MUHAMMADIYAH.ID, YOGYAKARTA – Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah higher education institutions (PTMA) have gone hand in and to support resilience of their university members, Muhammadiyah autonomous organizations, and public during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Muhammadiyah COVID-19 Command Center (MCCC) reported that, until 28 April 2020, the Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah higher education institutions has donated 78,690,771,596 rupiahs to a COVID-19 countermeasure.

Secretary of Majlis of Higher Education, Research, and Development of Muhammadiyah Muhammad Sayuti explained that the amount of money was utilized for tuition waivers of 36,400,000,000 rupiahs for 36,390 students and online learning subsidies of 27,320,930,000 rupiahs for 174,509 students since classes are only conducted online due to government’s regulation on physical distancing.

“The 36 million rupiahs were provided by Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang that each student got one million rupiah of a tuition waiver,” informed Sayuti.

In detail, the tuition waivers were for students who took classes in even semester of 2019/2020 and odd semester of 2020/2021. It was 500 thousand rupiahs per semester.

Meanwhile, the online learning subsidies were offered by Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Universitas Aisyiyah (Unisa) Yogyalarta, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) Yogyakarta, and Universitas Muhammadiyah (UM) Magelang.

UMY gave students a subsidy of 150,000 rupiahs each month from March to May 2020, Unisa reduced 250,000 rupiahs of a tuition fee in this odd semester, UAD alleviated 200,000 rupiahs of a tuition fee, and UM Magelang cut 150,000 rupiahs of a registration fee of the odd semester of 2020/2021.

Besides, the Muhummadiyah and Aisyiyah institutions contributed 8,4 billion rupiahs for health services in Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah hospitals, 1,491,800,000 rupiahs for food of suhoor and breakfasting, and 1,448,718,000 rupiahs for personal protective equipment (PPE).

Sayuti mentioned multifaceted activities to confront the COVID-19 outbreak as designing materials to promote COVID-19 prevention; providing portable sinks; making, distributing, and spraying disinfectant; giving disinfectant spray; sharing food to orphans and underprivileged people; offering aids for teachers and staff of Muhammadiyah charity and services; creating a website to provide information of the COVID-19; coining decontamination booths; providing scholarships for students, serving a call center; conducting online discussions; and offering aids for Indonesians who live overseas.

Here is a list of 32 Muhammadiyah and Aisyiyah higher education institutions: