Public Relations Team - The proud news came back from UPNVJ Jakarta teaching staff, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, one of the lecturers at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences successfully passed the Post Doctoral program at the University of Sydney Australia organized by the Directorate of Resources at the Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Education and Culture.
Postdoctoral Program is intended for young doctors. This program is widely open as an opportunity for young doctors from various academic and vocational university, both from public and private university, to take part in Postdoctoral Programs abroad, such as in university or research institutions, in the business and industrial world, and in other international institutions. Each candidates of this program must first prepare a proposal containing a description of the activities that will be carried out during the program and the targeted results.
On this occasion when being interviewed by the Public Relations team, Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem, who is familiarly called Ayu, told the process from registering the program until yesterday, Tuesday (28/07/20) it was clearly announced that she had passed the selection for Postdoctoral program. Previously 52 people from universities across Indonesia were selected for interviewed and finally Ayu and 14 other candidates successfully passed the selection of the Postdoctoral Program from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
"The process was, at that time, I applied to the Directorate of Higher Education. Coincidently that I was working on a research project and writing a book with several scholars in Australia from the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and the Australian National University regarding the Aceh Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In addition, currently I’m revising a paper for a journal in Oxford and a chapter for a book about civil society with professors from the University of Melbourne. Later on I received the news that I passed the interview process with 52 other people from all over Indonesia"
"After the interview process, yesterday I received an email stated 15 people was successfully passed (the program), including myself in it," said Ayu.
Ayu, who is also the Head of International Office of UPNVJ (IOPUNVJ) said there were no significant obstacles in the process and she even claimed that she received a lot of support from the Dean of the Faculty and the Rector.
"In the process I did not face many obstacles. The Dean of Faculty and Rector also provided support, both motivation and recommendation letters, and indeed the permission, because I also served as the head of IOUPNVJ," She explained.
According to Ayu, the current pandemic condition is not a barrier to continuing to do productive things, Ayu said there are so many benefits that she could get by joining this valuable program from the Ministry of Education and Culture.
"Books and literature access in there (Australia) is more comprehensive as for my research and writings. And also there are some colleagues, so the coordination is much better. Regarding current situation as my role in IOPUNVJ and teaching are still in under control, because currently everything is done by online. So far, we are at IOPUNVJ also practising online coordination." Said Ayu.
On this occasion Ayu also messaged to other lecturers who already have a doctoral degree to enroll themselves in this Postdoctoral Program to the Ministry of Education and Culture.
"The doctoral dissertation is not a finish line, but rather a starting point for developing further research besides collaborating with other international scholars. This is also part of our research efforts to gain international recognition. The postdoctoral program is a great chance, so it must be used as well as possible." Closed Ayu.