Jakarta-based colleges #1EFL Universitas Bakrie (Ammar Syah Anwar, Aryo Febrian, Yudha Mustafa Putra) and #7EFL London School of Public Relations (Airin Tirtayadi, Nadia Meuthia, Christin Berlina) are in the final of the United Asian Debating Championship 2011's English-as-Foreign-Language (EFL) category after respectively beating fellow countrymen, #4EFL Institut Pertanian Bogor and #3EFL Binus International in all-Indonesian semifinals.
Bakrie plays government proposing the motion "This House Believes That Regional Proximity Should Be Prioritized When Handing Out Aid" while LSPR takes the opposition role. This is a first final for both teams ever. Both finalists are emerging forces in the Indonesian debating scene that have never debated in the UADC before.
The all-male Bakrie team consist of two-third of the squad that topped the tab in the recent ALSA UI E-Competition with a perfect record in the preliminary stage while most of the all-female LSPR trio were part of the team that came #17 in the same tournament. Bakrie led the UADC EFL tab but LSPR is at top form after defeating higher-ranked Binus International and University of Tokyo to reach the final.
The proud performance of Bakrie and LSPR in UADC shows the development of new debating forces in Indonesia that should motivate other budding societies across the archipelago.
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