Honorable
the chairman,
Honorable
the lecturer,
Ladies
and gentleman that I respect
Assalamu’alaikum
wr. Wb
All
praise is due to Allah, The Lord of the World. Because of his mercy and
guidance, we can present in here. I say thank you for giving me the opportunity
to put forward my little knowledge about “STUDENTS AS AGENT OF CHANGE”.
Ladies
and gentleman,
If
we define students come from two phrases that are “Great” and “student”. Great
has meant high and student has mean person who pursue knowledge. So, it can
define that student is person who pursue knowledge who has high dedication in
education life. Actually, the word of Student can build perception about person
who has academic title student itself. They are seen as the intellectuals who
have more capabilities. They are considered as people or a group of people who
are able and capable to change the nation and state.
Students
are the milestone of a change. We ever heard that “Students as agent of
change”. Students have always been part of the history of a nation. Students
have always been considered a critical and constructive thinking. Student was
chosen as determiners a change because of students who are part of the youth
are considered to have a positive character as idealistic and energetic.
Idealist means student should not yet contaminated by personal or group
interests, are also not burdened by historical and position burden. It means
that students are free to put themselves in a position that he considers the
best, without too much resistance. Youth are usually ready to do ‘obligation’
which imposed by an ideology when he was convinced of the truth of the
ideology.
The
high general view or society about students itself should make students think.
Did I like it? Or had I been doing a truth? But all of these questions are not
easy to enter and grow into mental current students. This is certainly
different with history students in pre-independence. Ah, a difference which was
unfortunate. Formerly students expressed their idealism in sportsmanlike and healthy
way, but now they show idealism with anarchist in every action. It makes
society lost confidence to the role of students who had always honored and
considered correct.
Fade
of the role of the students as agents of change is influenced by several factors:
1.
Influence of foreign cultural are not insulated
have poisoned the youth and students. They can easily imitate a foreign culture
without considering the risks and the benefits for their own lives.
2.
Influence of educational systems that form the
weak mentality of students, just thinking “how can I pass and ready to plunge
into the work world”. They tend to think theoretically without competency
skills truly able to compete.
3.
The growing fears of the destruction of hope
quickly pass and track record in the academic world when he became an activist
renewal fighter so they more passive thinking and “play it safe” only.
We
have an obligation to change the mentality of students who currently tend to be
hedonistic and pragmatic, back to being an agent of change that have a high
idealism. One of them is face students to real life social issues of
citizenship. It is not only done by the students themselves personally but the
university has to support as a forum for students. And universities must be
ready to accommodate the aspirations and idealism of its students. If the
league is good, so the view of students as change will not fall down.
Therefore,
as student we should not only expect a piece of paper from the struggle for
several years without having a basic understanding of our identity as an
intellectual. Let us return to our identity as a student. Still a lot of
assignment that must be completed, we can not just rely on the people’s
representatives who are more likely to fall asleep in solving problems of the
people and nation. We must dare to put ourselves as a student. So, let us show
students function as agents of change.
Maybe
enough the speech for this time, I hope it can give a little fresh air to
change for the better.
I
apologize to my entire mistake if any
Thank
you very much
Till
meet again
Wassalamu’alaikum
Wr. Wb
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