Yogyakarta, August 5th 2020—Center for Digital Society is back with Oposit #6 about intellectual property in the digital era. Irnasya Shafira – an assistant researcher in CfDS – as the host opened the session with a brief explanation about her understanding of  intellectual property. Ines explained that pirated movies that are widely enjoyed by people are actually a form of intellectual property violation.Similar to the previous episodes, this episode of Oposit is also live streamed through CfDS’s Instagram. However, unlike previous episodes, other than inviting people to share their stories about the topic, this episode also invited an expert to talk about intellectual property rights in the digital era. read more

Yogyakarta, 3 Agustus 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) had just held the 29th digital discussion with the topic of UX Writing last Monday. In this session, CfDS collaborated with Rizqie Aulia, an expert that works for UX Writer Halodoc. The speaker talked about UX writing to at least 200 participants that already signed up. The discussion that was moderated by Made Agus Bayu as a representative of CfDS started with an interactive discussion which then was continued with a presentation from Rizqie about the basics of UX Writing. read more

Yogyakarta, September 3rd 2020—The Digital Intelligence Class Series, which is the newest course at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, presented a webinar entitled “UX Writer: New Job Options in The Digital Industry” on the last Thursday (3/9) together with Rizqie ‘Keke’ Aulia, as the UX Writer Halodoc, that shared her experiences on YouTube Live.

Familiarly called ‘Keke’, this alumna of the Department of International Relations of FISIPOL UGM class 2011, shared her experiences of being a UX Writer, a new profession which is still strange for many people. “UX Writer profession developed in 2015 or 2016. Back then, there was no need to become a UX Writer, because the digital world is developing, there will be more diverse jobs in the future,” Keke said as the opening of discussion. read more

Yogyakarta, 1 August 2020—Having successfully organized its first episode, Centang Biru by Kewirausahaan Sosial UGM came with another episode of Stories about Business and Freshest Insights themed “Revenue Model Beauty and the Beast”. Present in the discussion were Andy Fajar Handika, founder of Kulina and Chief Revenue Officer of Cookpad, and Bayu Dardias, a lecturer delivering the subject of social entrepreneurship, as the moderator.

The discussion mainly revolved around the revenue generated from start-ups. Before jumping into the topic, Andy explained that revenue is understood as a sustainable source of income. Hence, income generated from a VC or a start-up competition prize doesn’t count as revenue. read more

Yogyakarta, July 30th 2020—Community Service Team (CST) of FISIPOL UGM held its fourth discussion on Wednesday (29/7). This discussion was titled as ‘Creating Community Economic Resilience During Pandemic: Development and Integrated Urban Farming Training for Urban Communities’. This discussion presented Agus Sudrajat, Head of Social Services of Yogyakarta, and M. Qomarun Najmi from Indonesian Peasant Union and Sekolah Tani Muda (Young Farmers School). This discussion also presented COVID-19 Community Service Team, Matahari Farransahat, a lecturer of Department of Social Development and Welfare FISIPOL UGM and Achniah Damayanti, as the moderator. read more

Yogyakarta, July 30th 2020—The Student Council of FISIPOL UGM (DEMA FISIPOL UGM) held its new work program, ‘Productive Talk with DEMA’, on Live Instagram on Thursday (30/6). Its prime topic was ‘Running A Business in Pandemic’. Dianty Annisa, a student of Department of Public Policy Management 2018 and the CEO of Tertata Journal and SemibyDianty, became a speaker of this discussion. The event began at 01.00 p.m. and was moderated by Muldi, student of Department of International Relations 2018. read more

Jakarta, July 30th 2020—Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Republic of Indonesia and ASEAN Economic Council (AEC) Indonesia held a focus group discussion (FGD) called ‘The Utilization of EAC E-Monitoring System Efforts (STORMEA) in Supporting the Improvement of National Economy’. In this FGD, the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Indonesia invited the Head of ASEAN Studies Center (ASC), Fisipol UGM, Dafri Agussalim as one of the speakers. Assistant Deputy for Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation, Netty Muharni, became the moderator and the speaker of Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Indonesia in this event which was joined by 55 audience. read more

Yogyakarta, July 29th 2020—The Student Association under the Social Development and Welfare Department in Fisipol UGM, known as KAPSTRA, is collaborating for the second time with Google Gapura Digital on a digital marketing class that is held online. This collaboration is made in a form of two discussions that was held on 29th and 30th July 2020. KAPSTRA, represented by the vice president, Andhika Ihza, mentioned that this digital marketing class is made not only for PSDK students, but also for the public, so that a lot of people gain benefits from this event. In this first session, Fikri Kurniawan as the facilitator of Google Gapura Digital in Yogyakarta and also as the SEO and Google Ads Expert was brought in as the main speaker to talk about the basic basis of Google Ads. read more

Yogyakarta, July 29^th 2020—Gadjah Mada University Faculty of Social and Political Science (Fisipol) held a Masters degree period IV 2020 graduation online on Friday (25/7). In this graduation there were the graduates, dean and vice dean of Fisipol and the representative of each major in Fisipol. There were 54 graduates from the Magistrate and Doctoral program from different majors in Fisipol.

The graduates came from seven Magistrate program and one Doctoral Program. Those magistrate programs are; Public Policy Management (7 graduates), Politics and Governance (14 graduates), Sociology (4 graduates), Social and Welfare Development (4 graduates), Communication Study (8 graduates), Public Administration Study (13 graduates) and International Relations (3 graduates. One other graduate came from the public administration doctoral program. read more

Yogyakarta, 29 Juli 2020—Fisipol UGM’s Community service (PkM) team held the third discussion through the Webex platform. The discussion raised the theme of “Jogjabregas.id: Adapting to the new normal through cross generation collaboration”. Jogjabregas.id is a platform funded by the FISIPOL UGM community grant. In that morning discussion, the speakers were Rahina Dyah, Tantri Friscilla, and Maria Desima with Ayu Diasti, an International Relations department professor, as the moderator.

Ayu Diasti, or better known as Ayu, spoke about the objective of the discussion which is to highlight young people’s role in facing the new normal. “That includes discussing about what is the current problem that we still have to face,” she added. Jogjabregas.id is one of the activity that is initiated by college students and that allows a cross generation collaboration. read more