UPEL Lecturers Collaborated with the Marching Fund Grant Team at Gunung Padang Site

November 03, 2022, the UPEL lecturers collaborated with the marching fund grant team at the Gunung Padang site, Cianjur, West Java. This event was held by the marching fund grant team chaired by Dr. Aris Budi Setyawan in order to develop the destination of Gunung Padang site to be an attractive place for tourists.

Gunung Padang is a megalithic site located in Cianjur, West Java. The site has many archaeological and geological remains which are very interesting to study further. Various archaeologists and geologists have come to interpret the age of the Gunung Padang site. Some of them say that Mount Padang has a high historical value, so that the Gunung Padang site has an attraction to become a historical tourist destination.

For this reason, the marching fund grant team of Universitas Gunadarma visited Gunung Padang site to participate in developing the area of Gunung Padang into a tourism destination that attracted many people. Many lecturers were involved, including UPEL lecturers. UPEL lecturers visited the Gunung Padang site to teach English business for the people there.

Dr. Agung Prasetyo Wibowo as the vice dean of the faculty of literature and culture came to be a teacher for the tour guides of the Gunung Padang site. He taught how to interact well with foreign tourists and he also provided solutions to some of the problems encountered by the tour guides. Novia Diah Lestari, M.Sas became a teacher for home stay owners in the Gunung Padang area. She explained about how to communicate and handle orders from foreign tourists who would stay at the Gunung Padang lodging area.

Hopefully in the future the UPEL lecturers will have more collaboration with other lecturers from other departments. It is a good chance for the UPEL lecturers to implement their expertise for the advancement of Indonesian society.