Sultan Saiful
3 min readSep 16, 2021

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A Day ago COVID -19 Spread in Indonesia

Some of us may survive during the pandemic, but the others continue to suffer. They are dying. It really is a nightmare because I do not think it will happen again and again. My opinion is just one of my expressions and I really believe that we can still persevere in this situation.

On February 27 and 28, the event titled ‘Second IP & Innovation Researchers of ASIA (IPIRA)’Conference and Workshop for IP Teachers and Researchers was held on the campus. On February 29, 2020, the event continued at the same venue, namely the Faculty of Law UI in Depok, West Java, Indonesia. In my opinion, this event is monumental and of high value as most of the participants are researchers from the field of law who are working on the topic of ‘Intellectual Property’. Yes, I am one of the participants.
Some participants discussed key concepts such as royalties, creators. Methodology of research. The participants were from different countries: Bangladesh, India, Australia, Singapore and others. Most of the Indonesian participants are lecturers, teachers or researchers and come from a campus in Indonesia.
At that time, Covid-19 was not the main topic in Indonesia as it is now. Therefore, the committee did not filter or scan the participants. The event ran smoothly and properly and continued to add value to science.

When the program ended in early March, there was information on TV or in the mainstream media about the positive and negative suspects, the deaths accelerated and suddenly increased. This, of course, has a disturbing effect on Indonesian citizens and on me in particular. I attended a conference where countries from all over the world and Indonesia itself were invited, and especially me.
In addition, the amazon (AWS) event on March 11, which was held at the Grand Hyat Hotel, was confirmed by the committee by mail phone with an email to me. Then the committee called me and told me that the event was canceled by the organizer due to the increasing Covid 19 cases.
Of course, I sympathize with the situation.

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