YVDMI/VDMS Half-year Meeting

by Dian Widyawati (Secretary of YVDMI)

Yayasan Van Deventer-Maas Indonesia (YDMI) and Van Deventer-Maas Stichting hold a Halfyear Joint Meeting 2025 (hybrid meeting) on July 19, 2025 at Yogyakarta Marriott Hotel. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ar. Ir. Ilya Fadjar Maharika, MA., I.A.I. (Pembina of YVDMI) and Ute Jansen (Chairperson of VDMS) open the meeting with their speeches.

Pariasih Manoto (The Head of Executive-YVDMI) reports the VDMI activities in the period of January up to June 2025: Office Activities (includes the increase of 2025/2026 VDMI Scholarship applicants; and the handing over of PHP IT Re-Write SAS project), Online Capacity Building, Offline Capacity Building, Alumni Project “Women Empowerment” in Soe, Timor Tengah Selatan, and the next activities in the period of July up to December 2025. Imbung Nurwanto (Treasurer-YVDMI) reports the realization up to June 2025 is 42,59% from the budget plan 2025. He also says, in 2026 the YVDMI internal audit will be conducted by the new Auditor (Certified Public Accountant). On the VDMS side, Ivo Ten Pierick (Treasurer-VDMS) gives an update that according to the current asset base, VDMS is still in a comfort to continue their strategic plans to support YVDMI activities in Indonesia now and in the future.

Ningrum Natasya Sirait (The Oversight Member-YVDMI), reports the supervision on scholarship, on capacity building programs/projects, and on institutional and finance. Suggestion on how to deal with the scholarship applicants increasement will be discussed after seeing the 2026/2027 scholarship registration. 

In conclusion, all the YVDMI reports are accepted and the meeting participants agree to meet again in the 2025 Annual Joint Meeting on January 31, 2026.