Spring Gathering

At 26 April 2014, PPI (Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia di Finlandia / Indonesia Students Association in Finland) organized the Spring Gathering event at the Embassy of Indonesia in Helsinki. The committee invited all of the Indonesian students currently lived in Nordic Baltic countries (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and, Estonia) to take part on the event. Apart from that, all the Indonesian citizen who live nearby were also welcomed. The special guest of the day is Mister Ambassador of Indonesia for Finland.  

This event is organized with the aim to integrate all the Indonesian students from every corner of the Finland , since the number of the Indonesian students in Finland have been increasing significantly throughout the years. In addition, this event is meant to introduce PPI Finlandia to all of the members and Indonesian society as a registered organization in Pattenti Ja Rekisterihallitus (PRH).

The theme of the event is "Gather, Network, and Collaborate". We hoped that this event would encourage all of us to unite and enlarge our network to collaborate together for the sake of Indonesia's development in the future. This event was attended by more than 50 participants from cities all over Finland, like Tampere, Jyväskylä, Turku, Lappeenranta dan Vaasa and also from Sweden, Estonia, and Denmark.

With all the participants of Spring Gathering 2014

The ambassador of Indonesia for Finland

Special performance from Indonesian musician

Nasi tumpeng (traditional food from Indonesia)

Lunch time

We come to present Lappenranta University of Technology (LUT)

This is our LUT poster

Mingle time

Opening of the event

The Embassy of Indonesia at Helsinki,Finland

This is me, in front of the Embassy building