The victims of Jebres Demangan is sleeping in the street in front of their house

The eviction which was done in Jebres Demangan confiscating attentions from college students especially the activists (10/11). 

Waskita Cahya Subekti, one of the representative activists attended the meeting and consolidation with the victims in Central Jebres on Wednesday, October 24. Waskita was interviewed on various matters, ranging from eviction’s cause to eviction’s solution.

Question: What is your view of the eviction and its cause?

Answer: According to the procedure, the eviction was done arbitrarily because the police did not bring any authorization letter for eviction. The eviction’s victims were also paying for the land tax to stay in Jebres Demangan land. In terms of the eviction’s solution, no realization can’t be proved. 

What is your comment on the eviction’s solution given to the victim?

The solution which was given by the government in form of a flat and some money. Dimas Suro, one of the activists, surveying the flat and no room left for the victims. Also, the money did not immediately distribute to the victim yet.  

The victims did not want to move from the area because of the victim’s livelihood. The solution was not the best solution to give for the victim since they got more sufferance in this case. The government should meditate over the solution to the victims.

How the student’s activists help the victims of the eviction?

The Jebres Demangan Community against the eviction. Students from different faculties came here to give a hand. Giving supports for the victims, for example establishing tents and medical check-up for the victims, and one of law students intended to bring this matter to a lawyer.

Waskita said, “I'm a part of student external organization but I'm not here because of who and where I am. Even we are (students) from many different backgrounds and organizations, but we are here because of humanity”.

To enhance students’ interest and talent in writing, the annual Glorious Science Festival (SAFIK) is set to return on October 29 to November 3. Saseru Study Club (SSC), a student organization in Sebelas Maret University, will hold the festival with the theme “The Challenge of Millennial Generation in Facing Demographic Bonus through Indonesia’s Cultural Treasures.”

Muhammad Rifqi Yahya, the head of SAFIK committee, said “We chose the theme because we realized that millennial generation or today’s youngsters are indifferent toward their own culture. We want to raise this issue and make Indonesian culture being known among the youngsters again.”

SAFIK 2018 will consist of a total of four events; essay writing contest, short story writing contest, book bazaar, and seminar. “Both writing contest are national contest. The short story contest are targeted for high school to college students while the essay contest only for college students,” Muhammad added. 

For the book bazaar, SAFIK committee has collaborated with book distributors in order to provide books from various genres. 

The key event of SAFIK is on the last day of the festival (11/3) when the seminar as well as the handover of prizes, for the winners of the writing contests, be held. 

(Safitri)

Irfan Zamzani (on the left side), an English Department’s Lecturer of Diponegoro University, conveys the journalism material to the participants on Saturday, October 13.

Indonesian Moslem Student Movement (PMII) of Kentingan District held journalism training for common higher education students in Karangpandan, Karanganyar, on October 12 to 14. In this occasion, the journalism training raised a topic about 'Strengthen Nationalism through Journalism in Encountering the Today’s Era Challenges’.

One of the committee, Imaamah, claimed “This training is PMII's program which organized by PMII journalism division, LSO Terkepal. We have purpose for common higher education students, especially PMII cadre, to broaden the knowledge in journalistic field. By holding this event, we hope the youngsters will have nationalism and critical thinking in facing the today’s era.”

Chintami, a participant from Indonesian Language and Literature Education of Sebelas Maret University (UNS), admitted that she was impressed by the speaker. “I joined this because I’m interested in journalism. Also, I wanted to meet Kalis Mardiasih, an essayist that I idolize,” she added.

A participant (green veil) pays attention to a presentation that is given by Kalis Mardiasih (pink veil), an essay writer from a news media, Mojok.

Fifi, a student from the Study Sufism and Psychotherapy of Walisongo State Islamic University (UIN Walisongo), uttered this event educated her about journalism knowledge. She said she got experiences in writing an essay after following the materials. She expected she will be a journalist in the future by getting an output from this journalism training.

(Sufina)

People are enjoying the paintings and taking photos of themselves with the paintings.

On October 12 – 14, Student Association of Psychology UNS conducted Archetype in order to glorify Mental Health Day that falls every October 10. The event, Archetype, was held in Taman Budaya Jawa Tengah Surakarta.   

The Student Association of Psychology UNS held its second annual event to celebrate Mental Health Day. The theme of Archetype this year was “Mental Health Agent in Digital Era”. 

Adi Sasono, the committee, said “This theme intends that digitalization should be a tool for spreading a healthy psychological environment. We have to utilize digital as maximum as possible to spread a healthy environment and also knowledge about psychology to the public.”

Archetype has two different events; workshops and art exhibitions. The workshop was held each day from the opening until the closing ceremony with different speakers in each meeting. In addition, throughout the workshop, the art exhibition was also held carrying four different themes.

“We have four themes for the art exhibition; self, lifetime, different, and national issues. Some of the artworks, which are being presented, are masterpieces from people with Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a disorder that affects not only a person’s way of thinking but also their behavior.” Adi added. 

This event was held for the public with a purpose to encourage the society in understanding psychology from arts’ side. The event was also used to show that people with mental illness still can create artworks.

(Regita)

Faculty of Cultural Sciences students are wearing batik.

Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) celebrated National Batik Day that falls every October 2. All staffs and students were recommended to wear batik clothes from Tuesday to Friday (10/2-6).

Almost everybody on Tuesday, October 2, obeyed the instruction to wear batik clothes.

One of the students wearing batik, Muhammad Rifqi Yahya, an Arabic literature student, said "The instruction to wear batik clothes is a good choice to celebrate National Batik Day. Beside celebrating National Batik Day, the instruction for UNS' staffs and students is also conserving our own culture".

UNESCO designated batik as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009. The decree is a form of international recognition of Indonesian batik as a world cultural heritage.

According to Rifqi, today’s youngsters do not recognize batik as an Indonesia's own culture. Rifqi added, another way to celebrate batik day is by teaching students about making batik and learning about batik varieties.

Batik varieties can be differentiated by the way it's made, such as; Written Batik, Stamped Batik, and Printed Batik. Batik motif has different characteristic in each region as well as Jogjakarta's Batik motifs and Solo's Batik motifs.

Aisyah, a Javanese Literature student, gave another idea about the appropriate way in appreciating Batik as a cultural heritage. “Wearing batik clothes is not only worn in the formal events but also in daily activities. Youngsters’ paradigm of batik is closely related with kondangan, Indonesians' wedding party, therefore youngsters rarely wore batik. Based upon the history, batik was worn everyday as a day-to-day outfit,” Aisyah said.

Wearing batik clothes for UNS' staffs and students is considered to be an effective method to appreciate Indonesia’s national culture.

UNS' students are wearing Batik in Faculty of Social and Politic Sciences

UNS celebrated National Batik Day in October 2nd by giving instruction to its students to use batik attire. The instruction is applied from October 2nd until October 6th. Last year, the rector of UNS had not been formalized the instruction for all its academic society.

Many students on Tuesday, October 2nd, wore batik attire. Even the regulation of wearing batik was already formalized, but there was still a few students wore casual clothes.

Muhammad Rifqi Yahya, an Arabic literature student in UNS,  said "UNS' instruction for students to use batik attire is a good choice to celebrate National Batik Day. Beside of celebrating National Batik Day, by giving this instructions to UNS' students is also protecting and conserving our own culture in batik industry".

Batik is an Indonesian culture that already designated as Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in October 2nd, 2009 by UNESCO. The decree is a form of international recognition of Indonesian batik as a world cultural heritage.

As a college student, Rifqi perceived that many young generation do not recognize batik as an Indonesia's own culture. Rifqi added, beside of giving instruction to use batik attire,  another way to appreciate National Batik Day can be celebrated by teaching students about making batik and learning about batik varieties. 

Batik varieties can be differentiated by the way it's made, such as; Batik Tulis, Batik Cap, and Batik Cetak. Batik motive has dissimilar characteristic in each region as well as Jogjakarta's Batik motifs and Solo's Batik motifs.

Aisyah, a Javanese Literature student, gave another idea about the most appropriate way to appreciate Batik as a cultural heritage is to use batik attire everyday not only in non-particular events but also in daily activities. 

Many young people embarrassed to use batik in everyday life because it is closely related with kondangan, Indonesians' wedding party,  whereas in ancient times batik wore as a day-to-day outfit. 

Aisyah said "I do not agree with the idea that batik is only wore in certain event. Batik is cool, we do not have to wear it only in certain days or events".

Wearing batik attire for all UNS' academic society is considered to be an effective methods for them to realize how important to preserve this national culture. Instead of blaming another country for claiming batik, wearing batik in non-particular events is the easiest way of aprreciation.