SDG 4: Quality education | SDGs 4: Basic literacy skills | SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth | SDGs 8: Economic productivity | SDG 17: Partnerships for goals | SDGs 17: Fostering innovation

An interesting agenda at the “NGABUBUREAD” event held by Perpustra on Thursday, 26th of March 2024 in the courtyard of the Soegondo Building, Faculty of Cultural Sciences yesterday was Baca Sastra and Ceritra (Cerita bareng Perpustra). Baca Sastra is an expression space for reading literary works presented by Lincak. As a community of poetry lovers at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, Lincak is an expression space for the exploration of poetry and literary works. On the occasion of that afternoon, accompanied by the sound of serene rainwater, Lincak invited people to enjoy the presentation of literary works together.

Ari Bagus Panuntun, founder of Warung Sastra and also a Lecturer in French Literature at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University, joined them for a book talk as a speaker at Ceritra. Despite his background in French literature, Bagus was interested in the book industry and founded Warung Sastra. The bookstore with the slogan “Books, Coffee, Penyetan” is a place for book lovers in Yogyakarta to read and discuss. Here, Bagus reviewed the journey of a book from the author’s hands to the buyer. In the discussion session with the audience, he also shared tips on publishing a book, especially how to choose a good and trusted book publisher.

SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities | SDGs 11: Community | SDG 17: Partnership for goals | SDGs 17: Fostering innovation 

Tak Kenal Maka Tak Sayang. This is a proverb that is often heard in our ears, which contains an extraordinary meaning, namely a call to get to know each other so that good relations are established between fellow human beings. Therefore, in order to strengthen the bond of brotherhood, the Linguistic Family of Gadjah Mada or abbreviated as Kalingga held a MAKRAB KALINGGA event held at Villa Darmawan Kaliurang on 8-9 March 2024. The event was attended by the Gadjah Mada Linguistics Master Student Family from various batches, where the organizers were linguistics students from batch 2023 as well as Kalingga administrators.

With the theme “Menyala Kalinggaku“, a series of events were arranged as interesting as possible to ignite the enthusiasm of the participants in establishing cooperation such as playing games, barbeque, karaoke, congregational prayer, and eating together. The event was closed on the next day by giving prizes to the winners of the games and then a group photo. Kalingga Chairperson, Yuliana Kristianti, in her closing remarks was very grateful to the participants who attended the event, especially the seniors who still took the time to attend to meet and play with their juniors. She also hoped that with the end of the event, the kinship between students would be even closer.

SDG 4: Quality Education | SDGs 4: Education for sustainability | SDG 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure | SDGs 9: Economic development | SDG 10: Reduced inequalities | SDGs 10: Business | SDG 17: Partnerships for goals | SDGs 17: Fostering innovation

All prospective graduates will definitely feel happy and relieved because they have completed the difficult tasks they undertook during college, especially their thesis. However, they will face the next struggle after graduating from college. They will start a new life which of course will have increasingly difficult and numerous challenges. The reality of life that does not always match what they want requires fresh graduates to really prepare themselves by planning what they will do after graduating. Realizing the anxiety felt by prospective alumni, the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University held soft skills training for prospective graduates the day before graduation day to prepare human resources who are ready to face the world outside campus.

Tania Nugraheni Ayuningtyas, is a successful young entrepreneur who graduated from the Tourism study program at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences who is currently continuing her postgraduate studies at the Agribusiness Management study program at Gadjah Mada University with an LPDP scholarship. The twists and turns of her journey in achieving success can be a motivation and lesson for anyone who just wants to start a business, this is what makes her worthy of being a speaker at this training in front of undergraduate graduate candidate which will be held on Tuesday, February 20 2024 at the Faculty of CulturalScience Auditorium, Gadjah Mada University. Before finally she succeeded as owner & director of CV. Slamet Jogjamu Indonesia and also Co-Founder & Finance Manager of PT. Waturanda Destination, she experienced failure and even fraud. But that didn’t make her give up, in fact these incidents encouraged her to continue learning and thinking to be better.

That afternoon, she shared her valuable knowledge about how to start a business. According to her, there are three important things that must be done, namely Learn, Build and Measure. Learn, namely gathering understanding about the target market, customers and problems that need to be solved, as well as creating hypotheses to test on the market. Build is building a product or service simply and quickly. And the last thing that entrepreneurs rarely remember but is very important is Measure, which is actively collecting data and feedback from users so that it is possible to measure product performance. With the knowledge she shared, she hoped that prospective graduates will be ready to face the new world after graduating and can plan carefully for the future.