On December, 20th 2022, at 10.00 (GMT +7) Center of Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada held an online seminar, the 46th South East Asia Talk (SEA Talk). This seminar was inviting Made Supriatma, one of the visiting fellows at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, whose presentation titled “Dividing The Electorates: Will Indonesian Politicians Exploit Identity in 2024 Election”.

This seminar discussed the role of identity that is embedded in each individual and its potential to trigger and to influence the individual as voters during the general election. Indonesia’s social-cultural landscape, which is diverse, isn’t exceptional from the identity narratives during election campaigns.  read more

“In this era where digital use has become undeniably massive, easy access to the internet appears to be central for everyone including children. As a result, it is necessary for parents to safeguard their children from the internet’s double-edged sword, which, despite so many benefits it offers, also exposes them to some detrimental exposure”, said Nobertus R. Santoso, a lecturer of communication science in Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta at the 45^th South East Asia Talk (SEA TALK) webinar series, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada. read more

The Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies Universitas Gadjah Mada held a panel discussion entitled SEA Talk #44 which was held on March 10, 2022. In general, CESASS UGM has concerns about social, economic, political, and cultural issues in the Southeast Asian region as stated in the panel discussion. In this SEA Talk #44, Prof. Dr. phil. Hermin Indah Wahyuni, S.IP, M.Sc. as chairman of CESASS UGM opened and welcomed participants and speakers who had joined and participated in the SEA Talk #44 panel discussion. The speaker will be delivered by Drs. Moh. Arif Rokhman, M. Hum. Ph.D., who is a Lecturer in English Literature at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at Gadjah Mada University. read more

Education either functions as an instrument that is used to facilitate the integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, how men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world. Said Prof. Alberto Gomes referencing Virilio’s ideas about critical pedagogy in South America, especially in the practice of Brazil education in SEA TALK Series #43, Prof. Alberto is a founding director of dialogue, emphatic, engagement, and peacebuilding at DEEP network and a professor at Emeritus La Trobe University in Melbourne Australia.  In this SEA chat discussion, this time Prof. Alberto brings a discussion on the topic of emancipating the shackled mind and “the role of critical education”. read more

Aiming for the parliament of 21st-century

There is a need for the parliaments of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore to be “working parliaments”, and to address the Sustainable Development Goals/SDG, starting from the Plenary Session, as the public face, said Dr. Ratih D. Adiputri, from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland in Southeast Asia Talk forum (25/05/2021). She presented her chapter entitled Social Science Research in Southeast Asia: The Challenges of studying Parliamentary Institutions in a book series discussion of the book “Social Science in the Age of Transformation and Disruption: Its Relevance, Role and Challenge” (2020), edited by Prof. Dr. phil. Hermin Indah Wahyuni and Dr. phil. Vissia Ita Yulianto from CESASS, the Centre of Southeast Asian Social Studies , Gadjah Mada University (UGM). read more

[SEA-TALK #41] Book Discussion Series #5 on “Social Science in the Age of Transformation and Disruption: Its Relevance, Role and Challenge”

“Social science research is hardly objective in studying the knowing subject and has always been subjective in some respects”, said Melanie V. Nerzt and Vissia Ita Yulianto, authors of a book chapter “Shifting Positionalities: The Shades of being inside and outside in Social Science Research” (2020).

Drawing mostly on experiences in conducting anthropological tandem fieldwork as an Indonesian and a German researcher on the islands of Sulawesi and Java, Indonesia, in the course of 2010 and 2011, Melanie and Ita sets out the roles they took and were ascribed in various contexts of the field and explores the implications of being an insider and an outsider researcher. read more

Pusat Studi Sosial Asia Tenggara (PSSAT) Universitas Gadjah Mada kembali menyelenggarakan SEA TALK #39 : Book Discussion Series #3 pada Selasa, 20 April 2021. Dalam kesempatan ini, PSSAT berkerjasama dengan Fakultas Hukum UGM untuk membahas “Studi Sosial terhadap Hukum: Peran dan Tantangannya” yang telah termuat dalam buku “Social Science in the Age of Transformation and Disruption: Its Relevance, Role and Challenge”. Pembicara yang dihadirkan ialah Dr. Rikardo Simarmata, S.H. dari Fakultas Hukum UGM, sekaligus selaku penulis dari salah satu chapter dalam buku ini dan Prof. Sulistyowati Irianto dari Universitas Indonesia. Sesi pembicara dan diskusi yang berlangsung, dimoderatori oleh I.G.A.M Wardana, Ph.D dari Fakultas Hukum UGM. read more

Just like other part of the world, “Social science has been shaped by dynamic competition between academic and political power” argued by Prof. Jian-Bang Deng in our second book series (19/3/2021) entitled above.  Entitled “Social Science and Transformation of Society: An Observation from Sociology Development in Taiwan”, Prof. Deng – a professor of sociology in Tamkang University and a former visiting professor in the PSSAT/CESASS – identifies three stages in the development of sociology in Taiwan, and covers three main roles of sociology: sociology as a marginal science, sociology as a challenger to the state power, and sociology as a reflective science. read more

[SEA-TALK #37]

Book Discussion Series #1 on “Social Science in the Age of Transformation and Disruption: Its Relevance, Role and Challenge”

The first – from eleven – book discussion series on CESASS’ edited volume: “Social Science in the Age of Transformation and Disruption: its Relevance, Role and Challenge” was lively on Monday (1/1/2021). Prof. Dr. Hermin Indah Wahyuni, the director of Cesass opened the discussion. Strongly committed to revitalizing social science, she invited more engagement for social scientists now and in the future. The book is originated from an international symposium on social science organized by Cesass in 2018 (https://ugm.ac.id/id/agenda/431-international-symposium-on-social-science-2018). Consisting of eleven chapters from fourteen international authors, this first discussion was a tribute to the late Dr. Herry Priyono, SJ., who contributed his thought on: “Social Science and the Pedagogy of Transformation” (chapter 5). read more

Seri kelima dalam Webinar SEATALK Pusat Studi Asia Tenggara Universitas Gadjah Mada yang dilaksanakan pada Kamis, 12 Mei 2020. Webinar ini mengundang Dr. Siddharta Chandra dari Michigan State University, USA dan Sumadi Lukman Anwar, MD., Ph.D, FKKMK UGM

Lessons from the 1918 influenza pandemic for the COVID-19 pandemic and Experience from Cancer Navigation in Indonesia

“1918 inlfluenza pandemic is the mother virus which gave birth to major global pandhemic which had taken the lives of millions of people worldwide”, said Prof. Siddarth Candra, an epidimiolgist in the WEBINAR series of South East Asia Talk, organized by the Centre of Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS), Universitas Gadjah Mada, a center of excellence in social science under the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education since 2016. This Webinar 36# was a cooperation between CESASS and the American Institute of Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), State University of Michigan, USA. read more