UGM Mechanical Engineering Student Winning Asia Social Innovation Awards 2016

Yogyakarta- Arief Faqihudin from Engineering 2013 ,together with his team, emerged as the 4th winner of the Asia Social Innovation Awards 2016. Asia Social Innovation Award 2016 was a competition held by Hong Kong Social Ventures which requires participants to innovate on social issues that occur in the country – countries in Asia. The background of the innovation that he created was one of the major social problems, namely dental health, research data conducted by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia revealed that 7 out of 10 Indonesian people have dental problems, not to mention the very expensive dental problems. That’s what prompted him to develop COASS which is a platform that provides assistance to bring together the koass with his patients.

Through this COASS idea, Arief Faqihudin won the Best Social Start-up Ideas for the Indonesian region and was entitled to represent Indonesia in the Grand Final against 10 other teams from Hong Kong, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, India, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan and the State other asia. Which eventually delivered him to become the 4th champion in Asia Social Innovation Awards 2016.

“If you are a mechanical engineering student, do not just focus on your field, look around you if there are problems you can solve? If anything, finish as much as you can “said Arief Faqihudin. That was the message from Arief Faqihudin to UGM mechanical engine students that outside the field of mechanical engineering is still a lot of things that can be developed. Finally, Arief Faqihudin also advised that to be an achieving student it is necessary to change the mindset, keep excited to excel, and do not be afraid to fail.

(Translator : RA)

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