The Indonesian Student Association in Groningen
Do you know how many Indonesians are in Groningen? A lot. We have an association here
and what do we do?
I just realized that I haven’t introduced one of the most important associations for me in
Groningen; Indonesian Students Association in Groningen (PPIG).
There are around 200 Indonesians in the city of Groningen, which is a lot. No wonder we
have an association to accomodate all of the Indonesians here. We even have a yahoo!
Maillist which is very useful. When I arrived, the association members were the ones who
pick us up at the airport and bought dagkaarts for us to go to Groningen.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ppigroningen/info
You can also check out our website (preferably with google chrome if you don’t understand
Indonesian so you can use google translate); http://ppigroningen.nl/
We have a lot of wonderful events, the next one would be the Indonesian Day and Dinner
which would take place at the beginning of May 2014, and we welcome everybody!
Here’s a video of last year’s Indonesian Day and Dinner.
What do we do aside arranging events? Here is some examples how every Indonesian can
contribute for each other;
1. The Association Board
This includes as being the chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, etc. We
also have sections such as sports section. Every weekend they book courts for us to
play badminton or soccer or volley ball. Not only sports, we have the tourism section
that arranges visits for us. In addition, there is the education section that arranges
Indonesian Science Cafe every month. Not to mention there are still a lot of other
sections!
2. Religion
For religious aspects, we also have deGromiest for Muslims and Petri for Christians
or Catholic. It is also very important for us to keep our faith when being away from
home and gather together usually once a week.
3. Arts
We have a choir and also a dancing team, and anybody who wants to participate is
welcomed. Our dance team is famous for ‘Tari Merak’.
One of the other projects of the Indonesian Student Association is the ‘Sahabat van Holand’
or translated as friends from the Netherlands where we send post cards to kids in remoted
villages of Indonesia to delight them.
Thanks to all of them I can still feel the warmth of home and it reminds me of my family and
friends.
Remarks: This passage was posted many years ago in groningenlife.nl and this post belongs to them. However, seeing that it has been removed, I would like to share some of my writings here.
and what do we do?
I just realized that I haven’t introduced one of the most important associations for me in
Groningen; Indonesian Students Association in Groningen (PPIG).
There are around 200 Indonesians in the city of Groningen, which is a lot. No wonder we
have an association to accomodate all of the Indonesians here. We even have a yahoo!
Maillist which is very useful. When I arrived, the association members were the ones who
pick us up at the airport and bought dagkaarts for us to go to Groningen.
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ppigroningen/info
You can also check out our website (preferably with google chrome if you don’t understand
Indonesian so you can use google translate); http://ppigroningen.nl/
We have a lot of wonderful events, the next one would be the Indonesian Day and Dinner
which would take place at the beginning of May 2014, and we welcome everybody!
Here’s a video of last year’s Indonesian Day and Dinner.
What do we do aside arranging events? Here is some examples how every Indonesian can
contribute for each other;
1. The Association Board
This includes as being the chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer, etc. We
also have sections such as sports section. Every weekend they book courts for us to
play badminton or soccer or volley ball. Not only sports, we have the tourism section
that arranges visits for us. In addition, there is the education section that arranges
Indonesian Science Cafe every month. Not to mention there are still a lot of other
sections!
2. Religion
For religious aspects, we also have deGromiest for Muslims and Petri for Christians
or Catholic. It is also very important for us to keep our faith when being away from
home and gather together usually once a week.
3. Arts
We have a choir and also a dancing team, and anybody who wants to participate is
welcomed. Our dance team is famous for ‘Tari Merak’.
One of the other projects of the Indonesian Student Association is the ‘Sahabat van Holand’
or translated as friends from the Netherlands where we send post cards to kids in remoted
villages of Indonesia to delight them.
Thanks to all of them I can still feel the warmth of home and it reminds me of my family and
friends.
Remarks: This passage was posted many years ago in groningenlife.nl and this post belongs to them. However, seeing that it has been removed, I would like to share some of my writings here.
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