Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang

Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang is one of art institutes that tries to seek, build, and develop the art and culture of Indonesia Archipelago. These can be achieved by graduating qualified graduates that have competency in art and culture. Qualified graduates of Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang are intellectual artists and humanists that have global insight based on aesthetics, ethics, and logic.

Expected orientation is the fulfillment of stakeholders’ needs that includes professional needs, social needs, industrial needs, and scientificvision needs. It corresponds to Law number 20 year 2003 about the system of national education. This law states that education is a mindful and planned effort to actualize the conducive atmosphere of study and conducive process of learning so the students can actively develop their potencies to have spiritual power, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and skill required by themselves, society, nation, and country. And to accommodate the needs of stakeholders and the goal of national education system, Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang has two faculties comprised of nine departments.

Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang as an art institute has specific vision and mission. The vision of Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang is “Actualizing the victorious artists and scientists of Malay art and culture” while the missions of Indonesia Art Instute of Padangpanjang are 1) Organizing the education of art with upholding the basic values of Malay culture; 2) Establishing the center of art study and creativity that has scholarly and professional principles and is sensitive and responsive toward changes with upholding the morality of nation; 3) Establishing and developing the accountable information center of nation’s art and culture; 4) Empowering the potential of institute for the glories of ourselves, institute, nation, and state.

Nowadays, art is very close to people. Moreover, it has become one of people’s needs. The need for art has become something crucial in people’s daily life similar to other needs. People enjoy various kinds of art started from simple art until luxurious art, traditional art until modern one whether they are enjoyed through live performance and live exhibition or recorded performance and printed exhibition. These kinds of art require talented and creative artist to create and perform them. And it is clearly a good chance for artists especially the graduates of Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang to show and perform their abilities to people and society.

Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang is in the process of developing its campus by building the second campus and adding several new faculties and departments, so in the future Indonesia Art Institute of Padangpanjang will be equal with other universities in Indonesia.

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