Bidik Misi Student Association (Himabim) Alauddin State Islamic University Makassar for the second time as the host for the National Bidik Misi Festival (FBMN). In the second year of the National Bidik Misi Festival, UINAM himabim carries the theme "Awarde Bidikmisi Innovation as a contribution in facing industry 4.0", which will last for 4 days, from 9-12 October 2019 at the UIN Alauddin campus, Makassar.
The National Bidik Misi Festival was attended by 52 universities throughout Indonesia with 127 finalists. The competition categories in this year's National Bidik Misi Festival are inspirational stories, essays, short films and debates which are limited to only 177 participants based on the quota for each competition category. "The main purpose of the National Bidik Misi Festival is to unite and establish friendship between bidikmisi awardees throughout Indonesia and expect UIN Alauddin Makassar to get more recognition from the National Bidik Misi festival, especially for HIMABIM itself," said Adam Djordan as the organizing committee.
At this event another proud achievement was achieved by Semarang State Polytechnic students (Polines). Budi Santoso, a 2017 Bidikmisi student from the D3-Polines Business Administration study program won first place in the inspirational story competition branch.
To be proud, from 2018 to 2019, Polines became the defending champion for the inspirational story competition. Last year, Bidikmisi Polines students who got the same position were Nurul Devi Ariyani,
Budi Santoso, the winner of the inspirational story competition, admitted that he was very happy because he could introduce Polines to universities and polytechnics throughout Indonesia. "Hopefully the Bidikmisi Polines students will continue to work, contribute and always inspire," he concluded.