Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017: UMN’s Commitment to Preserve Indonesian Culture

Nusantara Cultural Festival opened on Monday (11/9) by various regional dances. One of them is the Rokatenda dance from NTT.

UMN’s commitment to instill student love for Indonesia not only stops by holding an Open Senate Session that raises the theme of Superior and United Young People in Diversity in August. Now, UMN made a new breakthrough to further foster the pride of Indonesian students and people towards Indonesian culture through the Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017 which lasted for 5 days, Monday (11/9) – Friday (15/9) at the Multimedia Nusantara University Campus.

Citra Selarosa, Chairman of nusantara Cultural Festival 2017 explained that this activity is important to be organized so that students, UMN academics and the community do not forget their cultural roots. “In the midst of increasingly fast globalization, students tend to forget the richness of Indonesian culture around them. In addition, with the rise of radicalism and division issues circulating lately, UMN feels it is important to create an event that can unite the cultural diversity in the archipelago,” said Citra.

(Read more: Saat Mahasiswa Asing Belajar Kebudayaan Indonesia di UMN)

Not only that, the 2017 Nusantara Cultural Festival is also part of the 10th anniversary of the founding of Multimedia Nusantara University. That is why this time the Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017 raised the theme “10 Years of UMN Preserving The Nation’s Culture”.

Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017 consists of a series of activities such as Culture Exhibition in collaboration with SMESCO and various cultural workshop regional art stages in collaboration with Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Bridge (TMII), Book Fair activities and literacy competitions in collaboration with UMN library, as well as various cultural competitions and interest talents. Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017 was attended by more than 700 participants of competitions and workshops.

SMESCO and Multimedia Nusantara University signed a memorandum of understanding at the Nusantara Cultural Festival 2017

Nusantara Cultural Festival was opened on Monday (11/9) by Ninok Leksono as Rector of Multimedia Nusantara University along with the entire board of RECTORATE UMN. Not only that, the opening of this series of events was also enlivened by NTT dance, Rokatenda dance and the signing of a memorandum of understanding between UMN and SMESCO in terms of increasing student entrepreneurship capacity, sausageization, consultation and meeting solutions for UMN students from SMESCO, as well as the utilization of SMESCO facilities in the development of student entrepreneurship. (*)

by: Grace Natali – Universitas Multimedia Nusantara News Service

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