IPPNU Alumni Council Launches 'Women Building the Nation' Movement
The Alumni Council of the Nahdlatul Ulama Female Students’ Association (IPPNU) has officially inaugurated its new board of management for the upcoming period in a ceremony filled with a spirit of kinship, nationalism, and service. This inauguration marks a significant milestone for IPPNU alumni consolidation to strengthen women’s role in national development.
During her inaugural address in Jakarta, Thursday (11/6), the Chairwoman of the IPPNU Alumni Council, Prof. Dr. Siti Nur Azizah, emphasised that this was not merely a change in organisational leadership, but a momentum to strengthen kinship, renew the spirit of service, and unite steps to face various national challenges.
According to her, IPPNU alumni are part of a social force born from the Nahdlatul Ulama tradition of scholarship, leadership, and service, carrying a major responsibility to continue providing benefits to society. “Being an alumnus is not the end of the regeneration process, but the beginning of a broader phase of service. IPPNU alumni must be part of the solution to the nation’s various problems,” Prof. Siti Nur Azizah stated.
Siti Nur Azizah highlighted various challenges Indonesia still faces, ranging from economic inequality, poverty, barriers to women’s empowerment, to the threat of environmental damage and weakening social solidarity. Therefore, national development must be oriented towards justice, equal opportunity, people’s welfare, and environmental sustainability.
As an organisation born from the womb of Nahdlatul Ulama, the IPPNU Alumni Council believes that women hold a strategic position as subjects of development, agents of change, family strengtheners, actors in the people’s economy, and guardians of human values. On this occasion, the Chairwoman also expressed appreciation to Farida Farichah, a top IPPNU cadre and alumna currently serving as Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, whose presence was considered clear proof of IPPNU’s successful regeneration in producing female leaders who contribute to national development.
The inauguration also served as the launch of a national strategic programme titled the “Women Building the Nation Movement.” This movement is the Council’s commitment to strengthening women’s roles in Indonesia’s development through five major agendas: first, Independent Women; second, Self-Reliant Women; third, Visionary Women; fourth, Green Women; and fifth, Compassionate Women.
Siti Nur Azizah also invited the entire IPPNU Alumni Council family to put aside past differences and focus on the organisation’s major agenda of serving the community, empowering women, strengthening the people’s economy, and building Indonesia. She concluded by affirming that the movement is a collective endeavour to give rise to Indonesian women who are free in thought, independent in work, visionary in looking to the future, green in protecting the earth, and caring for others.