Yogyakarta, April 26th 2022─Gadjah Mada University’s Faculty of Social and Political Science (Fisipol) held a “Discussion and Fast Breaking Together” for six days starting from 18 April to 26 April 2022. The event was held in Fisipol UGM Mandiri Auditorium Room and invited several lecturers and the deanship in the department with different schedules every day. Before entering the main event which is to break the fast together, a new learning platform named FOCUS is discussed.

Fisipol Online Courses (FOCUS) is an online learning media that was formed with the objective of providing class access for students with an output in the form of scoring students’ performance. Students can directly choose from the options of courses and follow a series of materials in their entirety. In the Spring Semester of 2022, several courses and other activities organized by departments and units at Fisipol UGM have been tested on the FOCUS platform. read more

Yogyakarta, April 24th 2022─Career Development Center (CDC) of FISIPOL UGM held a workshop entitled “Process Feeling with Journaling” on Sunday (24/4). The event, which took place through the Zoom platform, invited two speakers in the field of clinical psychologists, namely Ranisa Kautsar Tristi from the Bureau of Dynamic Psychology and Zahwa Islami from the Faculty of Psychology of UGM.

This opportunity discusses one form of writing in journaling activities, namely expressive writing. Expressive writing, also known as free writing, is writing whatever comes to mind without any restrictions and no need to edit. By pouring our feelings, ideas, or thoughts into writing, we can help recover from things we have experienced, either traumatic or unpleasant. read more

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Yogyakarta, April 18th 2022─The Department of Sociology, Social and Political Sciences UGM in collaboration with the Department of Women’s Empowerment, Child Protection and Population Control DIY held the Second Series of Public Lectures on Women’s Leadership and Social Transformation on Monday (18/4). This online activity via Zoom raised the topic of “Women’s Leadership in the Public and Private Sector”. The speaker that was invited on this occasion was Safira Rosa Machrusah as the Indonesian Ambassador to Algeria and Elvira Lianita as the External Affairs Director of PT HM Sampoerna Tbk. read more

Yogyakarta, April 12th 2022─The Department of Social Development and Welfare (PSdK) of FISIPOL UGM held an online 2022 Masters Symposium on 11-12 April 2022. In the third session of the symposium, a lecturer of the Department of Social Development and Welfare, Nurhadi, became the moderator who guided the discussion with keynote speaker Kelly Hall from the University of Birmingham, England.

Kelly explained the general description and results of his research on social enterprises in the UK in a discussion entitled “Social Enterprise: An Organisational Model to Promote Health and Social Care”. According to Kelly, a social enterprise is a company that carries out business activities to address social problems and improve and empower communities, living standards, and the environment. He added that social mission plays an important role in running a social enterprise. However, Kelly emphasised that social enterprises are different from charitable organisations which only carry out their activities through donations. read more

Yogyakarta, April 8th 2022─The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), held a discussion and review of the book “In Search of New Social Democracy”. Professor Olle Tornquist from the University of Oslo, the author of the book, discussed his work with two speakers, namely Amalinda Savirani (lecturer of the Department of Politics and Government/DPP or PolGov) and Muhammad Najib Azea (lecturer of the Department of Sociology or SOREC), as well as several audiences who were the Fisipol UGM doctoral student at the Digital Library of Fisipol UGM. read more

Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─A student from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) UGM made achievements in the “Pupuk Indonesia Fertinnovation Challenge 2021” competition organized by PT Pupuk Indonesia in collaboration with State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) on August 20th to December 20th, 2021. Saffanatul Afifah, a 2018 student from the Department of Public Policy Management, won third place in the Innovation in Agricultural Value Chain competition category.

“As a social and humanities student who doesn’t know anything about agriculture and only has anxiety about issues that surround us, being able to win is a great achievement in my opinion with existing limitations, and I am grateful to be given the opportunity to continue to learn with all the insights I can get,” Saffana said. read more

Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─Emma Millania Kartini, a student of Gadjah Mada University Communication Studies, is back with a trophy from the “Invitation of Net Game Competition 2022”, a Jogja and Central Java university student level competition which was held by the State University of Yogyakarta. The UGM table tennis athlete and the former leader of UGM Table Tennis Club won first place in the competition that was held on March 26-27th.

“I am very grateful that I still have the opportunity to join this competition in the midst of my final year. This might be the last time that I contribute something to UGM and the Table Tennis club because I plan on graduating this year,” Emma, the batch 2018 student, said. read more

Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─In an effort to fight hoaxes and train academicians to fact check, the Department of Communication Studies (Dikom) in the Faculty of Social and Political Science (Fisipol) of Gadjah Mada University in collaboration with Indonesia Independent Journalist Association (AJI) and Google News Initiative (GNI) held two workshops in the end of 2020. Zainuddin Muda Z. Monggilo, a communication studies lecturer, was the speaker in both workshops.

On December 14th-18th 2020, Zainuddin (from here on called Zam) with Aghnia Adzkia, Senior Visual & Data Journalist BBC East Asia, gave a fact check training with Fisipol UGM academicians. In this workshop, Zam and Aghnia introduced the tools that we could use to check facts. Other than that, there are at least six materials that were delivered. First, understanding misinformation and disinformation in Indonesia. Second, surveying social media, blogs, and websites. Third, analyzing content sources and social media accounts. Fourth, verifying photos, videos, locations, and time. Fifth, understanding the ethics of fact-checking. Finally, understanding digital security and safety. Aghnia said that journalists now are more strict with verifying information and presenting facts. read more

Yogyakarta, March 25th 2022─The Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) held a meeting between the Indonesian Employers’ Association (Apindo) and all faculty and vocational school leaders at UGM to discuss preparations for the implementation of the “Cooperation Internship with Apindo”. Dozens of people consisting of the dean, deputy dean, and representatives from Apindo attended the meeting which was held at the Auditorium of FISIPOL.

Executive Director of Apindo, Danang Girindrawardana, explained that the absorption of university graduates in the world of work is still very low, only around 11 percent. Therefore, drastic changes are needed for the pattern of absorption of undergraduates people so that there is no spike in educated unemployment. Danang said that one of the concerns of the business world was to support the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia and to support the Independent Learning Campus Independent Program (MBKM) program of the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. In this case, Apindo wants a more formal and systematic internship process. read more