UPN Veteran Jakarta Alumni IKA held another grand reunion on Saturday (12/5/2018) which took place at the UPN Veteran Jakarta ceremonial field.

This year's reunion was joined by graduates from class 1983 to 2014. The event, which started at 07.00 WIB, presented a variety of interesting entertainment. In addition to band performances from UPN Veteran Jakarta students, there were also dance and standup comedy performances.

Not only involving internal universities but also involving the community such as blood donors h and fun walks. Chancellor of UPN Veterans Jakarta Prof. Dr. Ir. Eddy Sumarno Siradj, M.Sc seemed to be immersed in the excitement and familiarity of the reunion. In his remarks, the Chancellor was pleased and asked for blessings for the progress of UPN Jakarta "Frankly, I am very happy for this event and there are great people graduating from this campus and I ask for the blessings of the alumni for the progress of UPN Veterans Jakarta," explained the Chancellor UPN Veteran Jakarta, when giving a speech in front of hundreds of alumni of UPN Veteran Jakarta.

Similarly, the chairman of IKA Alumni Tomy Patria Edwardy ST.Msi said he really appreciated the entire committee "I appreciate this event and thank the committee for working hard for this, because with this kind of meeting we get to know each other, and establish friendly relations between alumni who haven't seen each other for a long time,” he said.

One of the 2018 grand reunion participants admitted that he was happy with this kind of activity and he was very happy t enthusiastic “I'm happy with this kind of reunion, besides we can miss our old classmates, we can also continue to build friendship and communication. Apart from that, I can also introduce the business that I have,” he said when interviewed.

In this activity there was also a bazaar which was attended by dozens of participants with a variety of wares ranging from food, handicrafts, batik to clothing. So that the atmosphere of the event becomes very crowded.

While the head of the event, Panca Hartanto admitted that behind the success of an event there must be some difficulties one faced regarding time, "It's not easy for us to hold 1 activity that is non-profit in nature, which means it's really a social organization which is very difficult to gather committee friends in terms of time to share experience. So there is communication that is cut off and the job desk cannot be carried out.” he said.

Apart from that, Panca also advised students who are still in college to always be enthusiastic and graduate on time. “Study on time and don't forget to organize because organizations can mature our attitude and mentality in taking and positioning ourselves when facing the real world. Because the experience of organizing really helps us in terms of confidence, insight and solving problems. he said during an interview. The father of 2 children also advised that he should continue to maintain the good name of the veteran UPN Jakarta alma mater.