PBI virtual camp event (Makrab PBI 2021). The event was held by the English Education Study Program on 30-31 October 2021, which involved members of the PBI unit as the event committee and certainly involved new students in 2021 as participants. Of course, there are many interesting facts that we can reveal regarding this event based on our interviews with some students who participated in this PBI virtual camp event.
This year, the theme of the PBI virtual camp event is focused on elevating the local cultural values, as revealed by our first resource person, the chairman of the PBI virtual camp organizing committee. “At this year’s PBI Virtual Camp event, we raised the theme “Evoke Our Local Culture” which means “Membangkitkan Budaya Lokal Kita”, Culture plays an important role in human life. As we know, human civilization on earth is the result of culture. It is noted that Indonesia is one of the countries that has the richest local culture in the world.”
It is expected for us to be more familiar with our traditional cultures, especially in the games and languages of our ancestors. It will certainly make us nostalgic and grow our love for traditional games that are increasingly rare in today’s era. By holding this PBI virtual camp event, it is hoped that students can get to know each other better for those in different semesters and different classes. So that in the future good communication can be established between fellow students at PBI. As we know that in an event there must be obstacles and disagreements in the process.
“How to coordinate all aspects? Of course, it is not an easy thing to do. In my opinion, the most important thing to coordinate everything is good communication. Why? Because in a committee, there will definitely be conflicts or contradictions. Whether it’s about ideas, characters, or others. That is why conflict must be controlled so that it does not interfere with the performance of each part. There must be coordination. The committee does not belong to just one part, but it belongs to all members of the committee. There must be effective coordination so that there are no errors in work. In this regard, it is necessary to avoid the occurrence of miscommunication.
Although there were several miscommunications during yesterday’s activity, Alhamdulillah, overall our event was able to run well. Thanks to the hard work of the entire committee and also those who participated in helping the continuity of our event, thank you.
The 2021 PBI virtual camp event was a suceess with a very well-planned and well-thought-out preparation from the committees. It was answered in the response of one of the participants, he said: “I am so happy with this event, especially with such a cool mentor. Through this event, we were able to gain a lot of experience that will help us expand our relationship with the 2021 batch and the previous batch. Apart from that, we also get to know more about PBI units such as EDSA, EJT, PBI Theatre Family, and others. In the process of making videos, we don’t feel burdened even though there are some obstacles, actually, it will add to our experience in the future if next year we get the opportunity to become coordinators like the committees now.”
The message for all of us is not to feel burdened in doing it, enjoy it, and then we will feel happy in participating in the event.
Nurinsani&Iin Nur