I went to this event together with five other delegations from BEM KMFA UGM. Since I was not the official delegates from my association, I didn’t join the regional meeting but I joined lots of workshop based on my choices instead. The theme of workshop in each class was interesting and important for our future career as a pharmacist. We made an exciting discussion and sometimes some fascinating posters in a group consist of participant from the different countries. It was the moment where we could spread and share knowledge about pharmaceutical problems, condition, regulation, and future hopes in some countries so that we could have a talk and act for the best solution. The symposium also well-arranged and became an inspirational moment. The speakers were all the great people in their field who shared the motivation for us, the future pharmacist that the world is waiting for.

When it comes to the poster session, it was a great opportunity for me to be one of the representations from my country in this event. It was an honor to present my research result about a plant found in Indonesia called Secang (Caesalpinia sappan L.) as DNA damage protection and to have ‘secang-tea’ party with some friends after the presentation. Then I was brought to a joyful when I was awarded 3rd best speaker in this poster session. That was one of the extraordinary experience I got in APPS Japan.

But the best of all, APPS Japan was the place where the new friendships were built. It was the time to expand the networking, and to understand each other. We could know more about the living, the lifestyle, the culture, and even the food from our friends’ country. We had a very good time in the health campaign. A big group of participants were burst to the streets in Tokyo and gave the positive health warning directly to the society. It was very fun when all the participant had to give the health warning in Japanese language :D