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). read more

Yogyakarta, June 25th 2020 – Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM held a second session of Digital Marketing Learning Class in the Digital Discussion. Still brought a same topic as the first meeting—media optimization in digital marketing and its career prospects—this time the discussion focused on website. Moderated by Iradat Wirid, the project officer event and social media of CfDS, the discussion brought back Fauzi Ananta as the speaker. This discussion became the first discussion that was done by CfDS through Discord. It hoped that it could give a bigger chance to the audience to ask the speaker. read more

Yogyakarta, June 25th 2020 – Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM held a webinar called ‘How to Impress HR Person and Win a Recruitment Process’ on Thursday (25/6). In this occasion, CDC cooperated with Nusa Talent, a platform where it could bring together the applicants and the companies who needed them. CDC presented Emmanuella Reika, the Senior Partnership and Event Specialist of Nusa Talent, as the speaker. It was moderated by Alfira, as the Capacity Development Officer of CDC Fisipol UGM. This discussion lasted from 01.00 p.m. to 03.00 p.m. on Google Meet with 63 audience. read more

Yogyakarta, June 22^nd 2020 – Gadjah Mada University’s FISIPOL BRIWORK cooperated with Jogja International MUN (JOINMUN) 2020 in holding the #BRIWORKThinkTogether discussion titled “International Relations = Diplomat?” through the Google Meet platform. This discussion invited three International Relations Department student batch 2018 who also represented JOINMUN 2020; Dhania Salsa as a moderator, as well as Christophorus Ariobumi and Fransiskus Gabriel as the speakers.

Right at 2 pm, the moderator said that the discussion will start as soon as participants enter the Google Meet room. Around 2.10 pm, the moderator opened the discussion by introducing herself and asking where the participants came from. It turns out that the participants came from many regions, there are even those outside of the Java island. The moderator then explained a bit about the discussion topic and she also introduced the other two speakers. read more

Yogyakarta, June 19th 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Fisipol UGM also discussed about new normal in the Digital Future Discussion #27 on the last Friday (19/6). This discussion which titled as ‘New Normal’ were held on the Zoom Meeting from 03.00 p.m. to 04.30 p.m. In this occasion, CfDS presented two speakers, they were Mira Ardhya Pramastri and Samuel Giovanno Johannes, both of them were the research assistant of CfDS. The discussion was moderated by Aldo Rafi.

The first topic was brought by Mira Ardhya titled as ‘Going Cashless in the New Normal: Challenges for Indonesia’s SMEs’. Mira highlight the decreasing of Indonesia’s GDP and the other complaints about people that had impacted economically. On the other side, COVID-19 cases itself is increasing everyday. New Normal itself gave the possibilities to some economic activities to be opened normally in this pandemic condition, by keep doing the health protocol. The economic activities that were limited in the large-scale social restrictions (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar/PSBB) were opened again in this new normal era. Mira said that digital practice and cashless payment could be the solution. This way could be permanent if the consumers were comfortable. read more

Yogyakarta, June 18th 2020 – Since the stay at home policy were applied, people have much more time to spend on their social media. Unfortunately, the increasing intensity of social media use were also followed by the intensity of cyberbullying. Talking about bullying, it happened since long ago in a traditional way, it was done directly. And this bullying happened in everywhere, even in the campus area. To talk about it in a deeper way through the psychological perspective, Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM brought this issue in the psychoeducation live session. read more

Yogyakarta, June 18th 2020 – Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Fisipol UGM held another Digital Discussion titled as ‘Impactful CV: Creating Impressive Personal Branding’ with Raissa Almira, the Most Outstanding Student of Faculty of Social and Political Science UGM year 2019. This discussion was held through the WhatsApp Group on the last Thursday.

This discussion that started at 07.00 p.m. was began with the opinion from the audience about the importance of personal branding. “One of the most important things of personal branding is building trust. Personal branding could make someone else believe in your skills and something you can do,” Raissa said as the opening. read more

Yogyakarta, June 18th 2020—Politics and Government Student Corps (Korps Mahasiswa Politik dan Pemerintahan/KOMAP) held an event called Sosmas Ceria as one of their projects. This first Sosmas Ceria presented a speaker from Gajahwong School, Faiz Fakhruddin. It brought a theme to discuss about “Alternative Education in the Middle of the Pandemic”. Faiz gave an illustration about the dynamic conditions that were faced by Gajahwong School in their learning activities in the middle of this pandemic. read more

Yogyakarta, June 17^th 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS Fisipol UGM is back again on Wednesday with their new program called Oposit, an interactive discussion on the topic of the digital world. On the fourth session of Oposit, CfDS brought the topic of ‘new normal’ that the government plans to implement. As we all now, on May 7^th, the President Joko Widodo starts to create a new normal policy which regulates the new way of living alongside Covid-19. This policy will be implemented to revive the economy which have been dying. New normal is now a hot topic of discussion in which some people believe that it’s not the right policy seeing that Indonesia haven’t fulfilled the new normal requirement from WHO. One of the key indicator of new normal is a flattening curve of Covid-19 cases. However, in the last few days, Indonesia seems to reach its peak with an addition of 1000 new cases daily. read more

Yogyakarta, June 17^th 2020—The availability of water, especially clean water, is one of the most important thing in the middle of this pandemic. Clean and healthy living done by washing our hands, cleaning our body, and drinking water, surely involves water. The urgency of the accessibility of clean water increases in places that becomes the center of Covid-19 spread – such as Jakarta, and also for groups that are prone to get Covid-19 – such as the urban poor. Unfortunately, based on the BPS data, only 76,4% of Indonesia’s population have access to proper hand wash equipment that includes soap and clean water. In Jakarta, only two thirds of the population have access or pipe water. To delve into the issue, the Institute of International Studies of Gadjah Mada University’s International Relation Department chose to raise the issue of water governance. read more