Fighting against Aridity: Diponegoro University’s Environmental Management towards a Green Campus

Abstract

Diponegoro University (Undip) is one of the state universities (PTN) in Indonesia which has experienced three changes in its financial management status, ranging from PTN Working Unit (1960) and PTN Public Service Agency (2008) to PTN Legal Entity. The status of PTN Legal Entity was legalized in 2015 and operated in 2017. The implementation of three pillars of higher education and institutional development have been confronted with funding factors and commitment from all components of higher education. The need of stakeholders for university graduates continuing to develop their competencies made this university moved its campus center to Tembalang. This move had a variety of environmental impacts both inside and outside the campus. Various efforts continued to be made by the university to overcome the environmental impacts. Undip’s participation in the green campus ranking based on GreenMetric World University Ranking since 2012 was an effort so that the university could find out the consistency of sustainable environmental management to maintain a sustainable environment for the benefits of the next generation. This paper focuses on the analysis of environmental management developed by Undip to realize a 'green campus'. The conclusion of this research underlines that Undip needed to optimize all efforts.