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        "msgid": "umy-again-hosts-mudik-bareng-for-students-1772888242",
        "date": "2026-03-07 19:14:00",
        "title": "UMY Again Hosts Mudik Bareng for Students",
        "author": "Heryadi",
        "source": "MEDIA_INDONESIA",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Social Policy",
        "summary": "UMY has again organised Mudik Bareng, the free group homecoming transport for students, on 7 March, with 335 students and 33 accompanying staff. Now in its second year, the programme used 13 vehicles and partnerships with BMT UMY and Big Bird to cover routes across Indonesia, enabling students to spend Eid al-Fitr with families and return to Yogyakarta refreshed for study.",
        "content": "<p>UNIVERSITAS Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) has again organised Mudik\nBareng, the free group homecoming transport for students. The event was\nheld on Saturday, 7 March, and was attended by 335 students and 33\naccompanying staff. The programme enters its second year; last year\u2019s\nMudik Bareng involved 116 participants. \u2018Participants were selected\nafter registration and a competitive process involving 675 applicants,\u2019\nsaid Dyah Mutiarin, Vice Rector for Resource Affairs at UMY, on Saturday\n(7\/3). The operation involved 13 vehicles: 6 big buses, 3 medium buses,\n3 Hiace vans and 1 Innova. The free Mudik programme, she said, is a form\nof campus care for students who study away from home, enabling them to\nreturn to their hometowns safely and comfortably ahead of Eid al-Fitr.\n\u2018We hope this Mudik Bareng can continue to be held every year so that\nmore students can benefit,\u2019 she added. She also reminded students to\nstay healthy during the journey and to use the Lebaran holiday to\nreunite with their families. The Mudik programme is organised by UMY\nwith the support and partnership of BMT UMY, and transport cooperation\nwith Big Bird, which provides the bus fleet for participants. The travel\nroutes cover several Indonesian regions, including Brebes, Purwokerto,\nPemalang, Blora, Cimahi, Surabaya, Subang, Bekasi, Cilegon, Jakarta,\nLampung and Palembang. One participant, Rifqi Alvian, a 2022 cohort\nstudent of the Department of Communications Studies from Metro, Lampung,\nsaid he felt very helped by the programme. \u2018As a student living away\nfrom home, receiving free mudik is truly a privilege,\u2019 he said.\nAccording to Rifqi, the journey from Yogyakarta to Lampung typically\nincurs significant costs when using public transport, so the campus\nMudik Bareng facility is very helpful for students like him. \u2018Usually\npublic transport fares are quite expensive. Now that UMY\u2019s mudik is\nprovided for free, it\u2019s a huge saving. It\u2019s like travelling with zero\nrupiah budget,\u2019 he added. Through UMY\u2019s Mudik Bareng 2026, the\nuniversity hopes students can celebrate Eid al-Fitr with their families\nin their hometowns and return to Yogyakarta with renewed enthusiasm to\ncontinue their studies.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/umy-again-hosts-mudik-bareng-for-students-1772888242",
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