Aditya Waskita, mahasiswa Program Studi Teknologi Hasil Perikanan UGM angkatan 2022, mengikuti kegiatan Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) di PT. BeeJay Seafood, Probolinggo. Kegiatan ini dilaksanakan sejak 11 Februari 2025 sebagai bagian dari program pembelajaran di luar kampus yang mendorong mahasiswa untuk terlibat langsung dalam industri. Selama menjalani program ini, Aditya mendapatkan kesempatan untuk mempelajari secara langsung proses produksi dan manajemen industri perikanan. PT. BeeJay Seafood sendiri merupakan perusahaan yang bergerak di bidang pengolahan hasil perikanan, terutama produk nilai tambah berbasis udang dan ikan. read more

I’m Emi Windrayani, last year student of Bachelor in Fish Product Technology (BFPT), Gadjah Mada University. Being exchange student is one of my dreams and thank God it comes true. I remember that time when Dr. Sita offered AIMS program to all student at that class, and my friends supported me to join the program. After that, I tried to register AIMS and thank God on September 2019 until January 2020 I had opportunity to go to Malaysia. Before that, I will tell you about AIMS, AIMS (ASEAN International Mobility for Students) is a form of cooperation in the field of education (student exchange) by the Direktorat Pendidikan Tinggi Indonesia (DIKTI). This program provides opportunities for students to experience a learning atmosphere in various cultures from various countries. I went to University Malaysia Terengganu with Dona, Nisa and Evy.

It was my first time went abroad, and yes I had some culture shock. I think it’s easy to Indonesian people to adaptation because we had the same language (Melayu) and the food wasn’t too different from Indonesia, maybe because we called Malaysia and Indonesia are ‘serumpun’. Beside that I liked to stay at UMT because it campus near the beach, just walk for 5 minute and I could saw the ocean *sometime I watched sunset with my friend.

The AIMS program at UMT has several activities, such as academic and non-academic activities. The courses offered at UMT were generally in fisheries, so it’s more suitable to take with Aquaculture and Aquatic Resource Management students, although im a Fish Product Technology student but that’s okay no problem hehe. Some of the courses that I have taken are,

• Project Planning and Design (4 credits)
• Aquatic Resources Exploitation Technique II (3 credits)
• Scientific Writing in Fisheries (3 credits)
• Economic Aquaculture (3 credits)

One of the experiences that I will never forget was go to Bidong Island which is use for UMT Marine Research Station. We were stayed at Bidong for 3 day, the main activity was catching fish in the sea using fishing gear handmade during the practice. This picture was taken by me before I had seasick *omg I am very embarrassed.

I had another experience going to a beautiful island, I went to Chagar Hutang and Redang Island that held by Buddies Club under International Center of UMT. At Chagar Hutang, we carried out activities to conserve turtles, namely by helping to protect the turtle nesting sites and helping difficult hatchlings to get out of the nest. This island is very well guarded because it is used as a turtle conservation area. We were also seeing the beauty of the sea by snorkeling and feeding the turtles directly. From this picture, you can see how happy we were at that time J

Buddies club held another event for international students, namely a Malaysian Cultural Night. The activity aims to strengthen the relationship between international students and Buddy. This event was attended by all international students and lecturers at University Malaysia Terengganu. The purpose of this event is to introduce cultures from various countries, as well as introduce Malaysian culture to the outside community. Me and Dona are chosen to be part of the international students representative to get on the stage and receive friendship candles. This event also provides opportunities for international students to present the culture according to their country. At this event Indonesia received an awardee as the best international costume. (Me two from the right)

There are many more interesting experiences that I want to share, but because of the limitations of my words, I have ended this story here. Thank you all J

Hi, my name is Dona and I’m currently in my last year here as a fisheries student at Gadjah Mada University. I was given the opportunity to go to Malaysia through the AIMS programme. I spent 5 months at Univesity Malaysia Terengganu as an exchange student, participating in ‘foreign’ campus life and ‘foreign’ daily life. Even just in Malaysia I really had some cultures shock, although we called Indonesia and Malyasia are ‘serumpun’ I still need time to adapt to the culture differences there. Terengganu is one of the Muslim state in Malaysia, so we start the week there in Sunday unlike in Indonesia here the first day of the week is Monday.  At first I bewildered when my class sched is in Sunday at 7 a.m, thought it was a mistake but it turns out to be true.

I’ll start my experiences with Integra, I join two of the clubs activities which is hiking and a reviving camp. Both activities held in November 2019 but I forgot the exact dates. The first event which is hiking, I had the opportunity to climb the most favs hill in Terengganu ‘Keluang Hills’, located in Besut, Terengganu with approx. height 113 m its pretty high. Because of the tracks quite hard I slipped lot of times but the views at the peak is beautiful so its worth the energy. The more exciting things is I got so many new friends to hangout with! 😀 *Pic 1: me (in glasses) and Emi (my friends from UGM) pose with the views at the peak*

Second event a reviving camp or I think can call it a mini survival camp because we literally live in the middle of jungle and sleep with a tent. It’s so exciting! When all of our body full of leech (literally a leech but in mini size) locals called it pacet. Not only surviving we had so many games like a water race, a dance battle also a drama or skit battle lol it’s so fun. I remember my team got an awards but I can’t remember the name hehe pardon.

Last but not least the student event with Ficos or the fisheries sciences student, the event is like more educational because it is an educational trip to Prince Songhkla University Thailand. Yes I got another great opportunity to know how others country higher education related actitvies going. For this trip not much to do except for a fun study ehehe what do you expect from the educational study right. But it’s still a really great trip. This educational trips is pure the students who arranged it, it’s crazy right students can arranged a trip with this scale. All of the student’s club activities are so fun and exciting, what the most important things is I got so many friends I can hangout with! 😀 There’s a many more story but I’m afraid it’ll be too long so if youre curious just contact me.

 

That was a question asked to me in an interview held in early 2018. After going through a
document selection process, I got the chance to have an interview with Dr. Raya from the
Agricultural Extension Department, Faculty Agriculture UGM. For me, there is no waste in learning. I believe that even though I am from the Fisheries Department, I can get a lot of knowledge by being an exchange student at Ibaraki University.”

Long story short, I got the opportunity to be an exchange student at Ibaraki University, Japan for a
semester: starting from September 2018 to January 2019. The program I applied for was Asian
International Mobility for Students (AIMS). AIMS is a program for agricultural students to study
abroad and learn about the sustainability of agriculture. It involves Universitas Gadjah Mada,
Institut Pertanian Bogor, Universitas Sriwijaya, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia
Trengganu, University of The Philippines Los Banos, Kasetsart University, Tokyo University of
Agriculture and Technology and Ibaraki University.

Being an exchange student is a blessing I’ve been dreaming since I was a freshman. There are
so many meaningful experiences -both academic and extracurricular- that I got from this
program.