Personal Statement for GLOBL KOREAN SCHOLRSHIP

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I was born from a simple family. Both my parents separated when I was five years old and eventually I grew up in my mother’s hands. She was my strongest inspiration and motivation after the incident of a broken home in my family. She always encouraged me to keep fighting, trust in my abilities, and be helpful to others. She always said that I should be independent and take responsibility for myself. The strong support of my mother has enabled me to always overcome a challenge and continue to do my best. I’m sure that support will continue to strengthen me to exceed my following path.

Since childhood, I’ve been interested in electricity technology. I was curious when I saw a light that turned on until I asked my mother, and she explained that three was an electric current running in the light and that even sunlight could provide a source of electricity to bring the light back on. This explanation and my hobby of reading books on technology increased my interest in electricity. I decided to pursue electrical engineering, so I chose SMK Canda Bhirawa Pare to study electricity.

While in school, I learned many electricity lessons such as the delta star’s electrical sequence, three contractor electrical circuits, designing how to put on an electrical installation in a building, and many more. This study was so beneficial that I had a hard skill to string up an electrical circuit properly and neatly in a small building on my own. I can design the layout of illumination in a room, string up a delta star’s electrical sequence, three contractor electrical circuits, and more than circuits that are used in the industrial world, understand what tools and materials and so forth.

I also participated in various school organizations such as Intra School Student Organizations (OSIS). In that organization, I was trusted as a secretary. I learned many leadership skills, teamwork, creating diverse event proposals, doing school bookkeeping and so forth. I also followed The Research Information Logic and Electricity Nation (RILEN), an extracurricular organization for students who wanted to learn about electricity. In this organization, I share in others' minds and work together to create innovations in schools like automated fence gates, which have been used as a school gateway. I was also building simple solar power plants that were used as an added practice study in school in which students have a visualization of the power plant. Furthermore, I also participate in volunteer organizations. This activity meant so much to me that I could share many things with others, both sciences and experiences, be social, be bold, and help others.

I’m also grateful to have the opportunity to attend the Youth Exchange to South Korea and study at Seoul National University about electricity and computer engineering for two weeks. I learned electricity such as Introduction to robotics, Introduction to electric power and energy systems and so forth. From the program, a wealth of new insights, such as knowing how the education system in South Korea is a famous ideal. During the program, I struggled to adjust because of the differences between Indonesia and Korean education systems, where in Indonesia, there were more theories and did so casually. Whereas in Korea, more ordered, fast, and practice directly. In addition to studying at SNU for two weeks, I also visit and get an education at Samsung and Hyundai Industries for five days. In my brief visit, I learned about 5G technologies, innovation in electric cars and even greenhouse gas technologies.

And in July 2019, I gained trust in representing the school in an electrical competition. In this competition, I was asked by the committee to build a circuit quickly, correctly, and neatly. We were asked to design a 2 x 2 room with electrical power and lighting installation. I’m excited to do my best here. I had a lot of experience with this competition, of which I could organize installations quickly and well in school. Of all my experiences, I’m grateful to have passed with adequate grades.

Graduating from school, I worked for a year at a power plant company as an electrician. Here, I’m getting many new experiences such as processes from research materials to be used as electrical power, understanding the structure of a hydroelectric material well managed, and electricity distribution. That was when the idea deep in my mind of making sugarcane residue became an electric power plant. After observing much sugarcane residue in my neighbourhood and doing simple research, in each kilogram, the sugarcane pulp contains about 2,5 % of sugar with a kalor value of 1,825 kkal that has a potential for electricity energy as big as 30,48 MW. From the data of the journal’s sources which I have been reading, assuming the invention of the cane remains continuous. Thus within 15 years, there will be an electric energy as big as 400 MW which, when added to the central power grid, has a potential fuel source for generating power plants to be replaced by sugarcane remains.

But this research has become an inconclusive notion because of limitations of the competence, knowledge, facility and the lack of cost I have. I firmly resolved to support expenses and enrolled in this GKS-U Program to study electricity in South Korea, known as the ideal educational system and the most technologically advanced country. The Gwangju Region is primarily a hub for the technology industry, such as fiber optic, automotive, etc. Because of its advance in technology, Gwangju has become one of the five cities in the world leading in industrial exports after Germany, Russia, and Japan.

Of these aspects, I have decided to choose Chonnam National University as the largest and best research and academic institution in Gwangju. The electrical engineering division also goes through The Electrical Industry Basic Human Power Fostering Project. It has a power system laboratory that focuses on electric power system generation, transmission, and distribution system smart grid. This laboratory is also collaborating with many companies. One of them is Korea Electrical Power Corp (KEPCO). This facility could support my study about a power system that I would eventually realize to make sugarcane pulp become an electrical power plant.

My interest in electricity at Chonnam National University was further heightened after reading some scientific writings published by Professor Ahn Seon Ju with other researchers about the Synchronization of Low-Frequency Oscillation in Power Systems in 2017. This paper presents the well-documented concept of synchronization of low-frequency oscillation occurring in power systems and describes the characteristics of sync occurring in basic electrical circuits. The theory of sync, observed in basic circuits, is extended to analyze the dynamic characteristics of low-frequency oscillation in power systems. Two-area systems and the KEPCO systems are applied to Sync concepts proposed in this paper. It was con?rmed that the synchronization phenomenon can be usefully applied to the power system. The sync of low-frequency oscillation can be applied to the synchro-phasor and can use a real-time system.

In conclusion, from experience, competence, personality, and a strong support system, I committed to trying hard to give my best and study hard. So when I return to Indonesia, I can professionally contribute to electrical engineering for the better. I believe this is an incredibly exciting and empowering subject that will allow me to make a difference to the world and change it in a positive way.