PERSATUAN KEBANGSAAN PELAJAR MALAYSIA DI JEPUN

MALAYSIAN STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION IN JAPAN (MSAJ)

在日マレーシア留学生会
http://msaj.net
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Summer Gathering Part 1: Networking and Project Management

Date: 18 July 2010 (Sun)

Time: 1300hrs hingga 1630hrs
Venue: Multi purpose hall, Staff Apartment, Embassy of Malaysia

Malaysian Students’ Association in Japan (MSAJ) Kanto Division organized Summer Gathering Part 1:
Networking and Project Management, as an effort to gather Malaysian students in Japan, especially
Kanto Area, and to create sustainable networking.

The schedule for the program was as such below:

1300hrs Registration
1315hrs Introduction
1330hrs Session 1: Networking
1430hrs Break
1500hrs Session 2: Project Management
1630hrs Dismissal

The event started with registration and preparation of the hall. Thirty five students from various
Universities, National Colleges and Organizations attended the program. A short introduction on the
event and introduction of MSAJ was done by Ben Foo before going into Session 1: Networking.

Session 1: Networking aimed to understand each other by making introduction of participants/

organizations and the Malaysian environment in own area. Participants were divided into 5 groups
according their affiliation; 2 groups for Universities, 1 group for National Colleges, 1 group for Japanese
Language School and 1 group for Organizations (IPIJ). Self introduction and discussion on Malaysian
environment in their own area were made. As time was limited, each group was represented by one
participant and short presentations were made by each group.

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 Snacks and drinks were prepared for break time. Break was set as long as 30 minutes to let
participants to talk and know each other.

The program moved on with Session 2: Project Management. Session 2 aimed to train group work
among students and problem solving. Participants were divided into 5 groups but were mixed without
regarding their universities/colleges/organizations.

Each group was given an assignment to think of issues in Malaysia and with the knowledge and
resources they have, solutions were discussed. Presentations were made and comments/questions
were given by participants. Among the issues were usage of English in Malaysian education, crime rate,
low salary, traffic congestion and subsidies. Issues were current issues. However, concrete solutions
were hard to derive because of limited authority as students Therefore, positioning is important to
discover the ability to solve issues. Issues involving students (youth) should be discussed in future.

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 Participants were actively involved in the program and communicating among each other. As
feedbacks from participants, the program was interesting and such program should be continued in the
future. Also, understandings among organizations were made and further collaboration will be made in
near future. However, there were also feedbacks noting that more concrete and ongoing projects
should be discussed

Reported by,

Ben Foo Ming Sheng 19 July 2010

President
Malaysian Students’ Association in Japan (MSAJ)
Kanto Division
090-1853-7904
presiden_kanto@msaj.net

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