Yogyakarta, 14 September 2020—Center for Digital Society Fisipol UGM is back with the 33rd Digital Discussion on Sunday night. The digital discussion via Whatsapp Group raised the topic of “Maintaining Study Life Balance in the Digital Era”. Haris Hendrik, the second runner up of the Accomplished University Student Award UGM 2020, is the speaker in this session. As usual, the event started at 7 pm and was moderated by Made Agus Bayu, an Event Assistant for CfDS.

One of the biggest indicators that a university student has reached a good study-life balance is good time management. The art of action priority matrix says that we need to prioritise based on the impact and effort of an action. There are four basic areas to consider when doing time management; quick wins, big projects, fill ins, and wasted time. “Now, what everyone has to avoid are big wasted time or small impact, big effort actions. These actions will take a lot of time but will give us little to no impact,” Haris said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th 2020 – Sharing Session which was held by Creative Hub Fisipol UGM on Friday (11/9) presented Rudy Suryanto, the expert of BUMDes also the lecturer of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), as the speaker. Through the Google Meet platform, this event brought a topic “Unpopular Business: BUMDes and How to Survive in a Crisis Period”. Matahari Farransahat, the director of C-Hub Fisipol UGM, became the moderator of this event.

BUMDes (Villages’ Enterprises) are growing rapidly every year, until now, around 51,149 BUMDes have been formed. From the last month’s data, as many as 39,634 were re-registered, it means that several BUMDes are inactive after they were established. But, from those numbers, turned out more than 10,000 BUMDes are still active during this pandemic. Rudi assessed that there are several factors that distinguish BUMDes that are still or not moving. First, full support from the village government and community participation or cohesiveness. “The only way to survive a crisis is with togetherness, mobilize the social solidarity that will become financial capital, how gotong royong is used to survive a crisis (pandemic),” Rudy said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th 2020 – The polemic over the issuance of the agenda for the ratification of the RUU PKS from Prolegnas which in recent months has become an issue for the people haso become one of the interesting topics of digital future discussion which was held by Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM. This digital discussion series that was held for the 33th time presented an activist whose concern is in the gender equality issues, Kalis Mardiasih. This woman who is familiarly called Kalis is also an active writer in several websites such as Mojok, Detik, and Geo Times. In this Difussion #33, Kalis was invited to share her views and knowledge regarding the urgencies of RUU PKS and analyzing the problematics of gender-based online sexual violence which was normalized by some people. read more

Yogyakarta, September 10th 2020—Career Development Center (CDC) Webinar of FISIPOL UGM which presented Ari Widianti, a psychologist of industry and organization as its speaker (10/9). With her background as a Career Consultant in Bestalent, Dian explained about goals, competencies that are assessed, challenges, to preparation tips of LGD.

Leaderless Group Discussion (LGD) is one of the stages of recruitment to assess leadership, creativity, adaptability, and enthusiasm of participants. Therefore, participants are expected to prepare competencies, knowledge or insights, as well as performances before participating in LGD in order to qualify for the next stage. read more

The coronavirus pandemic has existed for a long time and it brought a lot of burden to several industries, including Indonesia’s film industry. The pandemic hugely affected the network of cinema who used to be the primary place to watch movies. On 23 March 2020, the local government of DKI Jakarta deactivated one of the biggest cinema companies in Indonesia, Cinema XXI, to support the semi-quarantine measures (Ardanareswari, 2020). At first, only two weeks of deactivation was planned. However, seeing that the situation has not been better, the deactivation is changed to an indefinite amount of time. The local government of DKI Jakarta cancelled the permit to open cinemas numerous times to prevent a more aggressive spread of the virus. In effect, the premier and promotion for several domestic movies are postponed. Several production processes are also halted for an indefinite time. read more

The spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia triggers an array of problems in several sectors. In this case, some activities that used to be done offline have to adapt to an online system. The research sector is also disturbed by this pandemic since several field research can’t be conducted in order to minimize the physical interaction between the researcher and the respondent.

The pandemic and alternative research method
The health and security aspect becomes the utmost priority of each individual, including university students,in the middle of this pandemic. The limitation of space, difficulty to get out of their home, and the strict health rules are factors that contribute to the failure of last year university students to complete their final essay. Generally, this pandemic makes it difficult for final year students to conduct field research or qualitative research that requires them to physically be in the field to observe. Meanwhile, the average research method used by bachelor students, especially in the politics and government department, is the qualitative field research with a primary data source (Savirani, 2020). read more

Yogyakarta, 5 September 2020—In commemoration of International Literacy Day, DiskusHI #4 picked the topic of literacy activism performed by IR UGM alumni, its relevance with international relations, and the urgency of literacy (particularly in the midst of the pandemic). Titled“From International Relations to Literacy”, the event invited Okky Madasari—IR UGM alumna batch 2002 who is currently working as a writer —and Deddy Permadi – IR UGM alumnus batch 2004 who acted as the head of SIBERKREASI ’17 and is currently a special staff for the Minister of Communication and Information — to speak on the matter. The discussion was aired live through Zoom and moderated by Nenda Primonik Rengganis—an IR UGM alumna batch 2008—CEO and founder of Hipwee. read more

Yogyakarta, September 3rd 2020—“Cover letter is one of the requirements that is needed to apply for a job. Therefore, a cover letter should be interesting to succeed in the recruitment process. “At least 49% of HR managers consider a cover letter to be the second best thing that can boost an applicant’s resume,” said Stephanie Wijanarko, Program Director of VOOYA, in her introduction of the material in the webinar Powerful Cover Letter: Heroes vs Villains Archetype Storytelling Technique. read more

Yogyakarta, September 3rd 2020—The Digital Intelligence Class Series, which is the newest course at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, presented a webinar entitled “UX Writer: New Job Options in The Digital Industry” on the last Thursday (3/9) together with Rizqie ‘Keke’ Aulia, as the UX Writer Halodoc, that shared her experiences on YouTube Live.

Familiarly called ‘Keke’, this alumna of the Department of International Relations of FISIPOL UGM class 2011, shared her experiences of being a UX Writer, a new profession which is still strange for many people. “UX Writer profession developed in 2015 or 2016. Back then, there was no need to become a UX Writer, because the digital world is developing, there will be more diverse jobs in the future,” Keke said as the opening of discussion. read more

Yogyakarta, 31 Agustus 2020—#BRIWORKMikirBareng Fisipol UGM is back with a discussion about one of the current topics ever since quarantine is implemented which is business in the middle of the pandemic. This discussion series that was held for one hour invited Andy Sugiarto (Team Leader of Indonesia Mall) and Sulistyorini or Orin (An owner of a low caffeine coffee brand, Kopinata) as the speakers. The difficulties faced during the pandemic is not an excuse to not be productive. The condition that forced humans and other sectors of life to adapt also pushes new responses to the status quo. One of them comes from the business sector which needs to be quick in adapting to the demands of the market. read more