MAKASSAR – Hasanuddin University won three awards at the Student Creativity Program Award (PKM Award) 2026. The awards were presented by the Directorate of Learning and Student Affairs, Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology. The PKM Award 2026 was held at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jakarta on Monday, 21 September 2026.
At the event, Unhas won three awards, namely:
– Most Productive University in the Cluster 1 Incentive Scheme, with eight titles receiving incentives.
– University with the Best Mentoring in Cluster 1, with 232 proposed titles and 58 titles receiving funding and incentives.
– Most Productive University in the Cluster 1 Funding Scheme, with 50 titles receiving funding.
The Student Creativity Program (PKM) is a student scientific program that has developed for more than 20 years. It is one of the platforms for developing the creativity of Indonesian students through ideas, innovation, and scientific processes.
Unhas Vice Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, Prof. Muhammad Ruslin, said the three awards reflect two important aspects of PKM mentoring, namely productivity and the continuity of the mentoring process.
“For Unhas, this achievement is not only about the number of proposals that were successfully funded. What matters more is how we build a mentoring process that can carry more and more student ideas through to work that can be developed further. These awards show that the process keeps moving and that we need to strengthen it,” said Prof. Ruslin.
Prof. Ruslin further said that the achievement in the mentoring category is also an encouragement to widen student involvement in PKM. Mentoring does not stop at the proposal stage but needs to continue until students are able to complete the program and develop its results.
In 2026, 1,121 Unhas PKM proposals were designated to receive funding. After going through the program implementation stages and the PKM Implementation Progress Assessment (PKP2), the series of activities continued with the PKM Award 2026.
The PKM Award has been held since 2022 as one of the PKM activities following PKP2. The award is given as an expression of appreciation and to maintain the spirit and culture of hard work among all parties in implementing PKM.
The various awards in the PKM Award are intended to strengthen a culture of achievement and motivation, which are expected to nurture and grow innovation and creativity. In the PKM Award 2026, the achievements assessed came not only from student teams but also from supervising lecturers and universities, as well as the processes undergone during PKM implementation.
The awards are expected to encourage students, supervising lecturers, and universities to keep improving the quality of PKM implementation and to draw benefit from every process and stage they go through. (*/ams)
Editor: Ishaq Rahman
This article is an English translation of the original Indonesian report.