Yogyakarta, October 16th 2020—In this 2020, International Relations Students Corps or KOMAHI UGM held an International Relations English Competition event for the first time. This was an annual competition event that was held by KOMAHI since 2013. In this eighth year, IREC raised the big theme ‘Advancing Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Development to Achieve the 2030 Agenda’ and opened four branches of competition for all high school students and their equivalents, such as peech, storytelling, debate, and news casting competitions.
Yogyakarta, October 16th 2020—The Department of Public Policy and Management held Virtual Career Talk and brought the topic about Leadership and Management: Yin and Yang of Change on Friday (16/10). The webinar, which was part of the Human Resource Management and Change Management class, was conducted online via Youtube and Zoom. The speakers in this webinar were: Muhammad Yusuf Affandi, MBA, Manufacturing Academy Manager of Unilever; Nova Yustina Paramita, MBA, HC Strategic Manager of PT. Pertamina EP; Dr. Mariman Darto, Head of the KDOD LAN Puslatbang; and Eli Susanto, S.IP., MBA., Ph.D, Lecturer of the Department of Public Policy and Management of FISIPOL UGM. The discussion was moderated by Annisa Rahmania, a student of the Department of PPM, class of 2019, and started with a speech from Prof. Dr. Wahyudi Kumorotomo as the Head of the Department of Public Policy and Management.
Yogyakarta, October 16th 2020—Social Development and Welfare Student Families or Kapstra of the Sinergi Bersama Cabinet 2020 held a program Bisa Basi Kapstra (Bincang Santai Banyak Inspirasi Kapstra) “Internship Sharing” edition on Friday (16/10). This event presented two seniors from the PSdK itself, Ella Puji (PSdK 2017) and Dwiarti Simanjuntak, S.Sos (PSdK 2016). It was held on Instagram Live on @kapstraugm and the event began at 04.00 p.m and was moderated by Luluk AR, PSdk student class of 2019.
Yogyakarta, October 15th 2020—The course of Basic Journalism Program of the Undergraduate Program of Communication Science held practitioners’ lecture meetings that were open to the public. By presenting Fernan Rahadi, Daily Editor of Republika and Republika.co.id, as the guest lecturer. This meeting talked about Opportunities and Challenges of Journalists in the Multiplatform Era. The class that was held at 08.00 a.m. was moderated by one of the lecturers of the Basic Journalism course, Zainuddin Muda Z.M.
Yogyakarta, October 15th 2020—Global Engagement Office or GEO Fisipol UGM came back with Exposure Talks. Having previously managed to attract many participants with the theme of the LPDP Scholarship, in its seventh series, Exposure Talks brought a topic about “Chevening 101” by presenting two Chevening Scholarship awardees as the speakers, Retno Lestari Ningsih, M.Sc., dan Yasinta Ariesti, S.I.P. The GEO Fisipol UGM designed this Exposure Talks to be more productive, by providing essay writing workshops in the event. After it was opened at 01.05 p.m. by the short speech of the topic and the introduction of speakers by presenter and moderator. Retno as the first speaker was also invited to directly deliver the material.
Yogyakarta, October 15th 2020—The anniversary of Fisipol which is always celebrated lively, felt different this year. Because, in its 65th anniversary, it was celebrated in the middle of a pandemic era that is full of challenges. Because of that, Fisipol reflected the challenges that its faced through reflective discussion called “Social Sciences and Higher Education in a Pandemic Period” on YouTube Live on Thursday (15/10).
The reflective discussion was opened by the delivery of a speech titled as “Social Sciences and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Scientific Opportunities and Challenges in a Networked Society”, which was delivered by Haryanto as the Professor of the Department of Politics and Government.
Yogyakarta, October 14th 2020—Fisipol UGM Student Board is back with a Dean Hearing on Wednesday afternoon (14/10). In this event, the Dean hearing is created to accommodate university students’ academic and non-academic questions about the university process in the new normal. As always, in the hearing there was Prof. Dr. Erwan Agus Purwanto, M. Si as the dean, Dr. Wawan Masudi as the Vice Dean of Academics and Students Relations, as well as Ika Wulandari Widyaningrum, S.Pd., MBA as the Head of Students Relations. The event was held from 16.00 until 17.30 pm.
Yogyakarta, October 12th 2020—The 65th Fisipol UGM Dies Natalis celebration is more festive with the Politic and Government Student Corps (KOMAP) event called Politico Tour or better known as Poltour. As an annual program held by the Department of Government and Politics, Poltour that is usually done by visiting many government organizations is now changed into an online webinar event. Taking the theme of Indonesia’s social and political dynamics after the pandemic, Poltour is hoped to be a place to think critically together on the issue of the pandemic. This webinar series has three focuses; the state (12 october 2020), intermediary (13 october 2020), and society (14 october 2020).
Yogyakarta, October 9th 2020 – Organization of Humanity of FISIPOL UGM came back with another OH Online Edition of Visitation on Friday night (9/10). This Online Visitation via Google Meet raised the topic “The Story of COVID-19 Volunteers: Fighting for Humanity”. Sherry Anastasya (Nutritional Science of Faculty of Public Health of University of Indonesia 2017). a COVID-19 volunteer at Wisma Atlet, became the speaker this time. The event lasted from 07.00 p.m. to 08.30 p.m and was moderated by Felice, a student of Communication Science class 2019.
Yogyakarta, October 8th 2020—The International Relations Students Corps (KOMAHI) UGM held Diskors (Diskusi Olahraga Skuy!) on Thursday night (8/10). This sports discussion invited a speaker, an alumna of International Relations of UGM class 2016, Antakarana Tanugraha. In this event, they discussed Tanugraha’s thesis titled as Nation Branding in the Politics of Organizing International Sports Events in Developing Countries. This event started at 06.15 p.m. The background of choosing sports as a discussion material in his thesis was because sport has universal properties that make it attractive to most of the people in the world. The organization of sports events is eagerly awaited by people from all over the world to watch or even visit the venues directly. Becoming a host country for organizing international sporting events is a very dreamy thing because the arrival of tourists to watch matches provides an opportunity and become an economic boost, it makes developing countries compete to host sporting events. This event discussed the comparative study of developing countries that host the Olympics, such as China (2008), South Africa (2010), Greece (2004), and Brazil (2016).