BACKGROUND AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES: As a member of AUN/ASEAN University Network, it is recommended for members of AUN to implement health promoting universities/HPU. The Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) started the HPU in 2019. After initiating HPU, UGM collaborated with the Directorate of Health Promotion, The Ministry of Health (DHP-MOH), to encourage other universities in Indonesia to develop HPU in 2019, 2020 and 2021. One activity of HPU is zero tolerance on tobacco. Advocating the campus to be a smoke free area was not simple, since tobacco control in Indonesia has not widely applied.
INTERVENTION OR RESPONSE: Collaboration with the DHP-MOH, UGM and a few big universities developed HPU in more than 50 universities in Indonesia. There were 3 strategies; system and infrastructure, health promotion area and zero tolerance area including tobacco. We started to develop HPU by a series of workshops, seminars, lobbying and advocacy.
RESULTS AND IMPACT: The initiation of HPU was started with agreement among 23 universities and 34 health Polytechnique in 2019. Smoke free campus is one of the main activities in HPU. Several universities did advocacy to the board of universities. The development of HPU continued during the pandemic and we developed a healthy campus alert COVID-19 guidance book. The book was launched to > 200 participants from > 100 universities from all over Indonesia through 2 webinars. When the pandemic ended, in 2021 the collaboration between the DHP MOH and 5 big universities continued. The collaboration assisted 23 other universities to apply to HPU. Most universities that apply to HPU become smoke free campuses
CONCLUSIONS: Implementation of HPU gave an opportunity to the campus for applying for a smoke free area, although advocacy should be added. Universities that have implemented HPU can encourage other universities to develop HPU and make the university become a smoke free campus.