Open New Network and Be Sensitive to Conflict
Saturday, 30 September 2017by adminstube
Students are groups of people having opportunities to develop intellectual abilities to explore their interest in college. They are also known by society as intellectual candidates who are energetic, passionate and dedicated, critical, intelligent and knowledgeable. They need to establish network to strengthen their influence and impact to society.
As realization to open and strengthen the network, a group of students activists Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta consists of Robertus Letigalli, Siprianus Ndawa Lu, Anna Astri Don and Redy Hartantoinitiated to hold a discussion with KMK Unriyo students on Friday, September 29, 2017 at Unriyo campus, Kledokan with a topic on “Student andConflict Mapping”.
There were twenty-six participants attended this discussion, consisting of KMK Unriyo students, STAK Marturia, follow-up group and Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team. Yulius, the chairman of KMK Unriyo in his opening greeting expressed his joy and grateful for the cooperation. He hoped that this discussion would run well and all participants were able to learn together. In the introductory session, the participants introduced name, origin area and field of study. Apparently, almost 90% of participants came from outside of Java island.
Next, Trustha Rembaka, thecoordinator of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta introduced Stube-HEMAT and its activities that build awareness of young people and students to understand the surrounding social issues. He invited students not to 'separate themselves' from the surrounding community, but to be 'involved' in thecommunity dynamics wherever they lived. He added that this discussion was a follow up of Peace Studies training followed by Robertus and his friends a few weeks earlier.
Redy Hartanto, one of the member of the follow-up group, delivered atopic of Student and Conflict. During the process,participants were asked to give opinion about what causes conflict. In fact, student may be a cause of conflict or may be aconflict resolution actor. He explained thatalthough conflict is negative and disadvantageous,it still has positive side. Is it true? Yes! Negative impacts of conflict are disputes, hatred and even violence, while the positive sides of conflict are both parties in conflict will sharpen mind and deepen knowledge to recognize and to map the conflict to find various solutions of theirconflict.
In the process, the participants were divided into small group of four people and shared each other about the conflict in their areas. Then each group chose a conflict and found out its cause root,those who were involved, what the interests of each side and the impact of the conflict were. It is possible for them to formulate alternative solutions for the conflict. The members of follow up groupincluding Robertus, Cyprianus, Astri and Redy and the Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team facilitated the discussion in each group.
After thirty minutes, two groups shared the outcome.First, a conflict between groups of people that led to fights and violence. The group found that an easyway to buy and drink alcoholic beverages and low levels of educationbecame one conflict cause. The proposed solutions of this group were agelimitation of buyers and increasing social awareness through education improvement. Second, the latent conflict that occurred in an area in Central Kalimantan due to unclear ownership of land for oil palm plantations. The group mapped out those who wereinvolved, what their interests were and what the students in the area could do.
As the conclusion, Redy reminded participants thatafter participating this discussion, they begin more calm to respond and smarter to find alternative solutions for conflict resolution. In addition, he hoped that such a meeting can be held continuously. (TRU).
Meet each other Learn and Share
Wednesday, 27 September 2017by adminstube
Direct interaction with other people with different cultures definitely provides new experiences and learning for each party about the diversity in Indonesia with regional promotion in local context. It is what prompts Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta to give student activist of Stube a chance to visit Sumba, one of islands in East Nusa Tenggara. Three students were dare to accept the challenge, who were they?
First, Dominggus Urkora, a student of Theology at STAK Marturia Yogyakarta, originated from Dobo, Southeast Maluku. Domi was sent toSumba and staying precisely in Kanjonga Bakul village, Nggaha Ori Angu, East Sumba between 17 June to 17 July 2017 by conductingactivities related to Sunday School in GKS Kanjonga Bakul.
His first activity was collecting the biodata of GKS Kanjonga BakulSunday school children from five groups covering Kanjonga Bakul, Horani, Kalu, Walakiri and Bidiwai. Next,motivating new teachers to serve Sunday school, and then watching movies for children. During his interaction in the field, Domi found that some elementary school children were not able to read yet, so he was driven to hold activities on literacy assistance. Actually, it was not an easy activity as he had to pass the rocky path to reach the villages, however Domi was happy when the boys called out his name as they passedacross on the path.
Second, Nova Yulanda Putri Sipahutar, an alumnus of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, comingfrom North Sumatra held anassistance for early childhood education of Nasareth, Tanggamadita, East Sumba. This early childhood education was established in 2014 and registered in the East Sumba Education Office in 2016. However, the activity was still conductedat a room of Posyandu Tanggamadita, because itdidn’t have its own building. So far, there were 18 students registered until July 2017.
In the same place, Nova held English classes for elementary, junior and senior high school students. Because participants have to draw water and collect firewood for their home needs, or also along with school daytime schedules, they often came late. However, they were eager to learnseveral topics,such as alphabet in English, family, basic introduction, subject, to be, object, and possesion. The results appeared when they were dare to perform short English conversations, mentioning vocabularies and writing sentences according to English sentence structures.
Student Reading Group was also a concern of Nova. There were five female students who joined, namely Betriks Lay, Elisabeth Bangi Lida, Yustiwati, Onira Tangga Nalu and Melianti Betsdwi. The name of this group was Anala'du, meaning the sun symbolizing a woman, because the books they readare about womenwith women perspective, such as Tabula Rasa, Gadis Pantai, Go To Set A Watchman, Entrok, and Memang Jodoh. The group agreed that each member is a facilitator and discussion participants. In each discussion, the facilitator provided a resume and analysis of the book in Sumba context and continued by questions and answers.
Third, Redy Hartanto, a theology student of STAK Marturia Yogyakarta from Lampung had an idea to teach the Sunday school creatively by utilizing the surrounding localobjects. On 15 July 2017-12 August 2017 he was in Sumba, precisely at GKS Laihau, LewaeTidas, East Sumba.
He used banana leaves as children's activity and plastic straws as teaching aid on particular topics. In addition, he also listed Sundayschool children, motivated teenagers to become a Sunday school teacher, held movie for children and held acompetition for Sunday school children. Redy was sick on his first day arrival, but eventually he got his strength and succeeded in motivating four young people to take part in Sunday school service at GKS Laihau.
Although it seems simple activities, but it answersthe local need, so it is very useful and bringingimpacts for the community. So, young students do not just dwell in campus, but complete your life story with various adventures of interacting with communities and their dynamics. (TRU).
Dare to Share knowledge of conflict management A follow-up activity of peace study training
Monday, 25 September 2017by adminstube
One specific thing of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta after a training is giving encourage to each participant to design and conduct a follow-up activity.Last September 8-10, 2017 Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta organized a Peace Study training entitled against the failure to react.
One group consisting of Ni Putu Sari Yani Darsani, Adi Zamba, Monika Zangga Nata, Imelda Hada Inda, Junerin Kaleka and Marthia Sari Rato, shared their experiences they learned during the training on peace studies, at STPMD APMD campus on Saturday 23/09/2017. They discussed the topic with students who joined Hipmasty, a student associationof East Sumba students in Yogyakarta. The implementation of this activity is driven by the interest of the participants and the need to share knowledge for others.
There were twenty-one participants from various background study and campus in Yogyakarta. The event was opened with a prayer and a song ‘Father, you are so good’ led by Junerin Kaleka. Next, Marthia Sari Rato explained the definition of conflict, problem and perspective, conflict and violence, and various conflicts. It stimulated participants to startlearning and to understand conflict. Then, Monika Zangga Nata revealed theory and types of conflicts, so the participants would be able to sort out types of conflict because a different type of conflict needs different solution.
During the process,participants were so enthusiastic to argue and to defend their arguments. Then, they were divided in two groups to prepare role play and triedto find a conflict in their surrounding. Further, they analyzed it and then madea mapping of related parties, as if a conflictmediator by paying attention to the materials had been presented by two previous speakers.
Group 1 found aproblem aboutstudents’ awareness to engage and learn in an organization, especially Hipmasty as learning material in their group discussion. Group 2 discussed issue on construction of sugar cane plantation in East Sumba. The findings and analysis of the groups were presented together. Marthia Sari Rato, representative of the speakers, expressed her satisfaction and happiness for the enthusiasm of the participants and the implementation of this follow-up activity.
"I am very satisfied with this follow-up as we can share our experience on conflict management and delivered like a small training for Hipmasty members. We are alsohappy to see that all participants were very enthusiastic joining this follow-up. Thank you so much to Hipmasty members having allocatedtheir time to attend and to discuss together.The last but not the least, thank you Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta. We practiced as trainers", Sari concluded. (MAR).Let’s Take Action, Students!
Friday, 15 September 2017by adminstube
Students are grouped into an intellectual societyhaving critical thinking, analytical thought, creative ideas and opinion to realize and fight for education, teaching and service to community. Students as agents of change are asked to be the controller of the social situation, the criticism ofsocial problems and the actors of bringing changes through real action in society based on their knowledge and experience gained from campus.
However, now students are no longer as the agents of change but being apathetic individuals instead. They have no longer concerns on various problems ofinjustice and have orientation towards just high achievement index, short term study for quick graduation and job. It is caused by campus’ orientation on academic score and by being part of ‘degree fabrics.’ Such model of campus is actually 'killing' the students’ creativity.
Eko Prasetyo wrote a book ‘Bergeraklah Mahasiswa!” (Let’s Take Action, Students!) as a criticism to students as well as education system. This situation pushed Social Movements Institute (SMI) together with Togamas Bookstore, Tribun Forum, Tribun Jogja, and Stube-HEMAT to review this book on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at Togamas Gejayan Bookstore.
Asman Abdullah, from SMI revealed that there is a criticism written on the book saying that it is hard for students to allocate their time to join organization out side campus in order to finish their study in three and half year. It is a pity because the students will become 'dull' because they have less interaction with their surrounding social reality. Alfath Bagus, the president of Gadjah Mada University student organization, said that studentscurrently need to have an imagination, so that, they can connect knowledge they learned with actual challenges. While Sulistiono, from Tribun Jogjalocal newspaper said that the existence of current students were significantly different with students in old order. At that time students were united in great power and had the same 'enemy' and they moved together to bring down the ‘enemy’. Now, students are difficult to be united because they have different interests. Nevertheless, students can still move to answer social problems in society based on their segments, for example, taking part in solving environmental damage or assisting community to improve their economy level.
Next, two participants responded the discussion topic. Mardi from East Nusa Tenggara said that students need to sharpen their analytical skills and need space to do something useful. Next, Anggara, a student from Kalimantan said that students in the city should not only 'speak out' against the government, but do real action, such as initiating activity to reduce education gap in Kalimantan hinterland. It will be more beneficial.
Finally, the decision will be taken by the students themselves, whether studying for good grades just on paper then graduate and seek for job, or studyingand doing adventure to find the annoying social reality that needs changes. (ELZ).
Against The Failure To React
Monday, 11 September 2017by adminstube
The easy access for information is used by some unscrupulous persons to spread issues on ethnicity, religion, race and inter-group relation andspreading 'hoax' news. If young people is not equipped with appropriate knowledge and critical attitudes, they will be easily deceived. Nowadays there are lots of 'hoax' news scattered in media.Considering the need for improvement both thinking strength and critical attitude of students and young people, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta held a training on Peace Study: Conflict Management & Resolution at Ngesti Laras Hotel, Kaliurang (8-10/9) attended by 42 participants.
In this training, Stube-HEMAT set a theme of‘Against the failure to react’. The aim of this training is participants learn peace study, how to manage conflict and propose resolution. Participantsare also expected to have understanding and courage against terrorism and radicalism, and ability to analyze actors who take part in establishing peace resolution.
The first session was opened with introduction of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta by Ariani Narwastujati, S.Pd., S.S., M.Pd,the Executive Director of Stube-HEMAT Indonesia. The second session invited participants to understand basic theory of Conflict Management conveyed by Sarloce Apang, S.T, Trustha Rembaka, S.Th and Rudyolof I.M. Pinda, S.Sos. Based on the presentation, the participants are motivated to understand and analyze conflict, find key person, and even learned how to create conflict in order to make it visible and able to find solutioneventually.
Some experienced facilitators were invited to complete this three days training. Yoga Khoiri Ali, M.A, from Terrorism Prevention Coordination Forum (FKPT) of Yogyakarta Special Region conveyed understanding on how foreign sides are trying to control Indonesia through various tactics, one of them is religion issue. This issue is 'played' to disrupt us. Based on the research, the main trigger of the conflict in equatorial area, including Indonesia is energy crisis. The religion issue was deliberately played to create conflict as the diversion while energy resource fights were taking place.
As important entryto be smart in facing issues on ethnicity, religion, race and inter-group relation and hoax issues in media, Rifqiya Hidayatul Mufidah and Sarjoko from Gusdurian, equipped participants' understanding with their material. Rifqiya shared about Gusdurian Community and what they do, while Sarjoko gave important exposure on how media really fool us with 'hoax' news and SARA issues that are deliberately made based on client request. Once an issue blown, they get large amount of money. While, we are as consumers of the news can only blame and curse each other.
On Saturday night participants performed role plays on how they practiced to be smart mediators toresolve conflicts occured around them. The conflictsoffered by Stube HEMAT team and performed by participants were online taxi vs conventional taxi, full day school, government law on CSO (civil society organization).
The training was finalized with designing follow-up plan. After attending a three-days-two-nights training, participants are expected to be able to share with friends, community, groups wherever they are about the materials. Their follow-up plansbecome real proof that young people are not just silent, they will not fail to react because theywill search valid information and they become peace agents for Indonesia and the world. (SAP).
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