Yogyakarta, February 7th 2022─Fisipol UGM’s Center for Digital Society is back with the 26th OPOSIT with the title “Is the Digital Space Safe from Sexual Violence?” on Monday (7/2). The event that was held through @cfds_ugm’s Instagram Live invited Duke from University of Indonesia Criminology and Puke from University of Indonesia Sexuality and Gender Study Center.  

Sexual violence is a term which belongs to a bigger concept which is the Online Gender-based Violence. Contained in the Online Gender-Based Violence term is the privacy violation, surveillance, defamation of reputation or credibility, violation which can be complemented by online violation, direct violence and threat, as well as targeted attack towards certain communities.  read more

In the Private Data Protection Bill, an opportunity of privacy violence can be highlighted in which citizen’s data can be taken for the purpose of the state’s data collection. However, there is not one part in the bill which mentions the parties who will be authorized to take the data. This is a dangerous loophole because the ambiguous third party can weaken law enforcement and surveillance.

“Take for example the instance when we are being recorded but the party who does this isn’t responsible which, in many events we’ve seen recently, leads to data leakage. Data collection is important for the state, however from the law perspective, we still don’t feel safe about this,” Fatah Yusi said.  read more

Yogyakarta, February 4th 2022─The first Fisipol Open Days were held by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UGM with the theme “Socialization of Academic and Mixed Lectures” on Friday (4/2). The event, which took place via Instagram Live @fisipolugm, presented speakers Wawan Mas’udi (The Dean of Fisipol UGM) and Poppy S. Winanti (Vice Dean for Academic & Student Affairs of Fisipol UGM). The latest academic guide for all lecturers and students of Fisipol UGM was finalized in mid last January. Some of the things formulated in the guide are the issue of Merdeka Learning Campus Merdeka (MBKM), fast track programs, and academic ethics outside the scientific study program. Wawan Mas’udi said that the MBKM system is an SKS (Semester Credit Unit) conversion and is more emphasized as a method to achieve knowledge and competence outside the study program. read more

Yogyakarta, February 4th 2022─Universitas Gadjah Mada held another UGM Update series with a topic related to “International Undergraduate Program New Student Admission”. In this second episode, there were five study programs which became the topic of further discussion regarding the IUP program, namely two study programs from the scientific cluster consisting of Pharmacy and Chemistry, and the next three study programs from the social humaniora cluster which are International Relations, Communication Studies, and Public Policy Management. “The International Relations IUP program has been established since 2011 with several offers of concentration, ranging from issues of Global Politics Security, International Political and Economic Development, and Peace and Conflict Studies. We initiate some of these concentrations through collaboration with several foreign universities that are partners, while still considering the International Relations curriculum of UGM,” said Treviliana Eka Putri as Secretary of the International Relations Study Program. read more

Yogyakarta, January 27th 2022─The Department of Social Development and Welfare (PSdK) Fisipol UGM held Social Development Talks with the topic “‘Beautiful Student’ Accounts: Glorification or Exploitation?” on Thursday (27/1). The event took place through a Zoom Meeting, by presenting Maulidya Indah Mega Saputri (an undergraduate student of the Department of PSdK) as the main speaker.

The discussion about the exploitation of women occurs in the academic community in a unique and hidden form. In fact, the campus should be the safest and most comfortable place to carry out learning activities. Even interestingly, sensitive discussion like this is often excluded from development and welfare discourse. read more

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