Yogyakarta, July 1^st 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) at Gadjah Mada University Faculty of Social Science and Politic is back with another OPOSiT session – a discussion series that talks about the digital world. In this episode of OPOSiT, CfDS raised the topic of data security. This talk was open to everyone who wanted to join. For those who wants to talk or share their insights, they can ask the OPOSiT host to invite them to join the CfDS Instagram live stream.

In the beginning of the fifth OPOSiT, the host said hi to the viewers and asked the viewers where they came from and how they are doing. The host also briefly explained the topic that is going to be discussed; data security that is closely tied to stories about digital fraud. There is an interesting information that CfDS found while researching about this topic. Turns out, the actors of the digital fraud do their action by using psychological manipulation to the victims. read more

Yogyakarta, 28 June 2020—Department of Communication Sciences Universitas Gadjah Mada organized a discussion titled Ngopi (Ngobrol Pagi) #3. Several women speakers were invited, including Dr. Ninik Rahayu, S. H., M. S. representing Ombudsman Republik Indonesia, Anita Wahid as the Presidium of Mafindo, and Novi Kurnia, Ph.D. as a lecturer in Department of Communication Sciences UGM. Highlighting women, hoax, and the 2020 local elections, the discussion examined the issue at hand very carefully and succeeded in providing fresh insights to the audience. Generally, the discussion underlined women’s vulnerability vis-à-vis information disorder taking place around the time of local elections. read more

Yogyakarta, 27 June 2020—Virtual discussion Warung Politik organized by Korps Mahasiswa Politik dan Pemerintahan (Student Corps of Government and Political Science) FISIPOL UGM was successfully held under the theme of “We Are Papua, #PapuanLivesMatter (Racism and Suppression of Political Freedom)”. Present were Cahyo Pamungkas as a LIPI Researcher focusing on the research titled Roadmap 4 Masalah Papua, Tigor Hutapea as a representative of Yayasan PUSAKA Bentala Rakyat, Sayang Mandabayan as an ex-political prisoner as of September 2019, and Maximus Sedrik representing Aliansi Mahasiswa Papua. read more

Yogyakarta, 27 June 2020—Youth Studies Centre (YouSure) FISIPOL UGM invited Isna Nur Fajria from the Department of Government and Political Sciences UGM and Ferdi Arifin from IMAOS ID as speakers in the Bincang Muda forum (26/06). IMAOS ID is a media which provides references on parenting and family financial management from scientific sources like books and journals. Both speakers discuss family relations amidst the pandemic, particularly newlyweds.

The COVID-19 pandemic obliged the people to limit physical interaction and spend time at home. Such confinement might affect ourselves and people in our surroundings, notably our family. The boredom and discomfort might spark conflicts and establish unhealthy relationships. read more

Yogyakarta, June 26th 2020—The Department of Public Policy Management of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Universitas Gadjah Mada, held an event called ‘Bulaksumur Conference’ for the second time with the theme ‘Beyond the Pandemic: Reinventing Citizenship or Expanding Netizenship?’. This online conference presented three expert speakers, they were Ismail Fahmi (Media Social Expert from the Drone Emprit and the Founder of Kernels Media Indonesia), Dr. Subando Agus Maryono, M.Si. (the lecturer of Public Policy Management of FISIPOL UGM), and Dr. Dedy Permadi (the Expert Staff of Digital and Human Resource Development of Ministry of Communication and Informatics). read more

Yogyakarta, June 25th 2020 – Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM held a second session of Digital Marketing Learning Class in the Digital Discussion. Still brought a same topic as the first meeting—media optimization in digital marketing and its career prospects—this time the discussion focused on website. Moderated by Iradat Wirid, the project officer event and social media of CfDS, the discussion brought back Fauzi Ananta as the speaker. This discussion became the first discussion that was done by CfDS through Discord. It hoped that it could give a bigger chance to the audience to ask the speaker. read more

Yogyakarta, June 25th 2020 – Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM held a webinar called ‘How to Impress HR Person and Win a Recruitment Process’ on Thursday (25/6). In this occasion, CDC cooperated with Nusa Talent, a platform where it could bring together the applicants and the companies who needed them. CDC presented Emmanuella Reika, the Senior Partnership and Event Specialist of Nusa Talent, as the speaker. It was moderated by Alfira, as the Capacity Development Officer of CDC Fisipol UGM. This discussion lasted from 01.00 p.m. to 03.00 p.m. on Google Meet with 63 audience. read more

Yogyakarta, June 22^nd 2020 – Gadjah Mada University’s FISIPOL BRIWORK cooperated with Jogja International MUN (JOINMUN) 2020 in holding the #BRIWORKThinkTogether discussion titled “International Relations = Diplomat?” through the Google Meet platform. This discussion invited three International Relations Department student batch 2018 who also represented JOINMUN 2020; Dhania Salsa as a moderator, as well as Christophorus Ariobumi and Fransiskus Gabriel as the speakers.

Right at 2 pm, the moderator said that the discussion will start as soon as participants enter the Google Meet room. Around 2.10 pm, the moderator opened the discussion by introducing herself and asking where the participants came from. It turns out that the participants came from many regions, there are even those outside of the Java island. The moderator then explained a bit about the discussion topic and she also introduced the other two speakers. read more

Yogyakarta, June 19th 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Fisipol UGM also discussed about new normal in the Digital Future Discussion #27 on the last Friday (19/6). This discussion which titled as ‘New Normal’ were held on the Zoom Meeting from 03.00 p.m. to 04.30 p.m. In this occasion, CfDS presented two speakers, they were Mira Ardhya Pramastri and Samuel Giovanno Johannes, both of them were the research assistant of CfDS. The discussion was moderated by Aldo Rafi.

The first topic was brought by Mira Ardhya titled as ‘Going Cashless in the New Normal: Challenges for Indonesia’s SMEs’. Mira highlight the decreasing of Indonesia’s GDP and the other complaints about people that had impacted economically. On the other side, COVID-19 cases itself is increasing everyday. New Normal itself gave the possibilities to some economic activities to be opened normally in this pandemic condition, by keep doing the health protocol. The economic activities that were limited in the large-scale social restrictions (Pembatasan Sosial Berskala Besar/PSBB) were opened again in this new normal era. Mira said that digital practice and cashless payment could be the solution. This way could be permanent if the consumers were comfortable. read more

Yogyakarta, June 18th 2020 – Since the stay at home policy were applied, people have much more time to spend on their social media. Unfortunately, the increasing intensity of social media use were also followed by the intensity of cyberbullying. Talking about bullying, it happened since long ago in a traditional way, it was done directly. And this bullying happened in everywhere, even in the campus area. To talk about it in a deeper way through the psychological perspective, Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol UGM brought this issue in the psychoeducation live session. read more