Yogyakarta, August 6th 2020—Institute of Governance and Public Affairs of Magister of Public Administration, Fisipol UGM held a webinar called ‘Regional Autonomy and the Rising of Dynastic Politics in Indonesia’ on Zoom Meeting. Apart from discussing dynastic politics and its relation with regional autonomy, which had been widely discussed by people, this webinar also held a book launching with the title Koki Otonomi that written by one of the speaker, Prof. Djohermansyah Djohan, MA—the Professor of Institute Government Of Home Affairs (Institut Pemerintahan Dalam Negeri/IPDN). read more

Yogyakarta, August 6th 2020 – Creative Hub Fisipol UGM held another #SmallTalk program on Instagram Live on Thursday (6/7). In this sharing session, C-Hub collaborated with Rumah Harmonis (Talent Batch 3 of Creative Hub), as the speaker of this topic which titled as ‘Depressed? Just Confide!’. This event lasted from 04.00 p.m. to 05.00 p.m.

Rumah Harmonis itself was one of the changemakers of Fisipol Creative Hub that was concerned about mental health issues. As a platform that also doubles as a confidant, Rumah Harmonis was a mental health facilitator that could reach all levels of Indonesian people’s economy. Established in 2018, Rumah Harmonis established by four students from the same major which did not have a psychological background, instead they were social and political students, specifically the Department of Social Development and Welfare. Rumah Harmonis first launched in 2019 consisted by 18 members. The reason for Rumah Harmonis establishment was due to the founder’s restlessness, who thought that BPJS still could not yet cover the patients who went to psychologists. read more

Yogyakarta, August 5th 2020—The Asia Foundation and the Fisipol UGM Care Program held a webinar with the topic of learning from marginal groups and how to be inclusive in the middle of the pandemic. The event is held via zoom and live streamed through Youtube. The discussion started at 10.00 am and had four speakers; Edi Supriyanto, Hasna, Berby Gita, and Cindy Purnama Fitri. Aside from the speakers,there are also three other people to liven up the discussion; Vivi Yulaswati, B. wisnu Widjaja, and Ninil M Jannah. This event was moderated by Abdi Suryaningti, the team leader of the Asia Foundation care program. read more

Yogyakarta, August 5th 2020—Center for Digital Society is back with Oposit #6 about intellectual property in the digital era. Irnasya Shafira – an assistant researcher in CfDS – as the host opened the session with a brief explanation about her understanding of  intellectual property. Ines explained that pirated movies that are widely enjoyed by people are actually a form of intellectual property violation.Similar to the previous episodes, this episode of Oposit is also live streamed through CfDS’s Instagram. However, unlike previous episodes, other than inviting people to share their stories about the topic, this episode also invited an expert to talk about intellectual property rights in the digital era. read more

Yogyakarta, 3 Agustus 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) had just held the 29th digital discussion with the topic of UX Writing last Monday. In this session, CfDS collaborated with Rizqie Aulia, an expert that works for UX Writer Halodoc. The speaker talked about UX writing to at least 200 participants that already signed up. The discussion that was moderated by Made Agus Bayu as a representative of CfDS started with an interactive discussion which then was continued with a presentation from Rizqie about the basics of UX Writing. read more

Yogyakarta, September 3rd 2020—The Digital Intelligence Class Series, which is the newest course at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, presented a webinar entitled “UX Writer: New Job Options in The Digital Industry” on the last Thursday (3/9) together with Rizqie ‘Keke’ Aulia, as the UX Writer Halodoc, that shared her experiences on YouTube Live.

Familiarly called ‘Keke’, this alumna of the Department of International Relations of FISIPOL UGM class 2011, shared her experiences of being a UX Writer, a new profession which is still strange for many people. “UX Writer profession developed in 2015 or 2016. Back then, there was no need to become a UX Writer, because the digital world is developing, there will be more diverse jobs in the future,” Keke said as the opening of discussion. read more

Yogyakarta, 1 August 2020—Having successfully organized its first episode, Centang Biru by Kewirausahaan Sosial UGM came with another episode of Stories about Business and Freshest Insights themed “Revenue Model Beauty and the Beast”. Present in the discussion were Andy Fajar Handika, founder of Kulina and Chief Revenue Officer of Cookpad, and Bayu Dardias, a lecturer delivering the subject of social entrepreneurship, as the moderator.

The discussion mainly revolved around the revenue generated from start-ups. Before jumping into the topic, Andy explained that revenue is understood as a sustainable source of income. Hence, income generated from a VC or a start-up competition prize doesn’t count as revenue. read more

Yogyakarta, July 30th 2020—Community Service Team (CST) of FISIPOL UGM held its fourth discussion on Wednesday (29/7). This discussion was titled as ‘Creating Community Economic Resilience During Pandemic: Development and Integrated Urban Farming Training for Urban Communities’. This discussion presented Agus Sudrajat, Head of Social Services of Yogyakarta, and M. Qomarun Najmi from Indonesian Peasant Union and Sekolah Tani Muda (Young Farmers School). This discussion also presented COVID-19 Community Service Team, Matahari Farransahat, a lecturer of Department of Social Development and Welfare FISIPOL UGM and Achniah Damayanti, as the moderator. read more

Yogyakarta, July 30th 2020—The Student Council of FISIPOL UGM (DEMA FISIPOL UGM) held its new work program, ‘Productive Talk with DEMA’, on Live Instagram on Thursday (30/6). Its prime topic was ‘Running A Business in Pandemic’. Dianty Annisa, a student of Department of Public Policy Management 2018 and the CEO of Tertata Journal and SemibyDianty, became a speaker of this discussion. The event began at 01.00 p.m. and was moderated by Muldi, student of Department of International Relations 2018. read more

Jakarta, July 30th 2020—Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Republic of Indonesia and ASEAN Economic Council (AEC) Indonesia held a focus group discussion (FGD) called ‘The Utilization of EAC E-Monitoring System Efforts (STORMEA) in Supporting the Improvement of National Economy’. In this FGD, the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Indonesia invited the Head of ASEAN Studies Center (ASC), Fisipol UGM, Dafri Agussalim as one of the speakers. Assistant Deputy for Regional and Subregional Economic Cooperation, Netty Muharni, became the moderator and the speaker of Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs of Indonesia in this event which was joined by 55 audience. read more