Muhammadiyah Council for Higher Education, Research, and Development (CHERD) reorganized Leadership Training (LT) for the Muhammadiyah-’Aisyiyah Higher Education Institutions (MHEIs) leaders in the Grand Rohan Hotel, Yogyakarta on Monday (10/10). LT Batch VIII was a week-long training followed by 39 participants from 27 MHEIs. In his remarks, Prof Lincolin Arsyad mentioned that various leaders shared positive responses after following LT. “The first time we organized this training, we were unsure (of the impacts). However, all leaders who followed Leadership Training felt that it was highly beneficial for them. At least, all participants knew each other,” Prof Lincolin, the Chairman of CHERD, said.

He also emphasized that the training aimed to improve the quality of MHEIs’ leaders. “Several MHEIs had organized LT in each campus, for example, UMRI, UMLB, and many other universities. The training can be adopted by inviting all civitas academics, besides the rector and vice-rectors,” he added.

Dr. H. Agung Danarto, M.Ag, the Secretary of Muhammadiyah Central Board explained that besides elevating the quality of MHEIs’ leaders, MHEIs also learn from each other and synergize. “So the newly established campus will learn from developing campuses, not from zero. It is important because it will shorten the experience,” he said. He also emphasized that MHEI’s leader should strengthen Muhammadiyah’s ideology for personal to all academic civitas. “Because the development of MHEIs needs Muhammadiyah ideology to be internalized. It should be remembered that Muhammadiyah when establishing its services, it became an obedience part for Allah SWT,” he added.