Rector of UIN Malang, Prof. Abd. Haris, M.Ag and Chairman of Wikimedia Indonesia, Biyanto Rebin today, signed a MoU in Rector Office, 1st Floor of Ir. H. Soekarno Building, Monday (27/5).

 

GEMA - UIN Malang held a new cooperation with another party. It is not just an institution or business enterprise but rather a well-known non-profit organization in the country. The organization is Wikimedia. The cooperation agreement was marked by the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two parties held in the UIN Malang Rector Office.

The Wikimedia Indonesia teams are Biyanto Rebin (Chairman), Raisa Abdillah (technical staff) and Raymond Sutanto (Coordinator on Education Sector). In his conversation with Prof. Haris and also Vice Rector on Institutional Cooperation and Development Affairs, Dr. Uril Bahruddin, M.A., Biyanto expressed a sense of wonder and surprise on the response from the head of UIN Malang in welcoming the Wikimedia Indonesia team.

At first, he did not expect such warm response from UIN Malang Rector in discussing the fast, wide, and free access of information in the present era. "It turns out that UIN Malang is quite progressive compared to other public universities mainly on Islamic ones," Chairman of the Wikimedia said. According to him, other Islamic universities, in general, are more likely limiting the access of their knowledge products. Other Islamic-based universities are afraid of free access of information for many reasons, one of which, for example, is the occurrence of plagiarism, etc.

Looking forward after the MoU, it is expected that both parties are able to mutually work together and spread the information access of UIN Malang products - such as the research results and findings of lecturers, scientific papers, and student achievement - rapidly and widely to  public for the growth of this Ulul Albab university.