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Exposure Talk #2: Sharing Some Experiences of Student Exchange Program to Singapore

Yogyakarta, April 29th 2020—Global Engagement Office (GEO) Fisipol UGM held Exposure Talk #2 on Wednesday (29/4). Exposure Talk #2 which was held through Whatsapp Group had

Big City in a Small Island: Singapore as the theme and was presented by Joshua Agustinus Panggabean or Josh. Josh is an UGM Communication Science Batch 2017 student that had the opportunity to participate in a student exchange program to Singapore in National University of Singapore (NUS) on 2019. The discussion started at 11.00 WIB and was moderated by Cerlang Wilfrid as the Media & Event staff of GEO. read more

Digitalk #39 Session 2 Talk 5: Understanding Data Sovereignty and Its Use by the State

Yogyakarta, April 28th, 2020—Center of Digital Society (CfDS) held the Digital Discourses series entitled “Data Sovereignty: Does it Matter Where Data is Stored?” which was attended by Tony Seno Hartono, a practitioner in the field of ICT (Information, Communication, and Technology) who has been in the field for 30 years.

Tony Said, data sovereignty is a concept of data privacy carried out by the government to protect the data stored. It was aimed to enforce privacy regulations and prevent data from being misused. read more

Digitalk #39 Session 2 Talk 4: Protecting Personal Data and Privacy in Southeast Asia

Yogyakarta, April 27th 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS Fisipol UGM held a second session of Digitalk#39 with the theme of “Data Privacy Concepts and Regulation” that lasted from 27th April to 30th April 2020. The first recorded video, which is Talk 4 with the title of “Protecting Personal Data and Privacy in Southeast Asia: Going Somewhere or Nowhere” had been posted on Monday afternoon on 5 pm at CfDS’s Youtube channel. The video that lasted for 25 minutes and 18 seconds was filled by a speaker from Thailand with the name of Sutawan Chanprasert, a founder of DigitalReach, a human rights company based in Southeast Asia. read more

Get to Know Alternative Media through #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng Populi

Yogyakarta, April 24th 2020 – BRIWork FISIPOL UGM held another event of ‘Ngobrol Bareng Populi’ on Friday (24/4). #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng brought a theme ‘Alternative Media Trend in the Eyes of Populi’ through live feature of @briwork.jogja and @populi.co Instagram. The speaker of this event was Risaza Madani or Eris from BRIWork and Geraldy Sam, as the founder of Populi. #BRIWORKNgobrolBareng was the inaugural event in pandemic. This event started at 04.40 p.m.

BRIWork is the result of collaboration of three stakeholders, they are BRI Bank, UGM, and Conclave. BRI Bank as the banking facilities and service providers who initiated to build co-working space in the campuses, UGM as the land provider (in FISIPOL UGM), and Conclave as the service provider of co-working space services and routine activities that support millennials creative ideas. “BRIWork FISIPOL UGM brought a theme about how the banking affair can be integrated with co-working space, so in the co-working space there is banking affair, there is a kind of general activity,” Eris said as he described the big picture of BRIWork. read more

Beware of Malpractice in the Postponement of the Regional Head Elections in 2020, Bawaslu and KPU RI: Pandemic is Not a Reason for Electoral Malpractice

Yogyakarta, April 23rd 2020 – Local Leaders Election 2020 that have been postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak was discussed in depth in the discussion series titled ‘Should We Beware of Malpractice in the Postponement of the Local Leaders Election in 2020?’ that held by the Master Program students of Department of Politics and Government with concentration of Election Governance. This discussion was moderated by Abdul Gaffar Karim, the Coordinator of Indonesian Electoral Governance Consortium and also the lecturer of Department of Politics and Government FISIPOL UGM. read more

FISIPOL UGM Held the First Online Graduation in the Pandemic Period

Yogyakarta, April 23rd 2020—Last Thursday, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) UGM held its first Postgraduate Graduation Third Period Academic Year of 2019/2020. That graduation became the first online graduation of FISIPOL UGM since pandemic COVID-19. The graduation was held on the official account of FISIPOL UGM on YouTube platform.

Through the Circular Letter No. 1683/UN1.P/HKL/TR/2020, the Rector of Universitas Gadjah Mada, Prof. Ir. Panut Mulyono, M.Eng., D.Eng. decided to impose maximum restrictions of college activities started from Monday (23/03/20). The entire college activities are online, graduation is no exception. read more

Press Conference on the Results of the Pre-Work Card Program Research

Yogyakarta, April 23rd, 2020— Under the adoption of Presidential Regulation no. 36/2020 on February 26th, 2020 by President Joko Widodo, the official Pre-Work Card program can be pursued by Indonesians who comply with the terms and conditions of the program. Considered a form of response to the issuance of the Pre-Work Card program, Center for Digital Society (CfDS) Fisipol UGM as the study center produced research aimed at identifying the potential implementation of the Pre-Work Card program by considering the digital landscape in Indonesia. The research was delivered through an online press conference on Thursday (23/4), by two CfDS researchers, Treviliana Eka Putri, M.Int.Sec. and Paska Darmawan, M.S. Press conference conducted by CfDS through Google Meet platform also invited media colleagues to attend the event. The event started at 10.00 WIB moderated by Kirana Anisa. read more

JMF Skill Class: The Importance of Having a To Do List

Yogyakarta, April 22th 2020—Islamic Jamaah of Fisipol (JMF) held a skill class on Wednesday, April 22nd 2020. The theme of the class was Bullet Journaling Class with “Organized to do list and real productivity” as the title. In this session, JMF had Labiqatul Fatiyasani who is the owner of @bikin_diary as the speaker. This class started at 20.30 through the Whatsapp Group platform. It had up to 257 people as the member from various places. This discussion was moderated by Latifatul Zahiroh. read more

Talk 1 Digitalk#39: Exposing Privacy Threatening Data Usage

Yogyakarta, April 22nd 2020—Center for Digital Society (CfDS) held Digitalk #39 which consist of two big sessions. The first session consists of discussion about the political and commercial value of data which started from April 21st 2020 to April 23rd 2020. The first session was called “The Data I Called: Data Collection of State and Business” which was filled by Katharina Nocun, a writer and privacy activist from Germany.

In Talk 1, Katharina talked about the contents of her book which is called The Data That I Summoned. This book explained her experiment of exposing how big companies store and use consumer’s data. Katharina admits that this experiment is a frightening one which leads her to learn about herself more than she learns about data. read more

DIGITALK #39 Session 1 Talk 2: Social Media and Political Ads in Indonesia

Yogyakarta, April 22nd 2020—Center for Digital Society or CfDS released the second video of the first Digitalk #39 session called ““The Commercial and Political Value of User Data”.  The video’s duration is 25 minute and it discusses the topic of social media and political ads in Indonesia which was presented by Alia Y. Karunian. Alia started the session by discussing the scandal of Cambridge Analytica that happened in the start of 2018, a turning point for online privacy and data protection. read more