Signing of UPH and PMIIC Cooperation Agreement

Signing of Cooperation Agreement (PKS) between UPH-PMIIC by president PMIIC, Arisman Indrawan, SH, MT, PMP (second from the left) and Dean of The Faculty of Science and Technology (FaST), Prof. Manlian Ronald A. Simanjuntak, ST, MT (middle), witnessed by Hendra Achmady S. Kom, M.M., M.Acc, Director of The Center of Applied Research in Enterprise System (C.A.R.E.S) UPH and Budi Legowo, VP for Marketing, External Relations and Business Development

On October 2, 2015, at Jakarta Central Park, was held the signing of the Cooperation Agreement (PKS) between Pelita Harapan University (UPH) and Project Management Institute Indonesia Chapter (PMIIC) of Organizing Profession Management Project Activity. PMIIC is a global non-profit professional organization founded by the Project Manager to take an active role in national development through professional project management and collaboration with educational institutions.

Budi Legowo

The purpose of this cooperation, according to Budi Legowo, VP for Marketing, External Relations and Business Development UPH, is an effort to continue to improve themselves (UPH) by improving the quality of education held. Cooperation with PMIIC include adoption of best practices Project Management Institute (PMI), such as PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) and the other PMI framework into the curriculum and syllabus related subjects in UPH, especially the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Science and Technology.

According Arisman Indrawan, SH, MT, PMP, President of PMIIC, PMBOK and certification from PMI, such as PMP and CAPM, are recognized as a global project management standards and to date there 665 thousand PMP certified people worldwide. Unfortunately in Indonesia, there are only 563 people that are already certified. “I still believe that the progress of a nation can be measured by the number of project management experts. Projects in Indonesia are in abundance, we still continue to do the construction from all sides, not only constructed, but oil and gas, IT, telecommunications, even now project management is growing rapidly in banking, “said Arisman.

Arisman Indrawan

 According to him, this science is very important, because this is one of the things CEO need in this world, namely ?ability to get things done? and project management have already proven to be able to complete any project, “With the resources that we have, we want to support UPH, please make use. We have a project management curriculum that has been proven internationally, we have a resource that is already certified, besides that we also have a network. We will improve the quality of graduates from UPH. In fact, we hope, UPH undergraduates can earn CAPM certification, which is a lower level PMP that has been recognized internationally, “said Aris. 

(left to right) Sepriyany Linta,  MM, PMP, VP Education PMIIC, Arisman Indrawan, SH., MT., PMP., PMIIC President, Budi Legowo, VP for Marketing, External Relations and Business Development, Prof. Dr. Manlian Ronald A. SImanjuntak, ST., MT., Dean of Faculty Science and Technology (FaST) and Hendra Achmadi, S. Kom., M.M., M. Acc, Director of The Center of Applied Research in Enterprise System (C.A.R.E.S) UPH

Furthermore, Prof. Manlian A. Ronald Simanjuntak, Dean of FaST and Head Master of Civil Engineering UPH said, “We will seek UPH-PMIIC Cooperation to be further enhanced in the curriculum of MTS UPH by presenting the teaching of PMIIC, thereby increasing the level of competence and certification of graduates of MTS UPH.”

Signatories are represented by Prof. Dr. Manlian Ronald. A. Simanjuntak, ST., MT., Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology (FAST) as a representative of UPH and by Arisman Indrawan, SH., MT., PMP, President PMIIC for representation of PMIIC and witnessed by Budi Legowo, VP for Marketing, External Relations and Business Development, Hendra Achmadi, S.Kom, MM, M.Acc, Director of the Center of Applied Research in Enterprise System (C.A.R.E.S.) UPH, and Sepriyany Linta, MM, PMP, VP Education of PMIIC. (/mf)

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