ICEMINE (International Conference on Earth Science, Minerals and Energy) 2019 is the second conference. This conference is attended by a number of lecturers, academics, and practitioners in the mining sector. There are around 200 participants came from Indonesia and abroad.

The attended participants are mostly from universities that have faculties of mineral technology from various countries including Indonesia. Some representatives from other countries are from Taiwan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Australia, South Korea, Japan, China, Canada.

The ICEMINE 2019 which will be held on Thursday (10/10/2019) at Eastparc Hotel is divided into several sessions. They are a Panel Discussion session along with keynote speakers and a parallel session. Irhas Effendi as the rector of UPN Veterans Yogyakarta will open the conference with a gong beating and several delegates from several countries in attendance will accompany him.

"This is (ICEMINE) the second year. We started it in 2018”, said Johan Danu Prasetya as the chair of the  ICEMINE committee 2019 on Thursday (3/10/2019).

Johan said he was happy because ICEMINE published far more articles this time than the previous year. In 2018, ICEMINE 1 published around 30 articles from internal parties (UPN Veteran Yogyakarta). The number has increased by 60 articles from the internal parties this year. There are more than 100 articles if it is counted totally as a whole from the internal and external (outside UPNVY) parties.

"It has increased (articles) in 2019 because we are pushing the internal parties in various ways to increase the number of articles. Therefore, we have succeeded in publishing about 60 articles indexed by Scopus", Johan added.

The Chancellor of UPN Veterans Yogyakarta, Muhammad Irhas Effendi, appreciated the conference this time. According to him, the data research is not enough, but it needs to be dissemination, one of which is in the form of a conference. The goal is to be able to share the research products conducted by UPN Veterans Yogyakarta. In addition, he hopes that fellow practitioners and academics in the mining sector can share the knowledge.

"This seminar is actually a series of the research activities especially in the field of mineral energy. A research is not enough for a report, it must be disseminated. One of the media for dissemination is conference", said Irhas.

According to Irhas, the international conference is one of the indicators in the international world. According to him, the material presented at the conference is expected not only to be in the conference room, but also to be published.

"We know that the publications must be indexed now. They must be indexed in journals which has international reputations. One of them is being  indexed on Scopus", he explained.

Irhas also added that the objective of the material presented in Scopus could be a requirement as a professor.

Regarded to the field of seminar this time namely mineral technology, it will be one of the characteristics that UPN Veteran Yogyakarta has that is being different from other universities. Therefore, the university is pushing the mineral technology field of UPN Veteran Yogyakarta to be known by the public.

"Regarding to this field, we hope that this mineral technology field will be a different identifier from the other tertiary institutions.  Therefore, we encourage this identifier to continuely stand out, so that it can be known by the public that we become one of the universities that is excellence in the mineral field”, he said. (Birgita / adn / adv)