Reviving the School's Competition: Behind Forschamp 2026

Credit: Pubdok Forschamp 26

When Zahra Anggraini joined the committee of Forschamp, the Forty Seven Championship, in 2025, she was a grade-11 student on the Public Relations team. A year later, she put her own name up for the hardest job in the room: project officer of the next edition, Forschamp 2026. Asked whether the jump was nerve-wracking, she did not pretend otherwise. "Yes, very nervous," Zahra admitted. What pushed her past the nerves was the wish to keep the event going, to see a third Forschamp happen at all.

Forschamp is an annual sports and arts competition run by the students of SMAN 47 Jakarta, a state senior high school south of the capital. This year, Twibbonize partnered with the committee through the Partnership Program, which supports the platform's key users in their own events and campaigns.

A tradition worth reviving

That word, "continuation," hides a small but important detail. Forschamp is an attempt to revive a school competition that COVID-19 had put on pause. Two years without face-to-face activity had opened a gap between the classes who entered before quarantine and those who came after, and by the time students tried to bring it back, there was little left to continue. "We could find very little online traces about the early years of Forschamp, so 2024 was the first time this event happened again," Zahra said.

Sukma Pieters, the school's music teacher and this year's head supervisor, has watched what an event like this does for students. The skills of organizing, communicating, and solving problems, he said, do not always surface in a classroom. Organizing an event calls for exactly those skills, in the unglamorous, unseen work: documentation, budgeting, and chasing permits. "Those will be useful not only here at school, but outside too," he said.

He is also frank about the harder part of a revival. Both the committee and the supervisor rotate every year, and Sukma, supervising for the first time himself, has seen how that turnover lets old mistakes creep back when the lessons of one edition never reach the next. He treats fixing that as his own homework, to hand things over well enough that next year's team builds on this one instead of relearning it from scratch.

Over its two revived years, Forschamp kept adjusting. In 2024 the committee opened the competition to junior high schoolers too, a soft way of marketing the school to future applicants. But when Zahra's committee saw junior-high registrations fall, they made the call to drop that branch and pour their resources into the high-school competitions instead.

Over a hundred joined hands

Scale was the year's real test. The committee consisted of 169 students across 14 divisions. "The new experience was how to coordinate with so many people," Zahra said. They had restructured the divisions from the year before, sizing each one to its actual workload. So a headcount that looked like overpopulation was, in her view, exactly what the event required.

They tightened the schedule too. The previous edition's four weeks had left everyone exhausted, so 2026 was compressed into two weeks, three days at a time, from Friday afternoons through the weekends. Preparation itself had begun back in November 2025, unhurried at first, then frantic in the final month, Zahra admitted with a chuckle.

Sukma noticed the difference. "This year's committee is really good. Their work is neat," he said, admitting he sometimes felt almost jobless as their supervisor, asking for a report only to find it already done. What he valued most was that they spoke up. "In an organization, you just have to be brave enough to communicate," he said, "and that is what I needed from them." He had braced for a heavier year but found himself mostly clearing the way and giving approvals. "They want to bring in this many people, and I just support it," he said.

Where Twibbonize came in

The partnership reached the committee through its public relations division, where Twibbonize had offered to collaborate. A school event is one of the settings where the platform is regularly used, and Forschamp came onto our radar as one of the prominent ones held in August.

It turns out the partnership sheds light on a temporary community the students were establishing for the event, one that ran on everyone showing up and pulling their weight. Even so, a 169-person committee was not 169 free hands; each member was assigned to a narrow task, and the creative division, for example, was only about a dozen people, split across Instagram feeds, banners, backdrops, and templates. And each of them was also a student with lessons to sit through. "Even though there were a lot of people, there was also a lot to do," Zahra said, "so we were really helped with making the Twibbon." This is where Twibbonize came in. Our collaboration took the form of a video Twibbon: the grand design came from Forschamp, and Twibbonize executed the rest.

The help did not stop at the design. Twibbonize amplified the event before, during, and after, gave Forschamp a spot on its own social channels, and opened ad space for the committee's sponsors on the Twibbon. "It was more than we expected," Zahra commented. She had assumed a participant frame would be the whole of it.

Instead, Twibbonize prepared not just one Twibbon, but one for each school that reached the semifinals and finals (check out the ones for basketball and futsal). They all feature an animated version of Forschamp's official mascot, a monkey called Monchamp. And with room to provide more information, given a longer clip, we also feature the event's sponsors and partners. Anyone can use it just by clicking a link.

The Twibbon turned into a small requirement and a small joy. What we campaigned for was the event itself, Forschamp. The Twibbon was just one supporting piece of the wider festivity. Participants were asked to upload it, a way of carrying the event onto their own feeds, and the committee found the process simple: tap the link, add a photo, download, caption already written.

How this matters to the students

The day we visited, we saw the committee helped guests and participants without ever losing the easy chatter and laughter around them. This year Forschamp drew over 30 schools across futsal, basketball, Mobile Legends, modern dance, and band, and Zahra counted the wins readily: a new futsal bracket, more partners and sponsors, and simply a better time than the year before. The stress had not vanished. It was just outweighed.

For Zahra, in her final year of high school, the reward was the people. Meeting 169 of them "was not on my 2026 bingo list," she said, and it became one of the fonder memories she will carry out of SMAN 47. Watching her committee enjoy themselves, she said, made her forget her own exhaustion. By the time the event was actually running, she added, no one bothered to track who was internal to the OSIS-MPK councils and who had signed up as a volunteer, the group officially called the external committee. Ultimately, they were all equally tired, and equally in it.

That closeness is the part they tried to keep. Alongside the official Forschamp account, which carries the pre-planned posts of the competitions, the committee ran a second, scrappier one, @ceritadibalik.fc, roughly "the story behind FC (Forschamp)". The Instagram page is filled with behind-the-scenes moments, the silly ones and the small but important ones, the hours of effort that never surface in an official recap. "We made it so the memories won't disappear," Zahra said. So many people put their work into this without being seen, she reasoned, and this gave them somewhere to look back on when they missed it.

Forschamp may not yet be the biggest high-school event in Jakarta, but running it is no small thing. Much of the work goes unnoticed, and though the event is temporary, it equips them with the skills they will need once their school days are behind them: the art and nerve to show up for one another. The work culminates in cooperation, and that makes the weight worth carrying again next year. Their willingness, as much as any trophy, is what they were reviving.