On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic: COVID-19. One of the main emergency measures taken by local Asian governments was the temporary suspension of all educational institutions, public services, and social, cultural, leisure-recreational activities, followed by the closing of non-essential businesses, including cultural institutions and industries. In contrast to this situation, the demand for cultural and creative content has gradually increased throughout the lockdown period, with digital access including the use of social media having become more critical than ever before. Ironically, despite the crucial role played by culture in times of isolation and resiliency, economic indicators predict that the cultural sector will be one of the most affected by, and probably one of the latest to recover from the pandemic and its consequences (UNESCO 2020).
The systemic uncertainty created by the crisis has indeed generated serious problem for the very human need to connect with arts and culture. It prevents us from visiting museum and heritage places to attending theatre performances and community cultural practices. UNESCO records that more than 95% were closed in May 2020, and 13% of them may not be reopen (UNESCO, 2020). The past few months has been witnessed that more than 75 million jobs in the travel and tourism sector are under threat. Cultural tourism makes up nearly 40% of world tourism revenue (UN NEWS). It is important to note that the cultural and cultural industries contribute to US $2,250 BN to the global economy and account for 29,5 million jobs worldwide. To overcome the crisis, some Asian countries have taken policies such as in China where the government funded
US $ 56 million for cultural and tourism business, and in Indonesia, the Directorate-General for Culture’s has launched a YouTube channel “BudayaSaya” to share artistic performances and artisans’ masterclasses on dancing, painting, music, storytelling, and producing films.
While the arts and cultural sectors are among the hardest hit by the global pandemic, it is believed that arts and culture play a pivotal position to controland minimize the impact of the pandemic. Karavaïeff (2020) reports how arts and culture might help people during the lockdown and confinement. Social distancing and isolation have created an ether of personal spaces, but it is in these spaces that we listen to that great music, watch movies, cultural performances, and obtain joy from the artworks that we see with our devices.
Museums have also gone through a process of digitalization of their collection and presented online to reach wider global audience during the pandemic. Against this background, the two day seminar addresses several issues on exchanging information, ideas, and methodology in the sector of arts and culture to overcome the current COVID-19 pandemic.

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, foreign speakers’ interest in learning Indonesian (BIPA) has not disappeared. It is evident from the fact that there are still institutions and students who ask questions about Indonesian language courses at INCULS. In this regard, INCULS offers online learning for foreign speakers who want to learn Indonesian for foreign speakers (BIPA).

INCULS in the first semester of 2020/2021 opened online class registration for regular, intensive, and private programs. The online class program has been held by INCULS since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020. The online learning system will continue to organize regular, intensive, and private programs in the first semester of the 2020/2021 academic year. The program is carried out online starting from registration, learning, exams, to distribution of certificates.

Registration for the first semester of 2020/2021 INCULS online course can be accessed via the following link: https://admission.ugm.ac.id/registration/. For regular programs, please select ‘INCULS Online Regular Odd Program Semester 2020/2021 (1 Semester)’, and for intensive or private programs please select ‘INCULS Online Intensive Odd Program Semester 2020/2021’. Registration for the regular program will close on September 4, 2020. Lectures will start on September 14, 2020 until December 18, 2020.

It’s been 4 months we have lived side by side with the corona virus pandemic and a bunch of information about the plague. world’s statistical data and the Government of Indonesia show how the pandemic continues to this day, there are no signs except in some countries where the people and governments are very disciplined. However, at the end of June, the public’s attitude towards the pandemic became very slack. The concept of “new normal” which was implemented by the Government in various countries was responded as “back to normal”. This situation is in stark contrast to the first two months of the pandemic, where many people took extra measures to deal with the pandemic, now people seem to have no problem. How can we understand all this?

This FIB webinar will explore the diversity of this “new normal” experience that seems too early in a comparative manner between regions through archaeological, historical, linguistic, literary and ethnographic perspectives.

Will be held on August 10, 2020 13.00 – 15.00 WIB

Nowadays is a rare time for social researchers to feel ” experience-near ” (Geertz, 1983): “what he or his fellows see, feel, think, imagine, and so on, and which he would readily understand when similarly applied by others ” live under the stress of the pandemic. Socially, pandemic or attacks of infectious diseases in a wide area and affecting a high number of populations are not experienced, and felt equally by all members of the community. This happens because the stresses that arise during the pandemic are filtered by various ecological, physiological, economic, social, political and symbolic relations that operate in society, and citizens do not occupy the same position in these relations.

The webinar on pandemic organized by FIB-UGM will explore various life experiences during an pandemic from archaeological, historical, ethnographic, linguistic and literary perspectives. This webinar can also be an opportunity for a methodological exploration of the extent to which close experiences influence reading, reflecting on, or analyzing humanities facts.

Presenter: Dr Daud Aris Tanudirdjo, Dr Sri Margana, Dr Pande Made Kutanegara, Dr Hindun Ichsan, Dr Suhandano

Moderators: Dr Pujo Semedi dan Dr Agung Wicaksono

Hours: 13.00-15.00

Date: 6 July 2020

Link: Youtube Kanal Pengetahuan Fakultas Ilmu Budaya UGM

Registration link: http://ugm.id/webinarFIB

Lomba Karya Tulis Ilmiah Mahasiswa Nasional (LKTIN) was held by BEM FIP UNESA.

Consisting of a call for abstracts, full paper submission, and presentation, hundreds of students competed in this LKTIN.

10 teams were selected to the final round: 2 from UNDIP, 2 from UNNES, 1 from UNESA, 1 from UB, 1 from ITS, 1 from POLINEJ, 1 from UM, and 1 from UGM.

Representing UGM, the team included: Pratika Rizki Dewi from FIB, Department of History, and Edo Novanto from SV, Computer and Informatics Systems. The championship was held on September 16-18 2019. The UGM team succesfully placed 1st nationally and was commended as the best presenting team.