
Rector's Message When Leaving the Scout Contingent of UIN Antasari at PWN PTK XV in Palembang
Banjarmasin, UIN Antasari – Rector and Advisory Council of the Scout Front of UIN Antasari, Prof. Mujiburrahman officially released the Scout Contingent of UIN Antasari to Palembang in order to take part in the XV National Wirakarya Camp of Religious Universities which was held at UIN Raden Fatah Palembang. The release ceremony took place at the Zafry Zamzam Meeting Hall, 3rd floor of the Rector Building, Tuesday (02/11/2021).
The XV National Wirakarya Camp holds the theme “Consistency in Religious Moderation, Working for the Nation: Saving Biodiversity for the Future of the Earth”. National Wirakarya Camp should be actually held in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is being postponed. In fact, it should have been held from 20 to 26 August 2021, then postponed again to 9 to 14 November 2021.
There were 20 representatives of the UIN Antasari Scouts who were selected to participate. Considering that they are still in the pandemic period, scouts will take part in this activity with a model blended camp (online and offline), 12 members will follow online and 8 members will go to Palembang supervised by 3 coaches, Hj. Nida Mufidah, Fauziah Hayati and Muhammad Robby who are scheduled to depart on November 9, 2021.
The Rector in his mandate hoped that the scout members who departed to be able to participate in activities well even in limited conditions and reminded them to maintain the good name of UIN Antasari.
Mujiburrahman advised the scout members to establish relationships and build connections with participants from representatives of various other religious universities during their activities. “You have a network, I think that acquaintance will be very useful for you, especially for the future,” he said.
In addition, this Professor of Sociology said that scouts are part of forming character (morals), if the world of education only conveys theory and does not form character it will only give birth to people who are smart but weak in spirit and have no principles. He hoped that the scouts after the the XV National Wirakarya Camp activity could bring this character home.
Quoting Margaret Thatcher’s statement which said “Your character is your destiny, your character is your destiny”, the Rector explained that character begins with thoughts, thoughts will give birth to words and deeds, words and deeds will become habits, which become habits will become character. “This is our hope, the hope that the younger generation like you have strong moral determination,” he said.
“I say goodbye to those who depart, hopefully we can learn a lot of things to educate each of us. Let’s release our friends who went by saying Bismillahirahmannirrahim together,” he concluded.