Topic: Protecting Workers' Rights in Developing Countries
Developed and developing countries such as the United States, European Union member nations, and China have become by far Africa’s biggest trading partner, exchanging about $160 billion-worth of goods a year. With this increase in trade, countries in Africa and Southeast Asia are experiencing record influxes of corporations from these countries. These transnational firms contract locals for their low cost of labor; however workers in these less developed countries are vulnerable. Workers are often minors, forced to work in unsanitary conditions, and often times not paid the promised amount due to the lack of worker’s rights and protections. The committee will seek to develop a standardized worker’s rights platforms to be adopted in countries that lack it and will emphasize practical solutions to protecting worker’s rights.
Chair - Seruni Fauzia Lestari
Seruni Fauzia Lestari is a final year student at Institut Teknologi Bandung majoring in Regional and City Planning with a keen interest in regional and peri-urban development. Seruni, believing that all planners should be aware of the affairs in and out of the country in which they plan for, has an eye for geopolitics and international diplomacy, thus her love and active engagement in Model United Nations (MUN). Growing up in Perth, Australia, she also believes that MUN conferences serve a way to exchange and share knowledge and even make lifelong friendships from all over the world. Throughout her MUN career, she has worked hard in breaking the paradigm that engineering students do not and should not have any affiliations with MUN and international affairs. Seruni has made her mark in Indonesian MUN in Southeast Asia Model United Nations 2015 as the Best Delegate in the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, Best Position Paper and Top 10 Best Delegates in MoestopoMUN 2015, and was also a part of the ITB International Delegation for Asia-Pacific Model United Nations Conference (AMUNC) 2015. Seruni is honoured to currently be the Secretary General of Ganesha Model United Nations Club (GMUNC) 2015/2016. She hopes that through ITBMUN 2016, for ITB students in particular, delegates can realize how important it is to understand what is happening within and outside of their surroundings and how much impact the youth can make through engaging in MUN and diplomacy. Though aside from her affiliations with MUN, she’s a fan of the infamous TV series Game of Thrones and Sherlock Holmes.
Email : seruni.fauzia@gmail.com
Chair - Satria Mahesya Muhammad
Satria is a junior undergraduate student at Universitas Padjadjaran majoring in international relations. Growing up in Australia has made Satria curious on how states can make relations with each other. This curiosity is one of the reasons why Satria choose international relations as his major and also why he intends to develop his MUN career. He has participated in several international and local MUN conferences during his university life, both as a delegate and as part of a board of dais. During 2015, he was selected to be one of the representatives of Universitas Padjadjaran for Harvard World Model United Nations in Seoul, South Korea. He has also participated in the Multistage Negotiation Simulation organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia in which he participated in practicing real life negotiations with senior diplomats and several university students. Currently, he is the secretary general for the MUN club of IR Unpad. Besides MUN and university life, he has a passion for playing the guitar and also, like many boys his age, loves to play video games. One of his favourite video game series that he adores to play is the Fallout series, in which he is currently completing Fallout 4. Satria is looking forward in meeting all the delegates during ITB MUN.
Email : muhammadsatria96@gmail.com
Chair - Muhammad Radhiyan Pasopati
Now he is a student of Political Science in the University of Indonesia. He went for another exchange, to Colombia in the early months of year 2015 for AIESEC Global Youth Ambassador Program (GYAP). He is actively involved in organizations, currently he is the Vice-President of Academics in Indonesian Students Association for Political Science (ISAPS) of University of Indonesia chapter before having awarded as the Best Staff of the Social and Political Studies Department of the Political Science Student Union of University of Indonesia (HMIP UI). He is and also an outreaching delegate of Model United Nations, winning a Best Delegate award in Historical Crisis UNSC of The European International Model United Nations (TEIMUN) 2015 in The Hague, Netherlands. He also won several more awards in Model United Nations, such as the Outstanding Delegate and Best Position Paper in UNSC of the Singapore Model United Nations (SMUN) 2016, Best Delegate award in Historical UNSC of the Jogjakarta International Model United Nations (JOINMUN) 2015, Best Delegate award in SOCHUM of the Southeast Asian Model United Nations (SEAMUN) 2015. He is also part of the Universitas Indonesia’s team to Harvard World Model United Nations 2016, held in the city of Rome. Aside of being an aspiring delegate, he has chaired in several MUNs, including international MUN conferences. He was the Chairperson of UNHCR of the Chittagong Summit MUN (CSMUN), Bangladesh, 2015, vice-chairperson for ECOSOC in Bandung MUN 2015, and International Olympics Committee in Indonesia MUN 2015. He aspires to be a filmmaker and policymaker. He keeps his passion on history, politics, military, defense, and intelligence studies recharged every day. He spent most of his time reading non-fictions. And he would eagerly go to every MUN conferences to meet other people with brilliant ideas. For sure, he cannot wait to see you, Delegates, in ITBMUN 2016!
