On January, 24th 2023 (GMT +7) Center of Southeast Asian Social Studies (CESASS) Universitas Gadjah Mada held the agenda called SEA CHAT. The #SEACHAT37 entitled ‘If I Was the Director: Breaking the Eurocentric in Postcolonialism and Transnational of Film De Oost’ was presenting by Syfa Amelia as internship student at CESASS from Master Program in Communication Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

The discussion was started from Syfa that explained the synopsis of the movie De Oost (The East). This movie was directed by Jim Taihuttu and released in 2020 but it’s still interesting to be discussed until today. Syfa explained the critics from her perspective as a part of post-colony country. Those, from her analysis the movie De Oost (The East) was glorifying the white perspective which made the movie looks un-relevant to the history. Further, cited from Syfa’s explanation she found that there were some scenes that stereotyping Indonesia. Other than that, Syfa choose the movie De Oost (The East) because it is still has its correlation to the Southeast Asian country, especially Indonesia. read more

Meningkatnya pengguna internet berimplikasi pada peningkatan eksistensi portal berita online. Dilansir dari data Kominfo tahun 2018, sebanyak 43.000 portal berita online telah beredar dan hanya 200 diantaranya yang terverifikasi sehingga media online kini bias akan post-truth. Pusat Studi Sosial Asia Tenggara (PSSAT) menggelar SEA CHAT #23 oleh Lucia Yuriko dengan tajuk “Fenomena Post-Truth di Media Online” dengan fokus bahasan pada pemberitaan Livi Zheng dalam portal berita tirto.id.

“Post-truth adalah keadaan di mana fakta objektif kurang berpengaruh dibandingkan dengan opini atau emosional pribadi” tutur mahasiswi Ilmu Komunikasi, UPN Veteran Yogyakarta tersebut pada Rabu (11/03/2020) di Perpustakaan PSSAT UGM. read more

As a region that is growing rapidly from various fields, Southeast Asia has similarities with Latin America. These 2 regions share the same historical background as colonialism, cultural pluralism, and spiritualism. The Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CESASS) of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) held SEA CHAT #22 “Regional Literature Between SEA and Latin America, What Makes the Differences?” by Gladhys Elliona Syahutari, on Friday (02/28/2020) at the PSSAT Library. Attended by the public and intern students from Singapore, Belgium, and the Philippines. read more