Yogyakarta, 4 July 2020—UGM’s Center for Digital Society organized the forty-first Digitalk, together with Noudhy Valdryno—serving as Politics and Government Outreach for Facebook Indonesia and Asia Pacific—as the speaker, under the theme of “Facebook’s Role in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic” (3/7). Noudhy explained that Facebook Indonesia stands on three main pillars, which include helping small-medium enterprises/SMEs, building communities, and supporting effective digital government.
Yogyakarta, 4 July 2020—Upon succeeding in organizing various entrepreneurship classes, Kewirausahaan Sosial UGM/UGM Social Entrepreneurship Program came up with a new series of classes titled Centang Biru–Cerita tentang Bisnis dan Insight Terbaru/Stories of Businesses and Fresh Insights. Similar with the previous Series of Social Entrepreneurship Courses, Centang Biru was also aired on Kewirausahaan Sosial UGM’s Youtube channel. In its first episode, Centang Biru invited Delta Purna Widyangga, CEO and co-founder of QISCUS, to speak under the theme of “From Ideas to Execution”.
Yogyakarta, July 3rd 2020 – The ASEAN countries were facing the new normal phase after the ease of large scale social restrictions (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar/PSBB) and lockdown policy. In responding to this new phase, ASEAN Studies Center (ASC) FISIPOL UGM held a webinar called Bincang ASEAN: The “New Normal” Community Preparedness in ASEAN Countries on the YouTube on Friday (3/7). This webinar was moderated by Fadilah Rahma, the Program Intern of ASC as the MC, and Tunggal Wicaksono as the Research Officer of ASC as the moderator. ASC presented Phar Kim Beng, the Former Director of Policy and Security Community Department of the ASEAN Secretary as the speaker. The webinar lasted from 02.00 p.m. to 03.30 p.m.
Yogyakarta, July 2nd 2020 – The Politics and Government Students Corps (Korps Mahasiswa Politik dan Pemerintahan/KOMAP) FISIPOL UGM held an online discussion called, ‘The Silencing of Academic Discussion, the New Concept of Academic’s New Normal?’. This event was moderated by Jacinda Nurun and presented two speakers, they were Abdul Gaffar Karim, the lecturer of Department of Politics and Government FISIPOL UGM and Diego Febryano, the Coordinating Minister of Analysis of BEM KM UGM 2020. In this occasion, the discussion was aired through Google Meet and lasted from 01.00 p.m. to 03.30 p.m. This event was divided into two sessions, the first session was the explanation session from the speakers and the second session was the question and answer session with the speakers.
Yogyakarta, July 2nd 2020—Creative Hub FISIPOL UGM together with Kartitedjo held its first #SmallTalk called ‘Ups and Downs of Business in the Field of Culture’ on the Instagram Live on Thursday (2/7). Kartitedjo is a social business which preserving the Javanese culture through the creative audiovisual contents and social issues. The discussion started at 04.00 p.m. and was moderated by Dendi. Some members of Kartitedjo team also presented in this event.
Kartitedjo established in 2016 by nine young people who had the same concern, which was the Javanese descent but did not grow up in a Javanese culture, but grew up with a foreign culture. The name of Kartitedjo itself had its own philosophy. Karti means Karepeng Ati and Tedjo means Teladaning Djiwo. It means, Kartitedjo was built based on the heart calling and must be done wholeheartedly when they entered that field. “We had the philosophy that if it was the heart calling, we should do it,” Ulul said.
Yogyakarta, July 1st 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) at Gadjah Mada University Faculty of Social Science and Politic is back with another OPOSiT session – a discussion series that talks about the digital world. In this episode of OPOSiT, CfDS raised the topic of data security. This talk was open to everyone who wanted to join. For those who wants to talk or share their insights, they can ask the OPOSiT host to invite them to join the CfDS Instagram live stream.
In the beginning of the fifth OPOSiT, the host said hi to the viewers and asked the viewers where they came from and how they are doing. The host also briefly explained the topic that is going to be discussed; data security that is closely tied to stories about digital fraud. There is an interesting information that CfDS found while researching about this topic. Turns out, the actors of the digital fraud do their action by using psychological manipulation to the victims.
Yogyakarta, 28 June 2020—Department of Communication Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada organized a discussion titled Ngopi (Ngobrol Pagi) #3. Several women speakers were invited, including Dr. Ninik Rahayu, S. H., M. S. representing Ombudsman Republik Indonesia, Anita Wahid as the Presidium of Mafindo, and Novi Kurnia, Ph.D. as a lecturer in Department of Communication Sciences UGM. Highlighting women, hoax, and the 2020 local elections, the discussion examined the issue at hand very carefully and succeeded in providing fresh insights to the audience. Generally, the discussion underlined women’s vulnerability vis-à-vis information disorder taking place around the time of local elections.
Yogyakarta, 27 June 2020—Virtual discussion Warung Politik organized by Korps Mahasiswa Politik dan Pemerintahan (Student Corps of Government and Political Science) FISIPOL UGM was successfully held under the theme of “We Are Papua, #PapuanLivesMatter (Racism and Suppression of Political Freedom)”. Present were Cahyo Pamungkas as a LIPI Researcher focusing on the research titled Roadmap 4 Masalah Papua, Tigor Hutapea as a representative of Yayasan PUSAKA Bentala Rakyat, Sayang Mandabayan as an ex-political prisoner as of September 2019, and Maximus Sedrik representing Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua.
Yogyakarta, 27 June 2020—Youth Studies Centre (YouSure) FISIPOL UGM invited Isna Nur Fajria from the Department of Government and Political Sciences UGM and Ferdi Arifin from IMAOS ID as speakers in the Bincang Muda forum (26/06). IMAOS ID is a media which provides references on parenting and family financial management from scientific sources like books and journals. Both speakers discuss family relations amidst the pandemic, particularly newlyweds.
The COVID-19 pandemic obliged the people to limit physical interaction and spend time at home. Such confinement might affect ourselves and people in our surroundings, notably our family. The boredom and discomfort might spark conflicts and establish unhealthy relationships.
Yogyakarta, June 26th 2020—The Department of Public Policy Management of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Gadjah Mada, held an event called ‘Bulaksumur Conference’ for the second time with the theme ‘Beyond the Pandemic: Reinventing Citizenship or Expanding Netizenship?’. This online conference presented three expert speakers, they were Ismail Fahmi (Media Social Expert from the Drone Emprit and the Founder of Kernels Media Indonesia), Dr. Subando Agus Maryono, M.Si. (the lecturer of Public Policy Management of FISIPOL UGM), and Dr. Dedy Permadi (the Expert Staff of Digital and Human Resource Development of Ministry of Communication and Informatics).
