Universitas Indonesia (UI) won 12 awards in the 2024 Diktisaintek Award held by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, on Friday, December 13, at Graha Diktisaintek, Jakarta. In total, UI won 4 Gold, 3 Silver, 3 Bronze, and 2 Best in 7 sub-awards.
Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology, Prof. Satryo Soemantri Brodjonegoro said that this award is a form of appreciation to universities, Higher Education Services Institutes (LLDikti), business and industry partners, ministries/institutions, media, and journalists for their hard work in realizing the transformation and reform of higher education.
Minister Satryo said, “The award given is not just recognition, but also encouragement to continue to go further in order to realize a more advanced and highly competitive Indonesian higher education. Collaboration and synergy between the government, universities, and all stakeholders are the keys to success in improving the quality of higher education, as well as strengthening Indonesia’s advanced and competitive research and innovation ecosystem.”
UI won 12 awards, including the Public Relations Award, and UI won Gold for Magazine and Bronze for Social Media. In the Cooperation Award, UI won Gold for the Best Management of Cooperation Reports (Laporan Kerja Sama, or Laporkerma), and Bronze for the University with the Best Industrial Cooperation. UI also won Gold in the Institutional Award for Universities with Management of Foreign Student Study Permits 2024.
Meanwhile, in the Student Learning Award, UI was declared the IISMA Participating University with the Best Student Quality, and UI student participating in IISMA 2023—Sara Dyah Puspowati (University College Dublin)—was the best in the Student Group with the Best International Achievement and Impact. In the Research, Technology, and Community Service Award, UI also won Bronze as an Independent Cluster Institution with the Highest Scientific Publication score for the 2021–2023 Period; and Lecturer of the UI Faculty of Medicine—Prof. dr. Menaldi Rasmin, Sp.P(K)—won Silver as Outstanding Lecturer Over 40 Years of Age with the Highest Sinta Score for the 2021–2023 Period.
On that occasion, two UI lecturers, namely Dr. Ali Akbar, M.Hum., and Dr. Eng. Ir. Muhammad Arif Budiyanto, S.T., M.T., IPM, won Silver at the Anugerah Sumber Daya, each for the Academic Leader 2024 in the Arts and Culture Lecturer Category, and the Maritime Affairs Lecturer Category. Not only that, the UI Faculty of Administrative Sciences also won Gold at the Integrity Zone Award for the Development of an Integrity Zone Towards a Corruption-Free Area in 2024.
For this achievement, the Rector of UI, Prof. Dr. Ir. Heri Hermansyah, S.T., M.Eng., IPU, expressed his appreciation to the UI academic community who had contributed. According to him, the Gold award won by UI, related to institutions, shows that UI at the national level has the best position, as has been achieved at the international level. In addition, UI lecturers and students also won awards for excelling in several categories. This proves UI’s seriousness in improving quality at the national and international levels.
“The 2024 Diktisaintek Award not only gives awards to UI, but also senior lecturers, young lecturers, and UI students. This means that UI has superior academic community quality and we must improve it. Hopefully, in the future, we can continue to be down-to-earth and global. At the national level, we continue to improve ourselves to be the best in Indonesia, and at the international level, we must be recognized. Let’s work together, hand in hand towards a superior UI, impactful for Indonesia and the world,” said Prof. Heri.
Dr. Arif, recipient of the 2024 Academic Leader award in the Maritime Affairs Lecturer Category, said that his goal in participating in this event was to provide a positive impact on study programs, faculties, and universities, as well as on the maritime world, especially related to shipping technology. “In general, the challenges are still big in implementing technology in the field. The hope for the future is that there will be a link and match between innovation and industrial needs in society because the maritime potential is very large, but has not been developed much,” he said.
The Diktiristek Award, which has been held since 2021, has changed its name to the Diktisaintek Award. In this event, the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology gave a total of 315 awards to universities, LLDikti, the business world and industry, ministries/institutions, as well as the media and journalists. Each award category given has gone through a series of selection processes, which include judging and data collection selection to measure the performance of institutions that contribute and have an impact on society.
