Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─A student from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) UGM made achievements in the “Pupuk Indonesia Fertinnovation Challenge 2021” competition organized by PT Pupuk Indonesia in collaboration with State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) on August 20th to December 20th, 2021. Saffanatul Afifah, a 2018 student from the Department of Public Policy Management, won third place in the Innovation in Agricultural Value Chain competition category.

“As a social and humanities student who doesn’t know anything about agriculture and only has anxiety about issues that surround us, being able to win is a great achievement in my opinion with existing limitations, and I am grateful to be given the opportunity to continue to learn with all the insights I can get,” Saffana said. read more

Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─Emma Millania Kartini, a student of Gadjah Mada University Communication Studies, is back with a trophy from the “Invitation of Net Game Competition 2022”, a Jogja and Central Java university student level competition which was held by the State University of Yogyakarta. The UGM table tennis athlete and the former leader of UGM Table Tennis Club won first place in the competition that was held on March 26-27th.

“I am very grateful that I still have the opportunity to join this competition in the midst of my final year. This might be the last time that I contribute something to UGM and the Table Tennis club because I plan on graduating this year,” Emma, the batch 2018 student, said. read more

Yogyakarta, March 30th 2022─In an effort to fight hoaxes and train academicians to fact check, the Department of Communication Studies (Dikom) in the Faculty of Social and Political Science (Fisipol) of Gadjah Mada University in collaboration with Indonesia Independent Journalist Association (AJI) and Google News Initiative (GNI) held two workshops in the end of 2020. Zainuddin Muda Z. Monggilo, a communication studies lecturer, was the speaker in both workshops.

On December 14th-18th 2020, Zainuddin (from here on called Zam) with Aghnia Adzkia, Senior Visual & Data Journalist BBC East Asia, gave a fact check training with Fisipol UGM academicians. In this workshop, Zam and Aghnia introduced the tools that we could use to check facts. Other than that, there are at least six materials that were delivered. First, understanding misinformation and disinformation in Indonesia. Second, surveying social media, blogs, and websites. Third, analyzing content sources and social media accounts. Fourth, verifying photos, videos, locations, and time. Fifth, understanding the ethics of fact-checking. Finally, understanding digital security and safety. Aghnia said that journalists now are more strict with verifying information and presenting facts. read more

Yogyakarta, February 28th 2022─Gadjah Mada University’s Director of Students set a list of winners of the most outstanding students awards (Pilmapres) in UGM’s faculty level on 2022 this Friday (18/2). After going through an online selection process which was held from 12-13th February 2022, the winner of the award was declared fit to join the next stage which is the Pilmapres at the university level.

Ismada Firdaus Mandala Putra, a batch 2019 student from the Sociology Department, came first place in the faculty of social and political science. Ismada said that he had won fourth place in the 2020 Pilmapres but was interested to try again in this year’s Pilmapres. According to him, as a third-year student, Pilmapres 2022 is the last opportunity that he can take and it is very rare that the most outstanding student comes from the Sociology department. read more

Two students from the Department of Communication Studies Gadjah Mada University won first and second place in the “Gen-Z Innovator Search Program” competition last December. This competition is a business innovation idea event held by Isobar (one of Dentsu Indonesia’s group) with Ajinomoto Indonesia. The first place was won by the GeneratiOne team with Reinaldo Albert Koerniadi, Luthfiana Nur Rofifah, Felicia Vaniadiva, and Dimas Satriawan Lambang W as the members. Meanwhile, the second place was held by the THR3 team with  Farah Fattatin Fauziah, Ratna Kusuma Dewi, Aisya Irdo Anwar, and Reksan Ridho Julviaji as the members. All of the students from both teams are from the Department of Communication Studies Gadjah Mada University batch 2019. read more

A similar achievement from the same department was made by Satria Setya Wibawa. Equipped with communication studies knowledge, he won three championships in the film category. He won first place in the Spectrum Fisip UNS 2021 Short Movie Championship, first place in FETEPERS FKIP ULM 2021 short education movie championship as well as third place and voters-favorite winner in the Agriploxion 2021 short video championship. Satria also created a film community with members from many different universities. This community is aimed to be a place of discussion, collaboration, and a group to enter and win championships. read more

Yogyakarta, September 30th 2021─The increasingly diverse social media platforms have had an effect on changing user attitudes, especially Generation Z. One of the reasons is that there are differences in the features of each social media platform so that users actively try to present their best image. This prompted a number of FISIPOL UGM students through the Student Creativity Program (PKM) to conduct research on the reality behind the diversity of social media features.

The PKM team in the field of Social Humanities Research, consisting of Maftukhatun Deritanti, Dyah Niken Rahmawati, Syifa Mahmudah, and Vina Idamatus Silmi raised the research title “The Multiple Faces of Social Media Users: The Use of Social Media in Building Image Among Generation Z”. With the guidance of a Communication Science lecturer, Lisa Lindawati, S.IP., M.A, they made observations on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter social media accounts. “Through this research, it is expected to be able to describe how someone uses social media accounts along with the level of suitability of the circumstances shown by the user, identify a person’s motives in using social media, and provide a new perspective on active users in utilizing various social media platforms, as well as reduce user’s anxiety in using social media,” Maftukhatutun as the Head of the Research Team said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 29th 2021─The Covid-19 Pandemic affects the cases of violence against women, especially domestic violence. With this in mind, the Asean Studies Center (ASC) Fisipol UGM created the first series of ASEAN Talk-ReaLISM titled Reading, Learning, and Investigating Southeast Asia through Movies. The ASEAN Talk was held on Wednesday (29/9) and was opened by a documentary film titled Standing on the Edge of a Thorn: A Family in Rural Indonesia (2012). The movie that talks about poverty, mental health, and domestic violence was produced by Robert Lemelson, an American Anthropologist is also present in the event. Other than Robert Lemelson, ASEAN Talk also invited Udiana Puspa Dewi, S.S., MA. as a PhD Candidate in the University of Queensland, and Ninik Supartini, M.Si., as a researcher in the Robert Lemelson Foundation. read more

Constructing an undergraduate thesis is something that needs to be done by all final year students. This is not an easy task to do, because a student has to use all their knowledge that they have accumulated in their university years. No wonder when constructing their undergraduate thesis a student can be confused because they do not know where they should start from. 

To relieve students’ confusion, the Fisipol UGM Governmental Politics Student Corps (KOMAP) held an undergraduate thesis class that was in session from July to September. In the event, participants studied the different parts of a thesis, starting from the background to the research method. The speakers invited varied, starting from lecturers to Polgov UGM researchers. Students’ enthusiasm is also pretty high. There were always more than 50 students who attended the lectures.  read more

“The urgency now is that we are in a faster digital transformation because of the pandemic,” said Semuel A. Pangerapan, the Director General of Informatics Application in the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo) Indonesia. Unfortunately, a couple of surveys show that citizens of Indonesia’s digital literacy is still low. The government through Kominfo tries to increase citizens’ digital literacy so that they are prepared to face the digital transformation era. 

Kominfo aims to get 50 million Indonesia’s citizens to have digital literacy by 2024. Since 2020, Kominfo aims to literate 12,5 million people every year through the movements of agents of change. Samuel explained that in order to educate certain groups, we need to use a cultural approach because not all society can be literate just by reading. According to him, the curriculum of digital literacy needs to always be developed. “We need to always remind people about digital literacy but also not be seen as too snobbish,” Samuel said.  read more