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PTBA Held “Siswa Mengenal Nusantara†in Riau
PT Bukit Asam (Persero) Tbk or PTBA with PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) V Riau released 21 selected students from various high schools in Riau Province to Palu, Central Sulawesi. The event, which is part of “Siswa Mengenal Nusantara†(SMN) Program, was held at SKA Co Ex Building, Pekanbaru Riau, Sunday (30/7) and was attended by Assistant Deputy of Executive Resources Management of BUMN, Imam Bustomi.
In this event, PTBA Corporate Secretary, Adib Ubaidillah, with Commercial and Business Development Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero), Moch. Asrori, Head of Public Section PTPN V, Ahmad Badran Zai, and Head of Riau Provincial Education Office, Rudyanto, and SMN participants from Riau welcomed the participants of SMN 2017 from Central Sulawesi. In this event, the student presented various performances such as Rentaan Bulian Dance, choir, poetry chant to pantomime.
Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) PTBA, Syaiful Islam, in his speech said that the SMN program is a form of contribution and concern PTBA to the young generation as a nation's next generation.
"PTBA is very concerned about the education, especially for character building and nationalism in the context of strengthening the spirit of the 72 years of the Proclamation of Independence," said Syaiful Islam.
While the Head of Education Office of Riau Province, Rudyanto expressed appreciation for the support of PTBA and PTPN V as a joint committee for the activities of SMN 2017 in Riau Province can be implemented.
"With this activity, the students can get to know each other, hopefully the sense of unity between our nations can be stronger so it is not easy to be divided," he said.
As a national program conducted through exchanging visits between each group of participants for one week to get to know each other in each region, PTBA again get the honor of being the main organizer assisted by PTPN V Riau to support the smoothness of SMN 2017 as a series of programs "BUMN Hadir Untuk Negeri "which has been run by the Ministry of Ministry of state-owned enterprises since 2015.
