Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM came back with another Difussion #34 called Old vs New Media: The Transformation of Digital Culture with Mira Ardhya Paramastri and Theodore Great Aipassa as the Research Associate of CfDS. The discussion was held on YouTube Live.

It started with the explanation of Old vs New Media: Can Government Regulate Digital Media by Theodore Great Aipassa, the discussion began with a question, “Does the new media need to be regulated by the government?” read more

Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Institute of International Studies (IIS) FISIPOL UGM held a discussion which brought the topic about China: Initiatives in the Energy and Transportation Sector. In this occasion, there were two speakers, Alfin Febrian Basundoro, the Deputy Chairman of the Department of Reasoning of UPII UGM, and Caesar Leonardo, Director of The Student Association of Belt and Road Initiative (SABRI) Chapter UGM, it was moderated by Handono Ega P., the Staff of Publication of IIS FISIPOL UGM. This event which was held on Google Meet began at 03.00 p.m. and it was divided into two sessions: material explanation and question and answer. read more

Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Sociopreneurship UGM came back with another Centangbiru program, Cerita tentang Bisnis dan Insight Terbaru. This time, Centangbiru program was held especially because of the first class of Sociopreneurship UGM in the first semester of 2020/2021 school year. This time, Centangbiru presented eleven CEOs from leading companies and institutions in Indonesia directly through YouTube broadcasts.

The Sociopreneurship class is an interdisciplinary course for all of the UGM students, other campuses, and for the public who wants to look for solutions to social problems. After succeeding with the first batch in the last semester, the Social Entrepreneurship class was held again in this semester. The second batch of Social Entrepreneurship class provides eleven lecture programs and one monthly program in collaboration with eleven organizing partners, whose representatives are speakers in this Centangbiru program. read more

Yogyakarta, September 17th 2020—The first lecture of the Digital Intelligence Class was officially opened on Monday (14/9). This event was opened by the Vice Rector for Cooperation and Alumni of UGM Dr. Paripurna, S.H., M.Hum., LL.M. which was followed by a Digital Intelligence Discussion with the main speaker, Prof. Pratikno as the Minister of State Secretary, Prof. Erwan Agus Purwanto the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, and the Special Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information of Republic of Indonesia in the field of Human Resources and Digitalization, Dr. Dedy Permadi. read more

Yogyakarta, 14 September 2020—Center for Digital Society Fisipol UGM is back with the 33rd Digital Discussion on Sunday night. The digital discussion via Whatsapp Group raised the topic of “Maintaining Study Life Balance in the Digital Era”. Haris Hendrik, the second runner up of the Accomplished University Student Award UGM 2020, is the speaker in this session. As usual, the event started at 7 pm and was moderated by Made Agus Bayu, an Event Assistant for CfDS.

One of the biggest indicators that a university student has reached a good study-life balance is good time management. The art of action priority matrix says that we need to prioritise based on the impact and effort of an action. There are four basic areas to consider when doing time management; quick wins, big projects, fill ins, and wasted time. “Now, what everyone has to avoid are big wasted time or small impact, big effort actions. These actions will take a lot of time but will give us little to no impact,” Haris said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th 2020 – Sharing Session which was held by Creative Hub Fisipol UGM on Friday (11/9) presented Rudy Suryanto, the expert of BUMDes also the lecturer of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), as the speaker. Through the Google Meet platform, this event brought a topic “Unpopular Business: BUMDes and How to Survive in a Crisis Period”. Matahari Farransahat, the director of C-Hub Fisipol UGM, became the moderator of this event.

BUMDes (Villages’ Enterprises) are growing rapidly every year, until now, around 51,149 BUMDes have been formed. From the last month’s data, as many as 39,634 were re-registered, it means that several BUMDes are inactive after they were established. But, from those numbers, turned out more than 10,000 BUMDes are still active during this pandemic. Rudi assessed that there are several factors that distinguish BUMDes that are still or not moving. First, full support from the village government and community participation or cohesiveness. “The only way to survive a crisis is with togetherness, mobilize the social solidarity that will become financial capital, how gotong royong is used to survive a crisis (pandemic),” Rudy said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th 2020 – The polemic over the issuance of the agenda for the ratification of the RUU PKS from Prolegnas which in recent months has become an issue for the people haso become one of the interesting topics of digital future discussion which was held by Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM. This digital discussion series that was held for the 33th time presented an activist whose concern is in the gender equality issues, Kalis Mardiasih. This woman who is familiarly called Kalis is also an active writer in several websites such as Mojok, Detik, and Geo Times. In this Difussion #33, Kalis was invited to share her views and knowledge regarding the urgencies of RUU PKS and analyzing the problematics of gender-based online sexual violence which was normalized by some people. read more

Yogyakarta, September 10th 2020—Career Development Center (CDC) Webinar of FISIPOL UGM which presented Ari Widianti, a psychologist of industry and organization as its speaker (10/9). With her background as a Career Consultant in Bestalent, Dian explained about goals, competencies that are assessed, challenges, to preparation tips of LGD.

Leaderless Group Discussion (LGD) is one of the stages of recruitment to assess leadership, creativity, adaptability, and enthusiasm of participants. Therefore, participants are expected to prepare competencies, knowledge or insights, as well as performances before participating in LGD in order to qualify for the next stage. read more

The coronavirus pandemic has existed for a long time and it brought a lot of burden to several industries, including Indonesia’s film industry. The pandemic hugely affected the network of cinema who used to be the primary place to watch movies. On 23 March 2020, the local government of DKI Jakarta deactivated one of the biggest cinema companies in Indonesia, Cinema XXI, to support the semi-quarantine measures (Ardanareswari, 2020). At first, only two weeks of deactivation was planned. However, seeing that the situation has not been better, the deactivation is changed to an indefinite amount of time. The local government of DKI Jakarta cancelled the permit to open cinemas numerous times to prevent a more aggressive spread of the virus. In effect, the premier and promotion for several domestic movies are postponed. Several production processes are also halted for an indefinite time. read more

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia triggers an array of problems in several sectors. In this case, some activities that used to be done offline have to adapt to an online system. The research sector is also disturbed by this pandemic since several field research can’t be conducted in order to minimize the physical interaction between the researcher and the respondent.

The pandemic and alternative research method
The health and security aspect becomes the utmost priority of each individual, including university students,in the middle of this pandemic. The limitation of space, difficulty to get out of their home, and the strict health rules are factors that contribute to the failure of last year university students to complete their final essay. Generally, this pandemic makes it difficult for final year students to conduct field research or qualitative research that requires them to physically be in the field to observe. Meanwhile, the average research method used by bachelor students, especially in the politics and government department, is the qualitative field research with a primary data source (Savirani, 2020). read more