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The Governmental Sciences Departement Monitored and Evaluated the Lecturers who are Studying Further Education

by Kegiatan
Yogyakarta – (26/10)  UMY Governmental Sciences department monitored and evaluated the lecturers who are currently studying at other higher education institutions through a blended system. The lecturers could participate through online or offline monitoring and evaluation. The offline activity was held in the Governmental Sciences Laboratory and was attended by the Head and the Secretary of the Department.
There are seven lecturers from the Governmental Sciences Department 2020/2021 who are currently studying further education. One lecturer in a university in Finland, another lecturer in Germany, and the other five lecturers are studying in Indonesia.
As the Head of the Department, Dr. Tunjung Sulaksono, S.IP., M.Si explained that monitoring and evaluation is one of the efforts to watch the progress of the lecturer’s studies. “The lecturers would be requested to explain and describe their progress in their study, we will also ask their targets and their difficulties regarding their study. Whether academically or non-academically,” he explained the monitoring and evaluation process in general.
He also explained that the monitoring and evaluation could provide resolution for difficulties that might be faced by the studying lecturers. If the difficulties come from within the department’s scope, the department will try to find the solution with its privilege. However, if the difficulties are external, the department will deliver it and coordinate it with the units in faculty or university to find the solution. “The Governmental Sciences lecturers have a responsibility to accompany, facilitate, and motivate the lecturers who are studying in higher education institutions so they can finish on time,” get added.
One of the lecturers who study abroad is Rijal Ramdani as a Ph.D. student at the University of Eastern Finland who appreciated the monitoring and evaluation done regularly every semester. He stated that it is a good attempt to understand the progress and activities of the studying lecturers. He also hoped that the research issues and study’s support are also discussed during the monitoring and evaluation process.
“I hope this Monev is not only about sharing our experiences here, but also discussed the ways that can be done to help the lecturers who are undertaking a doctorate degree studies to finish their study soon,” said him.
The head of the department also hoped that the monitoring can always be done regularly per semester so the lecturers can be motivated to finish their studies on time, also to make an early identification for any difficulties and disruption in the lecturer’s studies to get a solution sooner.

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Official: the PKM Team of UMY’s Governmental Sciences Passed to the PIMNAS 2021

by Kegiatan
Oktober 23, 2021. UMY passed 6 proposals to the 34th PIMNAS (Students Research Week) at Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) 2021. Two of the passed proposals are from the UMY Governmental Sciences team.
The governmental Sciences team has 6 students who were divided into two teams with different focuses. One of them is Social Humanities research, students who have their proposal on this topic are Vicky Alfitra Perdana (IP 2018), Ahmad Syafiqurrohman (IP 2018), Muhammad Noor Cahyadi E.S (IP 2018), Muhammad Miftahul Ahsan (IP 2020) dan Nita Aribah Hanif (IP 2018) and the other focus research is on the Technology Sciences Practices, one of the students in this research is Galih Prasongko (IP 2019).
Ahmad Syafiqurrohman (IP 2018) gave his opinion about the preparation. “Now we are already entering the PIMNAS stage, so the preparation must be better. We revise our presentation slides and sharpen the content of our articles. I am one of the members of the Social Humanities research team, therefore I should strengthen the contents and the article of our research. So we can understand how to deliver our research and are ready to answer any questions instantly,” said him.
Syafiq adds, “the preparation of UMY’s IP PKM team was held three days before the d-day. We practiced our presenting skills, improved our materials, and coordinated with the team members”
He hoped that the PIMNAS would run smoothly and the UMY teams will be able to give the best performance and presentation. “We hope the other friends can support us with prayers. That would be really helpful for us. I hope the PKM IP UMY team can make a good impression of the UMY Governmental Sciences department in the national stage,” hoped Syafiq. (DA)
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YSEALI Academic Fellowship for the Students of IGOV UMY’s Leadership Training 

by Kegiatan
Yogyakarta – Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship is a highly competitive and prestigious multicultural exchange program in search of new young leaders in South East Asia The program is sponsored by the Education and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the United States. The selected participants from this program will be equipped with leadership training and dive deeper into one of the YSEALI big themes: Civic Engagement, Environmental Issues, Social Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development.
On Sunday (24/10) IGOV UMY partnered with Hanna Nur Afifah–as one of the YSEALI Academic Fellowship members to hold an event of YSEALI Academic Fellowship introduction. Hanna was the keynote speaker who shared her experience as one of the YSEALI Academic Fellowship’s awardees in 2019 via zoom meeting with the IGOV UMY students. This activity aims to help the IGOV UMY students to prepare themselves for participating in the complimentary exchange program.
The program was held warmly and communicatively due to the keynote’s speaker friendliness. Erlangga, one of the participants also expressed his interest in YSEALI, “I am a member of a local community that focused on the society’s development. Though we have a problem because a lot of us are intelligent but unable to deliver our programs to society. Therefore, applying to YSEALI probably would help us to solve the problem,” said him during the QnA session.
“For similar issues like that can be proposed to the Civic Engagement theme. The theme focused specifically on the society so your community project is within its scope,” Hanna responded to Erlangga.
Another IGOV student, Kahla Nazsha, also expressed her enthusiasm for the event, “I personally am very excited to participate in this event today because I can learn how to develop my skills, specifically, in my leadership ability,” said her. (DA)
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Third Meeting of the Visiting Professor Program, The Students of IGOV UMY Still Showed a High Enthusiasm   

by Kegiatan
Yogyakarta – Thursday (21/10) The third meeting of the Visiting Professor program at IGOV UMY raised the theme of Direct Presidential Elections and Its Effects in Indonesia and The Philippines was attended by 35 students of IGOV UMY via Zoom Meeting.
The program lasted for one week and was very anticipated by the IGOV UMY students even though it was held online. The visiting professor who taught the course materials was Dr. Andreas Ufen from German Institute for Global dan Area Studies (GIGA).
Many students showed their enthusiasm by asking a bunch of questions during the questions and answer (QnA) session. For instance, Satrya Dhillan Bagaskara asked Dr. Ufen whether there is a way to change an electoral system and whether there will be an impact on society due to the change.
Fairuz Arta who also participated in the QnA session asked, “Is there any specific case why every country has a different electoral system? What factors might influence the formation of an electoral system in a country?” he then added another question, “what is the most suitable electoral system for Indonesia?” such question was very interesting because as Indonesia, we are naturally curious about how foreign politics academician view the electoral system in our country.
“Maybe Malaysia will create a more proportional system in the future, Cambodia already has FPTP but still has an authoritarian style. Meanwhile, Indonesia also struggles for creating a proportional electoral system. As for Singapore, they need to be democratic first,” responded Dr. Andreas Ufen to the question during his closing statement.
“The system is based on several things, geographical is one of the indicators. The Australian system is new with its single transferrable vote. Which one is better for democracy? Canada is the best with FPTP. Thailand changes its election system regularly. Thailand is semi-democratic since the military is very dominant and influences its system. Each country in Asia or South East Asia has a different election system.” Dr. Ufen added. (DA)
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“Hello Research” Program Debut, IGOV UMY Student Gave Enthusiastic Responses

by Kegiatan
Yogyakarta – Thursday (21/10). The Hello Research Program finally debuted officially for the first time in IGOV UMY. This event was held at the Tutorial 1 Room of the Post-Graduate Building of UMY and was participated by several students from the 2020 batch of IGOV UMY.
The Hello Research program has an aim to help and facilitate IGOV students in writing the final thesis, journal articles, and many other scientific research writings. The event initially started with an introduction to the program and discussed the main material a little. The output of this program is a scientific journal publication by the students of IGOV UMY.
The students of IGOV batch 2020 responded to the Hello Research program enthusiastically. The material was presented by Fairuz Arta, the head of the Hello Research Program, and was responded actively and communicatively by the participants. The participants think that this program is really needed due to their cluelessness in the field of scientific research writing.
Fadhila, a participant from batch 2020 asked a question to Fairuz Arta, “I personally have not had the understanding of scientific research writing, I wonder if that’s okay?.” Fairuz then answered her, “That is exactly the reason why this program exists for all of you, it is okay if you haven’t had the understanding. We all can learn, it is never too late to learn.”

 

Another participant from the same batch, Satrya Dhillan Bagaskara gave his opinion about this program. “In my opinion, this program can open my knowledge in the world of writings and scientific journals, both national and international. I hope the work under my name can be cited by someone after I publish my article in a journal,” he said. (DA)
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Amazing, IGOV UMY Student Won the National Debate Championship

by Kegiatan

Yogyakarta – Wednesday (20/10). Febriana Andiani Putri, IGOV UMY student from batch 2018 won a National level debate championship which was held via Zoom Meeting by CIC (Creativity in Campus) Sari Mulia University, Banjarmasin. CIC in 2021 presented activities with “Awakening the enthusiasm, creativity, and productivity of Generation Z in the new normal era” as their theme.

Febriana is one of the Victori Debat UMY team’s members along with Esti Andriyani (IP 2018) and Lastrafila Alnoriz (IK 2019). The team won as the 3rd runner and bring a good name to UMY on the national stage.
“It’s a been a while since I participated in debate championship, then I found the info of the debate so I signed up out of curiosity. I did not have the intention to win the championship, just to cure my longing to participate in the debating championship and do something meaningful in my free time,” said Febriana.
The Victori Debat UMY team participated in the championship without any expectations or a big preparation, they just prepared themselves a day before the D-day of the championship. “We actually just discussed the debate motions and practiced them for a really short time,” added Febriana.
Through her achievement, Febriana also hangs her hope, “I hope this achievement can motivate me to do better, achieve more, evaluate myself, and also as a motivation for my friends to keep striving for achievement in the national stage or international stage” (DA)
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Attending the KKN Kaline’s Briefing, Students of IP UMY are Ready to be Deployed to the Field

by Kegiatan

Yogyakarta – Wednesday (20/10) 52 Students from the Governmental Studies Department IP UMY attended the briefing for KKN (Student Social Service) held by KKN LPM UMY via Zoom Meeting.
The event started from 08.00 until 15.00 Western Indonesian Time and divided to 3 sessions.
The first session started from 08.00 until 10.00 with Mrs. Hasanah Safriyani as the keynote speaker who gave speech about the role and the task of facilitator. “Positive energy will come to us if we believe that we can create a better change. This KKN program is an opportunity for all of us to learn and create a valuable moments to give a better significant changes. Never think that this moment is just a mere formalities,” she stated as she closed the first session.
The second session started from 10.00-12.00 with Mr. Danang Wahyu Muhammad as the keynote speaker who talked about the empowerment of the local people. “During KKN, we must give the local people direction towards empowerment. So we’re not the one who actively working the program, but we show the people how to do it. It will be a pity if the planned programs cannot be executed by the local people once the KKN ends, we need to empower the people during the process,” he stated.
Lastly, the third session started from 13.00-15.00 with Mr. Sutrisno as the keynote speaker. He talked about the process of planning, evaluating,and monitoring the program. “No one plans to fail, but many people failed because they have no plans.” He delivered an idiom before he continued his statement, “one more thing for all of us, don’t be trapped in our wants, but focus on our needs.”
Daffa Aqshal, one of the participants from the Governmental Sciences Department was satisfied with the event. “The event is very helpful in the process of doing the student social service in the future, because the materials delivered at the event was very important,” he stated.
The KKN Briefing was held massively in a conducive manner. The participants understood the materials well. Proven by the communicative responses they gave during the event. (DA)

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ORIENTATION EXPERIENCES AS EXCHANGE STUDENT IN USM BY DANNY RIZKY RAMADHAN

by Kegiatan

Orientation is one of the mandatory activities that every student does before entering the teaching week. This activity was held to introduce the new environment of the campus, introducing the campus life, also introducing the academic system to the new students. It’s one of the process of the new student to get adapt to new things such new culture, perspective, friends with more different backgrounds, new ways to socialize and other. For me, the Orientation is very important to new students because if we missed one explanation and introduction about the information of the place, environment, our studies and other thing that could be one of the important life changing in the future, we’ll absolutely struggling if we don’t know which kind or type of the exact environment where we have to live and study and we wouldn’t ready if it turns out that there are so many things that we don’t quite understand because we forget to pay attention and so on.
 
On Monday and Wednesday, I am experiencing the orientation that was held by USM for the new full-time students and the exchange students. For me the orientation was fine and went well since it was my first experience for having an orientation in another country. Actually, the orientation here on Indonesia and on Malaysia is pretty similar, usually the MC’s is like having a lot of thoughts, stiff and flat, so for me every orientation feels boring but funny, sorry to say. However, Indonesian ways of orientation is much longer than Malaysian. USM also play some videos about the diversity of tribes and customs that exist in Malaysia. The Ice breaking session is very interesting and exciting, because the games were different with the Indonesian kind of ice breaking session.
 
So for me the Orientation that was held by USM is pretty boring but it’s also funny. Before the orientation was started, I was nervous because I thought this orientation would a formal event, but it’s not that formal. And what I like about the USM itself is they are pretty good when convey the information that needed by all of the new students.

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ORIENTATION EXPERIENCES AS EXCHANGE STUDENT IN USM BY LUTHFIYYAH PUTRI RAHMANINGRUM

by Kegiatan

I and my friends are participating in the exchange program. This exchange program provides by the IGOV and thankfully I got accepted to join the exchange program to Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). However, we need to hold it virtually caused by COVID-19. Even that, we are excited for participating this program. We were planning to join the classes in one room together, which is in the campus’s student hall.

Like yesterday on the first day of orientation, we gathered in the student hall to join the online orientation. Even it is done online, it is still fun because we did that together. We were lamenting our fate that we cannot go there and have the direct orientation. But still, the orientation taught us something new, like the Malaysian cultures and Indian cultures. It was fun watching the video all about Malaysia and the campus.

Then the second day of the orientation is today. We did not gather like the first day because we woke up late. Even that we still join the orientation and contact each other to know that we all join the orientation. Today’s session is about the timetable and the subject that we took. It was really nice that we can talk or ask the director of the schools and discuss the subject that we took and to avoid a time clash.

Even the exchange program has to do online, we still take positive advantages. We can learn something outside our major, and even be more close to each other because we will do the online classes together. Hopefully that the pandemic is over so we can have a flight to Malaysia and experience the offline class. 

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ORIENTATION EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENT EXCHANGE IN USM BY AWANG RAJAPRAKOSO PURNOMO

by Kegiatan

Orientation may be defined as a time of introduction, or the process of adaption and socializing that occurs when a person is placed in a new situation. Orientation is an introduction to determining attitudes in the form of direction and perspectives of one’s ideas. Generally, new students in school or new workers in a firm will go through an orientation session. An orientation phase is essential for anyone who is relocating to a new location or setting. This is done to allow a person to acclimatize well. Especially for new students, they must learn about their new campus environment as well as the field of study that they have chosen. Yesterday, USM held an orientation for the new students and exchange students, and as the student who join the orientation for student exchange program here is my experience for follow the event.
 
As an Indonesia citizen and a student who join the exchange program who experiencing the first time orientiation in other country, I was shocked because it is very different from orientation in my country. It was boring. Orientation must held with festivies and a joy, but I think this orientation is very awkward and flat, they held the orientation like they search how to make orientation in google and they not modified it, especially for the MC they brought the event very stiff and look like they did not want to deliver the event well. I think the interesting from this event is only the ice breaking, they make pleasent game who the students must search an item who given by the MC, and they give us 3 words and make it a sentence.
 
So the orientation that USM made succssesfully makes me shocked because it is very flat. However, it is full of information. For next year event I hope USM make a refreshing orientation so the new students are excited to studied in USM.