As the Universitas Ciputra International Community’s 2024/2025 term comes to an end, we look back on a golden age of achievements and accolades that have both expanded the scope of our responsibilities to something never seen before, and shown us the true potential that the international community has to bring success to Universitas Ciputra through its members, events, collaborations, and more. As such, it would be prudent to recap everything that the international community has played host to and participated in throughout this term.
The term for UCIC’s 2024/2025 heads of department and coordinators was decided between March and June of 2024, culminating in the selection of a roster of leaders that would be able to pave the way for UCIC’s (at the time) new generation. Following that, open registration for new members began in September of the same year. Recruitment efforts would extend from Instagram posts to participating in Ormawa Fest.
In October, UCIC’s 2024/2025 term held its first full-roster event in the form of an inauguration ceremony at Poenya Nyonya Anina, welcoming and celebrating its new members’ success in being chosen to join the committee. Former heads of department and coordinators also came to wish the new committee luck in its duties and all the exciting experiences that would arrive for them throughout their term.
To begin on the body of our recap, UCIC’s activities can be mainly divided into three categories: webinars and seminars, event collaborations, and international programs. Each one holds unique significance and importance to UCIC’s role in bringing international opportunities to UC students alongside the Networking and Partnership (NNP) department.
Throughout the term, both UCIC’s communication and partnership (CNP) and information technology (IT) divisions would collaborate to facilitate the smooth running of webinars and seminars, which often took the form of “UCIC talks” from UCIC itself, or “global chats” and “global talks” by NNP that UCIC often assisted with. The speakers at these conferences included IISMA awardees such as Victoria Janae Supit and Sabrina Marchella, and promoters from other universities such as the University of Otago and University of California, San Diego. They brought crucial information on student exchange programs and international opportunities to the spotlight, particularly for UC students looking to jump abroad.
More in October, UCIC collaborated with the Marketing and Admission (MNA) department to bring its members to a host of university exhibitions at schools all around Surabaya, to assist in promoting UC itself. These included Sekolah Ciputra, Cita Hati West, and Cita Hati East, where UCIC would participate in events such as the Future Awaits Festival. To facilitate a better understanding of other internationalism-based student organizations, UCIC also collaborated with the international office of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) to perform a benchmarking.
Other events that UCIC collaborated on include those conceived by other student organizations at UC. These include the IBM-RC x SUSS Winter Camp 2024 and Acculturate Festival in December, where UCIC provided masters of ceremony from CNP and media assistance from MPD to the International Business Management Student Union (IBM-SU). In May 2025, UCIC also assisted the Conference on Future Food, Entrepreneurship, and Estate (CoFFEE) 2025, directed by the Food Technology Program Student Union (FTP-SU), by providing masters of ceremony, liaison officers, and media crew.
However, UCIC’s primary responsibility as an organization is providing personnel to assist NNP with the arrival of students from abroad, typically through international programs. While this personnel may come from UCIC itself, it may also be in the form of student buddies – UCIC students chosen to assist and socialize with foreign students throughout their time in Surabaya. For this reason, UCIC hosted a student buddy training session in November 2024.
During the 2024/2025 term, UCIC assisted four international programs:
- Darmasiswa Program
UCIC would accompany four students enrolling at UC through the Darmasiswa Program, inviting them to dine together at Kamikamu and inquiring to them about their experience far from home in Indonesia. - UC x JINDAL – Short Term Study Abroad Program
Throughout a period of three weeks, UCIC and its student buddies assisted with the arrival of students from India’s JINDAL O.P. University to Surabaya, accompanying them in exploring various areas of the city and culminating in a business ideation contest that acted as a backdrop to their time in Indonesia. - UC x UTM: Colors of Culture, Uniting Creativity and Heritage
In collaboration with UC’s Visual Communication Design (VCD) major, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia students participated in a program known as Colors of Culture, where they would paint a mural in Surabaya’s historic Old Town. UCIC assisted by providing event planners, masters of ceremony, liaison officers, and student buddies that would accompany the Malaysian students on their mural-painting, city-touring adventure. - UC x Ngee Ann Polytechnic: Southeast Asia Immersion Leadership (SAIL) Program
In collaboration with UC’s VCD, IBM, and FTP majors, Ngee Ann Polytechnic students would participate in the SAIL program to learn about and ideate on sustainable food waste solutions. UCIC assisted by providing event planners, translators, and liaison officers to guide the Singaporean students throughout their experience.
Unlike in previous terms, UCIC had a flagship event of its own in February 2025: PRISM, or Pathways Reaching Internationalism. It was an educational fair held in UC Plaza involving UC’s partner universities; an opportunity for them to promote their international programs to both UC undergraduates and high school students with an accompaniment of rich FnB tenants and revealing, entertaining talk shows about flying abroad for education. It was capped off by the final webinar featuring Kezia Kevina Harmoko and Gabriella Connie Cecilia, hosted online due to weather-related issues on the day-of.
To conclude, while UCIC still has much room to grow, the 2024/2025 term committee has successfully made the international community a successful fixture of UC’s most driven students. While we should celebrate its achievements and body of work, they will lend the next generation with tall expectations to live up to. Yet, they will also leave a legacy that will guide the next generation on their way to becoming even better and brighter than what came before.