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Attaché of Education and Culture of Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur is as a speaker of international education seminar

Attaché of Education and Culture of Indonesian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, Dr. Mokhammad Farid Makruf and Chairman of Indonesian Students Community (PPI) of  Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Inna Junaenah became speakers of online seminar entitled "The World at a Turning Point: The Role of Education in Peace-Building " on Wednesday (02/9). The seminar organized by Universal Peace Federation Indonesia also involved  Universitas Negeri Padang (UNP), Institut Bisnis & Informatika (IBI) Kosgoro 1957, ‘Aisyiyah of West Java  and Youth & Students for Peace (YSP) International. It was also attended by other speakers namely Dr. Robbert S. Kittel  from Youth and Student for Peace (YSP) International, Prof. Ganefri, PhD. (Rektor UNP), Dr. Haswan Yunaz (Rektor IBI Kosgoro 57) and Prof. Payaman Simanjuntak from Universal Peace Federation (UPF Indonesia).

Mokhammad Farid Makruf as a key speaker explained that substantially to develop peace is no violence. He also stated that education plays a major role so that the young generation can restrain not to do violence.  Meanwhile, Chairman of Indonesian Students Community (PPI) of  Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Inna Junaenah who also represented Aisyiyah of West Java  explained that there is a  main purpose of education dreamed by many countries namely to build the nation's characters.  

The two-hour seminar was participated by more than 70 participants as a joint webinar of many parties. The seminar was a series program of "Rally of Hope" which was initiated by Universal Peace Federation (UPF), a non-governmental organization which was established by Dr. Sun Myung Moon and his wife on 12 September 2005. This organization is global alliances from representatives of religions, academicians, politicians, civilians and non-governmental organizations to achieve world peace. While, UPF has main objectives namely in the united world; all human family members live and work in harmony, creating joint welfare and mutual respect by joint commitment and work together through good governance.  UPF is an organization with General Consultative Status toward UN ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council) and non-partisan organization, inter-faiths, multi-disciplinary, international non-governmental organizations that are in more than 120 countries.