BEM Debate Held Ahead of Election at UNESA Campus 5: Candidate Pairs Present Student-Centered Visions
24th of December 2025 - Ahead of the upcoming Student Executive Board (BEM) election, UNESA Campus 5 held an open debate as a forum for exchanging ideas and clarifying the visions and missions of the candidates. The debate served as an important platform for students to critically assess prospective student leaders before casting their votes.
The debate featured two candidate pairs (Paslon 01 and Paslon 02) and was moderated by a panel of lecturers who raised strategic questions on student governance, campus democracy, and the balance between academic and non-academic life.
🔹 Candidate Pair 01: Tevan Agus Setiawan – Exsyel Hendy Basuki
Candidate Pair 01, Tevan Agus Setiawan and Exsyel Hendy Basuki, both students of Law, presented a vision of:
“Establishing BEM as a HOME (Ruang Utama Mahasiswa / Main Student Hub) that is inclusive, safe, and sustainable, serving as a space for aspirations, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary student leadership.”
This vision is supported by six key missions, including strengthening BEM as a center for student learning and leadership development, encouraging cross-disciplinary collaboration in research and policy studies, integrating knowledge in community service programs, and building strategic partnerships with government institutions, businesses, and civil society organizations. The pair also emphasized collaboration with Student Activity Units (UKM) and the development of a professional and sustainable BEM governance system.
🔹 Candidate Pair 02: Adhitya Putra Wicaksana – Nur Wafiq Azizah
Meanwhile, Candidate Pair 02, consisting of Adhitya Putra Wicaksana (Informatics student) and Nur Wafiq Azizah (PGSD student), put forward the vision:
“To realize UNESA Campus 5 as a campus that prioritizes students through professional, consistent, and accountable bureaucratic governance, while strengthening a sense of kinship across study programs within the PSDKU Faculty.”
Their missions focus on bridging communication between bureaucracy and students, ensuring transparency and accessibility of faculty policies and services, responding concretely to student aspirations, and developing academic and non-academic programs based on collaboration and togetherness. They also highlighted the importance of empowering student organizations at the study program level as connectors between students and faculty leadership.
The debate was further enriched by questions from the panelists:
🔸 Dr. Doris Rahmat, S.H., M.H., M.Si.
Dr. Doris raised a question regarding how students can establish international collaborations.
Both candidate pairs agreed that such collaborations can be developed through partnerships with lecturers who have overseas networks, leveraging existing international connections at UNESA Campus 5, and strengthening student communities with global orientations.
🔸 Muchammad Syuhada’, S.Pd., M.Pd.
The second panelist addressed the issue of enhancing student democracy.
Both candidate pairs emphasized that campus democracy should be strengthened through structured student aspiration programs, accompanied by issue analysis and academic studies before conducting advocacy actions or demonstrations, ensuring that student movements remain critical, constructive, and responsible.
🔸 Dr. Mashur Hasan Bisri, S.AP., M.AP.
Dr. Mashur questioned how students can balance academic and non-academic activities.
The candidates responded by stressing the importance of effective time management, institutional support for student activities, and positioning non-academic involvement as a means of developing soft skills that complement academic achievement.
The BEM debate is expected to strengthen democratic values within UNESA Campus 5 and assist students in making informed and rational decisions. Through the ideas and programs presented by each candidate pair, students are encouraged to choose leadership that truly represents their aspirations and contributes to collective progress.
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