aortaJuly - October 2013

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Interview with Alumnus

The new Official Team 2013 - 2014

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General Secretariat:1st floor Library

Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia

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about us

Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities, CIMSA, is an independent, inclusive, nasionalist, non-profit and non-

party organization. CIMSA is an individual based organization with members consisted of medical students from many universities in Indonesia.

Established in 2001, and has grown up from 6 to 17 locals with approximately 5000 members. CIMSA aims at providing Indo-nesian medical students’ activities lodge to empower and express their idealism, thus medical students will have the same opportu-nities to get involved in health as early as possible and contribute to the development of this country.

Our activities are applied not only in the local and national, but also in the international level. This can be achieved because since its establisment CIMSA has gained trust from the interna-tional world to become the full member of IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students’ Association); the largest students’ organization in the world with approximately 107 countries as its members representing more than one million medical students worldwide.

CIMSA’s field of work covers 6 aspects represented in the form of Standing Commitee (SCO);

1. SCOME, on Medical Education, is a forum for medical students who have special interest in the improvement of medical educa-tion.

2. SCOPE, on Professional Exchange, fasilitates all medical students to feel the atmosphere and culture in foreign country while expe-riencing the clinical study.

3. SCOPH, on Public Health, focuses on the importance of public health issues in medical education or community.

4. SCORA, on Reproductive Health Including AIDS, aims at raising the awareness on reproductive helath including sex education, gender equality, etc.

5. SCORE, on Researh Exchange, gives a chance to all medical stu-dents to partake in medical research in foreign country

6. SCORP, on Human Rights and Peace, is related to issues on hu-man right and peace, including poblems faced by the refugees.

“Empowering Medical Students

and Improving the Nation's Health.''

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president's note

Muhammad Hafif KusasiPresident CIMSA 2013-2014

Assalamualaikum,

Dear friends,

Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities (CIM-SA) is an independent, non-political, and non-profit organiza-tion. It was established in 2001 and affiliated with International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA), with six standing committees, the health-related which we are work-ing on: Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH), Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME), Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP), Standing Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS (SCORA), Standing Commit-tee on Research Exchange (SCORE) and Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE).

12 years CIMSA served Indonesia. With activity-based projects, CIMSA encourage and accommodate each of its mem-bers to be able to contribute in one big mission, “Empowering Medical Students, Improving Nation’s Health”. Like an age of children, CIMSA are in the stage of rapid growth in the learning process toward maturity. CIMSA will continue to learn and grow to become a professional organization of medical students.

Towards 13 years, CIMSA has a focus on community de-velopment. Through this focus, hopefully we as medical students can give our best effort to make a real impact in our community, and Indonesia. There are no greatness without process. We need to learn, share, and broaden up our knowledge, together as one CIMSA.

To support this learning process of CIMSA, we need a good media to share the information and knowledge, and also make a publication of our projects and activities. With the pur-pose to improve our internal also external through a good com-munication, we hope that Aorta can be one of the inspirational media for all medical students.

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Hello CIMSA Indonesia!

My name is Eduard Jordi Luminta, and as the elected Media and Communication Director of CIMSA 2013-2014, I will be in charge for 3 editions of Aorta starting from this one. It is a great honor to serve thousands of CIMSA members all over In-donesia, and now I proudly present to you the 10th

edition of Aorta. I also want to congratulate my fel-low elected officials and hope they will bring CIMSA to a greater height than before.

The latest edition of Aorta will talk about the current health issue in Indonesia, which is about community development. There are also reports from CIMSA national meetings, both the previous and upcoming ones.

Last but not least, I want to thank everyone who has helped in the making of this Aorta such as the editors, designers, and of course the most important one, the active members of CIMSA who have contributed their thoughts and opinions in this magazine. Without further ado, please enjoy the latest Aorta.

Sincerely,

Eduard Jordi LumintaEditor in Chief

Editorial

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Annisa Abdi Ghifari

Adianto Jaya Negara

Sonya Alexandra

Denalia Aurika

Alberthus Donni Budi

Prasetya

Aditya Indra Pratama

Dina Rahmatika

Karina Kazia Harris

Christy Magdalena

Fatya Nur Aninda

Heru Ardila Putra

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Ilham Ari Seja

Presstisa Gifta Axelia

Anak Agung Gede Putra

Wiadnyana

Jesita Silfiana

Iswandy Janetputra Turu'

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Hasya Layalia Lahino

Christopher Christian

Halimkesuma

Regina IvanovNa

Ufara Zuwasti

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01 About Us 02 President's Note 03 Editorial Page 04 Contributors 06 CIMSA Official News 07 Best Local: CIMSA UNAND 09 GAP Exchange 11 Upcoming Meeting: NLS 2014 UB 13 World No Tobacco Day 14 Best Project: "Matahari" 15 Community Development 17 Interview with Alumni 19 May Meeting 2013 Riau 21 Cinta Dari Wamena 23 National Official Team 2013-2014 25 Our Locals

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//SCOPEOn 5th of August this year, during the August Meet-ing General Assembly in Chile, Farhan Mar’i Isa from CIMSA was elected as the SCOPE director of IFMSA 2013 - 2014. The former National Exchange Officer of SCOPE CIMSA Indonesia 2012 - 2013 will be the third person from NMO Indonesia to join the Team of Official IFMSA. He was competing with 4 other nominees from other NMO and finally win the voting by a landslides, claiming more than half of the votes available. Look forward to see more of Farhan and his new position in the next edition of Aorta!

All good things must finally come to an end and it includes this one, Asia Pacific Regional

Meeting 2013. The event, hosted by NMO Indonesia and which is organized by CIMSA

Indonesia was held in Yogyakarta at 5-8th of September 2013. After hearing and seeing the

numerous applications and reports about Asia Pacific Regional Meeting in CIMSA’s national meeting and social medias, we will see the

last report in the October Meeting. Last but not least, we from CIMSA Indonesia want to thanked the co-chairs specifically, Amandha Boy Timor, MD and Dian Oktavia Giriningrum, MD in making the biggest event which was

organized by CIMSA Indonesia this year, as well as all the organizing committee, volunteers,

and the participants.

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Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities of Universi-tas Andalas Faculty

of Medicine, or usually known as CIMSA Unand is one of CIMSA’s local in Indonesia which committed to Em-power Medical Students and Improving Nations’s Health.

CIMSA Unand itself is one of the founding father of CIMSA Indonesia, which was formed in 2001. So, it’s already 12 years since CIMSA Indo-nesia and CIMSA Unand itself established and making direct impact on the community around it with various activity and creative projects. On 18th of March, 2005 CIMSA Unand was officially recognized as one of the Student’s Activity Unit in Medical Faculty of Uni-versitas Andalas.

Since its inception, CIM-SA Unand have experienced a rapid growth in a lot of areas. One key area where CIMSA Unand have grown progres-sively is it’s member. CIMSA Unand, which was established by few medical students now have roughly 200 members that actively participate in vari-ous projects and activities, with prior member or alumni which roughly totaled at around 600 people.

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Nowadays, the proj-ects in CIMSA Un-and are those which have background

and reasoning, so that each and every project have their own unique objectives and aim, tailored to the function of each Standing Committee in CIMSA. This year, CIMSA Un-and have a national project in which we are entrusted to be the host of one of CIMSA na-tional event, which is the Octo-ber Meeting.

There are also several changes in CIMSA Unand as a whole, namely in the process of recruiting the newcomers that want to be a part of CIM-SA Unand as an active mem-ber. Now they have to make a project that involves every newcomers, compared to be-fore when the new project for newcomers are made in each Standing Committee only, not in broader scope such as now and with the changes, we hope there are feeling of to-getherness to be CIMSA mem-ber as a whole. The process of choosing the appropriate project was also not easy, with numerous consideration by the Standing Committee, and even some projects needed Trans-Standing Committee.

Since officially rec-ognized in 2005, CIMSA Un-and have collected several achievements, such as the Runner Up of Indonesia MDGs Award 2012 MADEC SCOME CIMSA UNAND, the Runner Up of Indonesia MDGs Award 2011 in the category “Youth Orga-nization”, SCORA Best Local Award for July-December 2010, SCORP Best Local Award 2008-

2009, Best Event on LUSTRUM IKM FK UNAND, and Best Local CIMSA 2011-2012.

We want to thank every-one for choosing CIMSA Unand as the Best Local 2012-2013 in May Meeting. We hope the award would increase our pas-sion and spirit in improving the condition of Indonesia and we also hope all local of CIMSA in Indonesia could stay com-mitted in regards to improving nation’s health. Think Globally, Act Locally. GO CIMSA! Be Active with CIMSA!Empowering Medical Students` Improving Nation`s Health

Sincerely,

CIMSA Local UNAND

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The most recent awards that we get are as the Best Local SCORE 2012-2013, Best Local SCOPH, Best Local SCOPE, Best Project SCORP 2012-2013 “TAP”, Best Proj-ect Fair May Meeting 2013 “Matahari” and last but not least is Best Local CIMSA 2012-2013.

Malaria have a high right of inci-dence in this country, especially

in Eastern Indonesia. All species of Plasmodium are found in Indonesia. Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum, which are the main cause of Malaria in Indonesia, are mostly found in Maluku, Nusa Tenggara, and Papua. 100 Indonesians are in risk of Malaria every year. Combating this dis-ease becomes a challenge of the decade, not only for Government, but all Indo-nesians.

GAPexchange 2013 is Global Action Project aimed to give understanding about Malaria in all aspects held by SCORE CIMSA Airlang-ga University. The particular goal is to under-stand parasite, vector, and diagnosis of Ma-laria by lectures and field trip in an endemic island. The output of this project is publishing two journals about vector bionomic of Ma-laria and analysis of population behavior correlated with Malaria case in the endemic area.

This program was held on July 8 2013 until August 2 2013. There were 4 participants came from Czech Republic, Canada, and Italy.

2 Participants that came a week earlier did hospital visit. All participants started GA-Pexchange by visiting Institute of Tropical Disease (ITD) in Surabaya with Sukmawati Basuki, dr., Msc. on July 8. Staff of ITD ex-plained profile of the institute, then, partici-pants walked around to see laboratories,

particularly parasitology laboratory. In the evening, all participants performed and en-joyed cultural show with SCOPE’s exchange students in Cultural Night event. The amus-ing part was when all people in the room danced Italian dance led by Deborah and Vale, participants of GAPexchange.The next following days in the first week, participants had some lectures, those were Parasitology and Epidemiology of Malaria by Prof. Yoes Prijatna Dachlan, M.D, M.Sc., Parasitologist, Vector of Malaria by Subagyo Yotopranoto, M.D.,DAP&E, Diagnostic of Malaria by Prof. Dr. Sri Hidajati Bayu Santoso, M.D, DTM., MSc., Parasitologist, and Severe Malaria and the Treatment Prof. Soeharto, M.D, M.Sc, DTM&H, Internist.

Participants also did laboratory work with Prof. Dr. Sri Hidajati Bayu Santoso, M.D, DTM., MSc., Parasitologist and Suhintam Pusarawati, Vet, MSc, those were making thin and thick blood smears and observing morphology of Plasmodium sp. in every stage of life.

On the last day of the week, participants had briefing for community survey by Ivan Rachmatullah, M.D. MPH., and for field trip to Lombok Island by LORE UA.

Accompanied by several members of SCORE UA, 4 participants, Dr. Bagyo, and Dr. Ivan went to Lombok Island on Sunday eve-ning, July 14. They stayed in Wisma Nusan-tara in Mataram for a night before doing the upcoming hectic schedule.

It was a bright morning to start a hectic day, participants of the field trip met in restaurant, some of them had breakfast, others that were already had sahur had chit-chat, be-fore meeting Pak Budi, an officer of Provin-cial Health Office. The schedule was started by visiting Provincial Health Office and North Lombok District Health Office to reintroduce its research project and the participants to officers. After that, participants visited North Lombok Hospital and Puskesmas in Tanjung.Watch showed 1 PM when the sun started burning skins and participants reached Puri Bunga Senggigi Hotel, checked in, had lunch and finally a rest. They prepare for

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catching mosquitoes in Tanjung, North Lom-bok, at 6 PM after fully recharging their en-ergy by having dinner and buka for those who fasted. Participants caught mosquitoes by two methods, cow bait and human bait.

For sampling, they had to catch mosquitoes at border of a village and forest for 6 hours in the dark. Imagine that. It was really an interesting rare opportunity!

On the next day, some participants were ready for breakfast at 7 AM, then, all of par-ticipants left hotel at 8 AM to go to Tanjung. Schedule of the day was exploring swamp area to collect larvae of Anopheles sp. Af-ter collected, samples were saved in tubes and packed. All samples were brought to Surabaya, saved in Parasitology laboratory of Airlangga University, and identified later.Participants did community survey related to population behavior and Malaria preven-tion program in a village within Tanjung on the next day.

The aim of the survey was to get information about population behavior which might become risk factor of Malaria. Participants would also analyze effectiveness of Malaria prevention program in the area. To collect adequate data, participants interviewed 30 people.

Some of interviewees spoke local language only, luckily, there were some translators helped participants. It was the last activity related to the research they did in Lombok Is-land. Result of the survey was discussed later in Surabaya. Dr. Bagyo and Dr. Ivan left the island in the afternoon, while other partici-pants went to Sendang Gile waterfall. Two rainbows across the waterfall looked good as the end of field trip.

Fourth and fifth days in Lombok were time for social program. They swam, took sunbath-ing, and had fun in Gili Islands. They also vis-ited Kuta beach. All participants left Lombok on Friday evening.

Back to Surabaya, on Monday, July 22, par-

ticipants of the field trip identified mosqui-toes and larvae, then, foreign participants and 3 SCORE UA’s members started working to create two journals.

First journal was about vector bionomic of Malaria. The tutor was Subagyo Yotopranoto, M.D.,DAP&E. Second journal was analysis of community survey. The tutor was Ivan Rachmatullah, M.D. MPH.

It took almost two weeks and plates of Italian food, their favorite, to finish the journals. Both journals will be published after accepted by the main tutor, Sukmawati Basuki, dr., Msc.

Within period of creating journals, partici-pants and SCORE UA’s members gathered together to have dinner. It was the idea of participants to cook for everybody as an appreciation of the hospitality. The Italians cooked special delizioso pasta and lasagna for everybody! Petra and Cynthia –the other participants- cooked delightful pancakes. Indonesians taught foreign participants to play “Smash Mosquitoes!” using poker cards. They really liked the game, Petra even said, “I’ll play it again in Czech!”

Overall, participants said that they liked and enjoyed this project beyond their expecta-tion.

This project gave them precious experience of research and living abroad, deep knowledge, and better understanding not only about Malaria but also Indonesian culture. For Indonesia, this project was held to contribute to understand Malaria better and indirectly combat this infectious disease as an implementation of MDGs point 6.

For medical students, hopefully this program inspired to do more research about Malaria and other tropical diseases in Indonesia. Last words, for everybody:

Let’s fight against Malaria!

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National Leadership Summit (NLS) is one of the three national meetings of CIMSA with

the purpose to build the character and skills of all members of CIMSA that can be applied in organizational and daily life

as a future potential health professionals in Indonesia.

This time MSCIA Universitas Brawijaya gets the opportunity to be the host of

NLS 2014.

The National Leadership Summit at Universitas Brawijaya will be held on

February of 2014 in Malang. Malang is located in the province of East Java has a different atmosphere,

famous for its cool air and Traditional Art Malang Mask. Besides, there are many kind of culinary and tourist

attractions that are available in the “Bumi AREMA”.

MSCIA Universitas Brawijaya would like to welcome all delegates of NLS2014 to “Bumi AREMA”. We hope we can provide a new experience and a new feel to

the entire delegates of NLS2014 later, and can give special memories in every event.

We MSCIA Universitas Brawijaya invite all CIMSA’s members to come in NLS2014. We are very pleased

and excited to welcome the entire delegates of NLS 2014. We are waiting for you in NLS2014 by MSCIA UB.

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Best Regards,

Anak Agung Gede Putra WiadnyanaProject Officer NLS 2014

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World No Tobacco Day.

Early in the morning at 8.00 a.m located in Kementrian Kesehatan Indonesia,

Kuningan-Jakarta, many people dressed in batik gathered in Siwa Besi room to attend Worlds No Tobacco day held by Kementrian Kesehatan RI. This is an annual event on 31 May to highlight the health risk associated with tobacco and advocate tobacco advertis-ing policies. This event is held to increase our awareness to reduce tobacco consumption. Theme event of this year is “Ban Tobacco Ad-vertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship”.

This event is started with opening speech by dr. Khanchit-WHO Indonesia Representative and followed by dr. Nafsiah Mboi, stated that government has banned tobacco advertis-ing and sponsorship through PP Number 109 Year 2012 about tobacco effect in our health and Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan (Permenk-es) Number 28 Year 2013 about health infor-mation in every tobacco product. Indonesian Health Minister, dr. Nafsiah Mboi, SpA, M.P.H., said that tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship must be minimalized compre-hensively to lower the prevalence of smok-ers in Indonesia. Advertising has a really big impact in tobacco consumption. According to Riskesdas 2010, 17,5 percent children start to smoke since 10-14 years old. And young adults smokers rise up to three folds from 7,1 percents to 43,3 percents.

There are also talk show with Putri Indonesia

2013-Whulandary Herman, dr. Nafsiah Mboi and two students from junior high school. They are talking about how tobacco advertis-ing influence people in tobacco use and shar-ing. With warm smile and kindness, dr. Naf-siah Mboi asked the students the reason of smoking. They said tobacco advertising now-adays are really attractive and as if smoking is cool. This is one of the reason of this year theme event, to ban tobacco advertising.

After the inspiring talkshow, there is Indone-sian Youth band entertaining the audience with their beautiful voice. And before lunch time there are an announcement of the win-ner in poster, essay and video competition. Hopefully by this event we can increase our awareness to prevent tobacco use through limit its advertising, promotion and sponsor-ship.

According to WHO, the ultimate goal of World No Tobacco Day is to contribute to protect present and future generations not only from these devastating health consequenses, but also againts the social, environmental and economic scourges of tobacco use and expo-sure to tobacco smoke. Lets share this good news because caring is sharing.

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“Ban Tobacco Advertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship”.

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matahari, short for Bersama Terangi Harapan Nagari, is

an internship project from CIMSA Unand’s local specially created for the newcomers of CIMSA Unand batch 2012. It is a trans-SCO project involving all 6 SCO into one program with different duty and task assigned for each SCO in a region in Padang, at RT 04 and 05 Lumba-Lumba st., Rimbo Kaluang district on December 2nd, 2012.

The project officer itself was also a newcomers from CIMSA Un-and batch 2012, Kemal Fadhli Hadi from SCORP. This intern-ship project is one of the series and requirement for new member recruitment made by HROD offi-cials as an indicator to determine which newcomers would be ac-cepted to CIMSA Unand.

It surely was not an easy project to make, with all the SCO have to be included and not to mention the newcomers are the commit-tee who directly hold the project, and for some of them this was a completely new experience. To make things more synchronized and systematical, the project committee was divided into two; general committee and the SCO’s specific committee. With the gen-eral committee, consists of PO, secretary, treasurer and coordina-tors, coordinating the main event and the SCO committees plan and execute the role of their own SCO for the project later on.

It started by committee selection from the newcomers training on November, surveys and brain-stormings became everyday meal

for the committees. To build the interest for the resident of Rimbo Kaluang district, 2 days before the main project the newcomers held a parade going around the dis-trict, announcing and socializing the main event on December 2nd, 2012 held at nearby mosques and public health center.

The main event itself also divided into two segments, the first seg-ment, held from 9am til 12pm, was allocated for SCOME, SCOPEand SCORE and the second seg-ment, from 1pm til 4pm, for SCOPH, SCORP and SCORA.

The project started early in the morning and although there wasa slight drizzle it didn’t reduce the anticipation of the local residents, and gratefully the weather goes sunny for the rest of the day. Hopefully this project achieved its aim, not only to improve the district’s health and awareness, but also to sow the sense of be-longing of CIMSA in the heart of the newbies and to empower the newbies to be active and contrib-utive in accordance to the vision and mission of CIMSA itself.

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Each SCO deliver their own role such as:-SCOME: Held a medical movie about dengue fever awareness to children.-SCOPE: Introducing countries of the world and english to children with drawing.-SCORE: Conducted small experiments such as making rocket and volcanic mountain from recycled bottles and gizmos for the children.-SCOPH: Doing house-to-house visit to spread the awareness of clean and healthy behavior.-SCORP: Also doing house-to-house visit to inform the risks and solution to a careless garbage and waste disposal process.-SCORA: Socializing about early reproductive health to senior high school students.

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COMMUNITYDEVELOPMENTCommunity development

combines the idea of “com-munity” with “development”.

Before we start, let’s we discuss first, what is the meaning of community and development itself. The basic concept of community it’s a group of people with shared identity. It implies more than merely physical place, but it may reference a dis-crete collection of persons about which common interest shared. Development is process.That involve change, improvement and vitality, a directed attempt to improve par-ticipation, flexibility, equity, attitudes, and quality of life.

When we put the two terms to-gether – community development – means that a community itself engages in process aimed at im-proving the social, economic and environmental situation of the com-munity. It is a process whereby com-munity members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems. Yes, the community itself takes action and participate together. The “con-crete” benefits of community devel-opment, such as employment and infrastructure, come through local people changing attitudes, mobilis-ing existing skills, improving networks, thinking differently about problems, and using community assets in new ways. “Community

development improves the situation of a com-munity, not just eco-

nomically, but also as a strong functioning

community itself. –Jim Cavaye-

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Then what could we do, as a medi-cal students? A simple thing as, we gather all the medical information from one place or a village, our very own soon to be lively-village. After we collect all the data, then we process that data, generate some-thing we called the beneficial out-put. Why beneficial? From that out-put, we could educate them, and do something about it. So our future project is what the people need, based on the output. Something like prevention, education, curative, and promotion. That makes our proj-ect more favorable and of course long-lasting.

When you are going to do the Community Develop-ment into a rural area, don’t even forget that Commu-nity Development has their principles in their process:

1.Start where rural people are – Start from the present condition of the village.

2.Community development cre-ates a vehicle for people to act on existing concerns.

3.The passion and enthusiasm of lo-cal people drives action. Drive them to have their of passion for their de-velopment.

4.Community ownership/involve-ment – Let them lead their own de-velopment.

5.External facilitators and resource people are “ invited in” to work with rural people, rather than working for them, or delivering services to them.

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Interview with Alumni

UFARA ZUWASTI:

PROFILEName : Ufara Zuwasti, MDAddress: Harapan Indah, West BekasiEducation: Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (2004-2010)Twitter: @ufara_zCurrent job: Working at Office of President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals

CIMSLIOGRAPHY2005-2006 Member of CIMSA2006-2007 Newsletter Editorial Board CIMSA2007-2008 Vice President for Exteral Affairs2008-2010 Alumni Director2011 Project Officer March Meeting Jakarta

On the second floor of the State Secretariat, the pastel square room—part of the parlor—offers a stunning view of the nation’s culture. You are

offered with wonderful painting across the room. I can see webbing used as tablecloth. This room is where I waited Ufara Zuwasti for the long talking in August. Kak Ufa, that’s how I called her, appeared with a palpable ease; her presence makes the place feel open and ap-proachable. She led me to the meeting room, ordering iced coffee for herself and mineral water for me, where we began our discussion..

Regina: How are you doing, Kak Ufa? What’s your current activities?

Ufara: I’m great, thank you. Now, I work as Team Pro-gram Manager of Pencerah Nusantara and Gen-

eral Practitioner at Budi Jaya Hospital.

R: Could you tell me more about Pencerah Nusantara?

U: Pencerah Nusantara is a new program, it is now on its second batch. We basically distribute a team of

health professionals to seven locations throughout Indo-nesia. The locations are Mentawai, Karawang, Pasuruan, Ende NTT, Berau East Kalimantan, Lindu and Ogotua East Sulawesi. The main goal of the program is to strengthen Primary Health Service in the periphery area. The pro-gram conducted by Pencerah Nusantara is the integra-tive model of intervention, hopefully we could apply the model of this integrative intervention throughout Indone-sia.

R: Kak Ufa, I heard that you will continue your masters degree in England, Oxford if I’m not wrong?

U: Yes, on October I will go to England for master de-gree on Global Health in Oxford University.

R: Why Global Health?

U: Early in CIMSA, I was exposed with Global Health issues. In reality, many patients come to doctor not

because of the diseases, but because they just don’t un-derstand. Furthermore, many diseases can be prevented by increasing people’s awareness. From that, we could understand that the primary work of general practitioner is to prevent people to get ill. In fact, I also want to be a specialist doctor. But before taking the leaps, I need to see medicine from bigger picture. I need to see beyond medicine and get the idea of what medicine really is. Or I’d also like to work in goverment sector or international organization.

“It won’t be easy but, it will pay off.”

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R: Is it difficult to get accepted at Oxford?

U: Well, entering master degree is different from un-dergraduate program. The first requirement is to meet

initial standards, like minimum GPA and your personal statements. It is rather relative to say whether it is difficult or not. But I think, why I got the place is because I have been consistent from early to pursue what I want. Firstly, studying medicine is a good place to start. Secondly, within my education path I have been consistent on lead-ing my way. Universities are looking for your consistency and what’s next—what will you do by the time you held the degree, and how you develop yourself in the future.

R: Do you have any influential people affecting your life or your career? A mentor?

U: Maybe my answers would sounds cliche, it’s my mother. She has a background on healthcare service,

a nurse. Now she’s working at ministry of national health. She is very persevering and is pushing me to my limit.

Secondly, people around me, Prof. Nila Moeloek. In her 60s, she held at least three head positions; the head of Office of President’s Special Envoy on MDGs, Head of PERDAMI, and Head of Dharma Wanita Persatuan. Her motto is action, action, action. And she is a very good mentor too. When you discuss with other people some-times you feel inferior. But it’s different with Prof. Moeloek, she appreciates your ideas and she acknowledges well. She is not the type of person who is shy to ask questions. A very good person for me.

R: What is your aspiration on CIMSA today?

U: Every member should know what potency they could explore from CIMSA. At least for themselves.

Sometimes we could not see the benefit of an organiza-tion. When your colleagues are not working well, your local somewhat been down. People usually degraded or trap in desperation. There are not many people who are brave to take step forward such as to initiate something. I encourage CIMSA members to take step forward, to begin something. Many will think that it’s complicated and so on. I want CIMSA member to look beyond and have guts to start. Because at the end it will pay off.

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U: When I was with Nina within SCORE exchange in Germany, we’ve been to seven GAs. People kept

talking that Indonesia should be the host. But in fact no one took it, it becomes issues. We think that we had to do it by ourselves, the one who take responsibility. Ini-

tially, our budget plan was seven billion. Imagining it was a fantastic feeling, but hard to get. By the time going, we learn it as simple as cutting your budget. During the preparation, I could not even sleep, waking up around 2-3 AM in palpitation. But everything I had, those what makes me today.

The first time I interact with Prof. Moeloek, asking her to be August Meeting Jakarta’s Patron. Hearing our bud-geting plan, she’s pretty surprised. But by the end of the event, we proved that it’s done and profitable, also CIM-SA been recognized. August Meeting Jakarta was held on 2011, but when you ask people in IFMSA what is the best GA, they would still say that August Meeting Jakarta was the best GA ever.

Working in Office of President’s Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals

U: One day Prof. Moeloek texted me, saying whether she could call me or not. And I said of course. When

she called me, she said “Would you like to work with me?” Now, here is where I am. I think I need a job that will accomodate me. I want to study abroad and I have to get scholarship—because I could not afford my study in America or England by myself. At that time, I did not look for how much the salary is, but I regard this as another milestone for me to be able to apply—for my master. With experiences I have worked here, I got at least four schol-arships at Oxford which I have to choose.

R: On last August Meeting, our friend Aan was elect-ed as SCOPE-D...

U: Wow, Awesome! Congratulations Aan!

R: For this last question, I would ask your message for all CIMSA Member.

U: I want CIMSA members to realize how much poten-cy they have. I want CIMSA members to utilize their

moment at CIMSA. Because CIMSA is active because of its members. If the members are inactive, CIMSA won’t be active either. Don’t reverse it. Do more. It won’t be easy but it will pay off at the end.

With those climax, we end our warm discussion. Through that pastel square room I went out with an easy feeling. Au revoir Kak Ufa, we looking forward to seeing you again.

Regina IvanovnaTask force for Alumni Director CIMSA

Interview with Alumni

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MayMeeting

Riau2013Hello CIMSA!!

Do you still re-member the hottest May Meet-

ing in Riau? I’m pretty sure you do, because Riau welcome you with 39 de-grees Celcius and OC welcome you with

passion burning in our soul. 23-26th of May 2013 is the date to remember, especially for CIMSA for these 12 years. We thanked CIMSA for giving CIMSA Universitas Riau the honor to host May Meeting 2013 with

the theme Universal Health Coverage: Saving Millions of Women to Attain Millenium Development Goals, try-

ing to relate UHC with the 5th

point of MDGs: Mater-nal Health.

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1 On the first day, from a distance we can see a lot of people with “Medical Student of Indonesia” in the back of their jacket ready to go to the first venue at Gedung Guru,

which located on Sudirman Street. After reg-istration and handing out the goodie bag, all delegations attend the first agenda. It was Newcomers Session presented by CIM-SA National Official 2012-2013. Then the agenda is continued by the new one, Magic Session with Consss Organization concept where all delegation played icebreaking games and then they attend the Scosession 1. After spending two hours for Scosession 2, delegations were ready for a Standing Party with Malay culture concept. Persembahan and Sirih dance successfully mesmerized all delegations and the event was closed by Pencak Silat from one of the organizing com-mittee member. The first day was ended by Plennary Session 1 and all delegations went to Tune Hotel to take a rest.

2 The second day was start-ed with Parallel Session 2 and Grand Lecture by Indonesian Vice Minister of Health, Prof. Ali Ghufron and Dr.dr.Donel Sp.OG

about Universal Health Care and maternal health. The last session for the second day was also the Plenary Session.

3 On the third day, the local com-mittee was in a hurry to knock the doors to wake the delega-tions up. All agenda for 3rd day were ready and so do the del-

egations. The best moment was on Project Fair with outdoor concept. It showed the cre-ativity of CIMSA member from every locals. The most important agenda was Plennary Session 4 that elected the National Official of CIMSA for 2013-2014. It was so beautiful to take part in succeeding the regeneration of CIMSA which is very important.

4 Finally, the last day we presented the farewell party in the morning at Anjung Seni Idrus Tintin with Superstar theme and success-fully presented ‘celebrities’ from

all over the world. The fourth day was ended by Photo Session and became the first step for delegations to leave the venue and get ready to go back home.

All the bittersweet come together, becoming the one that was written on our heart. Thank you for delegations, thank you for Pinyu, and thank you for all the other OC. You are in-credible. Remember us, the OC of MM 2013 with lots of love.

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“Cinta dari Wamena” (From Wamena with

Love) is a 2013 Indo-nesian movie which tell

about friendship of three Wamena teenagers and their struggle to fight

HIV/AIDS that epidem-ic in Wamena teenagers. So, basically, this movie is edu-tainment movie

about HIV/AIDS, which try to entertain and ed-ucate in the same time.

This why we, Center for Indonesian Medical Stu-dents’ Activities, feel

gladly to involved in pro-motion and free screen-

ing of this movie.

Cooperation between PT. Corsores Indonesia and

CIMSA in this movie starts in preparation of external speak-er in National Leadership Summit 2013. External team in that time try to reach out a doctor figure which have expe-rience to serve in Indonesia’s rural area and they met with dr. Ronald Gunawan. So,dr Ronald agreed to become speaker in NLS 2013 and told us about his experience to serve in Papua for more than 10 years! Then, he also told about his soon to be lauched movie and showed his interest to involving us in promotion of “Cinta Dari Wamena”.

Then, after 2 months negotia-tion about each side’s rights and responsibilities, PT Cor-sores Indonesia and CIMSA signed Letter of Agreement in March 14th 2013, repre-sented by dr. Ronald as Direc-tor of PT Corsores Indonesia and myself as CIMSA’s Vice President for External Affairs at that time. In this coopera-tion, CIMSA’s duties is to pro-

mote this film by arrange free screening of this movies in twelve cities with budget from PT Corsores. These twelve cities is Medan, Jakarta, Bo-gor, Depok, Tangerang, Beka-si, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Solo, Semarang, Surabaya, and Malang. Each movie screen-ing is held in famous movie theatre of every cities. Then, as part of this agreement, we have some rights, which are (1) inclusion of our logo in movie poster and mentioned in credit title, (2) get copy of this movie and have special rights to play this movie, and (3) involved in social acts with this movie’s profit. After the negotiation part, then we make coordination between national officials and local officials which will be the executor of this coopera-tion. For the coordination, we arrange chatmeet which in-volved many people, from na-tional officials, NCORA team, LOCOs, LORAs, VLEs, and dr Ronald from PT Corsores. FYI, there are more than 100 people in this chatmeet.

“FROM WAMENA WITH LOVE,FROM CIMSA WITH LOVE.”

Then, after the general chat-meet, we move on to area chat-meet with every local in said area and coordinator of every area is being choosen.

From Medan, we have CIMSA UISU with Misbah Munawarroh as coordinatoor. From Jabo-detabek area, we have CIMSA UI, UIN, and UPH with Aditya Cakasana, Annissa Kallista, and Arlha Debinta as co-coor-dinatoor. From Bandung, we have CIMSA Unpad with Firda Muthia Elsyanty as coordina-toor. From Jogjakarta, we have CIMSA UGM, UMY, and UKDW with Sofia Zachra Faiza as co-ordinatoor. From Solo, we have CIMSA UNS andUMS with Surya Ari Wahyudi as coodina-toor. From Semarang, we have

CIMSA Unisulla with Fadhil Rizal as coordinatoor. From Malang, we have CIMSA UB with Nadia Rizki Rahmawati as coordinatoor. Last but not least, from Surabaya, we have CIM-

SA UA and UWKS with Anggin-dita DW as coordinatoor.

Since April to June 2013, every area committee then prepare for the free screening from pro-motion, spread the ticket, and logistic deployment. After that, in June we busy with the film promotion schedule. In June 7th 2013, PT Corsores Indo-nesia held press release in XXI Epicentrum for this film and I join the event to represented CIMSA. This movie screening have two tipes, which is spe-cial movie screening and regu-lar movie screening. In special move screening, the screening continued by discussion with artists from this movie. Special movie screening held in five cit-ies, which are Bandung in June

8th 2013, Surabaya in June 9th 2013, Tangerang in 14th 2013, Jogjakarta in 15th 2013, and Solo in 16th 2013. Regular movie screening held in June 15-16th 2013, at all the cities except Solo which are Medan, Jabodetabek area, Bandung, Jogjakarta, Semarang, Malang, and Surabaya. There is also gala premiere of this film, which held in June 13th 2013 at XXI Epicentrum. In this event, many people comes up from media people, government people, and sponsors of this movie. At

this event, comes from CIMSA, some of pinyus *officials 2012-2013* and cilos *officials 2013-2014*.

Well, that’s all that I can tell you about “Cinta dari Wa-mena” for now. I hope after this, we will get copy of this movie and maybe we can start our campaign using this movie. Remember, our cooperation in

this movie maybe already fin-ish this time, but our struggle againts HIV/AIDS is still far than finish. I want to close this article with something that dr Ronald ever told me. So, if we do HIV/AIDS campaign, always remember to say that it is “from CIMSA with love”. :)

Christopher Christian H.Supervising Council 2013-2014

Vice President for External Affairs 2012-2013

Liaison Officer for Ministry of National Education 2011-2012

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“HIV/AIDS is indeed infectious disease of imunne sys-tem, but the worst thing is HIV/AIDS also a ‘love’ disease. They are rejected, ignored, and left by many people includ-

ing their loved ones. Because of that, you can give HIV/AIDS patient many drugs such as ARV, but without love all of that

is nothing. Only love can cure them totally.”- dr Ronald

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the NAtionAlOfficiAl teAm

2013-2014 M. Hafif KusasiPresident

Iswandy Janetputra T.A.National Officer on Medical Education

Nandamia RochmahNational Officer on

Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS

Zahra MustavaviNational Public Health Officer

Inez Putri PratiwiNational Officer on Human Rights and

Peace

Hasya Layalia LahinoLiaison Officer for Stu-

dent Organizations

Rizky Saraswati I.Liaison

Officer for Diknas

Jesita SilfianaLiaison Officer

for WHO

Eduard Jordi LumintaMedia and Communi-

cation Director

Rizka Riana SariProject Development

Director

Rifqi Aulia DestiansyahResearch and

Development Director

Dereisha Kartika P.Task Force for Human

Resource Director

Hanifiya Samha Wardhani

Liaison Officer for NHI

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Iqbal FahmiVice President for

Internal Affairs

Yehezkiel NathanaelInterim Vice President

for External Affairs

Akhmad Ulil AlbabSecretary General

Christopher C.P.H.Supervising Council

Ida Ayu NarayaniSupervising Council

Theodora CarolineSupervising Council

Rizky MeizikriNational Exchange Officer (Outgoing)

Devianty OctaviaNational Exchange Officer (Incoming)

Chessie Imanda SaibNational Officer on

Reasearch Exchange

Vini JamarinTreasurer

Anisa Aulia FitriMarketing, Campaign, and Advocacy Director

Regina IvanovnaTask Force for

Alumni Director

Prastika ChandraFundrising and

Merchandise Director

JauharaSupervising Council

CONGRAtULULAtIONS!

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Syiah Kuala UniversityAndalas UniversityUniversity of Riau

Pelita Harapan UniversityUniversity of Indonesia

Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic UniversityPadjajaran University

Gadjah Mada UniversityMuhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta

Sebelas Maret UniversitySultan Agung Islamic University

Muhammadiyah University of SurakartaBrawijaya UniversityAirlangga University

Wijaya Kusuma University of SurabayaDuta Wacana Christian University

OurLocals.

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