As a form of cooperation between CESASS UGM with University of Freiburg, Prof. Dr. Judith Schlehe accompanied by a researcher from CESASS UGM, Vissia Ita Yulianto, shared their knowledge in the form of workshops (08/03/18). The workshop held in the Indonesian Room of CESASS UGM Library presented the topic of waste management which is still one of the problems in Indonesia. This problem is certainly very influential with the stability, including the stability of undersea ecosystems. Therefore, this study took a case study in the southern maritime area of Yogyakarta which includes part of Gunung Kidul Regency under the title “Waste, Worldview, Morality: An Inclusive Approach”. read more

Social science has a central position and power to understand social problems, organize the bureaucracy, organize the economy, regulate policies and public communications in support of community life both in regional and global. The problems of social imbalances, multiculturalism, religiosity, racial intolerance, marginalities, practical politics, human trafficking , regional and global power relations, migrant workers, and social aspects of disaster need clear social-humanities academics to understand and provide referrals to policy makers (quoted from Terms of Reference).
The problem is that Indonesia as a developing country still desperately needs help from experts and scientists to do development, especially in the field of physical infrastructure, the ones that are seen to be more able to give practical contribution to society. Without realizing it, the government requires development in physical form and ignores the social infrastructure. Thus, the more days pass, social science seemed increasingly disregarded. It indicates that the government has not looked further into contribution of social-humanities sciences based research.
Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) UGM, supported by Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, as the Center of Science and Technology in the social field must surely question the waiver of this social sciences. Thus, CESASS invited social scientists to discuss their own discipline and even cross the boundaries of their discipline to attend Series Discussion II titled “Social Sciences: Its Roles and Challenges” (13/02/2018). Prof. Sjafri Sairin & Prof. Djoko Suryo, the head of CESASS, Dr. Phil Hermin Indah Wahyuni, along with other researchers from CESASS namely Muhadi Sugiono, M.A., Dr. Phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto, Putu Yogi Paramitha, M.H., Fatkurrohman, M.Si, and two students of the doctoral program of Department of Public Policy and Management UGM discussed the social science roles and challenges in this era. read more

Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) UGM got a visit from New Zealand again. This time, the two guests were Khairiah A. Rahman, M.A. from the School of Communications Studies, Auckland University of Technology and Dr. Adam Brown from Auckland Institute of Studies. Their visit to CESASS UGM Office was to share knowledge related to international journal writing. The event was packed in a workshop titled “Communicating and Publishing in International Academic Forum”.

The barrier of language differences is one of the issues that Indonesian academics often encounter when they will write English-language articles in accordance with international rules. Looking at the phenomenon, CESASS UGM tried to bridge the difficulties by holding a brief workshop on writing and publishing international scientific articles. The workshop which took place on Thursday, December 28, 2017 was held at Ruang Indonesia, CESASS UGM Library. read more

After working hard from August to November to realize the World Class Professor (WCP)Program of Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) UGM, Center for Coastal Rehabilitation and Disaster Mitigation Studies (CoREM) of Universitas Diponegoro, and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) of Universitas Syiah Kuala held a research seminar themed “Ecological Communication on Maritime Disaster Management in Southeast Asia” at the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Mataram (15/12/2017). read more

One effort to develop the capacity and performance of an institution is to build cooperation with other institutions. This is also done by the Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) UGM which started the cooperation with the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main (7/12/2017). Head of CESASS, Dr.phil. Hermin Indah Wahyuni accompanied by researcher of CESASS, Dr. Agus Suwignyo, Dr. phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto, Andi Awaluddin Fitrah, M.A., Aditya Indra Nugraha, S.Ant, and Fitri Handayani, S.I.P. met the Head of Department of Southeast Asian Studies of Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Prof. Dr. Arndt Graf. read more

As a form of reciprocity towards the process of exchanging knowledge and joint publication, the research team of Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada visited Germany from the 25th November 2017 till the 8th December 2017. The visit was a response visit, as 2 German professors had initially made a visit, Prof. Thomas Hanitzsch (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitӓt Müchen) and Prof. Judith Schlehe (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg), whom were the visiting professors for the World Class Professor (WCP) program by Kemenristekdikti. read more

In the 12th Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival 2017, JAFF collaborated with Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada to present the “Public Lecture” program. This year’s Public Lecture was special as it included research poster presentations regarding cinemas in Asia which was organized by CESASS UGM. The results, 9 presenters were chosen from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines that took part in the event.

This Public Lecture program was conducted from the 4th till the 6th of December 2017, at the 2nd Floor Seminar Room in the UGM’s main library. Consisted of six sessions spread throughout the three-days event, which comprised of the; seminar, discussion, book launching, and research poster presentations. The themes discussed within the forum is in line with this year’s theme “Fluidity” taking the example of “Film and Art Performance”, “Indonesian Film Audience”, “Asia Pacific in the Digital World”, “Distribution and Film Funding”, “ASEAN Identity in the Short Films”, and discussion about the book of Film, Ideology and Military written by Budi Irwanto and Cultural Specificity in Indonesian Film: Unity in Diversity written by David Hanan read more

Just as the rain stopped, Prof. Cherian George, a professor in the Communication Department in Hong Kong Baptist University, stepped into the office of Centre for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada (23/11/2017). This visit of a Singaporean Professor in Yogyakarta was as a speaker at the International Seminar on Social and Political Science (ISSOCP) 2017 which is part of the celebration of the 62nd Anniversary of Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIPOL) Universitas Gadjah Mada at University Club UGM on the 23rd-24th November 2017. read more

Knowledge of all sort should not only be passed from universities to the public, but should too be shared between universities as so to learn from one another in order to enhance the capacity and capability as an institution. As the only leading center of excellence (Pusat Unggulan Ipteks Perguruan Tinggi – PUI-PT) in the aspect of social sciences, Centre of Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada received a visit from a representative of Universitas Negeri Malang (UM), Mr. Arda Purnama Putra, M. Pd. The purpose of his visit to CESASS UGM is to study the management of PUI-PT. read more

In the digital era, invasion of fake news and hoax are densely correlated with political interest which has caused uneasiness towards journalist scholars. At this time, the study of investigative journalism becomes suitable to be further discussed in order to asses the ability of the media to criticize in facing fake news and hoax which has spread widely in the media. Such circumstance has caused problem towards journalist activities in this Post-Truth era. Post-Truth era is a phase where the spread of news which seems true, yet it is actually not. In the year 2016, the term Post-Truth became the words of the year by Oxford Dictionary. read more