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Wassenaar Campus — Three students of the International School in The Hague (ISH), Ratna Aini Hadi, Astri Simbolon, and Alleta Asy’ari, chose to volunteer at SIN Wassenaar, on Friday, 30 September 2011. It was part of their school’s community service assignment.

At SIN Wassenaar, they enthusiastically helped Ms. Ida Riaurika and a group of SIN Waassenaar students during the Music and Singing class by piano accompaniment,  moving the chairs, tidying classrooms and band room, etc.

SIN Wassenaar is very grateful for the voluntary assistance and it became an inspiration to launch similar programme for our own students, as the sense of social responsibility and caring attitude should be nurtured from young age.

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Wassenaar Campus — SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati, is representing the school in the 24th ICDE World Conference, organised in Bali, 2-5 October 2011.

Ms. Kumalawati will speak on distance learning/education provided by SIN Wassenaar for Primary Education level. We wish every success to our director.

Wassenaar Campus, 27 September 2011 — Just after the completion of the verification process which part of SIN Wassenaar’s accreditation, a forum of dialogue was convened in the teachers room. The assessors, Prof. Fakry Gaffar dan Prof. Ki Supriyoko, met with the teachers expressed their impressions and shared valuable insights, information as well as suggestions for advancing the school to obtain a foreign school status in The Netherlands and gradually toward the Indonesian International School in The Netherlands, a term Prof. Gaffar borrowed from our Chargé d’affaires at interim, Mr. Umar Hadi. Prof. Fakry suggested that SIN Wassenaar, as the only Indonesian school in Western European soil, had the potential to achieve that ultimate goal; however this requires strong commitment and support from the Indonesian government and related stakeholders.

In his turn, Prof. Ki Supriyoko informed the audience that for SILNs the verification programme is directly conducted by The National Accreditation Agency (BAN) teams. Having the opportunity to study for one year in The Hague in 1980s, Prof. Supriyoko also introduced education institutions he helps to manage in Yogyakarta, and he offered if SIN Wassenaar civitas academica happened to visit the city to come over to his schools and pesantrens.

On behalf of SIN Wassenaar, Mr. War expressed appreciation that SIN Wassenaar has been given the chance to take part in the accrediation process which he believed would be very meaningful and helpful to improve educational quality served at SIN Wassenaar. The process itself, he said, would encourage the teachers how to manage a school according to the national standard.

That late afternoon session ended the few hectic days and was concluded by presenting school’s souvenirs to the assessors. Our Director, Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati, again, representing SIN Wassenaar expressed our sincere gratitude and compliments especially to both assessors, school’s accreditation team, and the teachers.

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Wassenaar Campus, 26 September 2011 — SIN Wassenaar has been covered by one of the largest newspapers in Indonesia, the KOMPAS daily. It is featured in the Laporan dari Den Haag (Report from The Hague). The coveraged is linked here.

Wassenaar Campus — Monday morning, 26 September 2011, SIN Wassenaar officially welcomed Prof. M. Fakry Gaffar and Prof. Ki Supriyoko, two officials from Indonesia’s National Accreditation Agency (Badan Akreditasi Nasional). They are on formal visitation to verify all aspects related to SIN Wassenaar’s application for accreditation as a national school yet territorially located beyond Indonesian soil.

Received by SIN Wassenaar’s Director, Ms. Arbayah Kumalawati and teachers, both well-known experts in educational assessment joined the Flag Ceremony. Mr. Gaffar and Mr. Supriyoko were very impressed and a bit overwhelmed by the fact that Indonesian students were still able to solemnly sing the Indonesia Raya (the national anthem) and Berkibarlah Benderaku (a national song) while living far away from Indonesia. They were grateful for having a visit the school and hoped the young generation to make use positively the precious opportunity to study at SIN Wassenaar.

Prof. Gaffar is the former  rector of the Indonesian University of Education, Bandung, while Prof. Supriyoko is the Chairman of Education and Culture of the Supreme Assembly of Taman Siswa, Yogyakarta.

The verification activities will take several days, including a courtesy call to the Chargés d’affaires at interim, Mr. Umar Hadi, at the Indonesian Embassy in The Hague. As this assessment is the first kind in its history of existence, hopefully SIN Wassenaar would be able to satisfy the expected self-assessment standards which had been previously forwarded to the National Accrediation Agency in Jakarta for the preliminary evaluation.

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