Semarang State University (SSU) is
the fourth most favorite campus in Indonesia, according to Kompas. SSU is located in Semarang, the capital city of Central
Java, Indonesia. It has eight faculties. They are the faculty of education
science, the faculty of languages and arts, the faculty of mathematics and
natural science, the faculty of engineering, the faculty of sport science, the
faculty of economics and the faculty of law. The students body is approximately
40.000 students enrolled in those eight faculties.
SSU is known as the conservation
university in Indonesia. It includes environment conservation, cultural
conservation, and moral conservation. The environment conservation is the
effort to preserve and protect the environment in order to prevent the damage.
It has been realized by planting a lot of trees around SSU, make the biopori hole, paperless, go to campus by
foot, the prohibition to throw away the rubbish everywhere, etc. Eventually, the
environment becomes green and less pollution. It makes SSU is colder than the
other parts of Semarang city. In addition to the environment, there is the
cultural conservation. It is the efforts to preserve the culture and bring it
to the younger generation in order to prevent the extinction. SSU often hold
various cultural performances involving students such as 24-hour traditional
dancing, a puppet show, sinden idol and
the other traditional entertainments. In some faculties, the students are
required to wear batik on certain days. It teaches young people to love and use
the domestic products. The most important is moral conservation. It is realized
by providing the character education towards a healthy, superior, and
prosperous campus. The students are expected to have good morals such as
wearing the proper clothes, have the good attitude, etc.
