From October 15 (Wed.) to 17 (Fri.), 2025, President Hiroshige Nishina visited Universitas Gadjah Mada, a partner university in Indonesia.
Gadjah Mada University is one of the leading universities in Indonesia, with 19 faculties and 1 graduate school. Ehime University and Gadjah Mada University concluded an academic exchange agreement and a memorandum of understanding on student exchange in 2007. Since the signing of the agreement, a wide range of exchanges have been conducted between the two universities, including a student exchange program through the SUIJI (Six-University Initiative Japan Indonesia) consortium, a double degree program in engineering at the Graduate School of Science and Technology, joint research, and the acceptance of young faculty members for degree study. The universities have implemented and developed a wide range of exchange programs, including the student exchange program through the SUIJI (Six-University Initiative Japan Indonesia) consortium, the double degree program in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, joint research, and the acceptance of young faculty members for degree study.
On Thursday, October 16, President Nishina paid a courtesy visit to President Ova Emilia at the university’s headquarters building. The courtesy visit was attended by President Nishina, Osamu Kobayashi, Special Assistant to the President for International Relations, and Professor Noriko Shimakami of the Institute for International Relations from Ehime University, and President Offa, Vice President Danang Sri Hadmoko, Vice President Danang Sri Hadmoko, Director of the Institute for International Relations Tyas Ikhsan Hikmawan, Director of the Usha International Relations Center Milwan Usha, and others from Gadjah Mada University. Sri Hadmoko, Director of International Relations, Mirwan Ushada, Dean of Research, Eni Harmayani, Dean of Agricultural Technology, Budi Setiadi Daryono, Dean of Biology, Didi Achjari, Dean of Economics and Business Administration, and Sri Sri Hadmoko, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Danang Sri Hadmoko. Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. They exchanged opinions on the online lectures Ehime University plans to make available on JV-Campus (*1), the university’s regional cooperation, student internships, and joint research funding.
Prior to the courtesy visit, the delegation visited Dean Eni at the Faculty of Agricultural Technology on Wednesday, March 15, and inspected the plant factory facility in the Faculty. They also received a report on the working-level meeting of the “Smart Technology and Artificial Intelligence-based Agricultural Technology Research Consortium” held at the Faculty. The consortium is a research consortium consisting of Institute of Technology Surabaya, Gadjah Mada University, Bogor Agricultural University, Udayana University, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia, and others.
On Friday the 17th, we visited FabLab Jogja, the university’s fabLab (*2) facility located at the Wates campus in Pucron Plogo. This facility was established in 2022 with support from JICA, and the campus also includes a vocational training school, a plant factory, a local junior high school, and a high school. Adi Djoko Guritno, professor, and Agustinus Winarno, lecturer, who are involved in the operation of the facility, explained about the university’s contribution to solving local problems and exchanged opinions with the participants.
Ehime University plans to continue and develop a wide variety of exchanges with Gadjah Mada University in the future.
＜Office of the President, Institute for International Relations
1 JV-Campus is an abbreviation for Japan Virtual Campus, an online international education platform from Japan.
2 A next-generation experimental workshop for citizens to participate in, where a variety of digitally controlled machine tools such as 3D printers and laser cutters are available to help local residents acquire manufacturing skills so that they can solve their own problems at the individual or community level, It is an initiative that spread from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002, and its global network is one of its features.