyampaikan pengalaman bagaimana mengaplikasikan design thinking pada mata kuliah social innovation sebagai project mahasiswa. Materinya sangat inspiratif dan peserta ToT dapat melihat tahapan apa saja yang dibutuhkan untuk mengaplikasikan design thinking dalam project mahasiswa. Sesi ini sangat special bagi saya karena saya mendapatkan kesempatan untuk sharing mengenai project mahasiswa yang pernah saya inisiasi yaitu mengintegrasikan 3 mata kuliah dari 3 program studi yang ada di Universitas Ma Chung dengan luaran membuat exhibition. Terus terang, saya merasa kecil dan minder karena merasa kurang layak untuk mempresentasikan pengalaman saya, apalagi berada di tengah-tengah peserta yang berasal dari universitas besar dan terkenal sampai level internasional. Namun dengan semangat dari Pak Jasmin (KUI) yang tidak pernah bosan untuk meyakinkan saya, akhirnya saya bisa menceritakan secara lengkap mengenai design project untuk mahasiswa yang pernah saya laksanakan.</li>
<li>Critical Thinking and problem solving.&nbsp;Sesi ini disampaikan oleh Anna De Viser &ndash; Amundson, MSc, PhD cand. dari Hotelschool The Hague. Penjelasan dalam sesi ini sangat menarik, diawali dengan masing-masing peserta menyebutkan snack kesukaan dan alasannya apa yang juga harus dihubungkan dengan issue food waste. Proses tersebut adalah cara untuk men-stimulus peserta agar dapat berpikir kritis. Sesi tersebut dilanjutkan dengan peserta harus menulis kalimat (2 happy dan 2 un-happy) dalam peran peserta sebagai pendidik dengan tema sampah makanan. Kemudian peserta diminta membacakan kalimat tersebut satu per satu dan diakhiri dengan kalimat &ldquo;I&rsquo;m responsible&rdquo;. Hal ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran bagaimana kita bisa berkontribusi terhadap permasalahan sampah makanan.</li>
</ol>
Kegiatan ToT ditutup dengan mengadakan kunjungan ke Universitas Ma Chung dan seluruh peserta sangat antusias ingin mengenal Universitas Ma Chung lebih dekat. Sangat menyenangkan bisa berinteraksi langsung dengan peserta ToT dari beberapa universitas di Indonesia sekaligus memperluas jejaring untuk bekerjasama dalam mengerjakan project Erasmus.
Reporter: Melany, S.ST.Par., M.M.Tr.

The IN2FOOD Consortium gathered together at Harris Hotel Malang for 2 days (24-25 June 2021) to participate in a number of ToT (Train of Trainer) materials in a hybrid form (a combination of online and offline meetings). In this event, the materials presented include: Discussions and brainstorms regarding the activities of the subjects taught, sharing sessions with Garda Pangan, as well as discussions on Food Waste Management.

Konsorsium IN2FOOD berkumpul bersama di Hotel Harris Malang selama 2 hari (24-25 Juni 2021) untuk mengikuti sejumlah materi ToT (Train of Trainer) dalam bentuk hybrid (kombinasi pertemuan online dan offline). Dalam acara ini, materi yang disampaikan meliputi: Diskusi dan brainstorm mengenai kegiatan mata kuliah yang diampu, sharing session dengan Garda Pangan, serta diskusi Food Waste Management.

IN2FOOD Capacity Building

Food Waste Management: Capacity Building dari Erasmus dan Universitas Ma Chung

This activity is part of Working Package 2. There are 32 courses will be modernised through this project. These courses are ranging from digital based courses until social science based courses. The curriculum benchmarking days is two days of workshop with 7 speakers from European Universities Partner include Ghent University, Tampere University, and Hotelschool The Hague. All Indonesian partner representatives from Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Universitas Pembangunan Jaya dan Universitas Ma Chung join to this online activity.&nbsp;

Kegiatan ini merupakan bagian dari WP 2. Ada 32 mata kuliah yang akan dimodernisasi dalam project ini melalui kegiatan ini. kegiatan ini menghadirkan pembicara dari partnet universitas dari Eropa yaitu Ghent University, Tampere University, dan Hotelschool The Hague. Peserta dari Indonesia merupakan pengambu matakuliah yang akan dimodernisasi yang berasal dari Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Universitas Bina Nusantara, Universitas Pembangunan Jaya dan Universitas Ma Chung.

This activity aims to benchmark of EU universities partner' best practices in implementing interdisciplinary curriculum of food waste management.  This online activity helps the Indonesian partner to obtain deep understanding of this practice. Through this activity, there is transfer of knowledge between Indonesian and EU partners on how to address the societal challenges by developing innovative interdisciplinary curriculum.

Aktivitas ini bertujuan untuk melakukan benchmarking dari partner universitas di Eropa dalam menerapkan kurikulum interdisipliner tentang manajemen sampah makanan. Aktivitas online ini membantu partner Indonesia untuk mendapatkan pengetahuan yang mendalam tentang praktek praktek baik dari partner Eropa.  Melalui aktivitas ini, terdapat transfer pengetahuan antara partner dari Indonesia dan Eropa untuk menyelesaikan masalah sosial melalui pengembangan kurikulum yang inovatif.

Curriculum Benchmarking Days

Universitas Katholik Parahyangan

Ghent University

Tampere University

Bina Nusantara University

Universitas Prasetiya Mulya

Ma Chung University

Universitas Pembangunan Jaya

Hotelschool the Hague

Our Task Manager of WP2 (Curriculum Development), Dr Stefanus Yufra Manahen Taneo, is as natural a friend to nature as he is to Asian Economy, of which he is an expert in our campus of Universitas Ma Chung, where he is the Vice-Rector III for Partnerships and Student Affairs. Last born into a large family of 11 and raised in the remote village near the tiny town called Soe, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) of East Indonesia, he has lived very much with nature growing up quite independently as young as an elementary school student, fending for himself upon the early demise of his father.
Determined for education, he had to walk 4 hours from his humble home in the hill slopes to the nearest school where there were no books or even paper. He had to scratch whatever to be written on a stone slab, memorized the information before either the rain removed the scratching or the space wouldn&rsquo;t allowed it. (We have to bear in mind that this is one part of remote Indonesia in the early 1970s). This daily long journey without footwear was made more treacherous during the torrential rains where the river he would crossed became flooded and this would invite crocodiles to lurk in the muddy waters. Fortunately the one school uniform he had was always kept in school so he could be dressed accordingly for classes. A very self-disciplined student that he was, he would promptly head off for school as soon as &ldquo;the rooster would descend from atop a tree branch&rdquo; in the neighboring farm, approximately around 3 am, to be in school by 7 am. No clocks were needed to understand the progress of time, but by observing nature&rsquo;s pattern with the instinctive habits of the farmed animals.
At the end of every school day, aside from another 4 hours of walking home, it was not a time for this NTT boy to rest but to first collect drinking water from a nearby village and earn some &ldquo;income&rdquo; for school fees and other needs by feeding the neighbor&rsquo;s pigs with whatever he had sorted out from the vegetable patch he tended daily for his own food. Nothing would go to waste! This innate principle drove every single aspect of this life growing up in Soe (a simplified translation of that is : when you don&rsquo;t have much, every single item becomes precious and useful).
That said, lighting in the windowless traditional circular mud house of NTT with only a very low entrance (similar to the entrance of a dog house we know today), became essential as would heat for the evenings where temperature would drop to about 15 degrees Celsius just before sunset and would be even much colder by bedtime. Light and heat source came by rolling raw cotton (picked on the way home) between his bare hands until it became &ldquo;wick-like&rsquo; which when placed near two hand-held stones struck with some practiced precision, would ignite into flames, then fed to the dried branches enhancing warmth and ideal for roasting vegetables. (Note: fires need to be put out before bed lest a runaway flame may burn the loosely thatched roof of dried leaves, arranged and secured together by vines, strengthened by their exposure to the constant sun and rain).
To cut this seemingly fictional adventure of an Indonesian youth short, he survived the early education years in his home town, received a scholarship to study in Java for his higher education where he was quickly grabbed as a mathematics tutor to his Javanese contemporaries, later turned to become an assistant lecturer, and the generous fees supplemented the scholarship he received. No idle time was ever wasted during college, between digesting volumes of used books he gathered and sharpening his acumen for economic studies, the relentless youth demonstrated an extraordinary zeal to study. And as fate would have it, he continued his studies and research in the Netherlands and UK, a first as an alumni of the many humble schools in Soe he attended as a child and teenager &ndash; an academic hero setting an example not only in the remote areas of NTT but also in our campus when he often relayed his unassuming story, when cajoled, &nbsp;to many a teary-eyed youth reminding them that their easy access to education and food should not be taken for granted, and more importantly not to be wasted&hellip;ever!

Our Task Manager of WP2 (Curriculum Development), Dr Stefanus Yufra Manahen Taneo, is as natural a friend to nature as he is to Asian Economy, of which he is an expert in our campus of Universitas Ma Chung, where he is the Vice-Rector III for Partnerships and Student Affairs. Last born into a large family of 11 and raised in the remote village near the tiny town called Soe, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) of East Indonesia, he has lived very much with nature growing up quite independently as young as an elementary school student, fending for himself upon the early demise of his father.
Determined for education, he had to walk 4 hours from his humble home in the hill slopes to the nearest school where there were no books or even paper. He had to scratch whatever to be written on a stone slab, memorized the information before either the rain removed the scratching or the space wouldn&rsquo;t allowed it. (We have to bear in mind that this is one part of remote Indonesia in the early 1970s). This daily long journey without footwear was made more treacherous during the torrential rains where the river he would crossed became flooded and this would invite crocodiles to lurk in the muddy waters. Fortunately the one school uniform he had was always kept in school so he could be dressed accordingly for classes. A very self-disciplined student that he was, he would promptly head off for school as soon as &ldquo;the rooster would descend from atop a tree branch&rdquo; in the neighboring farm, approximately around 3 am, to be in school by 7 am. No clocks were needed to understand the progress of time, but by observing nature&rsquo;s pattern with the instinctive habits of the farmed animals.
At the end of every school day, aside from another 4 hours of walking home, it was not a time for this NTT boy to rest but to first collect drinking water from a nearby village and earn some &ldquo;income&rdquo; for school fees and other needs by feeding the neighbor&rsquo;s pigs with whatever he had sorted out from the vegetable patch he tended daily for his own food. Nothing would go to waste! This innate principle drove every single aspect of this life growing up in Soe (a simplified translation of that is : when you don&rsquo;t have much, every single item becomes precious and useful).
That said, lighting in the windowless traditional circular mud house of NTT with only a very low entrance (similar to the entrance of a dog house we know today), became essential as would heat for the evenings where temperature would drop to about 15 degrees Celsius just before sunset and would be even much colder by bedtime. Light and heat source came by rolling raw cotton (picked on the way home) between his bare hands until it became &ldquo;wick-like&rsquo; which when placed near two hand-held stones struck with some practiced precision, would ignite into flames, then fed to the dried branches enhancing warmth and ideal for roasting vegetables. (Note: fires need to be put out before bed lest a runaway flame may burn the loosely thatched roof of dried leaves, arranged and secured together by vines, strengthened by their exposure to the constant sun and rain).
To cut this seemingly fictional adventure of an Indonesian youth short, he survived the early education years in his home town, received a scholarship to study in Java for his higher education where he was quickly grabbed as a mathematics tutor to his Javanese contemporaries, later turned to become an assistant lecturer, and the generous fees supplemented the scholarship he received. No idle time was ever wasted during college, between digesting volumes of used books he gathered and sharpening his acumen for economic studies, the relentless youth demonstrated an extraordinary zeal to study. And as fate would have it, he continued his studies and research in the Netherlands and UK, a first as an alumni of the many humble schools in Soe he attended as a child and teenager &ndash; an academic hero setting an example not only in the remote areas of NTT but also in our campus when he often relayed his unassuming story, when cajoled, &nbsp;to many a teary-eyed youth reminding them that their easy access to education and food should not be taken for granted, and more importantly not to be wasted&hellip;ever!

Our Task Manager of WP2 (Curriculum Development), Dr Stefanus Yufra Manahen Taneo, is as natural a friend to nature as he is to Asian Economy, of which he is an expert in our campus of Universitas Ma Chung, where he is the Vice-Rector III for Partnerships and Student Affairs.

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