Student Association of Department

Based on decree of Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia No 155U1998 about the General Guidance of Students organization in Higher Education/ Universities, Article 3 (1) explained that in every Higher Education, there is an internal student’s organization which shades the student’s activities. This student’s organization built in University, Faculty and Major level. At Article 5 explained that internal student’s organization has function to accommodate and distribute the student’s aspirations and also set the main ideas of the program and student’s activities. The Implementation of student’s activities has function to be communication between students, development of the talent of student’s self as the academic person, aspiring scientist and intellectual which valuable for the future, development of training nation’s cadres to continue the sustainability of national development guided by religious norms, academic, ethics, moral and national awareness.

Between those function, the function of skills development organization and leadership of the students is a very main thing. It’s because the students are not only as the aspiring scientist, but also the nation’s leader candidate in the future. So, there is students association in level of department in Faculty of Vocational College Universitas Gadjah Mada. The existence of Students based on the principle from, by and for students, because of that every Students Association accommodates some majors based on knowledge discipline.