Foreign students of SEA-Teacher study the culture of Madiun through UNIPMA City Tour 

This year the PGRI Madiun University (UNIPMA) participated in the SEA-Teacher program batch 6 and SEA-TVET batch 2. On this occasion, UNIPMA collaborated with the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) accommodate 4 students participating in the SEA-Teacher batch 6 program those from the Philippines and Thailand. The four foreign students have been in Madiun since Tuesday, August 7th 2018. On the fifth day, Saturday, August 11th, 2018, foreign students, buddy, BIPA, INPROVE and I-COME conducted UNIPMA City Tour activities to several places in Madiun City . Some of the places visited include Kuncen Mosque, Kawak Market, TTID Hwie Ing Koeng, Pure Batik, Banjarejo Roast Chicken, and the last one is Bluder Cokro.

The first destination of the City Tour is Kuncen Mosque. In Kuncen Mosque, they can enjoy the beauty of mosque architecture that is maintained despite the age of the building which is quite old. Next to the mosque, there is an ancient tomb where the previous Madiun Regents rested. After visiting the ancient tomb, the second place they visited was Kawak Market. At Kawak Market, all four foreign students have new experiences, a traditional market atmosphere and several other things they have never met in their country. The next goal is TTID Hwie Ing Kiong. In this place, they can enjoy buildings with typical Chinese architecture, where on this occasion, students from Thailand took time to worship. After that, Pure Batik is the next destination. Detailed information was presented by the Madiun batik pioneers and they had the opportunity to try to paint batik. After quite tired of painting batik and taking pictures, the group headed to Banjarejo Roast Chicken to enjoy the place's mainstay dish of grilled chicken and take a break. After full lunch, they headed to Bluder Cokro. First of all, they were presented with information about the history of Bluder Cokro, then got the opportunity to see the process of making Bluder Cokro. At the end of the activity, they bought several products from Bluder Cokro.