Universities in Greater Jakarta will face off from May 27 to 28 to find 8 teams eligible to qualify for the final round of the National Universities English Debating Championships that will take place next month. The Jakarta qualifiers will complete the NUEDC line up from the main island of Java where most of Indonesia's debating powerhouses reside. No university outside of Java has won any national-scale debating competition although several IVED champions graduated from non-Java high schools.
The NUEDC, which uses the British parliamentary format, is divided into 12 qualifying regions loosely following the demarcation used by Indonesia's private college coordinating body or Kopertis. This year, 8 teams from each region, which means 96 pairs, can go to the finale tournament hosted by Semarang-based Universitas Diponegoro. Each school can only send one team. Java has 5 groupings and Region 3 covers universities in Jakarta and cities adjacent to the capital, including Depok and Bogor. Other Java regions have concluded their selections.
Debaters who championed the recent UADC EFL, ALSA UI E-Comp and UMM English Fiesta are among those who will compete tomorrow in the Jakarta qualifiers that will take place at Universitas Atma Jaya. NUEDC discriminates schools that are not under the supervision of the sponsor, the Ministry of National Education. Debating powerhouse Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara, the feeder school for the Ministry of Finance that should be part of Region 3, is one of the schools barred from competing in NUEDC.
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