Telkom University through the Open Library held a book review activity ‘Discuss the Integrity of My Nation’s Reading’. This activity was held on Wednesday (23/2) online through ZOOM Meeting and broadcast live on Telkom University YouTube.
This activity examines the book entitled ‘Integrity of my Nation: Past, Present and Later’ by Dedi Mahardi, The Best National Innovator in Technology and Author of Best Seller Books and the Main Book of the Indonesian KPK. This activity was held as an effort to build and develop the integrity character of the Telkom University Academic Community
Rector of Telkom University, Prof. Dr. Adiwijaya explained that Telkom University has cultural values ??of Harmony, Excellence and Integrity, so that integrity is an inherent value at Telkom University.
“Integrity is a very crucial issue. We can understand what integrity means, the foundation of integrity, the perspective of past and present integrity so that it can be used as a basis for integrity in the future. I believe that when friends read this integrity book, it can be used as a guide for how we implement integrity in our daily lives and understand how we live life, achieving success with integrity for a better Indonesian nation.”
Dedi Mahardi, as the author of the book, said that integrity is a reflection of the attitude and determination to dare to act within the framework of essential truth values. Integrity is a national culture that is currently declining.
“Integrity consists of the pillars of faith, self-capacity and environment. Integrity cannot grow if you don’t have these three pillars,” he explained.
Dedi also added that the quality of human resources is important for the progress of this nation. Faith is the main foundation in building the value of integrity in a person.
“A person is said to be a believer when in himself he has confidence in the existence of God, the existence of the hereafter, who sows will reap, noble comes from attitude and deeds, happiness is not from wealth or throne.”
All worship has the wisdom of honesty, closeness to God and can prevent evil deeds. In addition to faith from within, another thing that is no less important is the capacity to act or solve problems. It can be formed from a good environment.
Anything outside the self can affect a person’s integrity. There are several things that exist in the environment to form integrity, namely the legal system, political system, culture or lifestyle, role models, leadership and national personality.
“My message is, be a young generation who has the value of integrity to be able to compete in the era of globalization. Believe that something good will produce good things too. Life will be noble if we are honest, as much as possible we are consistent with ourselves, apply integrity in every element of life. Let us become individuals of character and integrity for the sake of a better Indonesian nation.”