President Jokowi Wants to Study eSports in Indonesia

The future of the eSports world is quite bright, making the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo want vocational education to be more varied, one of which is holding an eSports department in Indonesia. Because according to him, the current department or vocational education is too monotonous and very minimal changes so that he can’t talk too much in the international world because he doesn’t have big significant changes.

“I always say to the Minister of Research and Technology, the Chancellor when we meet that we should not focus on economics, law, social and political departments. I ask to build the department that is needed at this time, “

“Why don’t we make a megatronics department, a logistics department, a retail department, an animation department, or even an e-sports department,”

This expression is very reasonable, because today the world is constantly changing and many things that used to be unimportant things that are not even seen as having a bright future, have now become very influential. This means that education does not only have to be that, economic, legal, socio-political, or technical.

The bright future of esports in Indonesia at this time has also made many young people who are involved in esports, is it time for esports in Indonesia to develop even more rapidly?

The world of eSports, for example, is currently one of the most talked about at this time, where game play has evolved and developed into a type of sport where there are teams that compete in one tournament and generate revenues of up to billions of rupiah for those who can win an event. international tournament.

Even at the international level, there are already several big universities that have made eSports one of their education majors, such as Chung Ang University, South Korea, E-Sport is included in the Bachelor of Science in Gaming Industry program. And most recently, North Texas University, which even invested up to US$200,000 or around Rp. 2.6M to build an eSports facility on campus called “Nest”

The University of North Texas is well aware that eSports is now rapidly developing into a large commodity that is very worthy to invest in and has a very bright future. This is why the University of North Texas is really serious about working on “Nest” which costs up to US$200,000 or Rp. 2.6M located in the campus Media library in Denton, Texas.

The seriousness of the University of North Texas is shown from the very fast work and has been opened on August 30 yesterday which coincided with the start of the new school year 2021-2021.

The Nest itself was made possible by the perfect collaboration between the University Media Library, the Sports Department and the Student Services Center. The practice area called “Nest” itself will be the headquarters of the University of North Texas gaming club called UNT Gaming and Esports and in this facility itself has 15 PC gaming rigs that have standard specifications for international tournament events and have popular games today and also focus on Virtual Reality.

The Nest itself was founded because of intense competition at many major universities in America in recent years, where they have eSports competitions between universities such as League of Legends, Heroes of The Storms, CS:GO, Vainglory and many more.

The future of eSports, which is very bright in the world today, will it spread to Indonesia by starting to promote eSports in Indonesia since I was still in college? Wait for the latest news only in the Game News

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