I am a scholarship winner and proud to be a student of the Jakarta State Polytechnic Engineering Department
- Sat Oct 03 2020 15:52:07 GMT+0700 (Western Indonesia Time)
- mesin.pnj.ac.id
Dzikru Rahman, a student from Bogor who is still in the first semester of the D-III Mechanical Engineering Study Program, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jakarta State Polytechnic, has succeeded in making social media viral lately, especially Instagram and Twitter. Because the video he uploaded succeeded in making netizens both amazed and touched. In the video Dzikru presents a short story when he was accepted at the Jakarta State Polytechnic and at the same time received a scholarship from Go-Jek.
The student who was born on February 6, 2002 admits that he is proud of his father's profession, namely an online motorcycle taxi driver. He admitted that he was able to study because of the strong motivation of his parents, even though the economic conditions were normal. "Initially it was you who registered me to take part in the selection at PNJ through the Go-Jek scholarship path, so Go-Jek provided scholarships for the children of drivers who wanted to continue their studies to college, and initially I didn't know, suddenly you told me if I registered for the Go-Jek scholarship, and the selected campus was PNJ. " Said Dzikru. Even though the first chance his college list had failed with the report card score route, Dzikru kept trying until three times before he managed to pass the Mandiri route.
Dzikru is the first child. He has a younger sister who is still in grade 3 at junior high school. He aspires to make his family proud by studying at the Mechanical Engineering Department, because he is eager to have expertise in mechanical engineering and one day he can become a successful person with the knowledge he has. Dzikru also said that his father had been an online motorcycle taxi driver since 2015. In the past, his income was good enough to meet family needs, but since the Coronavirus his father's income has decreased dramatically. "At most now you just wait for passengers from home, and even then you rarely get far orders, different times before the Coronavirus, you can pull passengers to the Greater Jakarta area." He said.
Dzikru revealed that the information on the Go-Jek scholarship was obtained by his father from the notification of the Go-Jek application, and Dzikru admitted that he was happy to have passed the selection and was given the opportunity to study at the D-III Mechanical Engineering Study Program, Mechanical Engineering Department of the Jakarta State Polytechnic. Dzikru, who was not discouraged, had previously registered himself to study at several leading universities in Indonesia, including Diponegoro University, Brawijaya University and Jakarta State University, but had not succeeded in passing the selection on the three campuses. Dzikru said that at PNJ he was successfully accepted, and in fact there were two people who won scholarships from Go-Jek for the PNJ campus. "First me, and Sri Indah Rahmadini, she took the Journalism Study Program, Department of Graphic Engineering and PNJ Publishing, and at that time someone gathered us at the PNJ directorate, her name was Mbak Mita, a representative from Go-Jek, after that there was a photo session -Photo like that. " Said the alumnus of SMAN 1 Cibinong. Dzikru also said that he was active on Tiktok not long ago, even though he had never used the application before. But he has had an Instagram account for a long time, and when the idea came up to make the video, he admitted that he did not expect the video to be viral, and unexpectedly, the video was appreciated by netizens, it is evident that comments on Tiktok until Thursday, October 1, 2020 have reached 2,777, 80,000 people watched. On Instagram, there were 6,632 comments, who liked, 236,429. He also expressed his gratitude to those who have helped viralize his videos, ranging from friends to people he doesn't know at all. "There are even artists who program their videos, and those who are also there, one of them is Nikita Mirjani." He said again.
Thanks to the virality of the video, Dzikru admitted that he had been contacted by several online media, including; Kompas.com, Tribunews.com, Suara.com, Detik.com, and Kumparan.com. In addition, he also claimed to have been contacted by Trans TV to be a guest at the Brownis event on Thursday, 8 October 2020 next week. Then when asked if his followers increased after the viral video, Dzikru admitted that his followers have now reached 5,312, initially around 800.
The viral video, on Twitter, has more than one million viewers. But unfortunately, Dzikru does not have a Twitter account, he got the news from a friend. Until now, Dzikru revealed that there are no plans to create other content. Currently he will focus on college first. However, if there was free time he could have made another video, but he admitted that he had no ideas. He wanted to enter the Department of Machinery, after graduating he wanted to become a mechanical designer. Then he also had an interest in the field of electric cars at PNJ. "The open recruitment was over until September 30th yesterday, so we didn't have time to register, but there is a desire to register in the Electric Car activity unit later." Said the student who likes swimming and basketball. (Interview with Asep Yana Yusyama, Thursday, October 1, 2020).
