Today, Friday (16/3), the Student Affairs Manager of FMIPA UI, Dr. Tito Latif Indra as the Head of the Committee, announced the Winner of the 2018 FMIPA UI Outstanding Student Selection (Pilmapres) at Building C FMIPA UI at the 2018 FMIPA UI Pilmapres Champion award ceremony. Selected as the 1st Winner was Dhita Mutiara Nabella (Biology 2015), followed by Maria Maghdalena (Chemistry 2015) as the 2nd Winner and Hanna Tiara Andarlia (Mathematics 2015) as the 3rd Winner.
Representing the Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia, who was unable to attend, Tito expressed his appreciation to the participants, the jury, department heads, study program heads, and teaching staff for their excellent execution of this prestigious student event, ensuring the smooth running of the event. He also encouraged other students to continue improving their academic performance.
“Don’t be discouraged, others, winning and losing is normal, the important thing is to keep trying your best, keep working, and be creative,” said Tito.
According to him, many FMIPA UI students have potential in the academic field, but only a few are interested in participating in this competition, so he hopes that through this activity more FMIPA UI students will be actively involved in participating in academic competitions.
Dhita Mutiara Nabella was selected as the first winner through her paper entitled “Efforts to Rehabilitate and Conserve Peatlands Through the Development of Sustainable Sago (Metroxylon sago Rottb) Plantations in Indonesia.” In this Pilmpares competition, Dhita isthe “Single Fighter”representing the biology department. Previously, the biology department sent two of its best students as representatives, namely Dhita Mutiara Nabella and Aldi Yazri Siregar, but Aldi decided to withdraw from this competition due to several reasons.
The 2018 FMIPA UI Outstanding Student Selection was attended by nine finalists who were undergraduate students (S1) from all departments at FMIPA UI. The nine finalists of the 2018 FMIPA UI Outstanding Student Selection were Grady Christianto & Hanna Tiara Andarlia representing the Department of Mathematics, Ade Ratna Tanjung P. & M. Risky Altaresh representing the Department of Physics, Shella Jeniferiani W. and Maria Magdalena representing the Department of Chemistry, Dhita Mutiara Nabella representing the Department of Biology, Yuniar Zweistika and Annisa Daniswara S. representing the Department of Geography.
The 2018 FMIPA UI Pilmapres competition series began on Monday (12/3) at Building C FMIPA UI, Depok and was opened by Dr. rer. nat. Abdul Haris as Dean of FMIPA UI.
At the beginning of the event, participants presented their papers to a panel of judges. Then, on Tuesday (March 13th), they presented and discussed one of several topics randomly selected by the panel of judges. These topics focused on this year’s presidential election theme,“Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) .
The entire academic community congratulated Dhita, while also placing their hopes that Dhita, who will next compete at the University of Indonesia level, can defend the title of First Place in UI’s Most Outstanding Student, which last year was won by Yudhistira Oktaviandie, who is also a student in the biology department of FMIPA UI.
