Exposure to KIAT ESEMKA

An Event  of  Improving  Stube-HEMAT Students’ Capacity in Yogyakarta

It is not only an imitation of national car euphoria when students joining in Stube HEMAT, a social service for college students by facilitating them with students assistance programs intended to make the students understand and make the best use of their life efficiently, independently, analytically, and diligently, with their enthusiasm were visiting Solo to learn about the pioneering of the national car. In the midst of their thirst for local potency alignments and requirement that all people should constantly improve their own potency, 20 college students coming from many areas in Indonesia tried to discover information from actors directly involved in the making process of the national car.

This learning process was started from the office of Surakarta Mayor and continued in KIAT Motor Klaten regency on 16th of February 2012. Although unfortunately they could not meet the icon branding of the national car, Joko Widodo, the students were satisfied enough having a dialogue with the administrative assistance, Joko Pangarso, and some members of Commission III of Local Assembly of Central Lampung about the advancement of Solo, development strategy, fighting the poverty, increasing the society’s prosperity, riasing local original income, and a little about national car. 

“There is TPKD, a controlling team for eradicating poverty which is in charge to solve many poverty problems in this city covering health and education.  They give  health and educational helps for Surakarta society. While, technical departments oblige to wipe out poverty includes vile environment and to give society empowerment,” explained Joko Pangarso. “Our Satpol PP (the security guard) members are not facilitated with a stick or other violence igniting instruments. They use soft and un-insulting words, good communication and dialogue to move the street traders since traditional market is one of the important assets of Surakarta city.” Joko Pangarso admitted that national car was in the branding step which still needed to be supported by product and consumer management such as by contending this car as the office car.

The meeting with Bachruddin Sukiat, more well known as Pak Kiat, in Kiat Motor Klaten regency, became the complement of this learning process to understand about how to improve one’s potency. His simple, friendly, and communicative appearance made the Stube students were surprised with his story inspiring them to  have motivation  or always feel thirsty of doing the best for this nation. “I am only the man who ‘opens the door’ and next, it is the young generations who are in charge to continue and make it perfect,” said him with his Javanese philosophy, Niteni, means observing; Nirokke, means following with more innovative and creative way based on each own knowledge; and Nambahi, means modificating.

Learning from Pak Kiat’s life and the development strategy of Surakarta City, makes Stube students more enthusiastic to increase their capacity in Globalization era which demands college students to upgrade themselves and always struggle not to be slaves in their own country.