Yogyakarta, September 12th 2021─GAMAPI and KAPSTRA Fisipol UGM held an Acitya Webinar with the title “Stock Strategy for Beginners in a Pandemic Period” on (12/09). This event is held online and is a collaboration between GAMAPI’s entrepreneurship division and KAPSTRA’s creative economy. On this occasion, the presenters were quite interesting, namely Fischa Dwi Choirina as the Capital Market Educator for understanding stocks. In addition, this event was moderated by Bhram Raditya K. as the Deputy Chair of ESM FEB UGM and was attended by 240 webinar participants. In general, the discussion in the webinar explores various information about investing and stocks, ranging from the importance of having an investment mindset to safe investing tips for beginners. read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th  2021─Usually, fresh graduates are confused about how to jump into their career world. This is the reason behind the RISETalk #16 events titled “Fresh Graduates, Don’t be Confused!” held by the Youth Studies Center (YouSure) Fisipol UGM with Rise Foundation on Saturday (11/9). The event was streamed live on Instagram and was hosted by Ika Kusumawati as a Human Resource practitioner as well as Safira Tafani as a Research Assistant Intern at YouSure Fisipol UGM.  read more

Yogyakarta, September 11th 2021–UGM Library held Library Update #8 with the theme of Library Service for Social and Humanities Cluster with Fisipol and UGM Law Faculty (10/9). On this occasion, Yuli Hesti Wahyuningsih as the Coordinator of Fisipol UGM Library said that the Fisipol Library is developing a centralized system for an electronic based service which is through the digilib.fisipol.ugm.ac.id.

Fisipol students can access Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) through the website. New students of batch 2021 can directly go to the website using their SSO UGM account to fully access the ETD because they are already registered in the system. Students can also access the book catalogue made by the Fisipol Library that has been converted to an electronic book catalogue. In regards to electronic journals, students can access lib.ugm.ac.id managed by the Central Library of UGM. In the future, digilib.fisipol.ugm.ac.id will also provide access to supporting links or platforms for the academic reference of students, including E-Library and Kubuku.  read more

This year, Public Action shone a light on several issues and challenges related to ASEAN’s three community pillars. First, the concern about the social and environmental impact in the consumption and production chain of the fast fashion industry considering that most fast fashion industries created their factories in developing countries because the cost is lower. Second, the importance of support for indigenous community’s rights to welfare, especially concerning their access to the public and market. Third, the difficulties in implementing democratic values, especially the freedom of speech and expression in the era of digital democracy.  read more

Yogyakarta, September 10th 2021─Briwork Fisipol UGM together with the Semi-Autonomous Agency for Photography (Publisia Photo Club of the Department of Communication Science/Dikom of UGM) held Workshop #2 with the theme Food Photography. By presenting Putri Khansa (Instagram Food Photographer @khansa.cekrek) as a speaker, the implementation of Workshop #2 was carried out in three stages, starting from a material presentation session, a question and answer session, to closing with a mini workshop session by conducting several photo assessments of food products by the speaker. read more

Prof. Dr. Phil Hermin Indah Wahyuni, S.IP., M.Sc. as the Keynote Speaker conveyed three main ideas about the role of communication in responding to the pandemic. First, the idea that communication is upstream and downstream of the problem. Second, the entropy paradox of public communication systems in the new media era. Third, the scientific challenge to respond to the complexity of the pandemic problem is a moment of contribution to the development of a better society. “This means that as a communication scientist, we must continue to be creative in developing research that offers a new perspective following trends and developments in the empirical world which is extremely dynamic,” Hermin said. read more

Yogyakarta, September 8th 2021─Indonesian Young Sociopreneurs or Soprema UGM again presents a national webinar as one of a series of events in the second year of online Soprema implementation. Held on Wednesday (8/9) through the Zoom Meeting platform, the webinar entitled “Sociopreneur 101: Sociopreneur Strategy in Awakening the Nation in the Era of Disruption” seeks to provide a discussion space for academics and practitioners regarding various alternative strategies for young sociopreneurs. Soprema believes that the COVID-19 pandemic situation is actually a challenge and not an obstacle for young people in carrying out their social businesses. read more

Yogyakarta, September 8th 2021─The Center for Digital Society presents a new learning session in a series of Digital Intelligence classes, namely the Ask Me Anything session. Held for the first time on Wednesday (8/9), the Ask Me Anything session of the Digital Intelligence class collaborated with Google Indonesia to delve deeper into “Digital Entrepreneurship: Next Level of Business in the Digital Era” with the general public, not limited to participants. Digital Intelligence class only. In the Ask Me Anything session which was hosted by Iradat Wirid as the Manager of the Digital Intelligence 2021 course, the speakers and participants had the opportunity to discuss how to run entrepreneurship with digital technologies that are now available, especially those on the Google platform. read more

Yogyakarta, September 3rd 2021─FISIPOL CRISIS Center (FCC) UGM organizes the safe social space webinar with the title “Disabled and Sexual Violence”. The event was held online and presented two speakers namely Sarli Zulhendra, a member of the Sigab Advocacy Team and Alexander Farrel, one of the disabled students of UGM. In addition, this webinar also presented two signal interpreters, so the event was held quite inclusive. On this occasion, the event was attended by 48 participants with a discussion on sexual violence against disabilities, ways that could be done to prevent sexual violence, and ethics to serve disabled in handling cases of sexual violence. read more

Yogyakarta, September 1st 2021─The Department of Governmental Politics (DPP) Fisipol UGM held a public lecture titled “State Border Diplomacy” on Monday (01/09). This time, the speaker, Dr. Thomas Umbu Pati, is an alumni of DPP Fisipol UGM who is now the Director of Urban Management and State Border in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The moderator was Dr. Arie Ruhyanto as a lecturer in DPP Fisipol UGM. The event was held online and attended by 48 people with the topic that spans from the essence of what is a state border to the management of various problems in the border area.  read more