UNAIR NEWS – Students of Faculty of Law , members of the Semi-Autonomous Body (BSO) of Airlangga Young Jurist Society (MYMA) once again made achievements at national level.聽MYMA as BSO focusing on the field of debate often sends its members in various debate competitions, both at regional and national levels. MYMA often gets satisfactory results.
The most recent achievements were made by six students who took part in a competition at University of Surabaya.聽The national debate competition was titled Ubaya Law Fair 2018 and themed “The Constellation of Laws in Realizing Indonesia Based on Pancasila”.聽The six students won first place in the event held on November 9-11 2018.
Moreover, in 2018 Ubaya Law Fair, the UNAIR team, Krisna Murti, won the聽best speaker聽award.
The six students are Ave Maria (2016), Safira Noor (2016), Krisna Murti (2016), Windy Agustin (2016), Abiyyu Hilmi (2017), and Agung Jaya (2017).
For more than one month, various preparations were made.聽Starting from studying motions, compiling pros and cons arguments, and undergoing regular training beside attending lectures.
It was a great achievement, since the preliminary round, they have been in a聽chamber聽consisting of experienced teams.聽With hard work and team spirit, the UNAIR delegation finally continued to the semifinals.
In the semifinal round, UNAIR team faced great competitions, debate team from Padjadjaran University Bandung with the motion “Reviving the President’s Humiliation Article”.聽In the heated debate round, UNAIR defeated the team from Padjadjaran University in Bandung with a very convincing victory point, 4 vs 1.
While in the final round, the UNAIR team had to face the debate team from Maranatha Christian University Bandung with a motion “Deprivation of Criminal Assets in Corruption Crime (Non-convicted Based)”.聽In the final round, UNAIR team performed well that they won the final round.
On the same day when Ubaya Law Fair was held, a UIN Law Fair was also held in Jakarta, the UNAIR debate team also made the same achievement. First place winner and best speaker.聽This makes BSO MYMA win two awards at the same time.
Safira as the second speaker in the competition was proud of the achievements made by 2018 UNAIR and Ubaya Law Fair team.
”听Alhamdulillah,聽聽we are very happy and a bit surprised.聽But thanks to our hard work and God’s blessing we were finally able to get 1st place, “Safira said.
Safira continued, she and her team took part in the competition just to do their best.聽“We only did the best every race and finally got to this stage.聽Honestly, among us, we have also participated in various competitions and have also lost.聽But we are still enthusiastic about participating in the competition, “he added.
Safira hoped that victory of her team can inspire other FH students so FH UNAIR will be more successful on national and international levels.聽(*)
Author: Xavier Nugraha
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
