• June 1^th, 2023
• Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad (Universiti Malaya)

Abstrack:

Citizen Science refers to scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, often in collaboration with or under the direction of professional scientists and scientific institutions. Whilst Place-based Citizen Science (PBCS) is linked to the idea of the public participation in science. It places emphasis on a co-productive or participatory approach, the integration of local knowledge and values, and the application of reflexivity for tailoring environmental citizen science to place. The paper focuses on four substantives ‘projects’ in the preparatory stages of our PBCS programme. Using these examples, we set out an agenda for PBCS as it was applied to our programme for watershed conservation in Malaysia. The PBCS employed incorporated both ‘wide’ and ‘sharp’ dimensions of place. The ‘sharp’ dimension focuses on the role of local meanings, values and knowledge accessed through participatory methods. ‘Wide’ learning, in this case reflects on developments of citizen science in Asia taking lessons from a global knowledge exchange between Japan and Malaysia. We end with the argument that we need to open out a research agenda to address concerns that PBCS is situated at the weaker or softer version of citizen science, focusing instead on how place-based considerations may pragmatically improve the field’s robustness in terms of knowledge and practice. read more

• Author: Prof.Ir. Rachmat Witoelar
• from : President’s Special Envoy for Climate Change

Abstract:

Sustainable development has become more and more important during the last decades. Nations around the world agreed that development process in the past was heavily focused on economic growth and had left social aspect and nature as well as environment behind. As a result, despite of equitable wealth, what have been seen as the result of that long development process are bigger wealth-gap, increased social issues and problems, and more destruction to our nature and environment. Against that reality, nations agreed to ensure sustainable development globally with three main pillars, namely: the environment, the economy and society. Sustainable development itself is defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Environment has become a very important element. Therefore, environmental science and technology as well as environmental policy are playing more role in the process. Environmental science describes and answers the causal-effect relations taking place in the environment through integrated, quantitative, and interdisciplinary approach. On top of that, environmental technology is also a key to ensure that our intervention will give positive impact, or at the least minimal negative impact, to our environment. Such technology also includes technology for water, air, soil, waste as well as cleaner and more sustainable energy. The two are also heavily linked and have to be hand-in-hand with relevant policies to ensure that measures are aligned with environmental regulations and law. Compliance with environmental regulations and law will ensure a more sustainable development process, which in 2015 was adopted at the global level with a set of goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Each of those goals has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years, namely in 2030. One of the goals is very closely related to our current biggest challenge, climate change, which is Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. read more

• Beta Romadiyanti (Master Program of Higher Education Management, Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada)

Abstrack:

Higher education is one of the central of human resourses improvement. Educators are one of the factors that determine the higher education quality. The purposes of this research are to explore how the character of higher education lectures affect the students and to see the condition of the lecturers skill and personal character in educating and researching at the Department of Health Policy and Management (HPM) of Gadjah Mada University. The methods that are used in this study was literature review and an online survey. The samples were 14 lecturers from HPM UGM. The ability and good personal character of lecturers in educating and researching will have a great impact on the learners. From this study it can be concluded that the HPM lecturers at Gadjah Mada University have the ability and good character in educating and researching. read more

• Author: Ari Nurhayati
• from : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM

This study aims to describe the shifting perspective of African- American society on black women?s beauty in the end 20th century up to the early 21st century in Morrison?s God Help the Child, to reveal the background of the shift reflected in the work, and to explain Morrison?s view in the novel. This study is qualitative in nature. The source of the data is Morrison’s novel God Help the Child. The data are words, sentences, paragraphs, and expressions relating to the African-American society’s perspective on black women’s beauty in the novel. This study was conducted by following some steps: reading and rereading the novel, collecting and categorizing the data, interpreting and describing the data. This study has three findings. Firstly, in the last decade of twentieth century, the Whites? standard of beauty still dominated the African-American society. Darker tone of black skin was considered the absence of beauty. However, the African-American society of the 21st century celebrates the quality of beauty possessed by black women. Secondly, the shift of the perspective is due to the social dynamics that influence the African Americans in viewing themselves. Thirdly, Morrison underlines that black women’s distinctive qualities of beauty can be an alternative standard of beauty reflecting Afrocentricity and the African Americans? self-respect. Keywords: beauty, Morrison, novel, African-American read more

• Authors: Ni Ketut Widhiarcani Matradewi
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Abstract:

This article aims at presenting ways to empower the uniqueness of Indonesian language in translation. Translation is one of the important ways in cultural transformation. Many informations, text, books, novels and other references are reproduced by translation process. It makes the position of translators are on the important place as well. The competence of Indonesian translator in empowering words, structure and Indonesian language uniqueness will be a good way to transform culture in global period. The theoretical framework of this study comes from the perspectives of Critical Linguistics. Critical Linguistics aims at uncovering the role of language in constructing social identities, relationships, social issues, events and ideology. Critical Linguistics which is first appeared in 1979, was introduced by Roger Fowler, Hodge, Kress and Trew. They are a group of scholars from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Critical Linguistics put forward to reveal the ideology hidden in the texts. The term ideology is used very differently by different researchers and also in different academic cultures. Meanwhile the purpose of empowering Indonesian language is to find out ideology in the source text and reproduce it in target language. Data for this study were taken from French novels Bonjour Tristesse (Fran’oise Sagan). The French novel is best seller novel and written by famous novelist and translated by Indonesian translator who are famous as well. Finding of the study indicate that empowering Indonesian language by read more

• Author: Elizabeth D. Inandiak
• from : Institut Fracais d’ Indonesie

Abstract:

May 27, 2006 at dawn, in fifty-two seconds, three hundred thousand houses collapsed in Yogyakarta, Bantul and Klaten, killing six thousand people. That morning, as a poet and writer living in these region for 20 years, I stopped writing. Amid the ruins, the most beautiful verses look like a parasitic vine that creeps and hinders community outreach. I recycled my writing skills into ” financial reports” sent to supportive friends to account of the good use of the money they donated for months to rebuild all aspects of the life of the 500 inhabitants of Bebekan. Inspired by the energy of “gotong royong” (community-help) and by a micro economic system based on improvisation on a daily basis to adjust to the wishes of the villagers, a community centre was founded just one year after the disaster. This community centre aimed to promote cooperation between culture and agriculture, education and micro-economics, environment and local wisdom. It was named “Giri Gino Guno” which means “hill of great value and benefit”. I would like here to share the many challenges I’ve faced throughout this extraordinary human adventure, and the down-to earth guidelines I’ve learned from the people of Bebekan. Let me therefore quote the 20th “episode” of my accounts sent to supportive friends from all over the world. read more

• Authors: Ana Anggraini
• From: Master Program of Higher Education Management, Graduate School of UGM

Abstract:

The aims of the research is to identify the implementation of academic quality assurance on the evaluation of lecturer performance in teaching learning activity and to study the effectiveness of the lecturer performance components as an indicator of the teaching learning quality in Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The research was conducted in five study programs of Graduate School, namely Religion and Cross Culture, Media and Cultural Studies, National Resilience, Extension and Development Communication Studies Program, also Environmental Studies Program. The variables were selected based on the quality assurance standard, issued by Board of Higher Education, not only to evaluate the lecturer performance but also to evaluate the study program performance. The variable consists of three elements, namely the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 (competence of pedagogic, professional, personality, and social), BAN-PT accreditation standard (Standard 4: Human resources and standard 7: research and community service), and the citation index based on Scopus and Google scholar. This research employed the descriptive analytic method with qualitative and quantitative approach as well as interview to obtain real data. The result showed that the performance of lecturers under the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005 and BAN-PT accreditation standard achieved good results, while the performance for the citation index lecturer needed to be improved. Component of input variable namely BAN-PT accreditation standard and citation index may reflect the effectiveness of the quality of teaching learning in the variable ouput, in particular for pedagogical and professional competence based on the Teachers and Lecturers Act 14 of 2005. It was proved that 100 students as respondent from five study programs gave high results namely 92.91 for pedagogic competence and 91.3 for professional competence. read more

• Authors: Merry Andriani
• From: Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University

Abstract:

The diffusion of French as foreign language is the most institutionalized and systemic in the world. Nowadays the European framework for languages is also supporting this fact as one of the linguistic instrument. This article aims to describe and analyse how the female language user in Indonesia negotiate and adapt to the French language demands that completely far beyond their socio-cultural realities in daily life. How the female language user is struggling and finding strategies in French? What kind of discourse practice are they attracting to and using the most? Why are some of their choices and strategies different from the male language user? In order to analyse this aspect, the classic linguistic description or the sociolinguistic in the structural perspective wouldn’t be satisfying. We could never separate their linguistic production from their social practice. Based on this assumption we choose to use the critical perspective and methodology for the sociolinguistic domain. This research finds that female language user is more captive to linguistic practice in French at two different states: phonetic and lexical. They are also more attracted to various kind of discourse practice especially those related to the consumption pattern. read more

• Authors: Noor Cholis Madjid
• From: Education Financial and Training Agency, Center of Budget and Treasury Learning Center, Ministry of Finance)

Abstract:

The poverty rate in Indonesia is diminishing by time, where the percentage continues to fall slowly from 2006 till 2014. In 2006 the poverty rate was in the range of 17.8% or a total of 39 million people, to the range of 11% or 28 million people in 2014. President Jokowi’s current government continues to promote poverty redduction programs which are divided into three clusters, namely family based social assistance programs, poverty reduction programs based on community empowerment and poverty reduction based on economic empowerment of small and micro enterprises. However, Indonesian poverty reduction programs still face a variety of obstacles so that the goals have not been achieved fully. This paper tries to give some suggestions regarding how to improve the poverty reduction programs to be more effective The suggestions are to standardize the definition and calculation of poverty, to focus on agriculture development, improving the distribution and dissemination of the “cards” used in poverty reduction programs and a strict control over the use of poverty reduction?s budget which is spread in the various Ministry and Institutions of Indonesia. +C37 read more