Indonesia's leading private university creating globally-oriented graduates.
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Indonesia's leading private university creating globally-oriented graduates.
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Indonesia's leading private university creating globally-oriented graduates.
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Indonesia's leading private university creating globally-oriented graduates.
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Indonesia's leading private university creating globally-oriented graduates.
Contact UsAs a world-class institution committed to research, BINUS UNIVERSITY has developed numerous research programmes and strives to facilitate research-related activities for its faculty members. BINUS UNIVERSITY therefore makes available grants, funding opportunities as well as all-encompassing research tools in order to support wide-ranging research initiatives. In doing so, the university has successfully proposed viable solutions for a large variety of sectors including food biotechnology, computer system, medicine, and bioinformatics among others. As such, BINUS UNIVERSITY is renowned as a highly-proficient partner by industry leaders; currently, the university has established research collaboration with Gudpoin and Yamaha. Moreover, BINUS International is a leading local partner for a number of esteemed institutions of higher education overseas illustrating the university’s extended efforts in spearheading research development.
BINUS UNIVERSITY’s extensive international network of partners of higher education institutions as well as businesses enables its students to partake in a wide array of student mobility programmes, internships, and student exchange opportunities. Furthermore, through its 3+1 enrichment programme initiative, undergraduate students are offered a year of experience in community development, research engagements, and start-up incubators among others. Leading these key programmes are the BINUS Global Collaboration Center, BINUS Career, BINUS Entrepreneurship Center, the Research and Technology Transfer Office, and Teach For Indonesia.
BINUS UNIVERSITY is committed to delivering unsurpassed student experience services thus the university makes available programmes as well as organisations ranging from Alumni Network and BINUS UNIVERSITY Learning Community. To encourage students in partaking in community development initiatives, BINUS UNIVERSITY has also setup Teach For Indonesia thus enabling enrolled students the opportunity to closely engage with Indonesian society. Under the guidance of the International Office, BINUS UNIVERSITY continues to successfully implement recruitment strategies for international students by offering courses that are taught in English. In the coming years, BINUS UNIVERSITY is aiming to increase the number of enrolled local and international students particularly from China and the ASEAN in keeping with its extensive list of university partners in the aforementioned regions. Currently, BINUS UNIVERSITY offers the BINA NUSANTARA Mandarin Club as well as the Mandarin Literature Student Organisation which strives to facilitate students from Chinese-speaking regions; these clubs also enable students to explore BINUS UNIVERSITY’s diverse cultural background.
“ Even though we remain highly-focused on our students and graduates, we are also committed to BINUS UNIVERSITY’s original purpose as a university which is to educate the entire Indonesian society. ”
In 2016, BINUS UNIVERSITY lecturer Ms Yulia had her research paper published in the British Journal of Nutrition titled, the ‘Dietary patterns of obese and normal-weight women of reproductive age in urban slum areas in Central Jakarta’. The study aimed to identify the food consumption of women from low socio-economic backgrounds and its correlation with obesity.
A total of 103 obese and 103 normal weight subjects were chosen for the experiment who then underwent a series of interviews to determine their socio-demographic characteristics and physical activities — The International Physical Activity Questionnaire was used to assess the physical activities of the study population. Moreover, the participants were also given a Food Frequency Questionnaire which aimed to discover the types and frequency of the food they consumed which were categorized as; never, 1-6 times/d, 1-6 times/week, and 1-3 times/month.
Ms Yulia’s research identified two dietary patterns among the study population: the ‘more healthy’ and the ‘less healthy’. The ‘less healthy’ group was characterized by their consumption of fried foods of snacks, soybeans, tubers, and poultry products whereas the ‘more healthy’ group generally consumed seafood, vegetables, eggs, and non-fried snacks.
The results of the study showed the energy intake of the obese subjects were significantly higher than among the normal-weight participants — this is consistent with findings from other studies that showed high energy intake is the main determinant of obesity. The macronutrients that contributed to energy, carbohydrate, and fat intakes were also to be found significantly higher among the obese than the normal-weight subjects. There was no significant difference however, in their protein consumption which concludes that obesity prevalence among those enrolled in this study was associated with high carbohydrate and fat intake and low protein intake.
To overcome the obesity problem within this socio-economic group, there needs to be better education of nutritional values as well as the portions of food consumed. Furthermore, the population of Jakarta’s urban slums often have limited access to healthy food choices, and thus there is now increasing cases of obesity in these neighbourhoods compared to rural areas.
Ms Yulia’s study is a testament to BINUS UNIVERSITY’s commitment to facilitate research activities for its faculties. In doing so, the university has contributed to the development of various sectors such as computer systems, public health, medicine, and food biotechnology in Indonesia.
