Permias

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PERMIAS is an organization that unites Indonesian college students in the United States. The organization was founded in 24 December 1961 in Washington, D.C.. PERMIAS is an Indonesian acronym for Persatuan Mahasiswa Indonesia di Amerika Serikat. Translated into English, it means "Organization of the Indonesian Students in the United States". The group organizes many annual events and competitions for Indonesian students in the US.

Sometimes Permias is also called ISA, which stands for Indonesian Student Association (equivalent to PPI[1] - Persatuan Pelajar Indonesia - which is the organization that unites Indonesian college students in other countries such as in the United Kingdom). The difference usually is that ISA only accepting members from certain institute / university, whereas Permias is more loosely accepting members from schools within the region - and sometimes even non-students like alumni.

Every Permias stand for itself and rarely have any ties with other Permias other than for sports events. In some cases, Permias from neighboring states in the U.S. such as in Washington state and Oregon state get together to strengthen the ties between two local Permias.

There is no exact data on how many Permias / ISA are in U.S., as there is no annual meeting between local organizations' officers nor the like. Some of them have their own student-maintained websites, some used to have one, and some don't have the manpower to create one.

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  1. ^ PPI in the United Kingdom

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