The team of Accounting students from STIE Perbanas Surabaya won 3rd place in the Debate Competition for University (Decofu) event on Saturday, June 29, 2019. The national event organized by the Darma Cendikia Catholic University Surabaya, was attended by dozens of teams from various public and private universities in Indonesia. The STIE Perbanas Surabaya student team was named Reza Agus Rivandi, Putri Agustina, and Cornelia Oribel.

Contacted to win the champion, Putri Agustina admitted that she was quite happy to be able to achieve this achievement. Putri said that the regulations set this year are different from the previous year. This has an impact when the performance has to change its pattern during the debate.

"Yes, because the rules are different. We are the speaker business Reza, me, Oribel. Dan Reza as the conclusion speaker. But from the TM (Technical Meeting, -red) info yesterday, speaker 1 should not be the conclusion speaker. So, the order was changed suddenly, "he explained.

The woman born in Pacitan admitted that she was pessimistic when the competition took place. However, during the debate, they impressed when they received a motion on the Implementation of the PPDB zoning system and when the educational infrastructure was not evenly distributed. "When we accumulated, our scores from all participants before entering the final we got second place," he added.

After achieving this achievement, Putri hopes that her team will be more compact in the future. In fact, his party also had the opportunity to participate in the competition next year with the hope of reclaiming first place. "And hopefully our quality will improve so that we can often win competitions to bring the good name of STIE Perbanas Surabaya," he hoped. (public relations)