SLEMAN - A total of 2189 UPN "Veteran" Yogyakarta (UPNVY) students attended the campus service on Friday (6/21). The students who are participants of the Community Service Program (KKN) of the Short Semester of the 2018/2019 academic year carried out the campus service in the UPNVY environment.

The students carried out various activities, including voluntary work to clean the environment, greening, decorating the campus with recycled materials and others.

"We planted trees in the form of tabulampot. The pot comes from recycling used kegs. We will put this plant in the Faculty of Economics and Business", said Idham Ma'rif, a Management Study Program student who is one of the KKN participants.

This campus service activity, said Idham, is one of the conditions before he and his group conduct KKN in Bambanglipuro District, Bantul.

At the KKN location, the group will conduct various programs, including the regional mapping, production of signposts, revitalization of volleyball courts and service activities in one of the orphanages in the local village.

"These various programs are the result of discussions with the Village Head, but we will also create other programs", he said

The Study Center Head of KKN and TTG, Institute of Research and Community Service UPNVY, Hendri Gusaptono said that the campus service activities took the theme of "Beautify the Campus With Recycled Materials".

"This campus service activity is the students’ manifestation of empathy and concern towards the campus environment before they go the community", Hendri said.

In addition, the campus service activities also aim to increase the social sensitivity and prepare the students as potential leaders of the nation.

In the short semester KKN of the 69th batch, there are 1150 students join the service in Kulon Progo Regency, 550 students in Bantul Regency, and 449 students in Gunung Kidul Regency.

They will do the service and go to the community for one month starting July 17 to August 17 2019. (wwj / PR)