Unhas MUN Wins First BP Debate in Indonesia's East

Universitas Hasanuddin's Model United Nations Club (Biondi Sima & Aca Cangara) today grabbed the title in the Hasanuddin BP Debates, the first debating competition using the British Parliamentary format in eastern Indonesia. The pair in the grandfinal beat squads from Universitas Ahmad Dahlan and Politeknik Negeri Ujung Pandang and a team called Bad Boys. A debater from the last team, Bama Andika, who reached the quarterfinals of the National Universities English Debating Championships last week representing Unhas, took home the best speaker prize.

The Hasanuddin BP previously had registered participants from outside eastern Indonesia, even from outside the country, but two delays, including a postponement due to a clash with the NUEDC dates, triggered a wave of pull-outs. In the end, only Yogyakarta-based UAD crossed the sea to head for Sulawesi island and debated in its biggest city Makassar with teams from the surrounding area.

WSDC 2012 Five Months From WSDC 2011

The 2012 World Schools Debating Championships will take place in South Africa only five months after this year's August 16-26 edition in Scotland. Organizers of  WSDC 2012 have sent their first newletter confirming the tournament will span from January 17 to 27, 2012 and registration is open throughout August 2011. The team cap for next year's competition is 48 teams.

Indonesia started to compete in WSDC in 2001, when it was last convened in South Africa, and won the Best New Team Award then.  The debates next year will be in Cape Town, not Johannesburg like in 2001, but the range of venues will be similarly interesting -- from public schools in poor black townships to elitist ones in predominantly white suburbs.  

Asian BP Registration Opens July 5, Australs Begins July 8

Two important regional debating tournaments will kick off different phases next week.

The race to grab slots in the coming Asian British Parliamentary Debate Championships will begin July 5 at 1300 WIB or noon Dhaka time. The online registration closes July 20 but there are only 80 spots and each institution can send up to 3 pairs so the list may fill up fast. The 3rd Asian BP will take place at North South University in Dhaka, Bangladesh from December 7 to 11, 2011, making it a good warm-up for those who want to compete in the World Universities Debating Championships at the end of the year.

Half a continent away from Dhaka, the preliminary rounds of the Australasian Debating Championships will start in Seoul on July 8. Five Indonesian schools (Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Universitas Hasanuddin, Institut Teknologi Bandung and Binus International) are registered to take part in the world's largest 3-on-3 debating competition that will take place this year at Chung Ang University. Indonesian teams have excelled in the ESL category of this tournament in previous years. The break will be announced on July 10 while the finals will take place on July 13.    

NUEDC 2011: Top Main and Novice Speakers (Revised)

There were flaws in the 2011 NUEDC official tabulation that came into light after the first announcement, causing changes in the order of the top speakers. The list below is based on the latest corrections announced by the adjudication core Sunday night. The clarification message can be accessed via this link. The top novice speaker list has also changed because the previous one used an unofficial standing which did not take into account novice debaters who admirably preferred to compete in the more challenging main break rather than stay in the more tempting lower category that offered reachable prizes.

Top 10 Speakers

1. Dito Krista (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
2. Adlini Ilma Ghaisany (Universitas Indonesia)
3. Roderick Sibarani (Universitas Indonesia)
4. Rifan Ibnu Rahman (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
5. Astrio Feligent (Binus International)
6. Christian Leonardo (Binus International)
7. Mayang Puspita (Universitas Padjadjaran)
8. Rendi Prahara (Universitas Padjadjaran)
9. Astri Agustina (Universitas Gadjah Mada)
10. Ammar Syah Anwar (Universitas Bakrie)

Top 10 Novice Speakers (with rank in main tab)
1/17 Aditya Purnomo Saputro (Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana)
2/21 Sari Mutiara Aisyah (Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta)
3/23. Melda Frisca (Universitas Lambung Mangkurat)
3/23. Mensel Santoso (Universitas Mulawarman)
5/26. Dwitiya Ari (Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana)
5/26. Andi Darmawangsa (Institut Teknologi Telkom)
7/29. Malisa Sudirman (Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya)
8/30. Omi Ongge (Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta)
9/30. Intan Nur Charina (Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta)
10/32. I Gede Putu Eka Putra (Universitas Udayana)

Binus International Wins NUEDC 2011 (Revised)

((Corrections were made in third para due to a flaw in the official tab that was rectified after prizes were given. The clarification message from the adjudication core can be accessed via this link.))

Astrio Feligent/Christian Leonardo (photo from Rizal K)

The 2011 National Universities English Debating Championships main prize went to #2 Binus International (Astrio Feligent & Christian Leonardo) after the duo defeated #1 Institut Teknologi Bandung (Dito Krista & Rifan Ibnu Rahman), #3 Universitas Indonesia (Adlini Ilma Ghaisany & Roderick Sibarani) and #5 Universitas Bakrie (Ammar Syah Anwar & Aryo Febrian) in the final last night. This is Binus International's third win in 2011 following their victories at the ALSA Unpad E-Challenge in February and the UMM English Fiesta in May, making it the most successful debating society in Indonesia this year so far.

Astrio and Chris were also the core of the team that bagged the English Fiesta trophy, making them the only partnership with two wins in 2011. Known as BIPEDS, the debating society is a new powerhouse that only began to seriously compete three years ago. Their meteoric rise cannot be separated from the presence of coach Anna Alfaro Manurung, a former University of the Philippines debater who currently works as a lawyer in Jakarta. BIPEDS will hold Indonesia's most ambitious debating competition BIND next September, which will have lead judges of the coming World Universities Debating Championships in the adjudication core and debaters from all over Asia.

The 2011 NUEDC best speaker award went to Dito Krista from ITB following corrections that were made to the tabulation after the official announcement. Previously, two debaters with the same exact score, Adlini Ilma Ghaisany from UI, popularly known as Gesa, and Rifan Ibnu Rahman from ITB, received the top honour. The latest list put Gesa as the second best speaker while Rifan came fourth. Dito, placed fourth in the flawed tab, became the fourth ITB debater who topped the speaker tab of a national-scale debating competition this year, showing the depth of this engineering school's squad.

The best novice title went to Nurul Djannah and Sheila Koesin from STBA Teknokrat Lampung.

NUEDC 2011: The Line-Up for Main and Novice Finals

Here are the debaters who succeeded to reach the main and novice finals of the 2011 National Universities English Debating Championships at Universitas Diponegoro Semarang.

Main Category:
#1 Institut Teknologi Bandung (Dito Krista & Rifan Ibnu Rahman)
#2 Binus International University Jakarta (Astrio Feligent & Christian Leonardo)
#3 Universitas Indonesia Depok (Adlini Ilma Ghaisany & Roderick Sibarani)
#5 Universitas Bakrie Jakarta (Ammar Syah Anwar & Aryo Febrian)

Novice Category:
#1Novice STBA Teknokrat Lampung (Nurul Djanah & Sheila Koesin)
#2Novice Universitas Lambung Mangkurat (Melda Frisca & A. Ghazali)
#5Novice Institut Teknologi Telkom Bandung (Aditya Cakrawidya & Andi Darmawangsa)
#6Novice Politeknik Negeri Sriwijaya Palembang (Malisa Sudirman & M. Syallaby)

NUEDC 2011: Jakarta Regional Qualifiers Dominate Final

The penultimate debate of the 2011 National Universities English Debating Championships today will gather those who were present at the finals of the Jakarta regional selections. Universitas Indonesia (Adlini Ilma Ghaisany & Roderick Sibarani), Universitas Bakrie (Ammar Syah Anwar & Aryo Febrian) and Binus International (Astrio Feligent & Christian Leonardo) will repeat their match while the fourth team will be the duo of Dito Krista and Rifan Ibnu Rahman from Institut Teknologi Bandung, who ironically adjudicated their upcoming opponents in that May 28 debate.

NUEDC 2011: Top 8 Sail Through, Create All-Java Semifinals

The 8 highest-ranked teams in the main break list of the 2011 National Universities English Debating Championships all managed to elbow out their opponents in the octos and quarterfinals today. All of these semifinalists come from Java-based schools. A non-Java team, STBA Teknokrat from Lampung, actually had a higher spot on the tab than the lowest-ranked semifinalist, Universitas Brawijaya from East Java, but they chose to debate in the lower novice category and skip their chance in the main competition in order to obtain more reachable prizes.

The semifinals and finals will take place tomorow at Universitas Diponegoro's Tembalang campus. The semifinalists are as follows:

Semifinal 1:
1. Institut Teknologi Bandung (Dito Krista & Rifan Ibnu Rahman)
4. Universitas Padjadjaran Bandung (Mayang Puspita & Rendi Prahara)
5. Universitas Bakrie Jakarta (Ammar Syah Anwar & Aryo Febrian)
8. Universitas Brawijaya Malang (Dungga Nur Prayogo & Yeremia Azarya) 


Semifinal 2:
2. Binus International University Jakarta (Astrio Feligent & Christian Leonardo)
3. Universitas Indonesia Depok (Adlini Ilma Ghaisany & Roderick Sibarani)
6. Universitas Atmajaya Jakarta (Darwin Tanzil & Carlos Situmeang)
7. Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta (Astri Agustina & Gentur Adiutama)