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Wassenaar Campus — For the The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) 2012, SIN Wassenaar’s delegation was assigned to represent San Marino, the world’s smallest republic. For the preparation, our delegation received a coaching programme from our former teacher, Mr. Syafreni. The weekly activity was started from 7 January 2012 and ended on 20 January 2012, in which for two days it was fulltime. Mr. Tri Hartanato (our former teacher as well) shared his experience and provided useful motivation during the the final round of the programme. SIN Wassenaar really appreciated and was genuinely grateful for their contribution.

Wassenaar Campus — SIN Wassenaar received the highest previlidge so far to welcome the new Indonesian Ambassador to the Kingdom of The Netherlands, H.E. Ms. Retno L.P. Marsudi, Friday morning, 27 January 2012. H.E. Ambassador was accompanied by her husband, Mr. Agus Marsudi, and were received by the Attaché of Education and Culture, Mr. Ramon Mohandas, SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati, teachers and students.

In her welcoming speech Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati outlined the progress our school has achieved, including the recent accreditation by the National Accreditation Agency (BAN) and recognition by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science as a foreign school in the b4 schools category, and participation of SIN Wassenaar’s delegation in the THIMUN 2012 representing San Marino.

During the visit, H.E. Ambassador was very happy to have the opportunity to call at SIN Wassenaar at the early moment of her assignment as the Indonesian ambassador in The Hague, partly on her husband’s suggestion and partly due to their full commitment on quality education for young people. She also suggested that SIN Wassenaar to stitch together, for example, with the University of Indonesia a sort of understanding and cooperation to facilitate our Senior High School graduates and to simplify transfer regulation for Indonesia students studying at Dutch universities who wish to relocate to universities in Indonesia. Furthermore H.E. Ambassador shared motivation to our students to possess international standards yet simultaneously remain Indonesians. A brief visit to the classrooms, library, and an inspection of facilities were conducted as well.

Wassenaar Campus — SIN Wassenaar hosted a technical supervision from the Directorates General of Primary and Secondary Education of the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture, on Wednesday, 14 December 2011. The delegation consisted of Mr. Ayi Mustafa, Mr. Wowon, and Mr. Katman.

During the visit, certain aspects of technical and blockgrant assistance from the Ministry were evaluated and followed up with guidance and supervision as well as inspection to the library and classrooms. A special session was also convened with the teachers, SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati,  and the Indonesian Attaché of Education, Mr. Ramon Mohandas.

Wassenaar Campus — SIN Wassenaar welcomed a delagation of the P2TK Secondary School of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Jakarta, 10 December 2011. Led by Mr. Wastandar the delegation comprised his staff and 10 selected school headmasters from various parts of Indonesia.

Mr. Wastandar highly appreciated our teachers and Director for their dedication to improve the quality of education at SIN Wassenaar. He referred specifically to Ms. Djena, who was accompanying SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah during the visit as a good example of Indonesian. Although being born and grown up in The Netherlands she remains as a good Indonesian both in characters and personality. Mr. Wastandar has every confidence that the central government in Indonesia will fully support SIN Wassenaar to be a foreign school under the Dutch regulation and eventually as an Indonesian international school in The Netherlands. Another issue discussed was the distance education programme for primary school.

The delegation had also the opportunity to converse with the participants of the Indonesian language course at SIN Wassenaar.

Wassenaar Campus — It was a genuine previlidge for SIN Wassenaar to have a studium generale on forest and orangutan conservation programe in Indonesia from the delegation of Her Royal Highness Princess Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Pembayun (Chairperson of the Yayasan Konservasi Alam, Yogyakarta), Mr. Willie Smits and entourage, Monday afternoon, 16 January 2012.

In her welcoming statement, SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah emphasised that this special opportunity would stimulate and widen the knowledge of our students on the issues, as well as highly appreciate the delegation and the Indonesian Embassy that had facilitated and arranged the programme. The studium generale itself is a periodical programme of SIN Wassenaar to invite certain experts and practitioners from various fields to share their knowledge and experiences with our civitas academica.

Ms. G.K.R. Pembayun also expressed her compliments to SIN Wassenaar and informed the forum about the Urangudome in Yogyakarta, a large and cutting-edge biosphere facility to conserve the gibbon species especially the orangutans.

In his turn, Mr. Smits, an Indonesian of Dutch origin, awesomely introduced and explained about the history, eventually the current stage of the conservation programme he had helped to manage and the incoming activities. To encourage the students, he offered a quizz with 100 euro incentive for the winner. Through an enthusiastic and competitive discussion, one of our students, Rasyida Noor won the contest, and the money was directly handed over by G.K.R. Pembayun to the winner.

During the studium general our embassy was represented by Mr. Bonifatius Agung Herindra and Mr. Akio Alfiano Tamala.