Yogyakarta, August 30th 2021─The Department of Social Development and Welfare (PSdK) is back with Social Development Talks or SoDeT on Monday (30/8). In a SoDeT titled “Empowerment for Social Mission and Environment: The story of SNV in Empowering Farmers”, the PSdK Department invited the attendees to directly hear the story of SNV as an NGO who empowers farmer with Aang Ilahang as the Rubber Program Manager in SNV.

Aang started his story by giving a short introduction about SNV, both in the global or national case, and the inclusive economy concept that SNV is creating. The inclusive economy concept is implemented through the responsible sourcing from smallholder approach that can improve relations throughout the supply chain and include farmers more. Other than that, the inclusive economy concept is also used to detect unsustainable practices and deforestation in the supply chain.  read more

The event lead by Cut Intan Aulia Isma from the Institute of International Studies was started with a welcoming remarks from the representative of PSKP and The Asia foundation, Muhammad Najib Azca and Sandra Hamid. The three editors of the book “Pandemic, Conflict, and Transformation: Challenges to Democracy and Social Inclusion” also participated in this launching event. Luqman-nul Hakim and Mohtar Mas’oed took part in talking about the book. Meanwhile, the other editor, Frans A. Djalong, took part in being the speaker representing PSKP as well as the UGM Sociology Department with the other two speakers,  Sulfikar Amir from Nanyang Technological University Singapore, and Ita Fatia Nadia from the Archive Room and Indonesia’s Women History (RUAS). In their explanation, the speakers also talked about their experience and understanding about the central theme of the book.  read more

Yogyakarta, August 28th 2021–Students of Fisipol UGM are back with an achievement in the University Student Creativity Program (PKM) by getting a grant for their research. This time, the collaboration is between a student from the Communication Department, Affifatul Millah Nurul Aulia Hidayat, and two members from the Governmental Politics Department,  Imron Amrozi and Dicky Riandy Pratama. Their mentor is Amalinda Savirani as a lecturer in the Governmental Politics Department. 

The University Student Creativity Program (PKM) is created by the Ministry of Technology and Research to facilitate the potential in Indonesia’s university students to research, develop, and implement knowledge and technologies that they have learned to the wider public. This program is divided into several categories and the culmination of the event is PIMNAS. read more

Yogyakarta, August 27th 2021─Private companies are one of the important actors in the success of the development process. For this reason, the participation of private companies through corporate social responsibility or CSR activities is important to note. In order to introduce CSR more deeply, the Student Family of the Department of Social Development and Welfare or Kapstra held “AADC: What’s in CSR?” on Friday (27/8). In order to provide a wider perspective, this activity also presented two CSR practitioners with different backgrounds, they were Fardhan Ramzy as CSR and Social Impact Senior Associate at Tokopedia, and Galih Prabaningrum as Lecturer for Social Development and Welfare of FISIPOL UGM. read more

Yogyakarta, August 27th 2021─As a research center under the Department of Public Policy Management (MKP) of FISIPOL UGM, the Institute for Policy Development or PolDev conducts many assistants and workshops related to economic, socio-political and public policy issues, one of which is related to policy briefs making. On Friday (27/8), through the Zoom Meeting platform, PolDev held a training on writing policy briefs with the title “Scream Out Loud to Policy Makers Through Policy Briefs: Strategies for Designing Effective Policy Briefs” which was opened to the public. read more

Then entering the main session, the first sharing of material was delivered by Gendis Syari with several important points, namely starting from why people move, how to place positions in a movement, and how we build awareness. Starting from the material about why people move, Gendis made an analogy with a simple case, in general people move because there is hope and there is an interest where they do not get their rights as they should. We need to map out who are the actors who are powerful and who are powerless, to determine alignments in a movement. Building awareness in a movement can be done by learning which further differentiates the student movement from other movements is how we present an academic perspective in the form of studies, writings as the basis for why we move. read more

Yogyakarta, August 25th 2021─Center for Digital Society (CfDS) is back with DIFFUSION #58 with the title of “Opportunities and Challenges in Social Media Based Social Movements”.The discussion was held through Zoom meetings on Wednesday, August 25th 2021 and highlighted the massive use of social media in the digital era that brings with it an array of opportunities and challenges. To analyse the big theme, Rizka Herdiani and Maulana M. Haykal as the Intern Researchers in CfDS spoke about the theme through different perspectives. Rizka talked about “The Future of Mutual Aid in Indonesia’s Digital Age” which covered several issues during the pandemic. According to her, the response of local society in their individual or group capacity towards the problem of basic necessities is one of the factors of mutual aid or the culture of gotong royong. “The rise of public distrust is the background on the lack of mutual aid,” she said. Through this topic, Rizka highlighted the culture of mutual aid that is now quite viral in social media and other online platforms.  read more

As an opening, Kishino Bawono invited the participants to understand the difference between classical colonialism and settler colonialism viewed from three aspects, namely colony autonomy, priorities, and attitudes towards indigenous people. In the comparison presented by Kishino, it can be seen that settler colonialism aims to make indigenous people’s lands as new homes for settlers by expropriating territories. Therefore, indigenous peoples are also seen as obstacles, in other words, become unwanted enemies in the structure of the settler community. read more

Yogyakarta, August 23rd 2021– Fisipol International Short Course (FISCO) is held again this year under the headline “The Dynamics of New and Renewable Energy in the Global South”. FISCO is an annual international course program hosted by Fisipol UGM in collaboration with Geo Fisipol, Pusat Energi UGM, and IESR. In this opportunity, many guest lecturers are a part of FISCO that is held from August 23rd to September 16th 2021. Several of the lecturers are Ika Krismantari from The Conversation, Prof. Raphael J. Heffron from University of Dundee, and Ir. Sarijya, Ph.D as the representative of PSE UGM. This event is attended by people from various backgrounds starting from international university students, renewable energy aficionado, and environmentalists. In total, there are 98 students from various countries.  read more

Yogyakarta, August 23rd 2021—Governmental Politics Student Corps (Komap) Fisipol UGM held a writing class that is a regular program of the Academic Division. In this sixth writing class, Komap used the topic of “Tips and tricks on making an interesting CV and motivation letter” by inviting two speakers; Arie Ruhyanto as a lecturer of the Governmental Politics Department, and Pratiwi Damayanti as the Director of Rooms in Hyatt Regency Hotel Yogyakarta.To start the session, Arie gave a welcoming remark by stating that the points that need to be paid attention to in CVs and motivation letters are how to make ourselves look interesting to hiring managers or recruiters by stating our experience, expertise, and skills. The plus point that recruiters also want to know is what is our vision and how do we achieve that vision of ours. Dovetailing Arie’s remarks, Pratiwi or better known as Dama explained the basics of cover letters and motivation letters.  read more