Pengalaman Menjadi Mahasiswa Muslim di Eropa

PENGALAMAN SEBAGAIMAHASISWA MUSLIM DI

EROPA

MY JOURNEY…

MIMPI

• Dua orang anak SMP …. bermimpi untuk bisa

menjelajah Eropa, meski harus bersusah payah

disana……

BACHELOR DEGREE

5 YEARS WORKING IN STIS

2005

GOT 2 SCHOLARSHIPS: STUNED (NL) & VLIR (BE)

After several times of attempts, and fails

CHAPTER 1: BELGIUM

2005-2007MSC IN APPLIED STATISTICS & MSC IN

BIOSTATISTICS

2007-2011: PHD

CHAPTER 2: SWEDEN

CHAPTER 2: SWEDEN

2011-2014: POSTDOC RESEARCH

HOW TO GET SCHOLARSHIP?

HOW TO GET SCHOLARSHIP?

• Strong Motivation

• Get the Information (procedures, deadline, etc)

• Language Skill

• Documents

• Du’a

HOW TO LIVE AS A MUSLIM THERE?

CHALLENGES

Difficult to have a

place (and time) for

Sholat

CHALLENGES

Praying time is

different

Shortest Day:

sunrise at 8.44am

sunset at 2.49pm

Longest Day:

sunrise at 3.31am,

sunset at 9.08pm.

CHALLENGES

Difficult to find halal

food

CHALLENGES

Not easy to find a

place to study

Islam

CHALLENGES

Small number of

Muslim & ScatteredPengajian Online

CHALLENGES

Bad stigma

MUSLIM ACTIVITIES

WHAT HAVE WE LEARNT THERE?

FOUND NEW FAMILIES

LOVE OUR COUNTRY MORE

LEARNT DIFFERENT CULTURES, BACKGROUND, RACES, RELIGIONS

(MAZHABS), POINT OF VIEWS, ETC…..

SO…

LEARNT HOW TO RESPECT EACH OTHER

WHAT’S NEXT?

NEXT CHAPTER: INDONESIA

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