SCORP Session – IFMSA Asia Pacific Regional Meeting 2017 Japan

On 17th-21st September 2017, has been held IFMSA – Asia Pacific Regional Meeting (APRM) 2017 placed in National Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan. APRM is an IFMSA annual meeting of Asia-Pacific region which gives chance for its members to exchange their knowledge and experience, handling regional issues and IFMSA, and also feel the shade of IFMSA General Assembly. The topic raised in APRM 2017 is “Healthcare in Conflicts and Emergencies: Medical Workers Towards Building Peace”. This meeting consists of Standing Committee, Activities Fair, Training, Joint Session, Theme Event, Plenary Session, Social Program Session including Cultural Night, National Food and Drink Party.

On SCORP Session, CIMSA was represented by Husain M. Fajar Surasno (NORP 2017-2018) and Cita Amalia (Member of SCORP CIMSA UGM). Jessica Zhang (SCORP Director 2016-2017) and Agung Prabowo (SCORP Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific 2016-2017) were also attend in this event. The first day of SCORP Session opened with a Welcome to SCORP agenda that introduces the SCORP Session Team consisting of Jessica Zhang, Agung Prabowo, Cynthia Lam, and Husain M. Fajar Surasno and also the introduction of all the SCORPions with the games that already been set up and the election of secret angel. The event continued with the agenda of Human Rights Explorer by TNHRT trainer who discuss more deeply about Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Let’s Share Your Country Human Rights, where the participant divided into some groups to discuss about Human Rights Problems in their country; and the event closed by SCORP&IFMSA which delivered by Jessica Zhang through an interactive quiz to increase member’s knowledge about IFMSA and SCORP regulation.

The second day of SCORP Session opened with The Good Project agenda by Agung Prabowo; continued with Human Rights Advocacy agenda by Cynthia Lam. The participant divided into some groups and invited to make a campaign with an interesting methode. The event continued with Disaster Medicine agenda by Husain M. Fajar Surasno who discuss more deeply about Disaster and Disaster Management Cycle which interspersed with interactive games about Triage that being helped by Jessica and Cynthia. The second day of SCORP Session closed with Project Presentation agenda, where all countries presented all their projects that had been done. CIMSA presented GALAKSI TAB #CIMSABantuRohingya and The International Day Of Peace Celebration with the theme of Enforcing Peace Against Racial Violence. All participant invited to do fundraising in their country to hel Rohingya like CIMSA did.

The last day of SCORP Session opened with Climate Change, and Human Rights And Health agenda by TNHRT’s trainer, other than the explanation on issues, the participant divided into some groups and asked to identify the case given such as Drought on Sri Lanka and tried to correlate it with violation of chapter UDHR along with Health Problems that might happen. The event continued with Small Working Group agenda which discuss about some of Human Rights issues, one of them is about Gender Based Violence, and close with Thank You Session. After all of the SCORP Session’s agenda were over, APRM 2017 continued by Joint Session, one of them is SCORP-SCORA which raised the theme about Treating Victims of Sexual Assault.