MANDATE ~ Advanced Debate Community

Maliki National Debate Tournament (MANDATE) is an annual event of Advanced Debate Community to open and widen the opportunity of all Islamic universities’ students in Indonesia to be able to compete each other in English debate. The first MANDATE was held in 2014 and it got good responses from the participants. As for its aim, the competition facilitates the students to practice and improve their debating skill which, for some of them, are still not good enough. Hopefully, after participating in the tournament, they will be inspired to develop both of their English and analytic skills. For those reasons, MANDATE is held annually and will be continued to keep the sense of competition in developing language skills in all Islamic universities of Indonesia.

MANDATE 2016 (Late Bird Registration):

Early bird Registration for MANDATE is now closed.
Late bird Registration for MANDATE is now open. See this guidelines for more information:

MANDATE (Maliki English National Debate Tournament) 2016.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

a. Participant is an active university student of PTAI in Indonesia.

b. Participants must be in the same university.

c. Participants who have sent the form cannot be substituted by other participants from other teams without confirmation a month before the competition date.

d. Participant, enrolled in the list but he/she could not come to the competition, will be disqualified.

e. Each team comprises 3 debaters and 1 adjudicator.

f. Participant coming late for 15 minutes in the competition, after being called for three times, will be disqualified.

g. Participant target is 40 teams (determined based on early bird registration).

h. Fill the registration form on here

i. Kindly send documents (Scan of the University Student card, scan of the bank registration) during registration phase, through email adc.uinmalang@gmail.com

j. Confirmation of sending documents to (Sofi: 085790899748).
Format SMS: University name [space] Group name [space].

k. Promoted team and payment transferring will be conducted on 20^th August- 4^th October 2016. After transferring the fee, please as soon as possible send the scan of the payment transfer and University student card through email adc.uinmalang@gmail.com

l. Promoted team must conduct payment transferring and send the documents required through email adc.uinmalang@gmail.com on 20^th August- 6^th September 2016 (Early Bird IDR 350.000) and 7^st September- 30^th September 2016 (Late Bird IDR 400.000).

m. Kindly send the registration fee to

a. Bank : BRI BTN

b. Account No : (7549-01-002491-53-5), (00114-01-61-005420-6)

c. On Behalf of : a.n. SITI SYOFYAH NUR KHOLILLAH

n. Motion Launch will be held on September 7^th , 2016

DEBATE REGULATION

Asian Parliamentary System

Teams:

There are two opposing teams in an Asians system of debate:

1. Government side whose duty is proposing and defending the motion;
2. Opposition side whose duty is refuting and negating the motion.

Each side comprises three members.

The Members of the government side are the following:

Prime Minister (PM)

- To open the debate, define the motion and advance arguments

Deputy Prime Minister (DPM)

- To refute at first instance the case of the opposition, re-establish the government’s claim, and advance arguments

Government Whip (GW)

- To make an issue-based rebuttal of the opposition’s case and summarize the case of the government.

The Members of the Opposition side are the following:

Leader of the Opposition (LO)

- To respond directly to the case of the government by giving a direct clash, and advance arguments. (May challenge the motion but not recommended)

Deputy Leader of the Opposition (DPL)

- To refute the case of the DPM, reestablished the case of the opposition, and advance an argument

Opposition Whip (OW)

- To make an issues-based rebuttal of the government’s and summarize the case of the opposition.

Time of Speeches:

Each speaker is allocated 7 minutes to deliver their constructive speeches. One speaker from each side (For the Government: PM/DPM, for Opposition: LO/DLO) is given 4 minutes to deliver a reply speech. The speakers will be speaking in the following order:

1. Prime Minister
2. Leader of the Opposition
3.Deputy Prime Minister
4.Deputy Leader of the Opposition
5.Government Whip
6. Opposition Whip
7. Opposition Reply
8. Government Reply

During the constructive speeches, Point of Information (POI) may emerge after the first minute up to the sixth minute. POI may be refused or accepted by the speaker. During reply speeches, no POI may be raised.

Reply Speech:

Reply speech is a comparative analysis of the strength and weaknesses of the case of both sides. The aim of the speech is to give a bias judgment as to why should the people support the team’s claim. The speech is first delivered by the opposition side and followed by the government side that will close the debate.

Previous MANDATE documentary:
MANDATE 2015