Permias
Encyclopedia
PERMIAS is an organization that unites Indonesia
n college students in the United States
. The organization was founded in 24 December 1961 in Washington, D.C.
. PERMIAS is an Indonesian
acronym for Persatuan Mahasiswa Indonesia di Amerika Serikat. Translated into English
, it means "Organization of the Indonesian Students in the United States". The group organizes many annual events and competitions for Indonesian students in the US.
Sometimes Permias is also called ISA, which stands for Indonesian Student Association (equivalent to PPI - Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia - which is the organization that unites Indonesian college students in other countries such as in the United Kingdom). The difference usually is that ISA only accepting members from certain institute / university, whereas Permias is more loosely accepting members from schools within the region - and sometimes even non-students like alumni.
Every Permias stand for itself and rarely have any ties with other Permias other than for sports events. In some cases, Permias from neighboring states in the U.S. such as in Washington state and Oregon
state get together to strengthen the ties between two local Permias.
There is no exact data on how many Permias / ISA are in U.S., as there is no annual meeting between local organizations' officers nor the like. Some of them have their own student-maintained websites, some used to have one, and some don't have the manpower to create one.
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n college students in the United States
United States
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. The organization was founded in 24 December 1961 in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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. PERMIAS is an Indonesian
Indonesian language
Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia. Indonesian is a normative form of the Riau Islands dialect of Malay, an Austronesian language which has been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries....
acronym for Persatuan Mahasiswa Indonesia di Amerika Serikat. Translated into English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, it means "Organization of the Indonesian Students in the United States". The group organizes many annual events and competitions for Indonesian students in the US.
Sometimes Permias is also called ISA, which stands for Indonesian Student Association (equivalent to PPI - Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia - which is the organization that unites Indonesian college students in other countries such as in the United Kingdom). The difference usually is that ISA only accepting members from certain institute / university, whereas Permias is more loosely accepting members from schools within the region - and sometimes even non-students like alumni.
Every Permias stand for itself and rarely have any ties with other Permias other than for sports events. In some cases, Permias from neighboring states in the U.S. such as in Washington state and Oregon
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...
state get together to strengthen the ties between two local Permias.
There is no exact data on how many Permias / ISA are in U.S., as there is no annual meeting between local organizations' officers nor the like. Some of them have their own student-maintained websites, some used to have one, and some don't have the manpower to create one.
External links
- PERMIAS San Francisco Bay Area
- PERMIAS Minnesota-Twin CIties Official website, Permias Washington D.C. - broken
- Permias Tucson - University of Arizona
- Permias Greater Lansing - Michigan State University
- Permias Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge website
- Permias Los Angeles website
- Permias Columbus - Ohio website
- Permias Virginia Tech website
- Permias Massachusetts
- Permias Oregon State University
- Permias Ames
- Permias Buffalo
- Permias Michigan Ann Arbor & Ypsilanti
- Permias Texas A&M University (TAMU)(College Station, Texas)
- A somewhat complete list of available Permias sites in the USA, many of them are broken links (strikethrough links), compiled by the Indonesian Student Club in Urbana-Champaign