The Return of Minefest HMT-ITB

Minefest (Mining Festival) was a set of activities held by HMTITB as a medium of movement of creating an image of mining profession. Hayati Agustini as the Chairman of the Minefest 2021 revealed her reason of organizing this activity. She perceived that the mining world in Indonesia was currently dynamic. There were various challenges in a number of mining sectors which became many parties’ center of attention. Pros and cons emerged, making society elements continuously expressed their attitude and assessment. Therefore, the Minefest 2021 brought “let’s talk about mining” as the main theme aiming at describing that this event would discuss various matters concerning mining world. With the theme, it was expected that the Minefest would educate ordinary people on mining and facilitate national mining engineering students to improve their profession capabilities and knowledge of latest mining issues.

Minefest 2021 came with different set of operation from the last Minefest in 2015. Minefest 2021 was organized online because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite being organized online, Minefest 2021 attracted many people.

The agenda of Minefest 2021 included Mine Campaign, Opening, Poster Competition, Case Studies Competition, Webinar, and Closing.

Mine Campaign was distribution of mining information and issues in the form of infographics, podcast, documentary video documenter, and virtual mine tour distributed through social media. For further mining knowledge, go to Instagram @minefest_hmtitb.

The form of mine campaign was quite exciting and varied, from infographics to podcast, video to virtual mine touring, which might help me study without even realizing it, it was fun and flowing while reading or listening to the information that it was conveyed eye catching, brief, and easy to understand. It was just refreshing, but still contained abundant knowledge including mining unique facts, mining issues, mining history, mining’s role in the national economy, and mining’s impact on the people. —Lisa Larissa Nugraheni

Poster Competition Besides, there was a Poster competition that evidently attracted many people, with 70 participants registered. The participants were not only from those with mining educational background, but also from various concentrations of study, such as medicine, economics, etc.

It was a great event! As a participant, I had felt the hype of the event. The committee’s hard work was really incredible that they performed that highly organized virtual event. I am looking forward to the best for the future minefest ITB event. Keep up the spirit in good deeds! —Rahmat Ramadhan Atrima, Winner of Poster Competition Minefest 2021

There was also a Case Studies Competition. In this competition, participants were to complete mining case studies.

The Case Studies competition was quite impressive for us that it broadened and deepened our knowledge, especially in mining sector. Overall, the range of minefest activities was quite useful to all of us that it distributed mining science to the society. The committee was also quite professional, both in the course of the case studies and in other activities..

—Tim The Zheng, Winner of Case Studies Competition Rahmat Ramadhan Atrima Universitas Sumatera Utara

In addition, there was a webinar with experts. The webinar themed the “Prospect and Challenges of Nickel Downstream Policy in Indonesia” did not only attract students, but also mining experts.

The current Webinar Minefest 2021 was quite impressive and exciting. It had interesting topic, professional speakers, and easily understandable delivery, appropriate to be a room for mining engineering students’ discussion. I gained more knowledge in this pandemic. I am looking forward to the next event! —Muhammad Piqri Ardiansyah

Hayati states that as the leader, there were many things that she gained and learned from the Minefest activity. Organizing an event in such pandemic was not easy at all. Hayati said that she did not have high expectation, and at least what she plans was done. Although not 100% of Hayati’s expectations in early candidacy for leadership were achieved, she was still happy for many parties support. One of which was from lecturers of Mining Engineering, ITB that was quite helpful with inputs for the Minefest. There were ups and downs in organizing the Minefest from the start. Hayati stated that she was quite happy that HMT-ITB family entrusted the leadership to Hayati. In addition, there were many things to study. She had the chance to see different types of people while working. Behind her hard work as a leader, she said that her mind became uneasy, whether for thinking about the course of Minefest, financial aspect, process, criticism and inputs, or other matters. However, because of surrounding people’s support, she did it well. In addition, listening to people’s positive feedback, she felt that what she had done paid off.

Throughout the Minefest process, Hayati was aware that becoming a woman did not really prevent her from leading the committee, particularly in mining sector that was dominated by men. She also stated that she did not require “Minefest” to continue, but at least there would be an event with the same objective, expecting that people would be more aware of how the Indonesian mining potential was and not receive any unverified information.

Lastly, Hayati expressed her gratitude to her parents, core management of Minefest 2021, the whole committee, lecturers, brothers and sisters and alumni of HMT-ITB, sponsor, and partner media for their full support, inputs and criticism throughout the Minefest 2021.