Yogyakarta, 12 March—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) cooperated with Gojek, Commission I of House of People’s Representatives of Republic Indonesia, and Ministry of Communication and Information Technology Indonesia in the event called Digitalk #38 on Thursday (12/3). This time, DigiTalk’s topic talked about the prevention of psychological manipulation and other crimes in digital world that arose along with the rise of digital services in Indonesia.

Aditya Hidayat as the Adjunct Researcher of CfDS explained that psychological manipulation (Magis) is a fraud with social engineering technique in digital era which exploited the psychological side of their service users. The main key of Magis itself is to accomplish certain emotional condition so that users are encouraged to do something or get fooled. One of Magis’s forms is personal identity theft by irresponsible people. read more

Literature is going through rough times. Some might say that it is inching closer towards its doom. Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian literature aficionado, said in its compilation of essay called “The Death of a Great Writer”, that literature in the modern era have lost its magical touch. This is ironic seeing how decades ago, literature was on par with religion; philosophers and literati from all across the world grows rapidly like wild seeds on earth. We know them as the giants of civilization; Sartre, his wife Simone, Zola, Borges, Chekov, Tolstoy, and many more. Meanwhile, now, finding writers on their level is close to impossible. read more

Yogyakarta, March 11^th 2020 – Last Wednesday, The Student Board of Gadjah Mada University’s Faculty of Social and Political science held a public discussion. This forum used the “Perempuan Punya Cerita” movie (eng: Women Have Stories) to start a discussion about the problems in Indonesian female life.  This movie is a compilation of four short stories – Island Story, Yogyakarta Story, Cibinong Story, and Jakarta Story – which narrates different issues related to women’s life.

Due to a time limitation, the movie screening only showed the Yogyakarta Story segment. The movie screening was then followed by a discussion held in the BRI Work Amphitheatre from 16.00 to 18.00 pm. The speaker in this event were Mrs. Pola Setiahati from Yogyakarta UPT P2TP2A, Mr. Ramadhani Thareq Kemal Pasha from Planned Parenthood, and Ms. Anggun from Women’s March. read more

Yogyakarta, March 10^th 2020 – Dema Fisipol UGM Kabinet Basudara (Fisipol UGM Student Council Basudara’s Cabinet) held Dipcool #1 or the first series of Dema Fisipol School with discussing over Adam Smith’s Social-Political and Economic Philosophy on March 10, 2020, at 15.30. Discussion with the speaker Drs Muhadi Sugiono, M.A., as a lecturer in International Relations and Fadhil Haidar as the moderator, was held in the room 203 of BA building in Faculty of Social and Political Science UGM. The discussion attended by approximately 15 people from various departments in Fisipol UGM. Despite the little amount of audience, the forum took place smoothly and lively. read more

Since the beginning of the year, fears have been spreading like wildfire. The virus known to originate from an animal and fish market in Hubei Province, China spread and claimed victims all over the world. Novel Coronavirus (later referred to as Corona), the name of the virus, presented itself as a new year surprise and soon became calamity to the world. According to Kompas.com, up until the March 1^st, 86.986 cases worldwide have been confirmed, with 2.979 deaths and 42.294 successfully treated. The number might or might not continue to escalate in near future. Whether the numbers rise or not, the fact that worries have haunted not only Wuhan but also other cities in the world should not be called into doubt. read more

Yogyakarta, 5 March 2020—Organization of Humanity FISIPOL UGM held its first discussion and film screening Kim Ji-Young: Born 1982 with the topic, “Women’s Domestication in Modern Era, Is That Relevant?”. The film, Kim Ji-Young: Born 1982, represents how patriarchy is still ingrained in the marriage life. The main female character in this film portrays how she views her role as the housewife in the family which makes her suffers from severe depression. Not only that, this film also portrays the demands and obstacles of the working women. Overall, all of the problems is packed very neatly in this 1 hour and 58 minutes film, so it may encourage women to speak up regarding gender inequality in their lives. read more

Yogyakarta, 5 March 2020—The progress of Career Development Center, also known as CDC, within the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences can be said that it has been able to help the students to improve their capacity development. As one of the capacity development institution which located in the campus, CDC always tries to arrange programs that correspond to the interests and talents of the Fisipol students. This was also stated by the Head of Development and Capacity Division CDC, Alifia Nuarifia, that the programs that will and are still being held by the CDC are the result of the Fisipol students’ participation. By giving a survey related to the program that interesting for the students, CDC will do a crosscheck and arrange the programs that will represent the interests of the students. read more

Yogyakarta, 5 Maret 2020—Student Research and Creative Corner (SRCC) FISIPOL UGM held a writing class that discussed about scientific research. The class that took place in building BA 205 FISIPOL UGM was taught by Tauchid Komara Yudha, the writer of international journals, Suara Mahasiswa, and Republika. With Yudha, the evening class discussed how writer’s mindset must be built, especially in the case of scientific paper writing in social field.

SRCC itself is one of the student’s activity units in FISIPOL UGM. SRCC focused on developing student writing competences, reasoning skill, and competition. “The initial formation of SRCC was motivated by the lack of organization to do consolidation for faculty student creativity week,” Riza Nur Pratama, one of SRCC organizers, explained. He also explained, this event was the first class in 2020. But, for the future SRCC will try to make this kind of class become a monthly program. read more

Yogyakarta, 28 February 2020—“If from the beginning, our initial orientation in starting this business was making a huge profit, Ruangguru will not last until now,” Adamas Belva said, the Co-Founder of Ruangguru, in an event called The Third Series of Sociopreneurship Class: Spread the Knowledge to Every Corner, last Friday. Until 2020, the number of users of this biggest education startup in Indonesia has reached 15 millions students.

That event was initiated by the Department of Politics and Government Fisipol UGM and supported by Innovation and Academic Research Center UGM (PIKA UGM). From 13.00 WIB, rows of chairs in the 4th Floor Auditorium Fisipol UGM, the venue of this event, were filled with audiences. Besides Belva, there was also the Founder of Bahaso, Tyovan Ari Widagdo. Ari began to develop this platform where people can learn foreign language online in 2015. To the audiences, Belva and Ari talked about their experiences in starting a business which known by the people as sociopreneurship. read more

First Intake

Application Submission   : 13 January – 12 February 2020

Admission Test                 : 22 – 23 February 2020

Result Notification          : 28 February 2020

Second Intake

Application Submission   : 9 March – 8 April 2020

Admission Test                 : 18 – 19 April 2020

Result Notification          : 24 April 2020

Third Intake

Application Submission   : 18 May- 17 June 2020

Admission Test                 : 27 – 28 June 2020 read more