Yogyakarta, October 1st 2020—Anyone can experience mental disorders, including students. Realizing the need for lecturers support for the mental health of students, Career Development Centre (CDC) Fisipol UGM, held a Mental Health Workshop on The Role of Lecturers in Supporting Mental Health in the FISIPOL UGM Environment. A lecturer of the Faculty of Psychology of UGM, Muhana Sofiati Utami, became the speaker, meanwhile the psychologist of CDC FISIPOL UGM, Dina Wahida, became the moderator in this event that was joined by dozens of FISIPOL UGM teaching staff.             “Students usually experience mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, procrastination, and dependence,” Muhana said. According to her, enough levels of anxiety could motivate a person. But, if it became too much, anxiety could cause insecurity for someone and thought that something bad would happen to them. Moreover, students can be depressed, from mood disorder to suicide attempt. Depression can be caused by feelings of someone who feels very belittled, worthless, very guilty, to the point of feeling very lost.            Then, Muhana said, students also often procrastinate in doing assignments. She also admitted that sometimes the lecturers also did it. The reality is that many people procrastinate because they are too focused on doing other things. Other than that, she said that many students experience internet dependence. When making a survey in her class, Muhana received many answers from students that they could spend hours in front of gadgets. “There are those who watch Korean dramas, play games, and open the internet for hours so they can’t do anything else,” Muhana said.  She added that the more extreme dependency of the youth is in cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs.             Muhana explained that the characteristics of a mentally healthy individual are being able to build positive relationships with others, enjoy helping and being helped by others, and being responsible. Other than that, a healthy individual can respect themselves and not compare themselves to other people, also they do work based on their capabilities and talents. She said that there are students who force themselves to do things that are not suitable with their abilities, because they compare their achievements with others. In fact, added Muhana, everyone has their own talents. “If we can do the jobs based on our competencies, then we can get good results,” she explained.             “Fisipol students are already aware about mental health issues, but many of them are self-diagnosed themselves,” Dina Wahida said. This psychologist of CDC said that the existence of CDC helps the students to be aware about the importance of mental health issues. But, on the other hand, many students came to the psychologist service of CDC to fulfill their academic purposes. Responding to this, Muhana said that she had also met the same thing at Gadjah Mada Medical Center. She explained, there were students who diagnosed themselves and it turned out to be true, but many also turned out to be wrong. Muhana said, CDC psychologists and FISIPOL lecturers need to understand the condition of students who claim to have mental disorders. She suggested that the CDC Fisipol psychologist determine whether the student really had a mental disorder or was just pretending.             Continuing the question from Dina, Lisa Lindawati, the lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences (Dikom), also asked how the lecturer faced students who claimed to have mental disorders. Muhana suggested that the lecturers should listen to the students’ stories first. However, she continued, it does not mean that lecturers will solve problems from students. Muhana said, lecturers who are willing to listen to problems‒that affect academics‒of students have actually helped to ease the burden of these students. This is because students feel they are heard and it allows them to determine the next steps to solve their problems. “If the lecturer is unable, the lecturer can refer the student to someone who has more authority, for example a CDC psychologist,” Muhana explained.             “When working on a thesis, students look very competitive. Some are motivated, but others feel depressed,” Jusuf Wahyuono said. The teaching staff at Dikom, who was once a thesis tutor, asked about how to be a good thesis tutor in accompanying students in these conditions so that students remain enthusiastic. According to Muhana, a lecturer or thesis tutor needs to make a conducive condition, it means that students can support and help each other. She added that lecturers or thesis tutors could also encourage the friends of students who felt down to encourage them. However, lecturers or thesis tutors must also understand that everyone has a different personality type, so they can treat students appropriately.

Yogyakarta, October 1st 2020 – This year, Sociopreneur Muda Indonesia or SOPREMA back again. SOPREMA is a national annual program by Youth Studies Centre (YouSure) FISIPOL UGM involving youth aged 16-30 years to contribute in solving social problems through social entrepreneurship. In accordance with its purpose, SOPREMA opens wide opportunities and encourages youth throughout Indonesia to create business models by seeing social problems as opportunities for community empowerment, so that entrepreneurship can provide benefits to society. Entering its fifth year of implementation, SOPREMA—in collaboration with the Ministry of Youth and Sports and Bank BRI—made adjustments in its series of activities so that it remains relevant to the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. Apart from raising the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic in the objectives and theme of activities, SOPREMA also conducted a whole series of activities online. There were at least five series in the SOPREMA 2020, they were competition, incubation, webinar, expo, and media talk. For the beginning, SOPREMA held a webinar called Youth 5.0: The Pros and Cons of a Sociopreneur in a Collaborative Era to Wake Up from the Pandemic. In this webinar, there were five expert speakers from various stakeholders that presented to question the importance of collaboration in efforts to rise from the pandemic that occurred. Moderated by Mashita Fandia, the lecturer of Communication Science of UGM, many of the speakers in this webinar talked about the topics based on their experiences in certain fields. But before that, the webinar was started by the opening speech from Muhammad Najib Azca as the Director of YouSure and Prof. Dr. Erwan Agus Putranto, as the Dean of FISIPOL UGM. Not to forget, the moderator also explained a little about the theme and conditions of the webinar, the terms and conditions of door prizes, before inviting the speakers to deliver the material. As an academic who is active in sociopreneurs issues, Hempri Suyatna—the first speaker—talked much about the urgentities of sociopreneurship, especially for Indonesian youths. From those urgencies SOPREMA presents with its vision and mission Hempri also explained the development of SOPREMA from year to year, including the series of events in SOPREMA 2020. “The spirit that SOPREMA brings is in line with the Ministry of Youth and Sports in supporting and enhancing individual capacities related to sociopreneurship,” Imam Gunawan said, the Assistant Deputy of Youth Entrepreneurship, as the representative of the government—especially the Ministry of Youth and Sports. The government also does several efforts to realize its spirit, including fully supporting SOPREMA. Imam also explained why cooperation from all parties is important in developing sociopreneurship in the society. The three other speakers were the representatives of the people who are active in sociopreneurship activities. Fathin Naufal, the founder of Gifood which has been included in SOPREMA 2018, explained much about his start-up—Gifood and Widya Edutech—adapted and contributed for society in the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, Denok Marty, a sociopreneur as well as an environmental activist, shared much about her point of view in seeing the waste problem as a potency and strength that needed to be managed. With the waste management activities that he and his team carried out in Kampung Kitiran, there were many positive impacts from various aspects that the people felt. For the closing, Ucup Klaten, a content creator, shared his stories about his experience in utilizing social media, such as YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok, both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Before that, Ucup used social media to promote his businesses, in this pandemic time he fully utilized his social media. Especially after joining a video competition about social distancing and mudik restriction, he got many positive responses from various parties. From there, his social media was getting crowded and he got many job offers from the government agencies. After concluding all the materials from all speakers, the moderator read out the questions that had been submitted since the beginning of the presentation of the material, both on Zoom and YouTube comment sections. As stated earlier, the eight selected questions are entitled to get a doorprize from SOPREMA. The door prize submission mechanism was explained by the moderator after all the questions were answered by the speakers. With thanks to all the speakers and participants, the moderator officially closed the webinar on 12.40 p.m. Reruns of the SOPREMA Webinar can be watched on the FISIPOL UGM Youtube channel.

Yogyakarta, September 25th 2020—In order to discuss issues of privacy and personal data on the internet, the Ministry of Communication and Information, Facebook Indonesia. Pamflet, and Kelas Muda Digital (Kemudi) in collaboration with the Communication Student Corps (Komako) of UGM, they held a webinar “It’s Time to #Kendalikan Your Privacy: What We Need to Know about Privacy and Personal Data” Yogyakarta series. One of the research centers in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, the Center for Digital Society (CfDS), also participated in this webinar by presenting Yuliana Khong as a speaker.

Other than CfDS, this webinar also presented the other stakeholders to enrich the discussion’s perspective, such as the government—represented by Tuaman Manurung from Ministry of Communication and Information—the academics—represented by Novi Kurnia, Ph.D., the lecturer of the Department of Communication UGM, the social media platform—represented by Dessy Septiane from Facebook Indonesia, and civil society organization—represented by Fietyata Yuda from Forensika Digital Study Center of UII, with Diva Diandra as from Komako as the MC and Resa Tamaputra from Kemudi as the moderator. The event was held on Zoom Meeting and started at 03.00 p.m.

A few days before the event, the organizers also held several small events that were in line with the topics raised in the seminar. Not only that, Komako, Kemudi, and Pamflet have also uploaded infographics several times about personal data protection and privacy in the digital world in order to increase individual awareness.

Even so, it turns out that the government as the policy maker also has an equally important role as individual awareness regarding the protection of privacy and personal data in the digital realm, both in terms of education and regulation. This is as stated by Tuaman Manurung, that the Indonesian government has made four efforts to protect the personal data of its people, including regulatory support, monitoring of personal data protection (PDP) in the communication and information sector, preparing ecosystem implementation and development, and literacy education, as well as raising awareness regarding PDP.

Regarding the regulation of personal data protection in Indonesia, Tuaman said that until now there is no law that comprehensively regulates and serves as an umbrella for PDP in all sectors—these regulations are scattered, separated in the laws of each sector. Therefore, currently, the government is making a more comprehensive and stronger regulation for the protection of personal data in Indonesia. This issue was confirmed by Novi Kurnia. Other than discussing personal data protection regulations in various countries, Novi also explained many examples, data and cases related to violations, leaks, and personal data protection campaigns.

As a digital service provider, Facebook Indonesia, represented by Dessy Septiane, also made efforts to protect the personal data of its users, starting from education in the form of off-platform campaigns, to increasing control, policies and platform arrangements. To be clearer, Dessy displayed the latest privacy settings offered by Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp.

Although various parties have made efforts to protect personal data, unfortunately the public—in this context, especially students—still do not have a high level of awareness regarding their digital security. Based on research conducted by CfDS, and presented by Yuliana Khong, content creation skills and knowledge of device security are at the lowest score of all digital competency levels. The result showed that only 31.58% of respondents regularly check security features and device configuration. Yuliana also offered several universal solutions that can be done by various parties in increasing awareness regarding digital security, including protection of personal data and privacy.

In more detail, Fietyata Yudha explained some tips that can be done by individuals in improving their own digital security. It can be started from checking your social media accounts, regularly checking email, being more careful with important documents, avoiding using free wifi, using more complicated passwords, paying attention to and not allowing access to unimportant cookies, using two factor authentication, to using additional security applications such as antivirus.

The explanations from the speakers were followed by a question and answer session from the participants which had previously been conveyed through the comments column and QnA. With the answers to these questions, the speakers took turns delivering their closing remarks before the moderator finally closed the discussion. After taking a group photo, the webinar officially ended at 05.35 p.m. For those who could not join the event could watch the rerun video on the Pamflet Generasi YouTube channel.

Yogyakarta, September 25th 2020—BRIWORK FISIPOL UGM which was moderated by Karina Yusuf held another sharing session series that collaborated with Indonesia Mall in the #BRIWORKMikirBareng. This one-hour discussion session brought the theme Community as the Strength of Business in the Pandemic Era. It presented Susi Harini (Owner of AADS Foods) and Afiat Rasyid Rustamadji (Owner of Gue Giran and the Secretary of Regional Development Bank of DKI Jakarta). The discussion topic was interesting and it succeeded in inviting the public’s attention with the arrival of various participants from various regions, such as Sidoarjo, Malang, and Bogor. The discussion began with Alfiat Rasyid who sparked the discussion with an explanation regarding MSME in the context of a pandemic.

For Rasyid, MSME is one of the important economic cogs because it has contributed to Indonesian economics. But, during this pandemic, the MSME group became quite vulnerable because of the social distancing policy which hampered the running of these MSMEs. As for this, it can be seen from the various types of classified MSMEs groups, starting from the Apparent Death of MSMEs Group, the Fainting MSME Group, the Slowly Moving Economy Wheel MSME Group, and the Fast Moving Economy Wheel MSME Group. Rasyid considered the existence of several groups of MSMEs to be minimized by implementing several alternative solutions, including:

Offer of Alternative Solutions for the Apparent Death and Fainting of MSMEs Group

            For the first two groups of MSMEs, Rasyid gave four things that can be done to survive a pandemic. The first, to immediately seek and implement a new business model. Second, making products that are adaptable to the conditions in difficult times. Third, knit friendship and communication actively and effectively. Fourth, upgrade the businesses.

Offer of Alternative Solutions for the Slowly and Fast Moving Economy Wheel MSMEs Group

Basically, these two groups can be considered as groups that have settled with the conditions during this pandemic. Therefore, the solution offered to this group is to continue to maximize the use of the marketplace and social media to sell and help the Apparent Death and Fainting of MSMEs Group.

Basically, the offer of alternative solutions to how to survive for local MSMEs during this pandemic can also be minimized by applying the methods that are owned by the second speaker, Susi Harini. As the owner of a typical Sleman spinach chip product called AADS Foods, she shares her strategy to continue marketing her spinach chip products. Susi, who stated that she understood the production process better than the marketing aspect of this product, took advantage of the resellers in her area to sell AADS Foods products during the pandemic period. For her, this strategy can be a workable solution for other local entrepreneurs.

Interestingly, Susi also shared her unique experience in starting her spinach chips business. With the persistence of studying with the community she participated in to gather information and knowledge related to business, Susi then convinced herself to open her own stall with only Rp100,000. Uniquely, this capital is supported by the use of production materials that she owns at home, it was spinach. The knowledge she gained during training in the MSMEs community led her to do a series of stages before opening AADS Foods. Among them was registering the license to the local Health Office, seeking licensing for halal labels and brands for AADS Foods. The twists and turns of this business trip have been taken seriously by Susi. To the audience, Susi also emphasized that her business felt helped by the presence of Indonesia Mall which also accommodated its products to be marketed more massively.

Other than Susi, Rasyid who formerly sparked the discussion with the four groups of MSMEs also shared his story about Komunitas Sahabat UMKM which was established to help the local MSMEs in business training, etc. From Susi and Rasyid, participants were invited to understand that local MSMEs during this pandemic can continue to run to meet economic needs with the assistance of the MSMEs community who are ready to support between MSMEs. For Susi, the existence of the MSMEs community is not just a place to gather. More than that, the community is a place to learn, obtain, and distribute support to other MSMEs.

Yogyakarta, September 21st 2020—Center for Digital Society FISIPOL UGM held the 34th Digital Discussion on Sunday night (21/9). The event was titled “Optimizing Your Writing Skill in the Digital Area” and invited Amelia Pandu, a project officer of research in CfDS, as the main speaker. As usual, Made Agus Bayu, an event assistant of CfDS, was acting as the moderator. The event went on from 19.00-21.00 in Whatsapp Group.

In the digital era, there are a lot of things made easy when it comes to writing. This includes when we are in the process of writing or when we want to improve our skills on writing. The existence of the internet allows us to find a lot of material reference when writing. Additionally, we can check our rate of plagiarism and our grammar correctness easier, as well as publicize our writing on various platforms. For university students, writing is an inevitable activity. Be it in the form of essay, op-ed, material resume, book review, research findings, and more. The majority of universities also still makes it mandatory for university students to create a form of writing as a requirement for graduation.

Not only academically, in organizations writing is also inevitable. For example, university students are often asked to write proposals, social media content, and other academic/non-academic writings. That is why for the sake of a smooth university experience, it is important for students to enjoy writing. Therefore, there needs to be a right strategy to grow students’ fondness and skills in writing. For Amel, the first strategy is by getting eager to write. According to her experience, there are two ways to build that feeling of excitement:

• Keeping ourselves updated with knowledge and new events that are happening in this world.
• Talking to ourselves about what we like, what we don’t like, and what we feel to find out what we want to write.

However, there are still several hurdles when it comes to writing because of anxiety or reluctance to write the topic we are told to write. Amel suggests that we brainstorm our ideas first before thinking about the quality of the writing. “Just write down your ideas first, you can think about the quality when you are revising the writing. Just write first,” Amel said.

After increasing our enthusiasm for writing, the next thing we should do is create a writing habit. The more often someone writes, then the more brilliant is their skill in writing. “So that we can make writing a habit, try to dedicate 30 minutes of our day just to write. Use that time to focus and to write anything that you are feeling or thinking at that moment or at that day,” Arnel said. After doing that habit, it is good to start setting a word count that we want to meet every day and that continues to increase gradually.
The next strategy is to make an outline before you write. Making an outline is the fool-proof way to create a more structured, coherent, and efficient writing. In this case, Arnel also gives a simple outline that she makes before writing academic or non-academic articles.

Then, Arnel gave several steps to write more effectively. The first step starts from choosing the theme/topic, gathering credible, actual, and factual writing materials, creating our outline, writing, reflecting, and revising. Revising is one of the most important steps in creating a good writing, but this step is often skipped. “Revision should be done carefully so that the final product can be a clear, focused, and read-worthy product,” Amel said.

Yogyakarta, September 21st 2020—Career Development Center (CDC) Fisipol created a webinar titled “Scholarship Sharing: Get Your Higher Studies Experience in Norway” with Ayudhira Pradati, an awardee of the Norway Quota Scheme Scholarship who is also the head of Indonesia Student Committee in Oslo. In this webinar, she shared her experience through the Zoom platform.

Ayudhira Pradati — better known as Dhira — started the sharing session by talking about the charm of Norway as a place to pursue higher studies. “In Norway, there are a lot of interesting and varying departments and classes. The local culture here, shown through art, tradition, music, and food, is also marvelous. It’s a shame that not many people know about the scholarship offered here when in reality the scholarship offers so many things to the student,” Dhira said.

“The university in Norway has a free tuition fee, but we only need to pay the administration fee for 1 million rupiah per semester for facilities like printers, copy machines, student cart, etc. But, the living fee is also pretty expensive so that’s where a scholarship will come in handy,” Dhira said.

Dhira then elaborates how fun the studying environment is in Norway. “When it comes to mental health, the students here will get everything they need. In the Oslo University, there’s a policy where if the test is seen as difficult by the student, the student can raise their hand and say that they’re having a difficulty. Then two to three days later, the university student can retake the exam. They have three chances to do this,” Dhira said.

Universities in Norway that have become students’ favorites are the University of Oslo, University of Bergen, University of Agder, University of Tromsø, and NTNU.

“For political science students, the popular universities are Oslo and Agder. Meanwhile, NTNU is mostly occupied by science students studying oil and fishery,” Dhira is currently taking a master study in the Department of Culture, Environmental, and Sustainability in the University of Oslo.

The administrative requirements that are needed to apply for a scholarship to Norway are pretty much the same with the requirement for a scholarship to other countries. You will need an IELTS score above 6.5, a GPA above 3.00, a motivation letter, Curriculum Vitae (CV) and a research proposal.
“In preparing for those needs, the Oslo Indonesian Student Committee will also help in terms of IELTS. When it comes to writing motivation letters, what matters is that we are honest, don’t be afraid to ask seniors if you need some help,” Dhira said.

Next, Dhira talked about her life when being a student in Norway. “Students that come from tropical countries will be depressed for a while because there is no sun here. The winter coldness will reach -20°C. The Ramadan fasting will last for 18 hours, we end our fasting at 11 pm and at 2 pm we start fasting again.

The scholarship sharing that was held for one and a half hours is then closed with a question and answer session with the 20 people that attended the show. The information about scholarships in Norway can be accessed through the http://studyinnorway.no/ web, or through the LPDP site www.lpdp.kemenkeu.go.id.

Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) FISIPOL UGM came back with another Difussion #34 called Old vs New Media: The Transformation of Digital Culture with Mira Ardhya Paramastri and Theodore Great Aipassa as the Research Associate of CfDS. The discussion was held on YouTube Live.

It started with the explanation of Old vs New Media: Can Government Regulate Digital Media by Theodore Great Aipassa, the discussion began with a question, “Does the new media need to be regulated by the government?”

“The transformation of digital revolution brought up the characteristics of new media. Back then, media in Indonesia was highly centralized with only one TV channel, it was TVRI, then it developed and transformation happened where the media became decentralized marked by the emergence of new TV channels. For example, the ownership of TV stations is still centralized but the channels are increasing,” Great said.

“Then the development of technology, media is no longer decentralized but continues to a distributed stage where everyone who has internet access can upload and share the contents via YouTube and other social media. But the content distribution has its own positive and negative sides. The positive thing is, everyone can share their contents, from education to financial literacy which can bring people into communities,” Great said.

“But the amount of new content can bring up negative impacts, especially for the underage children and teenagers whose emotions are unstable. Unfortunately, these things can not be avoided because technology will be integrated with our lives and there must be a regulation,” Great said.

In making a new regulation, Great explained three difficult dilemmas and the difficulty in implementing these rules. First, the regulatory area which includes the international area where content can come from various countries. Second, actors who are authorized to implement regulations. Third, the number of workers that needed to monitor new media content.

“Even though the new platforms such as Netflix that already had its own regulations to regulate their contents, and the new media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, which already had thousands of workers to monitor their contents, there are still things beyond control because of the large amount of content that appears every day,” Great said.

For Great, the proposed solution regarding the regulation of new media regulations is primarily concerned with the right to freedom of expression. “Do not let regulations eliminate people’s rights, whether the content must always be monitored, whether opinions against the government will be prosecuted, and so on,” Great said.

Through this, it is important for collaboration between governments and new media institutions to make proper regulations. Technology must also create algorithms capable of monitoring content quality. Finally, it is also important to involve users to monitor content independently.

The next explanation was Mobile Gaming in Indonesia: Relationship through New Media which was presented by Mira Ardhya Paramastri that conducted research about how digital society creates community clusters, one of that is created through mobile games.

“The development of social media is very fast, online socializing can also be done through mobile gaming applications where the mobile gaming business in Indonesia is very high with 43 million users,” Mira explained.

The interaction through the mobile game creates three types of relationship. First, existing relationships or relationships that already exist in influencing users to play, for example from family, peer relations, to online shop advertisements.

Second, In-Game relationship, where playing games creates relationships to meet new friends on the platform and as a recreation room. Third, Outside-Game relationship, which is a relationship that is strengthened outside the game platform by maintaining relationships outside the platform through meet ups with communities in the real world.

“Through that mapping, this research proved that this new relationship formed after playing online games by involving in the community. Mobile game players also want to carry out social interactions where the digital community makes active clusters of interconnected communities,” Mira concluded the discussion.

Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Institute of International Studies (IIS) FISIPOL UGM held a discussion which brought the topic about China: Initiatives in the Energy and Transportation Sector. In this occasion, there were two speakers, Alfin Febrian Basundoro, the Deputy Chairman of the Department of Reasoning of UPII UGM, and Caesar Leonardo, Director of The Student Association of Belt and Road Initiative (SABRI) Chapter UGM, it was moderated by Handono Ega P., the Staff of Publication of IIS FISIPOL UGM. This event which was held on Google Meet began at 03.00 p.m. and it was divided into two sessions: material explanation and question and answer.

Opening the first session, the moderator gave a little explanation to guide the direction of the discussion. The presentation of the material was delivered by Alfin who specifically explained about the New Eurasian Land Bridge: China’s Railway Sector Expansion. “NELB is a new railway line that connects China, Central Asia, and a number of countries in Europe. NELB itself is a development of the Eurasian Land Bridge, which has passed through the Trans Siberian Railway in Russia since 1990 with a route through the southern route.” In some sources, the NELB is considered to be the “Modern Silk Route” connecting Asia and Europe through one main trade route.

The existence of NELB provides several advantages or prospects for China, namely related to transportation effectiveness, increasing EU-China trade, and commodity diversification. Meanwhile, more broadly, the existence of this NELB also provides positive prospects for the Eurasia region, including in relation to the opening of a free trade zone, and can increase connections in the Central Asian region. However, to develop this NELB there are several challenges that must be faced including the availability of infrastructure, the existence of quality human resources, and the effectiveness of the bureaucracy.

Continuing the previous discussion, Caesar Leonardo explained something related to the Chinese Nuclear Energy Initiatives. “The existence of nuclear energy sources in China is inseparable from industrial development in the region. Please note that China requires 22 percent of the total global energy to carry out industrial activities,” Caesar said opening his explanation session. In his explanation, Caesar also said that when compared to other countries that also use nuclear energy to carry out economic activities, China is classified as a new player. So far, the tendency of China’s own energy sources is more towards the use of coal and oil. Therefore, by using nuclear power, there is a renewable energy source with a more sustainable prospect. In this case, if it is compared to other energy sources, the emission level of nuclear power is lower, even equivalent to the emission level of wind energy sources.

After the presentation of the two speakers, the discussion entered the second session, a question and answer session with the participants. One of the interesting questions came from Faiz Rafiza Ahmadani related to NELB, if it is compared to the broader route. Responding to this question, Alfin revealed that the existence of NELB does not mean a complement to the other two routes. In this case, NELB complements other areas because of several advantages including travel time and conduciveness. The discussion went well and ended at 05.00 p.m.

Yogyakarta, September 18th 2020—Sociopreneurship UGM came back with another Centangbiru program, Cerita tentang Bisnis dan Insight Terbaru. This time, Centangbiru program was held especially because of the first class of Sociopreneurship UGM in the first semester of 2020/2021 school year. This time, Centangbiru presented eleven CEOs from leading companies and institutions in Indonesia directly through YouTube broadcasts.

The Sociopreneurship class is an interdisciplinary course for all of the UGM students, other campuses, and for the public who wants to look for solutions to social problems. After succeeding with the first batch in the last semester, the Social Entrepreneurship class was held again in this semester. The second batch of Social Entrepreneurship class provides eleven lecture programs and one monthly program in collaboration with eleven organizing partners, whose representatives are speakers in this Centangbiru program.

The event began with an opening video containing an introduction to the Centangbiru course. The welcoming video from Bayu Dardias Kurniadi, M.A., M.Pub.Pol, Ph.D, Lecturer in Social Entrepreneurship Class UGM, then becomes an introduction to enter the live broadcast welcoming session. The live session of Prof. Dr. Pratikno, M.Sos.SC., Minister of State Secretary of the Republic of Indonesia, the Initiator of Sociopreneurship Course UGM, who explained more about the history and the urgency of this course. Then, followed by the speech from Prof. Dr. Erwan Agus Purwanto, M. Si., Dean of FISIPOL UGM, who also officially opened the Social Entrepreneurship lecture this semester.

An introductory video of the hosting partners was also shown as a transition from the welcome session to the core session. One by one the representatives of the organizing partners discussed with the question and answer method via video conference with the moderators. In turn, each speaker was asked several questions related to the company and its umbrella organization. However, the questions were related to the opportunities and roles of students, tips and tricks, adjustments in the midst of a pandemic, and prospects for the future, which are adjusted to the fields of each company and institution. Sequentially, the discussion was carried out starting from Dr. Hargo Utomo, M.B.A., M.Com., Director of Business Development and Incubation UGM; Dyan Shinto E. Nugroho, Chief of Public Policy and Government at Gojek; Rachmat KAimuddin, CEO of Bukalapak; Mardi Wu, CEO of Nutrifood; Stephanie Arifin, Director of PLUS (Platform Usaha Sosial); Alissa Wahid, Founder of GUSDURian Network Indonesia; Hokkop Situngkir, Executive Director; and Ferro Ferizka Aryananda, President Director of ID Next Leader; Aziz Armand, CEO of Indika Foundation; Umesh Phadke, President Director of L’Oreal Indonesia; Taufan Teguh Akbari, Founder of Rumah Millenial; and Ayu Kartika Dewi, Co-Founder of SabangMerauke.

Apart from having a large number of speakers, this event also had several moderators: Bayu Dardias, Matahari Farransahat, and Hatma Suryatmojo. The moderators took turns guiding the discussion with each speaker. In fact, a special moderator was also presented—Lia Zakiyyah—to guide the discussion session with Umesh Phadke in English.

What was unique about the Centangbiru program this time was that even though the speakers and moderators conduct video conferences from different locations, the display is made in such a way that it looks like they are both in the same location. Also, at the end of each discussion session, a short game called Fast Ponse—which stands for Fast Response—was held with the speakers. In this game, the speakers are given several “fun” questions by the moderator which must be answered briefly and quickly. With the completion of the Fast Ponse game with the last speaker—Ayu Kartika Dewi, Co-Founder of SabangMerauke—the Centangbiru program in the first edition of Sociopreneurship class UGM was officially ended at 04.02 p.m.

Yogyakarta, September 17th 2020—The first lecture of the Digital Intelligence Class was officially opened on Monday (14/9). This event was opened by the Vice Rector for Cooperation and Alumni of UGM Dr. Paripurna, S.H., M.Hum., LL.M. which was followed by a Digital Intelligence Discussion with the main speaker, Prof. Pratikno as the Minister of State Secretary, Prof. Erwan Agus Purwanto the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, and the Special Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information of Republic of Indonesia in the field of Human Resources and Digitalization, Dr. Dedy Permadi.

This first lecture also became the opening of the class of Digital Intelligence, which was held by Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM cooperated with Telkom Sigma, Cyber Mantra, and Majik, it was also supported by the Ministry of State Secretariat of Republic of Indonesia, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, the Ministry of State Owned Enterprises. There were 1000 applicants for this Digital Intelligence Course that can access the class according to the pre-test results and they could begin a new experience of studying on the Digital Intelligence platform (https://cerdasdigital.id). This class is managed by FISIPOL, CfDS, and Forbill Institute and collaborated with national and global technology companies, such as Aino, Bukalapak, Cisco, Dicoding, Geekhunter, Huawei, IBM, Iykra, Oracle, Progate, and Redhat. “With the presence of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, competition became so massive, so that various technological innovations and digital intelligence must be able to be utilized as a means to develop ourselves in order to solve the problems and to be able to compete in the global world, Prof. Paripurna explained in his opening speech.

In his keynote speech, Prof. Pratikno emphasized the importance of skills to respond to digital information development. “The use of digital technology has penetrated all lines of our lives. In everyday life, all have used digital technology. Digital devices and applications also continue to develop, so that skills are needed to support this development,” Prof. Pratikno said. “The development of these skills is not only based on the development of technical science, but also requires transdisciplinary abilities from various scientific disciplines,” he added.

After the opening by Prof. Paripurna and the keynote speech of Prof. Pratikno, the first lecture was continued by the discussion with the Dean of FISIPOL UGM, Prof. Erwan Agus Purwanto and the Special Staff of the Minister of Communication and Information of Republic of Indonesia in the field of Human Resources and Digitalization, Dr. Dedy Permadi. In that panel discussion, both of the speakers emphasized again about the importance of developing interdisciplinary student competencies to be able to face the challenges of the development of digital transformation.

As a course that will last for one full semester, the lecture is carried out through the online method using the Smart Digital platform (https://cerdasdigital.id) which was opened for the UGM students and public in general. As one of the programs offered in the Permata Sakti scheme, this course is expected to bring novelty to learning experiences as well as new knowledge for class participants spread across Indonesia.