Badan Keluarga Mahasiswa Sejarah (BKMS) has successfully held the 2021 History Week Opening Ceremony on Saturday, October 2, 2021. The opening ceremony was held online through the Zoom Meeting platform and live broadcast on the UGM BKMS YouTube channel. This year’s History Week carries the theme, “Medical Horizons in Historical Records: The Face of Reconstruction of Health Historiography in Indonesia” (Cakrawala Medis dalam Catatan Sejarah: Wajah Rekonstruksi Historiografi Kesehatan di Indonesia). The Opening Ceremony of History Week 2021 was hosted by Egit Andre Kelana and Faradeva Fathia Kurminta, UGM History Students.
The event opened with remarks from Dr. Abdul Wahid, M. Hum. M.Phil., as the Head of the Department of History, Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM, and Dr. Mutiah Amini, M. Hum., as Head of the UGM History Undergraduate Study Program. In addition, the chairman of BKMS, Hafidz Hidayatullah Oktova, and the chairman of the Committee for History Week 2021, Radhiya Anasya Tsabitta, also gave remarks. Then, the event continued with a short video about the introduction of Faculty of Cultural Sciences UGM. Mustaqim Aji Negoro, UGM History alumnus, was a speaker in a history talk session with Nessa Theo, UGM History Student, as moderator. The event was also enlivened by the appearance of Amirul Karimuddin, a history student at UGM. Amirul read a poem entitled, “My Indonesia”. The opening of the 2021 History Week series of events was also carried out at this opening ceremony marked by the planting of wayang puppets by the chairwoman of the committee, Radhiya.
Writer: Helga Natasha KS & Nasywa Nur Athiyya