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        "msgid": "university-students-and-school-pupils-learn-about-governance-at-the-presidential-palace-1779546243",
        "date": "2026-05-19 15:05:08",
        "title": "University students and school pupils learn about governance at the Presidential Palace",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_ID",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Politics",
        "summary": "Hundreds of university students and around 500 school pupils took part in a hands-on programme at the Presidential Palace complex in Jakarta to learn how government functions. Participants visited Istana Merdeka, the Office of the President, and Istana Negara, and expressed enthusiasm for continuing the educational initiative across different levels of schooling.",
        "content": "<p>A hundred students from various universities and school pupils from\nseveral schools studied how government works firsthand by visiting the\nPresidential Palace complex in Jakarta as part of the Istana for\nSchoolchildren programme. \u2018At first I expected it would be only on the\noutside, but it turned out we could go inside as well,\u2019 said Abielle\nDarren, a criminology student at Universitas Budi Luhur, quoted from a\npress release by the Bureau of Press, Media, and Information of the\nState Secretariat in Jakarta, on Tuesday. A total of 500 participants\nfrom middle schools and around 200 university students from Universitas\nGadjah Mada (UGM) and Universitas Budi Luhur (UBL) took part. Since\nearly morning, the groups had gathered in the Hoegeng Auditorium to\nreceive briefings on the workings of government and state\nadministration. After the briefing, the whole delegation moved to\nexplore areas inside Istana Merdeka, the Office of the President, and\nIstana Negara, which are sites where the nation\u2019s important decisions\nare made. UGM student Salsabilah Azzahra said the visit provided a very\ndifferent learning experience and she hoped the educational programme\nwould continue to be available sustainably for various levels of\neducation. \u2018My hope is that Istana Negara can welcome university\nstudents as well as pupils from primary to secondary schools to visit\nthis national palace directly, because there is so much we can learn,\u2019\nshe said. Meanwhile, Richwan, a representative from the Archive and\nInformation Recording Management Study Programme at UGM\u2019s Vocational\nSchool, assessed the agenda as providing a real new perspective on the\nmanagement of the country\u2019s documentation. Richwan explained that they\ncould learn directly about how the State Secretariat maintains and\npreserves cultural heritage as a tangible part of the process of\ndocumenting information. In addition to students, the event was attended\nby representatives of pupils from SMPN 94 and SMPN 4 Jakarta, who\nexpressed their thanks to President Prabowo Subianto. Jakarta\u2019s SMPN 5\npupil Alzena looked notably eager when given the opportunity to speak at\nthe podium. For her, the moment felt so close to her dream of becoming a\nleader in the future. \u2018I feel very excited to speak before so many\npeople, and in front of the ladies and gentlemen as well, which makes me\nfeel very inspired and motivated to become a leader, especially a\nnational leader,\u2019 she said.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/university-students-and-school-pupils-learn-about-governance-at-the-presidential-palace-1779546243",
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