Yogyakarta, August 27th 2021─As a research center under the Department of Public Policy Management (MKP) of FISIPOL UGM, the Institute for Policy Development or PolDev conducts many assistants and workshops related to economic, socio-political and public policy issues, one of which is related to policy briefs making. On Friday (27/8), through the Zoom Meeting platform, PolDev held a training on writing policy briefs with the title “Scream Out Loud to Policy Makers Through Policy Briefs: Strategies for Designing Effective Policy Briefs” which was opened to the public. read more

Then entering the main session, the first sharing of material was delivered by Gendis Syari with several important points, namely starting from why people move, how to place positions in a movement, and how we build awareness. Starting from the material about why people move, Gendis made an analogy with a simple case, in general people move because there is hope and there is an interest where they do not get their rights as they should. We need to map out who are the actors who are powerful and who are powerless, to determine alignments in a movement. Building awareness in a movement can be done by learning which further differentiates the student movement from other movements is how we present an academic perspective in the form of studies, writings as the basis for why we move. read more

Yogyakarta, August 25th 2021─Center for Digital Society (CfDS) is back with DIFFUSION #58 with the title of “Opportunities and Challenges in Social Media Based Social Movements”.The discussion was held through Zoom meetings on Wednesday, August 25th 2021 and highlighted the massive use of social media in the digital era that brings with it an array of opportunities and challenges. To analyse the big theme, Rizka Herdiani and Maulana M. Haykal as the Intern Researchers in CfDS spoke about the theme through different perspectives. Rizka talked about “The Future of Mutual Aid in Indonesia’s Digital Age” which covered several issues during the pandemic. According to her, the response of local society in their individual or group capacity towards the problem of basic necessities is one of the factors of mutual aid or the culture of gotong royong. “The rise of public distrust is the background on the lack of mutual aid,” she said. Through this topic, Rizka highlighted the culture of mutual aid that is now quite viral in social media and other online platforms.  read more

As an opening, Kishino Bawono invited the participants to understand the difference between classical colonialism and settler colonialism viewed from three aspects, namely colony autonomy, priorities, and attitudes towards indigenous people. In the comparison presented by Kishino, it can be seen that settler colonialism aims to make indigenous people’s lands as new homes for settlers by expropriating territories. Therefore, indigenous peoples are also seen as obstacles, in other words, become unwanted enemies in the structure of the settler community. read more

Yogyakarta, August 23rd 2021– Fisipol International Short Course (FISCO) is held again this year under the headline “The Dynamics of New and Renewable Energy in the Global South”. FISCO is an annual international course program hosted by Fisipol UGM in collaboration with Geo Fisipol, Pusat Energi UGM, and IESR. In this opportunity, many guest lecturers are a part of FISCO that is held from August 23rd to September 16th 2021. Several of the lecturers are Ika Krismantari from The Conversation, Prof. Raphael J. Heffron from University of Dundee, and Ir. Sarijya, Ph.D as the representative of PSE UGM. This event is attended by people from various backgrounds starting from international university students, renewable energy aficionado, and environmentalists. In total, there are 98 students from various countries.  read more

Yogyakarta, August 23rd 2021—Governmental Politics Student Corps (Komap) Fisipol UGM held a writing class that is a regular program of the Academic Division. In this sixth writing class, Komap used the topic of “Tips and tricks on making an interesting CV and motivation letter” by inviting two speakers; Arie Ruhyanto as a lecturer of the Governmental Politics Department, and Pratiwi Damayanti as the Director of Rooms in Hyatt Regency Hotel Yogyakarta.To start the session, Arie gave a welcoming remark by stating that the points that need to be paid attention to in CVs and motivation letters are how to make ourselves look interesting to hiring managers or recruiters by stating our experience, expertise, and skills. The plus point that recruiters also want to know is what is our vision and how do we achieve that vision of ours. Dovetailing Arie’s remarks, Pratiwi or better known as Dama explained the basics of cover letters and motivation letters.  read more

Yogyakarta, August 20th 2021─LPPM Sintesa Fisipol UGM held a discussion with the title ‘The Struggle of the Motherland Women’. This event was divided into two sessions, namely the screening of the film “Our Mothers’ Land” and followed by a discussion session with the screenwriter and film producer, Febriana Firdaus. On this occasion, 35 participants participated in the discussion and discussed various experiences of Febriana Firdaus in producing films as well as her experiences in investigative journalism. read more

Yogyakarta, August 19th 2021─The Master of Public Administration (MAP) of FISIPOL UGM held another public lecture with the title ‘Performance Accountability and Bureaucratic Reform in Indonesia’. This event presents guest lecturer Prof. Dr. Erwan Agus Purwanto, M.Si who currently serves as Deputy for Bureaucratic Reform, Apparatus Accountability, and Supervision of the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform. On this occasion, the event was held online and was attended by 270 participants. In general, the discussion in this event discussed two main interrelated topics: bureaucratic reform and worker accountability. In addition, this event also discussed various programs that can be carried out for efforts to reform the bureaucracy and increase worker accountability. read more

Yogyakarta, August 17th 2021─In line with Indonesia’s 76th Independence day, the meeting of FISIPOL UGM Senate was held with a special agenda of selecting the 2021-2026 Fisipol dean. This event is a part of a long process of selection of Fisipol UGM dean candidate which ends with a public eligibility test of the dean. In this opportunity, the event was hosted by Dr. Abdul Gaffar Karim who is a lecturer of the governmental politics department and Dr.Fina Itriyati who is a lecturer of the sociology department. Additionally, the event was also attended by representatives of each department, lecturers, students, and Kafisipolgama. The event was held online and attended by 160 people.  read more

The COVID-19 pandemic also became a motivation for the Soprema committee to innovate in their line of events which was forced to adapt with the status quo and therefore was held online. Started with a press conference on Monday (16/8), the Soprema event was then followed by an open registration for the young sociopreneur competition from August 17th until September 17th. 

In the press conference attended by the Minister of Youth and Sports, UGM’s Rector, Dean of FISIPOL UGM, Director of YouSure, and the Head of Event of Soprema 2021, Dr. Wawan Mas’udi, S.IP., M.P.A, as the Dean of FISIPOL UGM explained that Soprema is a way for FISIPOL UGM to accommodate young talents all over Indonesia in improving their problem solving skills with a sociopreneurship logic. With that, the young sociopreneur won’t aim for profit only, but also will develop social empathy to solve social problems.  read more