Russian President, Vladimir Putin, views the expansion of membership as a signal of the ‘betrayal’ of the countries that won the Cold War against Russia, which does not want the expansion of NATO post-Cold War.

“Currently, NATO’s actions to expand its membership to the east threatens Ukraine’s position as the ‘last fortress’ for Russia. If Ukraine joins NATO, the borders between Russia and NATO will coincide,” Muhadi explained.

Muhadi suspects that Russia is currently experiencing anxiety over the prospect of losing buffer zones that can support its security, especially Ukraine. Today, Russia is demanding something that has long been ‘on its claim’. “The Ukraine issue has even become a ‘life and death’ for Russia’s security and geopolitics. And in desperation, it is feared that Russia could make nuclear weapons an option, whether forced or not.” Muhadi said. read more

Yogyakarta, February 28th 2022─Gadjah Mada University’s Director of Students set a list of winners of the most outstanding students awards (Pilmapres) in UGM’s faculty level on 2022 this Friday (18/2). After going through an online selection process which was held from 12-13th February 2022, the winner of the award was declared fit to join the next stage which is the Pilmapres at the university level.

Ismada Firdaus Mandala Putra, a batch 2019 student from the Sociology Department, came first place in the faculty of social and political science. Ismada said that he had won fourth place in the 2020 Pilmapres but was interested to try again in this year’s Pilmapres. According to him, as a third-year student, Pilmapres 2022 is the last opportunity that he can take and it is very rare that the most outstanding student comes from the Sociology department. read more

In this discussion, Rimun focuses on discussing equitable development in the case of infrastructure development—chosen because of its tangible form, occupying space and time aspects so that it is closely related to social and environmental issues, and touches many aspects of the element of justice. Based on Rimun’s experience and observations, justice is indeed easy to write and formulate. Unfortunately, justice is also not easy to implement, realize, coordinate and fight for. To clarify this point and its context with infrastructure development, Rimun gave several examples of cases, such as the case of Tuban, Merpati Beach, and Wadas. read more

Prof. Dr. Suharko opened his speech by talking about the Covid-19 pandemic condition that has created a condition of worry and uncertainty in our society. Therefore, an analysis of risks in sociology studies needs to be developed, considering that the physical, spatial, and social environment changes rapidly in the Anthropocene era. “In the era of advanced modernization, the production of wealth is systematically accompanied by the production of risks. The problems and conflicts that arise from the unequal production of wealth then intersect with problems that come from the production, definition, and risk distribution created techno-scientifically. This is what we call a society of risk, which refers to an era where risk-aware thinking is the dominant way of thinking in confronting urgent and potential problems.” said Prof. Suharko in his speech.  read more

Yogyakarta, February 16th 2022─Fisipol Crisis Center (FCC) Fisipol UGM held a webinar titled “When Dating Turns Violent: Notice the Red Flags and What to Do” on Wednesday (16/2). The event held through Zoom Meeting invited Putri Khatulistiwa, a Community of Practice Officer of Siklus Indonesia as the speaker.

In her discussion, Putri talked about how to create a healthy relationship, also widely known as a relationship goal. According to her, even though there’s always the good and the bad in a relationship, if things are starting to go out of line, we need to start paying attention to the relationship’s red flags so we don’t get stuck in a toxic relationship. read more

Two students from the Department of Communication Studies Gadjah Mada University won first and second place in the “Gen-Z Innovator Search Program” competition last December. This competition is a business innovation idea event held by Isobar (one of Dentsu Indonesia’s group) with Ajinomoto Indonesia. The first place was won by the GeneratiOne team with Reinaldo Albert Koerniadi, Luthfiana Nur Rofifah, Felicia Vaniadiva, and Dimas Satriawan Lambang W as the members. Meanwhile, the second place was held by the THR3 team with  Farah Fattatin Fauziah, Ratna Kusuma Dewi, Aisya Irdo Anwar, and Reksan Ridho Julviaji as the members. All of the students from both teams are from the Department of Communication Studies Gadjah Mada University batch 2019. read more

Yogyakarta, February 7th 2022─Fisipol UGM’s Center for Digital Society is back with the 26th OPOSIT with the title “Is the Digital Space Safe from Sexual Violence?” on Monday (7/2). The event that was held through @cfds_ugm’s Instagram Live invited Duke from University of Indonesia Criminology and Puke from University of Indonesia Sexuality and Gender Study Center.  

Sexual violence is a term which belongs to a bigger concept which is the Online Gender-based Violence. Contained in the Online Gender-Based Violence term is the privacy violation, surveillance, defamation of reputation or credibility, violation which can be complemented by online violation, direct violence and threat, as well as targeted attack towards certain communities.  read more

In the Private Data Protection Bill, an opportunity of privacy violence can be highlighted in which citizen’s data can be taken for the purpose of the state’s data collection. However, there is not one part in the bill which mentions the parties who will be authorized to take the data. This is a dangerous loophole because the ambiguous third party can weaken law enforcement and surveillance.

“Take for example the instance when we are being recorded but the party who does this isn’t responsible which, in many events we’ve seen recently, leads to data leakage. Data collection is important for the state, however from the law perspective, we still don’t feel safe about this,” Fatah Yusi said.  read more

Yogyakarta, February 4th 2022─The first Fisipol Open Days were held by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM with the theme “Socialization of Academic and Mixed Lectures” on Friday (4/2). The event, which took place via Instagram Live @fisipolugm, presented speakers Wawan Mas’udi (The Dean of Fisipol UGM) and Poppy S. Winanti (Vice Dean for Academic & Student Affairs of Fisipol UGM). The latest academic guide for all lecturers and students of Fisipol UGM was finalized in mid last January. Some of the things formulated in the guide are the issue of Merdeka Learning Campus Merdeka (MBKM), fast track programs, and academic ethics outside the scientific study program. Wawan Mas’udi said that the MBKM system is an SKS (Semester Credit Unit) conversion and is more emphasized as a method to achieve knowledge and competence outside the study program. read more

Yogyakarta, February 4th 2022─Universitas Gadjah Mada held another UGM Update series with a topic related to “International Undergraduate Program New Student Admission”. In this second episode, there were five study programs which became the topic of further discussion regarding the IUP program, namely two study programs from the scientific cluster consisting of Pharmacy and Chemistry, and the next three study programs from the social humaniora cluster which are International Relations, Communication Studies, and Public Policy Management. “The International Relations IUP program has been established since 2011 with several offers of concentration, ranging from issues of Global Politics Security, International Political and Economic Development, and Peace and Conflict Studies. We initiate some of these concentrations through collaboration with several foreign universities that are partners, while still considering the International Relations curriculum of UGM,” said Treviliana Eka Putri as Secretary of the International Relations Study Program. read more