Monthly Archives: October 2015

Talkshow: Meninjau Keuniversalan Gerakan Sosial di ASEAN

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Perbincangan mengenai gerakan sosial kerap terhubung dengan cita-cita para negara anggota ASEAN yang dalam waktu yang singkat ini akan mengimplementasikan Komunitas ASEAN 2015 sebagai babak baru kehidupan politik, ekonomi, dan sosial-budaya. Implikasi dari integrasi regional ini paling tidak akan memunculkan permasalahan-permasalahan sosial baru, seperti kesenjangan sosial, perbedaan identitas, dan penegakan hak asasi manusia. Berbicara melalui pendekatan yang berbeda, ASEAN sering kali dilihat sebagai rezim berbasis elit dan hanya merujuk pada nilai-nilai universal sebagai pendorong kebijakan. Padahal, cita-cita dari negara ASEAN adalah sebuah proses regionalisme yang tidak mengesampingkan masyarakat sebagai elemen utama dalam proses integrasi. Merespon permasalahan semacam ini, banyak sekali gerakan sosial yang bermunculan untuk melancarkan protes dan melawan elit dari segi perumusan dan implementasi kebijakan domestik—meskipun dengan cara pandang dan nilai yang berbeda-beda.

Berangkat dari permasalahan tersebut, ASEAN Studies Center, Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politik Universitas Gadjah Mada bekerja sama dengan Project Child Indonesia dan Social Movement Institute menyelenggarakan sebuah talkshow bertajuk “Meninjau Integrasi Gerakan Sosial di ASEAN”. Tujuan utama dari penyelenggaraan acara ini adalah untuk membuka dialog dan narasi mengenai perkembangan gerakan sosial dari segi teori dan praktik, implementasinya di negara ASEAN, dan menelisik kemungkinan integrasi dari gerakan-gerakan sosial di ASEAN yang notabene berbeda pada aspek fundamental dan metode. Dengan mendatangkan beberapa narasumber yang relevan, diharapkan acara ini dapat berkontribusi dalam narasi dan dialog untuk mengembangkan gerakan sosial yang efektif dan mumpuni.

Report from Workshop: Championing Your Business in ASEAN Community 2015

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ASEAN Studies Center UGM held a two-day workshop on the marketing strategy of SMEs in the ASEAN Economic Community, titled “Championing Your Business in ASEAN Community”. The marketing strategy is the main topic due to the assessment and research of ASEAN Studies Center UGM in 2014 regarding the readiness of SMEs in facing the ASEAN regional markets, marketing became one of the items that need to be prepared in facing ASEAN Economic Community. As a vital consequence of the free market at the regional level, Indonesia will inevitably to be directly involved in trading activities. Problems arise when each country will be connected to each other with the different business conditions in accordance with their respective domestic markets. Great expectations in the conduct of this workshop is to array SMEs in Indonesia, especially Yogyakarta to be better prepared to interactThis workshop invited several SMEs and relevant stakeholders in Yogyakarta. High enthusiasm comes from the business since some of them have just heard of adequate information about the AEC. The information comes from the speakers who were invited by ASEAN Studies Center UGM, namely Dr. Poppy S. Winanti (lecturer of International Relations UGM and Director of the Center for World Trade Studies), Endo Anugrah (Head of Partners Section for European and African, Sub ASEAN Dialogue Partners II, Ministry of Trade of Indonesia), Widya Paramita, M.Sc. (lecturer of Faculty of Economics and Business UGM), Timbul Raharjo (Entrepreneur and Chairman ASMINDO DIY), Dina W. Kariodimedjo (Faculty of Law Lecturer and Researcher at PSPD UGM), Ferdi Febianno Aggriawan, S. IP (Digital Manager Group M), Andin Rahmana (Digital Marketing Swaragama Group), and Arief Budiman (Eureka Group)

Material collaboration delivered by the speakers was preferred by SMEs in Yogyakarta since able to provide the things theoretically and practically. Departing from the understanding of what the ASEAN Community and the AEC in 2015 are, the workshop participants acknowledged that they just heard of these agendas, and assessing their business as far from the preparation in facing the AEC. However, several SMEs have prepared themselves by creating profiles on social media, and even integrate its business with the search features in Google and Google+. Through this workshop, ASEAN Studies Center UGM succeeded in forming a group using one of the chat application platform with the aim of integrating SMEs, in which they can exchange opinions and share information.

Head of the ASEAN Studies Center, Drs. Dafri Agussalim, M.A. said that the workshop can be used as a working platform or alternative strategies in preparing domestic elements were deemed less if it is associated with the process towards the ASEAN Economic Community. He underlined that the spirit of the business comes from the motivation and knowledge exchange among scientific experts, marketing, and business people. Reconciling these actors will certainly produce positive collaboration.

The workshop ended with a group photo of the invited SMEs, the organizers from the ASEAN Studies Center UGM, and the speaker in the last session, Arief Budiman of Eureka Group.