UNAIR NEWS – The Ethnographic Museum and the Center for Death Studies, Universitas Airlangga Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) received another special visitors. This time, the Philipps University of Marburg, Germany academicians visited the museum on Friday, September 30, 2022. Thirty-two students made the Indonesian-German collaboration visit are mostly from Economic-Geography students.

Vice-Dean 3 of UNAIR FISIP, Irfan Wahyudi SSos M Comms Ph.D., warmly welcomed the guests. He appreciated the visit and marked it as a collaboration project introducing Indonesian culture.

Dhahana Adi Pungkas SSos MedKom, the cultural program assistant of Wisma Jerman, brought the students to FISIP Ethnographic Museum and the Center for the Death Studies.

“Visiting the museum is a part of their study tour programs. Earlier, they already visited Jakarta, Jogja, Solo, and now, they have finally arrived at the Ethnographic Museum and the Center for Death Studies, Universitas Airlangga Faculty of Social and Political Sciences FISIP,” he said.

Gained appreciation

The Philipps University Marburg lecturer, Markus Hassler joined the study tour. He appreciated the Ethnographic Museum and Center for Death Studies of UNAIR FISIP. Visiting the death museum was his first experience.

“We are very interested [in the museum] and learning various aspects of traditional ceremony and death rituals in Indonesia. We got to see one-stop collections from Papua, Sulawesi, and Java,” he said during the museum tour review.

Rizky Sugianto Putri SAnt MSi, the staff educator and lecturer at the FISIP Anthropology Department, gladly welcomed the visit, which coincided with the Terracotta-themed exclusive exhibition period from September 29 to October 30, 2022.

“We’re pleased to host their visit, especially after talking with them. Germany is strict; touching the skeletons is highly prohibited. They got to observe them in detail and touch the skeletons,” she said.

Author: Satriyani Dewi Astuti

Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh