diponegoro university

Diponegoro University (UNDIP) has been long time managing its endless attempts to be accredited as a national university that to be proud of and accredited internationally as an outstanding university. This Program was in line with the global era challenges. The Global era requires high quality education institutions that conduct some attainments to participate in the compete beyond the world's rapid competition. Based on the present conditions, the education quality in a university should always be increased in order to develop qualified, knowledgeable, and high technology human resources. The strategic actions had been taken in line with to the new paradigm of higher education development program which has been proposed by Indonesian Directorate General of High Education (IDGHE).

In the year 2020, UNDIP intends to be an Excellent Research University. Efforts to achieve the vision, UNDIP defines its mission as follow :

1. to provide the best education program in the fields of science, technology, and art,
2. to conduct professional scientific researches and publication as contributions to the development of science and technology,
3. to provide qualified public services in accordance to the society demand and the development of knowledge sciences and
4. conducting evaluation regularly to improve quality, autonomy, accountability, and accreditation of university.

Vision, Mission and the main scientific interest of UNDIP have been focused on Eco-Coastal-Region Development.

johar market (the most popular market of semarang)

The northern coastal harbour-city of Semarang, Central Java is a divided city – the old and the new. The old, being located on a coastal plain between two Banjir Canals, and the most interesting to explore. The new, being located in the Southern Candi hills, is the newer residential area and where most of the wealthy people live – the cool air preferable to the heat of the coastal plain. Semarang is a city full of history, culture, and a bustling centre for trade.

When I first visited this beautiful and historical city over fifteen years ago, I had prearranged my accommodation at the Metro Hotel in the old part of the city, near Pasar Johar – a huge labyrinth of market stalls where everything imaginable is for sale. My hotel was situated next to a junction of five roads, known as simpang lima, where the roads branch out into various parts of the city. Pasar Johar is a market complex and is a fruit lover’s delight. Rows of stalls join other rows leading into a complex of other markets right down to the canals, and the other side, into Chinatown.

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