ISFiT is International Student Festival in Trondheim, that held every two years. This event organized by ISFiT foundation and including Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST), the Student Society of Trondheim, "Studentsamskipnaden i Trondheim" (SiT), Trondheim local authority and Sør-Trøndelag County Authority.
Students are the future leaders of the world and their voices should be heard and international networks established. Thus, the purpose of ISFiT is to be a meeting place for discussion and debate, an arena where ideas are born, friendships are made and valuable lessons are learned. The festival aims at fostering inspiration and being a starting point for international cooperation amongst students. ISFiT is a non-profit festival. The idea of an international student festival in Trondheim came to life in 1988. The thought was to gather students from different parts of the world in a combination of a conference and a festival. ISFiT is purpose to encourage students to be inspired and be the starting point from early relations in an international scale.
ISFiT - The International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway is the world’s largest student festival with a thematic focus. About 450 students from all over the world attend the festival. The themes have changed over the years, but have always been related to social and political topics with international relevance.
World figures often attend ISFiT and past speakers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama, former Director-General of WHO Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Dr José Ramos-Horta, Professor Wangari Maathai and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr Desmond Tutu. Using modern technology, former US president Bill Clinton has relayed his thoughts about the global significance of ISFiT to plenum ceremonies at the festival.
Today ISFiT is one of the most important meeting places for students from all over the world. In the last years the festival has had participants from more than a hundred countries.
This event will born a petition and recommendations for United of Nations and related institutions. Students as the next leaders expected to afford some of considerations to answer how the solutions from the current problems in the world.
ISFiT 2011 was held from 11-20th February 2011. The main theme for ISFiT 2011 is GLOBAL HEALTH, and the festival's name is Globalize this: Health. ISFiT 2011 defines global health as the health of the world population in an international context, looking beyond purely national perspectives and challenges. The concept covers all aspects of the human health – physical, mental, and social.
In ISFiT, I’ve leraned so many things. About differences, frindship, dignity, team work, tolerance, respect, global issues, and love. I was selected to join ISFiT from more of 4000 applicants from all around the world and I feel so lucky to stand here for you all share about how’s the situation and condition of this world, how’s us, the next leaders for the future can give the real contribution of the world problems severity especially about GLOBAL HEALTH. I choosed workshop sub theme 4, water. Ya, water is life. That’s what I concenrned about. During the workshop, I’ve learned so many things and can open my mind from different point of view for water problems and health along solutions from each participants.
On the first day we still didn’t have workshop. The Crown Prince of Norway gave us a little opening about DIGNITY. How people can encourage his self to be better one and how they can help others to get their dignity. Actually he said that dignity really connecting with everything we should get as a human.
On the second day we start the workshop with knew each other well. After that we had opening ceremony in Student society (or we also call it studentersamfundet or just Samfundet) and wore our national costume. I wore batik for that day and they really like the pattern. Various topics has planned by our water workshop leaders, Ida, Hakon, Orjan, sand sofie. Four of them also students. On the frist day of workshop we discusssed about waterborne deseases. We agreed that water besides good for our human being, also have negative effect if there aren’t good superintendent for that water and can cause deseases that arise because using the polluted water. At that moment, we have good speaker, Arne Myhre. A doctor in a hospital in Trondheim. The result of our discussion with him was first, eventhough there are prevented activities to prevent the diseases that arise because using polluted water, the society still not realize of the clean water and in some country that has abundant water not using it sparingly. I’ll give you an example, my friend from Rusia told us that in Rusia they have abundant water resource and they use it without resposibility and don’t realize that in other parts of the world has lack of water. And that’s a pity. Furthermore we agreed that in every each country has their own unique custom to cure the waterborne disease for example in Africa the have traditional and simple way to cure it. On that day we have plennary session about GLOBALIZE THIS: HEALTH. Oh ya we have ISFiT game named Hi Ha Hoo. We played it as well as if we have samurai.
On the next day, we had Ski day in Roros, with all of ISFiT official we came together in the thick snow with the weather about minus 20 celcius, and that made my hand and feet freezing like snow ball.
The day after the ski day, we have different theme from our first day workshop, it was about INDUSTRY EMISSION. And our workshop leaders gave us the opportunity to debating in some of groups, one of the group act like government, communities that live surrounding the oil company, the leaders of the oil company, and european people who using the oil from country that the oil company has took its resource. We were debating and found that there were need concern from all of parts to create the harmonisation in solutions in a system which has to be created for mutual benefit. After that we talk about government action toward flood that happen in a country and we created the GOVERNMENT CRISIS TEAM, and I will show you the picture of it later.
Next day we felt that our time went so fast, our friendship becoming stronger and felt that in a few days we had to be separate. We have game with climate and environment workshop and we called it CATASTROPHE DAY because the game divided in to some post and we were divided into some groups, in 1 group there were participant from water and climate and environment workshop. In to the group we had to make a small family consist of grandma, grandpa, mom, dad, and children. The rules is we are a family who lives in a country that often experience tsunami, if we want to survive we have to got the resources like money, water etc from the game posts. It was really interseting because we’ve learned about team work and care each other eventhough we are in panic situation to survive. And I had been famous because my face plastered in Trondheim magazine when I was playing that. And I won’t waste the magazine forever.
On the next day 17th February we had WATER and HUMAN RIGHTS. We defined it in to some words. Whether the water is a human rights from each individual, why water can be defined as human rights, and what does the relation of it? We revealed (mengungkapkan) our opinion with different point of view caused by we have different background from different countries. But we agreed that water can not be separated with human rights because over 70% of our body is consist of water. Therefore (maka dari itu) water is essential and fundamentally need in our life but, we still have responsibility of using the water as wise as we can. In the night we had plennary session about THE GLOBAL HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC at Samfundet.
On 18th February we were not in our workshop room in Nova building, but we have project day in Samfundet about hunger and obesity. Yeah it is happen in so many countries, Indonesia including on it. Social imbalance between one country to other country happen because of the lack of food. The most interesting part of that day was in the evening we walked in to the Olavshallen Building from Samfudet to campaign with the torch in our hand to attended the STUDENT PEACE PRIZE there, and again we wore our national costum because the event was formal, this time I wore Betawinese costum called Encim. Duško Kostić from Croatia has deserve for student peace prize. As founder and president of the organization “Association of Roma Friendship”, LUNA, the 36-year-old Duško Kostic plays lead role in spreading knowledge and learning about the Roma. Since 2005 Duško Kostic has been visiting Roma families in Croatia to promote education for children and youth. 94% of the participating pupils in his projects complete secondary school.
The Student Peace Prize is a prize that encourages students who are fighting for peace, democracy and human rights. Duško Kostic is also a political representative for the Romas in his home town; Beli Manister in the eastern parts of Croatia. He has been characterized by the committee as “an everyday hero that motivates others through emphasizing on education and peace building”. This year’s prize emphasizes the value of education for peace building. Despite this, the Nobel Peace Prize has never been awarded to a candidate focusing on the importance of education.
The next day on 19th February was the second last day to us for sharing, debating, and discussing about the water and health. We’ve talked about WATER: THE SOURCE OF LIFE A SOURCE OF CONFLICT. Here, we’ve got referrals (arahan) from Ole M. Theisen. We agreed that people who don’t have access to get the clean water, they can be rude and do anything to get the water even they can murder each other. Even there are conflict in some of countries like India, Bangladesh, and China etc that has same spings (sumber mata air). My friend from bangladesh and India and China revealed that the government blame each other because of the polluted water and the distribution is uneven in each region.
This issue should be the world intention in order to prevent the contiuity conflict because it can be worst. On the evening we had plenary session themed HOW GENDER PLAYS A ROLE? At Samfundet. The speaker was Dr. Sima Samar from Afganistan and she brought two other girls from Afganistan who care about the struggling women. They told us about how education becoming important to the emantipation and gender equality (kesetaraan), how Afganistan women struggling to get the better education and has an important role in government. Previously, I have already prepare a question but I did not get it because the moderator gave the questioner from below of the list. But that was ok because after the plenary session was over I came to her and told about my story and give her the SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF JAKARTA’ s flag. And told her it is my sponsor and she said that oh I know this organization then I would like to take a picture of it with you. I really happy and proud because I can take a picture with a great women after my mom. hehe
And we were really sad to leave Trondheim. It was our last day and we had workshop about HOW TO SPREAD THE WORLD? On 20th February 2011. Exactly when we going back to our country. We discussed about what will we do after ISFiT. And we presented it in various style, me and my group presented it in Military way. And that was funny. we’ve got the conclusion that we have to do it begin from our self, and then our close people like friend, family, after that we can influence people to follow us, then join the organization which is concern about environment and make some campaign inside it. Because I’ve already retired from student organization in my university, so I have an idea to make a proposal and will ask the Executive Student Institution in my University to help me to make a proposal about direcly drinking water in our university environment.
And finally we have to separate and going back to our country. It was really sad when we had the clossing ceremony, we laughing together, crying, dancing, and hug each other because we know that even our body can not see each other directly, but we still have the heart that connected us. And the last is I can conclude that we were sure that ISFiT 2011 is just the beginning to begin the better life of the world.
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