The CILEM Mission: A Behind-the-Scenes Chronicle of GET Team’s Logistical Execution
Cirebon, July 3 2025 — As the official launch of the Center for Islamic Law and Ethics of Mubadalah (CILEM) draws nearer, the atmosphere inside the International Office of UIN Siber Syekh Nurjati Cirebon grows increasingly dynamic. Under the strategic direction of Lala Bumela, Ph.D., Director of the International Office, the Global Engagement Team (GET) has mobilized its full capacities in a rapid-response framework to support the multifaceted demands of the upcoming international event. While CILEM functions as a separate institutional entity, its collaboration with the International Office on this launch illustrates the university’s broader commitment to global academic diplomacy. Among the tasks undertaken are intensive preparation of administrative documents, visual content development, and coordination with various stakeholders. “Operational precision,” Lala Bumela, Ph.D. stated, “is not merely a managerial virtue—it is an epistemic discipline. Our ability to structure knowledge exchange depends on the systems we build to support them.”
To translate this philosophy into operational terms, the GET team has been entrusted with drafting and finalizing a full spectrum of logistical documents essential for the launch. This includes documents such as Payment Requests, Advance Requests, Accommodation and Transport Recapitulations, Consumption Lists, Statement Letters for Honorarium and Travel, CVs and TORs for speakers, and the formulation of the Official Decree (SK). Each form is more than a bureaucratic formality—it is a node in a tightly woven procedural network that ensures legitimacy, transparency, and coherence in trans-institutional academic collaboration. The GET team’s attentiveness to procedural formatting, signature protocols, and submission deadlines reflects a maturing culture of academic professionalism nurtured through experiential immersion.
In parallel, the team is also engaged in the aesthetic and strategic production of digital promotional materials. These include Instagram feeds, video loops, key visual posters, speaker quotes, captioning frameworks, and press release drafts. Rather than viewing visual media as secondary to the event, the GET team approaches it as an epistemological interface—where ideas meet audiences through crafted visuals. “Visual content is a literacy,” remarked Indra Maulana Arfan Ajiz, one GET member during a feedback session. “Our goal is not simply to announce, but to narrate—visually, cognitively, and culturally.” This insight is echoed by the leadership of the International Office, which emphasizes that digital aesthetics must reflect not just professionalism, but also the values of the institution and the spirit of international discourse.
Such preparatory work also entails institutional-level insight into the design of academic events. Each decision—from who signs a letter to where a looped video begins—is part of a broader architecture of meaning-making. “You are not simply executing tasks,” Lala Bumela, Ph.D. explained in a briefing. “You are building cognitive trust. Every administrative gesture, every visual unit, every logistical step communicates how seriously we take our presence on the global academic stage.” This reframing of logistics as epistemic labor not only dignifies the roles of the student team but also repositions logistical work as central to academic production and international engagement.
In this context, the GET team’s involvement represents an emerging model of praxis-based learning, where administrative, visual, and diplomatic literacies intersect. Their immersion in document structuring, narrative construction, and stakeholder coordination offers an invaluable apprenticeship in the architecture of international academic events. The CILEM launch is not merely a destination—it is a learning scaffold. As such, the project becomes an academic site in itself: one where global education is not only discussed but lived through the very processes that make such dialogues possible.
“The competencies required to sustain global academic collaboration are not acquired overnight,” Lala Bumela, Ph.D. concluded. “They are cultivated—through systems, mentorship, and a deep respect for structure. What the GET team is demonstrating here is not just support—it is the formation of institutional capacity for the long term.” With the CILEM launch imminent, the infrastructure being built behind the scenes is already contributing to the transformation of the university’s global posture—one file, one caption, one timeline at a time.
Author: Muhammad Azkiya Bahtsulkhoir