Yogyakarta, 26 Juli 2020—Creative Hub/C-Hub FISIPOL UGM organized its virtual discussion titled Small Talk with Neo Wedding Solution/NWS, a participant of Second Batch C-Hub Talent, via Instagram. The discussion examined socioentrepreneurship in wedding organization, inviting Arif and Bagas from NWS as speakers. Also present was Dea as the moderator.

The speaker began the discussion by briefly introducing NWS. NWS is a digital marketplace established in 2019, in which trusted wedding organization vendors in Yogyakarta promote its services. Another service provided by NWS is wedding event consultation. read more

Yogyakarta, July 24th 2020 – Telephone conference usage in this pandemic time was inevitable. People got used to move from one online meeting to another. This activity affected their time allocation for their hobbies, including reading. Because of that, Department of Public Policy Management tried to accommodate anyone to use teleconference or video as a way to exchange information about books in a discussion called MKP Book Corner. Not only limited to book review, but this forum also designed to discuss about journals, documentary films, even podcast from the point of view of public policy management. read more

Yogyakarta, July 23rd 2020 – During this pandemic, ASEAN had a lot of contacts with partner countries such as South Korea, China and Japan. Besides that, ASEAN must anticipated various threats and challenges in this time. ASEAN Studies Center (ASC) Fisipol UGM discussed this theme on its webinar called ‘ASEAN Talk: Anticipated Traditional and Non-traditional Security Threats in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era – the Challenges of Indonesia and ASEAN’. This webinar was held on Zoom and YouTube on Thursday (23/7) from 10.00 a.m. In this webinar that joined by, at least, 500 people, ASC presented Coordinating Ministry for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs of Republic of Indonesia. read more

Yogyakarta, July 23rd – Welcoming the arrival of the electoral party at the elections which will be held in December this year, Department of Politics and Government Fisipol UGM held a virtual discussion session called Candidation Process in 2020 Local Elections: A Dark Room Full of Mystery and presented Djarot Saiful Hidayat (Chairperson of the Ideology and Cadre Development of Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle), Hasyim Asy’ari (Member of General Elections Commission of the Republic of Indonesia), and Arya Budi (Lecturer of Department of Politics and Government Fisipol UGM) as the three main speakers in this discussion. Moderated by Mada Sukmadjati, lecturer of Department of Politics and Government Fisipol UGM, the discussion lasted comprehensively because the speakers not only gave lectures about theories, but also gave an empirical illustration, one of them was Djarot Saiful Hidayat that begun the discussion by explaining about the context of the dynamics of local elections candidation process which have done by Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P). read more

Yogyakarta, July 20th 2020—The 5th Papua Strategic Policy Forum event is back with a discussion titled “The Urgency of Creating a Human Rights Court & Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Papua” which was held by UGM Papua Taskforce and The Center for Capacity and Cooperation Building Fisipol UGM. The event was held online through Zoom and live streamed on Youtube. The discussion started with a presentation by Beka Ulung Hapsara, an Education and Counseling Commissioner in the National Committee of Human Rights. He said that the issue of papua is very complex, not just about the inequality but also the law enforcement in Papua. He said that there are only four human rights violations in Papua that are being investigated. Therefore, the Papua Truth and Reconciliation Commission (KKR) needs to investigate now. In the future, KKR will also create a clarification of Papua’s history, establish reconciliation steps, and ensure that there will be no more human rights violations in Papua in the future. read more

Yogyakarta, July 20th 2020—Gadjah Mada University’s Center for Digital Society held the 27th digital discussion. In this episode, CfDS invited Izzati Dwifitriani, a content writer at RWE Digital Agency. The event titled “Content writing: from Hobby to Profession” was held through a Whatsapp Group. As usual, half an hour before the event started, the moderator — Made Agus Bayu Sudharma, CfDS’s Event Assistant — reminded the attendant that the event will start soon. Right at 7 pm, the moderator opened the discussion by introducing himself and telling the attendant the rules. The moderator also gave a chance for the speaker to introduce herself. read more

Yogyakarta, 18 July 2020—Korps Mahasiswa Politik Pemerintahan/KOMAP and Dema Fisipol UGM organized virtual discussion Warung Politik under the theme of Freedom of Press and Disinformation in Papua. The discussion was held through Zoom and aired live via DEMA Fisipol UGM’s Youtube channel. Well-known speakers were invited, namely Veronika Koman (working as a human rights lawyer), Victor Mambor (working as a senior journalist focusing on issues of Papua), and Aprilia Wayar (as a writer and member of AJI Yogyakarta). Bayu Krisna, a student of Government and Political Sciences UGM, acted as the moderator. read more

Yogyakarta, July 17th 2020 – Department of Communication Science Fisipol UGM held another ‘Ngopi’ discussion. This fifth series of Ngopi called ‘The People’s Opinions and Crisis Communication of the Corona Pandemic’. This discussion presented three speakers, they were a researcher of Indonesia Indicator, Nur Imroatus S. Then, an advisor of International Media Support, Denmark, R. Kristiwan. And the last was a lecturer of Department of Communication Science, Wisnu Martha Adiputra. The moderator of this event was a lecturer from Department of Communication Science of Fisipol UGM, Wisnu Prasetyo Utomo.Nur began the discussion by showing the Indonesia Indicator observation result towards the news in the online medias during the period from March, 23rd to July, 2nd 2020. She found at least 70 steps of the central government which were reported by the Indonesian online medias. This report, according to Nur, shown the liveliness of the government to talked about their steps to the media. But, the informations about COVID-19 from the government seemed unplanned. “Public communication between central government and local government was often out of sync,” said this woman who was familiarly called Iím. read more

Yogyakarta, July 17th 2020 – The Youth Studies Centre Fisipol UGM held another online discussion and brought two speakers, a lecturer from Department of Communication Science Fisipol UGM, Gilang Desti Parahita, M.A. and the founder of Cinema Lovers Community (CLC) Purbalingga, Bowo Leksono. The discussion theme was Film and Education: High School Students Can Make Films! This was for the social science high school students from the 11th and 12th grade from all over Special Region of Yogyakarta. What made it interesting was, the discussion which more like a private class was enthusiastically joined by the participation of high school students to understand the basics importance of film literacy and sharing session from Bowo Leksono regarding the process of how film production was done by our students friends in the cinematography extracullicular.Started the discussion, Gilang Desti Parahita talked about comprehensive starting point to explain the importance of film literacy. For Gilang, film literacy could be an effort to understand about something in a film, therefore it could be used as the aspects to connect the contexts of the film and our environment, from the popular culture, cultural symbols, and do not forget that film literacy also being used to understand how our economic and political structures was pictured by the producer. By having an enough understanding about film literacy, Gilang also added that indirectly we will be the active film audiences. Which was not only enjoy the film, but also could question it, discuss it, and analyze the ins and outs of a film.

While explaining the importance of having film literacy, Gilang also mentioned at least four elements of the films that should we know. First, there were dramatic and cinematic structures in a film as the efforts of the producer to make the film more alive and more realistic. Second, relation of the film and audience could pictured how the dramatic and teathrical effects of the film could affect the audience. Third, contexts and consequences which were positioned to explain why this film was produced, distributed, showed, also the effects to the society. Creation became the last element of the film literacy which contained about the process of creative powers were distributed into the production of a film. read more

Yogyakarta, July 17th 2020 – Center for Digital Society Fisipol UGM back with the 28th Digital Future Discussion. In this Difussion, two research assistants of CfDS, Jasmine Noor Andretha Putri and Irnasya Shafira as the speakers talked about the topic ‘Social Justice in the Digital Age’. This topic was brought by the CfDS in commemoration of the International Justice Day which coincided with the day of the event, July 17th. Fajar Cahyono, the other research assistant of CfDS, was moderated this Difussion.Both of the materials from Jasmine and Ines were brought from the commentary rubric of CfDS that they wrote. Jasmine brought the topic about youth movement in social media, especially the TikTok users and K-Popers. In her explanation, Jasmine picked the study cases about prank against Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter campaign by both of those groups.

Before talking about the topics in details, Jasmine began her explanation with the general description of the youth activism in the digital era. The prank against Donald Trump case happened at the same time with Donald Trump’s first campaign after his temporary hiatus because of COVID-19. The reservation of this campaign had reached one million tickets. But, on the D-day, just 6.200 people came to the campaign location. The big gap was due to many ‘fake reservations’ invitation.

Started from TikTok, especially the Alt TikTok sub-genre, this invitations were shared on the Twitter and caused the increasing amount of the mass. The mass movement in the social media also happened with the Black Lives Matter campaign by the K-Popers. They spammed videos on the hashtag which against the Black Lives Matter, temporarily damaged the Dallas Police’s application because of those spammed videos, and fundraised for the BLM campaign that reached millions of dollars. read more