SDGs 4: Quality Education

On Friday, February 23rd, 2024 and Monday, February 24th, 2024, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences held a Poetry Reading Festival as part of the 78th Anniversary of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences. Participants in this festival came from lecturers, staff, students and alumni who added to the excitement of this activity.

Not just reading poetry, the Vice Dean for Finance, Assets and Human Resources, Suray Agung Nugroho, S.S., M.A., Ph.D., also enlivened this event by singing a Korean song which was a silentsil witness to his journey to learn Korean Language. Interestingly, the committee also prepared door prizes for lucky participants.

This activity was further enlivened by the students’ performance who read their own poetry. This showed the unlimited creativity of the Faculty of Cultural Sciences students. Apart from that, this is proof that poetry can play an important role as a tool for expressing oneself, thoughts and feelings that may not be able to be conveyed verbally.

SDGs 4: Quality Education

On February 21st, 2024 at 12:00 – 13:00 (GMT+7), the INCULS private program with Dominique Addison Renee officially closed. The event, which was held in Room 420 of the Soegondo Building, was attended by the Director and Deputy Director of INCULS, Dominique, 2 teaching lecturers, and INCULS staff.

Dominique is a student from the United States who has completed the Private Program with INCULS. Through this program, she has learned a lot about Indonesian language and culture from January 9th – February 24th 2024.

On this occasion, Dominique delivered a speech about her experiences in Indonesia. She is very happy to be part of Universitas Gadjah Mada, which is the best university in Indonesia. Mbak Dominique started her learning process by enriching her vocabulary and exploring interesting topics in Indonesia. Apart from that, she also said that the most interesting thing about her experience was that her ability to speak Indonesian allowed her to build strong and good relationships with the Indonesian people.

Hopefully, this can be an inspiration for the younger generation to further preserve the Indonesian language. The large number of international students who come to INCULS to study Indonesian indicates that our national language is very global. Therefore, it is time for us to be proud of the language we have!

SDGs 4: Quality Education | SDGs 17: Partnerships for the Goals

On February 19th, 2024, INCULS opened the Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University intensive program which took place in Sidang Pimpinan Room, Poerbatjaraka Building, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, UGM from 9:00 – 10:00 AM (GMT+7). The event was attended by the Director and Deputy Director of INCULS, 7 students from Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University who were accompanied by their supervisor, Mrs. Tari, and 7 INCULS tutors.

This activity aimed to introduce INCULS with a material presentation regarding teachers, staff, assessment criteria, and schedule. In addition, they had the opportunity to get to know INCULS students and tutors. The event then continued with a group photo.

Interestingly, on this occasion, they had the experience of a faculty tour where they could learn more about the Faculty of Cultural Sciences and the interesting details about it.

SDG 4: Quality education | SDGs 4: Education for sustainability | SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure | SDGs 9: Affordable credit | SDG 10: Reduced inequality | SDGs 10: Education | SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities | SDGs 11: Community

Dr. Suhandano, Dr. Sailal Arimi, and Drs. Tatang Hariri along with Master of Linguistics students across generations, carried out a ‘Students Gathering’ as well as the ‘The KALINGGA Handover Ceremony 2024’ on Friday, 23 February 2024. In this activity, various discussions related to academic activity in the Master of Linguistics UGM took place actively, such as transparency of student assessments and holding a prayer room in the Soegondo building so that lectures took place more efficiently. On this occasion, Dr. Suhandano also said that there would be a new application related to assessment, namely ‘Sioba’. Furthermore, final semester assignments also need to provide options other than articles and there is also a need for thesis research mentoring by lecturers. It is hoped that through this activity students will be more motivated to publish journals and be big on writing their theses so they can complete it on time.

The system of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) embraced in September 2015 by the UN, the worldwide improvement motivation for the primary time alludes to culture. The benefits of keeping up and progressing culture are accomplished through socially educated and viable execution of advancement objectives. Thus, discussion forums between lecturers and students can be a good culture to support and improve the quality of the learning environment.

In this activity, the stewardship of KALINGGA for the next 1 year was also officially appointed by Dr. Suhandano, witnessed by the previous year’s KALINGGA Management and students from across generations who were present. In the next 1 year, KALINGGA is expected to become a forum that can accommodate the aspirations of Master of Linguistics students, support the growth of student achievement and innovation, including creating useful activities in the field of Linguistics and society.

SDGs 4: Quality Education | SDGs 14: Live Below Water | SDGs 17: Partnerships for the Goals

On Tuesday, January 16 2024, several Cultural Anthropology students together with three students from Adger University, Norway visited a mangrove forest managed by the NGO Bintari Pekalongan, Central Java. In this activity, students discussed with youth and local people who were actively involved in maintaining the mangrove forest on the northern coast of Pekalongan.

Initially, mangroves were planted by a youth group called Antaraha Berkah Mandiri or Karya Mandiri as part of efforts to preserve the momentum of national economic development. After the mangrove planting was underway, the Bintari NGO took part in the maintenance process.

The visit to the mangrove forest closed with activities to clean the shoreline which was filled with rubbish brought in from the sea. Various types of waste ranging from plastic, wood and household waste are collected together in sacks as an effort to preserve beaches and mangrove forests on the shoreline. Local residents, Cultural Anthropology students and Adger University students then took photos together before returning to the settlement.

The research carried out by Cultural Anthropology students at Gadjah Mada University is part of efforts to improve the quality of education in understanding the realities of social life in line with the 4th SDGs point. The research activities were carried out together with Norwegian students as a form of implementing SDGs at point 17. Lastly, the activity of cleaning up rubbish on the shoreline was one of the embodiments of SDGs at point 14, namely life below water.

Author: Irene Saphira Putri Yudyastawa