Yogyakarta, April 28^th, 2020—Center of Digital Society (CfDS) held the Digital Discourses series entitled “Data Sovereignty: Does it Matter Where Data is Stored?” which was attended by Tony Seno Hartono, a practitioner in the field of ICT (Information, Communication, and Technology) who has been in the field for 30 years.

Tony Said, data sovereignty is a concept of data privacy carried out by the government to protect the data stored. It was aimed to enforce privacy regulations and prevent data from being misused. read more

Yogyakarta, April 27^th 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS Fisipol UGM held a second session of Digitalk#39 with the theme of “Data Privacy Concepts and Regulation” that lasted from 27^th April to 30^th April 2020. The first recorded video, which is Talk 4 with the title of “Protecting Personal Data and Privacy in Southeast Asia: Going Somewhere or Nowhere” had been posted on Monday afternoon on 5 pm at CfDS’s Youtube channel. The video that lasted for 25 minutes and 18 seconds was filled by a speaker from Thailand with the name of Sutawan Chanprasert, a founder of DigitalReach, a human rights company based in Southeast Asia. read more

Yogyakarta, April 24th 2020 – BRIWork FISIPOL UGM held another event of ‘Ngobrol Bareng Populi’ on Friday (24/4). #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng brought a theme ‘Alternative Media Trend in the Eyes of Populi’ through live feature of @briwork.jogja and @populi.co Instagram. The speaker of this event was Risaza Madani or Eris from BRIWork and Geraldy Sam, as the founder of Populi. #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng was the inaugural event in pandemic. This event started at 04.40 p.m.

BRIWork is the result of collaboration of three stakeholders, they are BRI Bank, UGM, and Conclave. BRI Bank as the banking facilities and service providers who initiated to build co-working space in the campuses, UGM as the land provider (in FISIPOL UGM), and Conclave as the service provider of co-working space services and routine activities that support millennials creative ideas. “BRIWork FISIPOL UGM brought a theme about how the banking affair can be integrated with co-working space, so in the co-working space there is banking affair, there is a kind of general activity,” Eris said as he described the big picture of BRIWork. read more

Yogyakarta, April 23rd 2020 – Local Leaders Election 2020 that have been postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak was discussed in depth in the discussion series titled ‘Should We Beware of Malpractice in the Postponement of the Local Leaders Election in 2020?’ that held by the Master Program students of Department of Politics and Government with concentration of Election Governance. This discussion was moderated by Abdul Gaffar Karim, the Coordinator of Indonesian Electoral Governance Consortium and also the lecturer of Department of Politics and Government FISIPOL UGM. read more

Yogyakarta, April 23rd 2020—Last Thursday, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM held its first Postgraduate Graduation Third Period Academic Year of 2019/2020. That graduation became the first online graduation of FISIPOL UGM since pandemic COVID-19. The graduation was held on the official account of FISIPOL UGM on YouTube platform.

Through the Circular Letter No. 1683/UN1.P/HKL/TR/2020, the Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng. decided to impose maximum restrictions of college activities started from Monday (23/03/20). The entire college activities are online, graduation is no exception. read more

Yogyakarta, April 23^rd, 2020— Under the adoption of Presidential Regulation no. 36/2020 on February 26^th, 2020 by President Joko Widodo, the official Pre-Work Card program can be pursued by Indonesians who comply with the terms and conditions of the program. Considered a form of response to the issuance of the Pre-Work Card program, Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Fisipol UGM as the study center produced research aimed at identifying the potential implementation of the Pre-Work Card program by considering the digital landscape in Indonesia. The research was delivered through an online press conference on Thursday (23/4), by two CfDS researchers, Treviliana Eka Putri, M.Int.Sec. and Paska Darmawan, M.S. Press conference conducted by CfDS through Google Meet platform also invited media colleagues to attend the event. The event started at 10.00 WIB moderated by Kirana Anisa. read more

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, six FISIPOL UGM university students grabbed a prize in the Administration Fair 2020 national competition. The first place was held by Izul Fikri Amal, Ardi Muhammad Rifqu, and Brilian Priatmaja. Meanwhile the fourth place was held by Alifandi Tranggono, Abdul Qoyumm, and Bhram Kusuma. Those winners are from FISIPOL UGM’s Public Policy Management Department.The competition that was held by Hassanudin University Social and Politic Faculty was stymied by the physical distancing regulation in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. The five grand finalist team that went through the paper selection and had to go through several other processes had to be cancelled. The whole process was supposed to be held in Makassar, but the method was changed so that it can be done online. “One of the reason why our team want to join this competition is because we want to have a trip to Makassar. But, what can we do. Sometimes, we can only make plans.”, explained Bhram about his disappointment. The committee of the competition finally decided to have the national conference and focus group discussion virtually.

Though the line of events was done virtually, the team expressed their excitement in joining the FGD and other events. “It was very pleasurable because the moderator of the FGD was from a policy study institution and they were like a mentor to us,” said Izul. The same thing was expressed by Brahm. According to him, even though the event is held online, the FGD still expanded their knowledge. “We start to see how the students from other university have a unique perspective on a certain issue,” Brahm elaborated. read more

Yogyakarta, April 22th 2020—Islamic Jamaah of Fisipol (JMF) held a skill class on Wednesday, April 22^nd 2020. The theme of the class was Bullet Journaling Class with “Organized to do list and real productivity” as the title. In this session, JMF had Labiqatul Fatiyasani who is the owner of @bikin_diary as the speaker. This class started at 20.30 through the Whatsapp Group platform. It had up to 257 people as the member from various places. This discussion was moderated by Latifatul Zahiroh. read more

Yogyakarta, April 22^nd 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) held Digitalk #39 which consist of two big sessions. The first session consists of discussion about the political and commercial value of data which started from April 21^st 2020 to April 23^rd 2020. The first session was called “The Data I Called: Data Collection of State and Business” which was filled by Katharina Nocun, a writer and privacy activist from Germany.

In Talk 1, Katharina talked about the contents of her book which is called The Data That I Summoned. This book explained her experiment of exposing how big companies store and use consumer’s data. Katharina admits that this experiment is a frightening one which leads her to learn about herself more than she learns about data. read more

Yogyakarta, April 22^nd 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS released the second video of the first Digitalk #39 session called ““The Commercial and Political Value of User Data”.  The video’s duration is 25 minute and it discusses the topic of social media and political ads in Indonesia which was presented by Alia Y. Karunian. Alia started the session by discussing the scandal of Cambridge Analytica that happened in the start of 2018, a turning point for online privacy and data protection. read more