This phenomenon can be seen in the recent Ghozali case. Ghozali got millions of rupiah because he successfully sold an NFT of his selfie for five years. This creates plenty of responses from society, with some of them interested in delving into the NFT world even though they don’t understand the whole thing yet. 

However, the NFT culture also creates a wrong mindset in the society where they see technology merely as a way to reap money instead of a place to create innovative work.

“I agree that NFT is a moneymaker for their creativity, but at the same time the Opensea market is now filled with people who are trying to copy Ghozali’s work by using corruptor’s photos, and even worse, some use their selfie with their identity card,” Perdana said. read more

Yogyakarta, January 13th 2022─Christmas and New Year’s Day may have passed, but the spirit to keep their love will never be extinguished. This was the background behind the implementation of the Christmas Celebration of FISIPOL UGM on Thursday (13/1). Different from previous years, the Christmas celebration entitled “The Love of Christ That Moves Brotherhood” was held in a hybrid way—a combination of offline for the organizers and some performers, and online for the event participants.

According to the title, the Christmas Celebration of FISIPOL UGM is not only a religious celebration. Moreover, there are also social values that include kinship and diversity within the faculty, as stated by Wawan Mas’udi as the Dean of FISIPOL UGM in his speech. These values are clearly reflected in the people involved in the implementation of this year’s Christmas Celebration of FISIPOL UGM; both the committee and the participants also involved non-Christian academics. read more

Yogyakarta, January 12th 2022─Indonesia Businessman Association (APINDO) and Gadjah Mada University Faculty of Social and Political Science (Fisipol UGM) established a cooperation in terms of providing internships for UGM university students in APINDO companies on Wednesday (12/1/2022). The interns will be placed in APINDO member companies and Apindo Partner Companies for three to six months. 

The cooperation is a form of support from the industry and academic world for the government that aims to fulfill the state’s strategic goals which is creating excellent human resources. This cooperation is also an implementation of the Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) program that was initiated by the Republic of Indonesia’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology. read more

Yogyakarta, January 11th 2022─Universitas Gadjah Mada through its official channel (@ugm.yogyakarta) held a Study Program Talk, in which in this episode 11 discussed about six study programs in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. The study program discussion series was conducted through a question and answer session guided by moderator Aura Maulidatul K. and answered by six speakers who were representatives of each study program. Starting from Mada Sukmajati (Head of Undergraduate Program of the Department of Politics and Government), Gabriel Lele (Head of Undergraduate Program of the Department of Public Policy Management), Fuji Riang Prastowo (Secretary of the Department of Sociology), Treviliana Eka Putri (Secretary of Department of International Relations), Bahruddin (Secretary of the Department of Social Development and Welfare), and Nyarwi Ahmad (Head of Department of Communication Studies). “The Department of Politics and Government has a vision of realizing educational institutions as the development of social science and political science that sided with democratic and human values. The curriculum that we offer has studies on politics, government, and general social sciences,” explained Mada Sukmajati, Head of the Undergraduate Study Program at the Department of Politics and Government at the start of the Q&A session of the Study Program Discussion. read more

“Sexual violence cases are revealed more often these days. These cases create a sense of worry and it happens, ironically, in the academic environment” Annisa said, in an event moderated by Gilang Irfan Anshori, a student of the Faculty of Social Development and Welfare UGM.

These kinds of discussions can facilitate the rise of awareness regarding sexual violence, especially in universities. 

According to the speakers, the sexual violence cases in universities arose because of many factors such as a power relations imbalance, the lack of legal protection in universities, and the need to protect the reputation of a university which makes the victim’s demand for justice more difficult.  read more

Yogyakarta, January 6th 2022─Universitas Gadjah Mada together with the Merdeka Indonesia Jaya Campus held a Socialization of the Batch 2 of Independent Study Program for Internship and Certified Independent Studies (MSIB) at Kampus Merdeka of 2022 on Thursday (6/1). The event, which took place through Zoom Meeting, invited several MSIB Batch 1 students to share their experiences.

The Independent Campus Program by the Ministry of Education and Culture is an opportunity for students to take part in cross-study and cross-campus learning. Apart from being able to convert up to 20 credits into credits, this program also provides a certain amount of money at the end of the implementation. The program registration and selection process is carried out through the official website of the Kampus Merdeka, kampusmerdeka.kemdikbud.go.id, including uploading the required documents. read more

Yogyakarta, December 30th 2021─Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (Fisipol) Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in collaboration with the People’s Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (MPR RI) held a discussion with the theme “Consolidating Democracy and Strengthening the Ideology of Pancasila”. The event, which was held in a hybrid way (online and offline), at the Ballroom of Novotel Suites Yogyakarta Malioboro and the Zoom Meeting virtual room, presented speakers consisting of academics and political practitioners from the MPR and DPR RI. The event was opened by MC Debora Putri and then the discussion was guided by a lecturer from the Department of Politics and Government (DPP) of Fisipol UGM, Joash Tapiheru. The Dean of Fisipol UGM, Wawan Mas’udi, and the Deputy Chair of the Indonesian People’s Consultative Assembly, Ahmad Basarah, gave a speech at this event.In his speech, Wawan explained that the discussion with the MPR RI aimed to examine the issue of democracy in Indonesia. According to Wawan, the substantive aspect, namely the ideology of Pancasila, is important to consider when discussing democracy. read more

Yogyakarta, December 14th 2021─FISIPOL UGM’s Social Inclusion and Democratic Society Analysis Team held a research dissemination event titled “Challenges and Potential of Tolerant and Inclusive Society in West Java” on Tuesday (14/12). The event held through Zoom Meeting was attended by Dr. Wawan Mas’udi (Dean of FISIPOL UGM) as the head of the research team and two respondents which were Dr. Diah Kusumaningrum (FISIPOL UGM) and Renata Arianingtyas, MA (The Asia Foundation).

Since March 2020, FISIPOL UGM Social Inclusion and Democratic Society Analysis Team have been doing research which maps the challenges and potential of the creation of an inclusive and tolerant society in Indonesia with the help of International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD). The research was based on a concern for the development of democracy in Indonesia which still lags in its substantive aspect.  read more

Yogyakarta, December 13th 2021─FISIPOL UGM’s Unit of Academic Innovation held a Lecturer Workshop Series with the theme of “University Innovation Assessment” on Monday (13/12). The event was done through Zoom Meeting and invited Grendi Hendrastomo, Pedagogy Expert as well as lecturer from Yogyakarta State University as the speaker. The event was held due to the concern from FISIPOL UGM lecturers about the output assessment method of university tasks.

On this occasion, Grendi talked about assessment development and student activity based scoring according to the learning objective. According to him, an assessment is a process of gathering proofs as a way to create a decision related to the learning outcomes in line with the learning objectives that are being measured. Assessments are aimed to help increase learning productivity, determine learning outcomes, and evaluate the learning quality. The assessment principles are validity, justice, objectivity, thoroughness, continuity, openness, and meaning. read more

Yogyakarta, December 10th 2021─Institute of Governance and Public Affairs Master of Public Administration or IGPA MAP UGM, launched the latest dissemination results in the form of a book on Friday (10/12). The launch of the book entitled “Questioning Decent and Fair Work in the Gig Economy in Indonesia” is also a new step for one of the current focus issues of IGPA MAP UGM, which is the digital economy, especially the gig economy.

The ceremonial officially launched with a speech from Ely Susanto, this book published by IGPA Press consists of two parts. In chapters one to five, the authors under the umbrella of the first part “The Influence of Platforms, Sharing Economy, and Partnership Relationships on Eligibility & Fairness of Work for Online Ojek Drivers” attempt to specifically review the working conditions of online motorcycle taxi drivers. This 224-page book also tries to explain the conditions of workers in creative industries and non-platform gig workers in the second part entitled “The Impact of Market Logic on Vulnerability of Creative Workers, Musicians, and Garment Workers” which covers chapters six to ten. read more