The Taipei Economic and Trade Office Jakarta Indonesia (TETO Jakarta, Indonesia) has demonstrated its continued support for the Faculty of Humanities Universitas Indonesia in a number of ways. In 2024, a series of activities is designed as part of the “Taiwan Studies Project”. This project features teacher training, joint research activities, video podcasts production, and infographic competition on Taiwan Cultural Tourism.
On May 16-17, the Faculty of Humanities UI held a teacher training workshop on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the teaching of Mandarin in higher education institutions in Indonesia. This topic is considered very relevant as Mandarin is one of the languages of interest for teachers and language learners in Indonesia. In addition, the knowledge on the development of artificial technology in teaching Mandarin is needed.
Two experts were invited as speakers for this workshop. On the first day, Ms. Shih-Ping Chan, B.A., MTCSOL, a lecturer from Taiwan who is presently teaching at Bunda Mulia University, shared her knowledge on teaching aids and applications as well as the use of Chat GPT. This session was led by Hatmi Idris, a lecturer from Chinese Studies Program Faculty of Humanities UI. On the second day, there was Prof. Yang Hsiao Ching from National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan who presented in the online session of the workshop. Thirty lecturers from various universities and 105 participants joined the offline and online sessions of the workshop.
In his opening remark, the Dean of Faculty of Humanities UI, Dr. Bondan Kanumoyoso expressed that language improvement is the key to increase understanding on the key issues related to Taiwan’s culture and society. He believed the two workshops would enrich the participants’ knowledge and benefit students who are eager to learn more about Taiwan.
The representative of the Education Division, the Taipei Economic and Trace Office Jakarta Indonesia Ms. Gloria Liu said in her remark that Mandarin is one of the most important languages in international communication and key factor to prepare for our next generation for the rising global competition. Taiwan has high quality Chinese teachers and TETO also offers variety of programs to help foreign students and teachers to improve their Mandarin skills, such as short term Chinese language program as well as Mandarin scholarships. Ms. Liu was hoping that the participants would have a lot of meaningful discussions and enhance their professional knowledge. In addition to that, this Taiwan Studies Project shows that TETO remains committed to strengthen the relationship between the Faculty of Humanities UI and TETO.
Public can expect upcoming projects from Faculty of Humanities UI and TETO. In this second year of collaboration, the following events will be a research on Indonesian and Taiwanese culture, public lectures, infographic competitions, and the production of broadcasts about Taiwan which will be announced to the public, according to Dr. Rahadjeng Pulungsari Hadi, the head of UI’s Taiwan Studies Project.
