Yogyakarta, May 8th 2020 – Block71 and Waktukita.com together with Creative Hub Fisipol UGM held the second #Dirumahajatalks for Charity in Friday (8/5). #Dirumahajatalks for Charity is an agenda to support a program called Against COVID-19 Together (Bersama Kita Lawan COVID-19) with the open donation on s.id/kitalawancorona. The total sum of funds will be donated to the medics personnel and communities that affected by COVID-19. This time the topic was How Technology is Shaping the Future of Education, the series of #ngabuburitditemenin class which took place on May, 7th – 12th 2020. In this second class, the speaker was Ahmad Faiz Sahupala, the co-founder and CEO of Eduka System and moderated by Titus, Talent Pitching Creative Hub Fisipol UGM Batch 3. read more

 Yogyakarta, May 7^th, 2020—Center Digital for Society or CfDS Fisipol UGM held a Digital Discussion #19 program on Thursday (5/7). Online discussion through WhatsApp Group platform raised the topic “Securing Mobile Phones from Cyber Threats”. The speaker in this discussion was Vidiskiu Fortinu from the Research Associate at CfDS Lab. The discussion began at 15.00 WIB and was moderated by Made Agus Bayu Sudharma (Bayu) as the CfDS Event Assistant.

As often happens before the discussion, the moderator introduced himself and conveyed group rules as well as introducing the speaker. For the introduction, the moderator asked the audience about what causes mobile phones are vulnerable to cyber-attacks. According to the audience, mobile phones are vulnerable to cyber-attacks due to lack of digital literacy from smartphone users, installing lots of applications, and providing random personal information. read more

Yogyakarta, May 5^th, 2020– COVID-19 global pandemic which is testing ASEAN regional Corporation was discussed by the ASEAN Studies Center (ASC) Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM who held the ASEAN discussion entitled “The Past and the Future of ASEAN Health Cooperation” with Ahmad Rizky Mardathillah Umar, a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Opening the discussion with a complex mapping of ASEAN response, Umar saw that there were uneven policy responses among the member of the countries and there was no coordinated response information to reduce the early spread of COVID-19. The response also raised the question, “What explains the limited ASEAN policy response to COVID-19? What does history tell about health cooperation in ASEAN and its possibilities in the future?” read more

Yogyakarta, May 5^th, 2020— The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people’s lifestyles, especially in terms of social interaction. In Indonesia, the implementation of Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) made social interactions way limited. Physical meetings can no longer be held as usual. Meanwhile, to be able to interact, people need to find an alternative way.

The alternative way was discussed in #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng X Populi last Tuesday (5/5/20). The event was hosted by Risaza Madani (BRIWork Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM) and Geraldy Sam (Populi.co). Through a Zoom Video Conference, they discussed the existence of dating apps–specifically Tinder– as a solution for everyone to be able to interact in the pandemic. According to Geraldy, in the midst of limitations for physical activities, Tinder meets the needs of individuals to keep interacting. It is necessary to fulfil the human’s natural instincts. read more

Yogyakarta, May 4^th 2020— A discussion titled “Cross Religion Roles in Facing the Covid-19 Pandemic” was held through the Google meet platform by Fisipol UGM’s Department of Politics and Governance. The discussion was moderated by Herlambang Jati and the speaker was Samsul Maarif from CRCS UGM as well as FX Endro Tri Gundoro from Kebhinekaan Kidul Mountain School. The discussion gave a new perspective in analyzing the Covid-19 pandemic which is through the lens of cross religion movement. read more

Yogyakarta, April 30th 2020 – Center for Digital Society (CfDS) UGM started a new program on April, 29th 2020, it was called Obrolan Seputar Dunia Digital (Oposit) or Chat About the Digital World. The first implementation of this program was held through Instagram live feature with interactive concept. The topic was about the challenges and advantages of working from home.

Raka, as the moderator, started by telling story about his experience of working from home. Besides boredom, Raka said that work from home was a little torturing for him because he could not physically interacted with other people. Some of participants also commented that work from home caused more work to pile up. Not to mention about the access difficulties and limited signal, because of that work from home became more ineffective. read more

Yogyakarta, April 30^th, 2020—Fisipol Creative Hub (C-Hub) held a sharing session with the theme “Improving Animal Welfare: Improve Life with love for Animals”. By inviting to expert speakers in the animal field, the online discussion series was held on (4/30) via an online platform. The two speakers included drh. Yuriko Melania, M.Sc who is a veterinarian practitioner at the Cat Care Plus Clinic and the second speaker drh. Andre, who also has a background as veterinarians invited as well as representing the animal lover community Animal Friends Jogja (AFJ). read more

Yogyakarta, April 30^th, 2020—The Ministry of Science for Social Development and Welfare Student Families (KAPSTRA) conducted an online discussion entitled “The Community Role Strengthening Social Solidarity Amid Pandemic”. The discussion invited Puthut Yulianto, the chair of the 2016-2020 KAFISIPOLGAMA (Alumni Group of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Gadjah Mada University). Puthut is an alumnus of the Government Politics Department class of 1988. Online discussions held through Google Meet, which began at 13.00 WIB. read more

Yogyakarta, April 30^th, 2020— Series of Digitalk #39 conducted by Center for Digital Society (CfDS) was closed with the seventh talk series entitled “Risks, Rights and Rules-The European Approach to Data Regulation”. In this session, CfDS invited a communication and media expert from Berlin, Germany as the speaker of the discussion, Ingo Dachwitz. Alongside being a communication scientist, Ingo Dachwitz also works as a reporter and editor at netzpolitik.org, a blog which mostly discusses topics about technology, politics, and digital rights. read more

Yogyakarta, April 29^th 2020—Career Development Center or CDC FISIPOL UGM talked about the topic of relationship in a live streaming session through CDC’s official Instagram, @cdcfisipolugm. The live stream titled “Managing Relationships during Pandemic” was filled by one of CDC’s psychologist, Dina Wahida, M.Psi.

The live stream began on 1 pm, though the elaboration of the material started at 1.16 on. Amidst that gap of time, Dina said hi and chatted with attendants that are already there. Dina also asked for some advice from the attendant regarding the topic and time of the psycho-education live stream session that will be held next Thursday. read more