Delving The Potency of

Bengkulu Students

With News and Opinion

Bengkulu has potential intellectual power that can be developed because there are around 20 colleges covering 3 state universities and 17 private institutions. The three state universities include Bengkulu University (UNIB), Islamic Institute (IAIN) Bengkulu, and Islamic College Curup in Rejang Lebong. Other colleges are 4 private universities, 8 colleges, 2 polytechnics, and 3 academies. Those educational institutions mentioned above are clearly places where the youth are gathering as potential human resources for the progress of Bengkulu development who will give contribution nationally.

Stube-HEMAT Multiplication Program in Bengkulu has been running for two years and the last six months focused in Bengkulu city to greet students there more optimally. On Friday, October 12^th 2018, precisely at Lesehan Intan, behind Bengkulu University, multiplicator of Stube-HEMAT, Yohanes Dian Alphasa socialized Stube-HEMAT to students in that city. In this socialization, the multiplicator invited them to practice writing news and opinions that aimed to inform something both notions and ideas. Ideas can be explored and found based on the existing problems of community social life, that are expected to be able to answer and to give solutions. Bengkulu still needs ideas to answer problems such as price fluctuations of Palm Oil and rubber, poverty, injustice, educational inequality, early-age marriage, global challenges, politics or even how to prepare Bengkulu Human Resources to welcome technological advances and digital economics.

Yohanes Dian Aphasa as Multiplikator of Stube-HEMAT Bengkulu said, “ Stube-HEMAT program is aimed for youth with a hope that youth of this city can see chances around them and be able to change and show their creative thinking in the midst of increasingly diverse and more sophisticated information flow". Students’ critical writings in various scientific aspects are awaited to contribute to the progress of Bengkulu. (Multiplication Program)