1.

Introduction
I am reporting about the experience in Gadjha Mada University. First of all I would

like to express my gratitude to all of the people who supported me. This is my second
time to spend in Indonesia. I could get more information on health and education inIndonesia.
Moreover I could spend Ramadan in Indonesia this time. This experience was very
impressive for me. I would also like to report this experience.
2.

Summary of activities.
Duration: 2015/06/02~2015/07/27
University: Gadjah Mada University
Activities: Interchange with Thai students and Sweden students.
Visit to Sarjid Hospital.
National Examination in Indonesia.
Ramadan.

3.

The result of each activity.

1) Interchange with Thai students and Sweden student
During my stay there are other exchange students from Thailand and Sweden. I
participated in some activities with them. I took a lecture on Indonesia health profile
from Ms Elsi with students from Thailand. We learned that it is important to understandown country and we could compare with other countries.
With Sweden students we went to Sarjid Hospital and observed the nursing work. In
my image hospitals in developing counties are not clean and not organized. HoweverSarjid Hospital is one of the top class hospitals in Yogyakarta. It was clean and wellorganized, which led to good experience for me.

2) Nursing National examination
Nursing National examination in Indonesia started in 2013. It is held twice a year.
They are supposed to be held three time a year, but considering the geographic situationin this country it is difficult to hold them that often. We cannot learn about the pass rate.
Only the government knows it. After Nursing National Examination started, each
institution started to support the students. Now there are many Indonesian nurses whowant to work in Japan. They have to pass the National Examination in Japanese. But
they didn’t have enough experience of National Examination. I hope they can more easily
adapt the National Examination from now.
3) Ramadan
More than 80% of people are Islam in Indonesia. Ramadan, which is the biggest
event in Islam, was held during my stay. For one month, from sunrise to sunset, they dofasting. Before Ramadan there are some kinds of banner hanging in front of the school
entrance. I had been restless before Ramadan. Ramadan started on 18th June. One ofmy friends took me to the musk and I could have good experience in the musk. Therewere a lot of people praying. It was very mysterious.
My colleague invited me to the open fasting in the camps. So I tried to do fasting andsucceeded. Strangely I didn’t feel hungry. When I could finally eat for the first time in 12hours, I thank for all things. I’m Buddhist. But for me the religion is something like aculture. It is sometimes difficult to understand the values of people who believe the God.
But while I had been spending the time of the Ramadan in Indonesia, it was great
experience for me to understand other religions and to rethink about my religion andvalues.

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Conclusion
I would like to say thank you all of the people who supported me. It was great

experience for me. I could learn not only the health situation but also religions andculture in Indonesia. Hopefully I could visit Indonesia again and continue to understandabout Indonesia.