Reducing Communication Barrier and Misperception

Thursday, 30 April 2020
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Participant’s reflection on Communication Skills training 2020 batch 1

 

 

 

 

 

For me, Rivaldo Arinanda Padaka, Communication Skills is interesting to learn because it helps someone to develop the ability to express something in order to achieve a certain goal, or speaking to achieve the expected good results. My fear in communication are saying something wrong, not confident standing in front of the camera, and shy to speak in front of many people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is good occasion for me to take part in Communication Skills training held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta which was useful for myself-development, after Multiculture training that I participated last March. In this training I found many things that had to be improved in communication, such as verbal graffiti, which had to be eliminated. For me, good public speaking is a systematic delivery of speech and to avoid others being bored to listen and able to convince others with simple and easy language to understand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, I designed a video as a means to convey information to others for the common good by reducing the spread of Covid-19 virus in community, and by participating together to maintain health. In this online training and producing this video I was facilitated by Erik Poae and Thomas Yulianto from Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team for one week and the content matched with my background in theology. I made a short reflectional video entitled "The Obedience in the Midst of Covid-19" that’s uploaded on YouTube channel of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta via the link https://youtu.be/Wj3nOp2R05c

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This training is useful to form the correct way of communication delivered to public regarding pandemic and community obedient to the government's recommendations to overcome the spread of Covid-19. This is a shared responsibility for public good. Especially in this pandemic, there is a need for people who have speaking skills to convey a message well and to be easily understood.

 

 

 

Since now, I learn to improve communication skills through various communication media, to reduce communication barriers within myself and to reduce the misperception factor because of unclear ways of communication or low understanding on how to convey message especially when working at the church to deliver church service. Thank you Stube-HEMAT. (Rivaldo Arinanda Padaka)

 


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Challenging Myself to Develop Communication Skills

Thursday, 30 April 2020
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Participant’s reflection on Communication Skills training 2020 batch 1

I am Irene Berta Meida Zalukhu, fondly called Iren, from Nias island, North Sumatra. Currently I am studying in STPMD "APMD" Yogyakarta majoring in Governance Science. Initially, I wanted to open my mind why I got this interesting experiences. People say that experience is the best teacher that teaches us many things. Experience is also considered as something valuable. Yes, like these words "search and gain experience", until I found a new experience while join online training held by Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta.

 



 

Initially I knew this institution from my sister who is also from Nias but she stays in Yogyakarta. The first training I joined was multiculture and inter-religion dialogue for three days and learned new insights with friends from various regions in Indonesia, even from Timor Leste and India. Since then I was actively involved in Stube HEMAT, including performed Nias traditional dances at international conferences. It was my pride to take part in it.

 


 

Entering Covid-19 pandemic period, where the public situation was not conducive, the lectures were conducted online,  and I spent most of time just in my boarding house. Finally I found a new opportunity, joined Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta training through Communication Skills training. This was fun and challenging because I got interesting materials and topics about Public Speaking that I did not know about before. Apparently, I did many things that I thought just trivial, such as verbal grafitti and pause when talking with e ... hmm ... etc. I learned and challenged myself to be better through a video about Covid-19 pandemic which discussed about whether students should return home during this pandemic. This idea came from the concerns of my family and relatives in Nias, because many Nias students in many cities had returned to Nias. So, I tried to find this information from several students. Further I encouraged myself to contact and ask for response from the house of representative member of North Nias regency. It was nice when I looked for video supporting materials, it turned out that the respondent gave good responses. The recording session was so challenging because it was the first time for me to perform through a video and apply the training material. I also practiced how to edit the video until the finalization, even I did revisions several times. Finally the video was uploaded on YouTube channel of Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta with a link https://youtu.be/fL6nrXjmt_A

 


 

I am satisfied with what I did, not from my ability, but God’s grace and supportive friends. I also learned and gained new experiences, as well as I inspired others to do productive activities during pandemic. Moreover, family, friends, lecturers and Stube-HEMAT gave appreciation in various forms and encouragement to develop my potency.

 

 

 

The best teacher in life is experience, I am not afraid to start developing myself and to keep doing it as long as it is worthwhile to do. I believe that there are still many good people who will always support and appreciate what we do if it brings goodness to others. (Irene Zalukhu).

 

 


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Doing Education During Pandemic

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
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Participant’s reflection on Communication Skills Training 2020 batch 1

Currently Indonesia is facing a thrilling situation related with Covid-19 Pandemic. This outbreak paralyzed various aspects of community life, such as education, economics, social and others. The Indonesia government implemented various policies and strategies to break the chain of the spreading virus, one of which was regulation for the community to carry out activities from home, such as work or school from home.

 

 

 

The education sector is affected by this situation, including universities where the lecture process that previously face-to-face was changed to online, and it means that students throughout Indonesia are stay at home. For some students, online study is quite good because they can attend lectures using only gadgets without going to campus, but some students find that it is really boring and some get difficulty because they are in an area that is not covered by the communication network or do not have enough money to buy quota of internet data. I belong to the second group of students who are bored with online lectures, so I try to find various things that can overcome it and I try to do activities that support my study so that I remain productive such as reading books, watching movies, listening music and playing social media .

 


 


 

When I was exploring the internet and Facebook timeline, I saw Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta’s post that promoted Communication Skills training. I was immediately interested to join because I knew that Stube-HEMAT activity was always inspiring and I could find new experiences. Thanks God that I passed the selection and become one of 3 participants in the first batch of this training. I was accompanied by two good and fun mentors, Trustha Rembaka and Putri Laoli, from Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta team.

 

 

 

The first day started with the introduction process between participant and mentors as well as explaining the program that will be carried out during the training. The focus of discussion in this training was improving communication techniques by producing something that can educate public about Covid-19. The following days I learned good communication techniques, tips on speaking in front of camera and systematic narrative writing and much more, until finally I and my mentors produced an educational video entitled "Misunderstanding Meaning of Terms Related to Covid-19" which explained terms coming up related with pandemic, such as ODP, PDP, lockdown and other terms. With this title, I have to find valid and accountable source because it was related to public information and education so I sought sources from ministry of health and credible national media. Please watch the video on the link https://youtu.be/oqq6rlPR2eM

 

 

 

This video made me run into various dynamics that changed my awareness, skills and confidence. At first, I thought my communication technique was good enough, but I was wrong because I did basic mistakes without realizing it, such as verbal grafitti, body language and eye focus on the camera. Also, I gained new skills in making videos such as shooting techniques, determining back sound, animation, transitions, determining themes and much more. This training made me realize that the simple things that I did not think before sometimes was very important to learn and it affected myself and society. Now I found interest in making next videos with various topics.

 


 

Thank you Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta for being a forum for students and giving enlightening, especially I was helped in developing my potency so that it could be useful for many people. My hope for the future is many more young people will be interested in similar training and Stube-HEMAT has always been the foremost place that can accommodate, empower and promote potencies of students for Indonesia. (Antonia Maria Oy).

 

 

 

 


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Students in Yogyakarta During Pandemic

Thursday, 9 April 2020
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Corona virus is a deadly virus that spreads from human to humans. It emerged since December 2019, from Wuhan, China until now it is widely spread to various parts of the world including Indonesia and the surrounding area. Until now the vaccine as the antidote to the virus has not been found yet and still in experiment process. So far, it has killed thousand people. It is really scary.
 

The corona virus changes life significantly. The government, health department and the community are important elements to work together against the spreading of the virus. The government issued regulation toward offices and campuses to work or study from home (stay at home). In Special Region of Yogyakarta, all campuses were closed and diverted to online lectures since early of March 2020.
 
Yogyakarta city as a student city, thousands of students from various parts of the archipelago are in this city, so it is called as a miniature of Indonesia. However, because they are fighting against Covid-19 pandemic, Yogyakarta suddenly became quiet, there was no crowds on streets and public places. The number of people and vehicles in public places are decreasing and most activities are done at home and boarding house. Small alleys are closed, including some shops and food stalls. So the students from different islands who stay in Yogyakarta and who usually consume fast food, begins to implement healthy life by consuming their own cookings.
 
All hope that the pandemic will soon subside, so the anxiety can end soon. All of us hope that the experts, doctors, medical staff and researchers will find vaccine soon to fight against the plague which threaten lives. By following the direction of the government and the medical department to keep doing activities at home (stay at home), maintaining a healthy and clean lifestyle, of course we strive to stop the chain of spreading of the virus. Let us unite and work together against Covid-19. (WIN)
 

 

 


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Fighting Hoax In The Midst Of Pandemic

Thursday, 2 April 2020
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When all the world leaders thought hard to deal with the Corona pandemic, a virus that emerge in Wuhan, China, several countries did lockdown, such as Italy, Spain, United States and several other countries in Europe, India and also Australia. In Indonesia itself since the first infection was detected on March 2, 2020 many opinions have emerged on social media to do lockdown Jakarta to avoid the transfer of virus to villages. There are many disputes related lockdown in Jakarta, the initial decision taken by the government was 'Work from Home' or WFH for several government agencies and the private sector as well, and schools were closed. The government's decision to conduct WFH led to surge people to come back home to their villages because keep staying in the capital city was not the right choice, by considering the coming of fasting month and they did not work, they were not paid and they had no income for living cost. Now the Jakarta government implemented a Large-Scale Social Restriction (PSBB) as a step to reduce the spread of the infections that have made Jakarta the red zone of Covid 19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In contrast to Jakarta, in my village of East Halmahera and almost all regions of North Maluku, the community looked ‘not bothered’ or underestimate the virus, because they assume that it will not reach their place. On March 23, 2020 the government announced 1 positive Covid-19 patient from North Maluku. The anxiety and noise has just begun, various kinds of hoax information were scattered, even information regarding worship from home was not responded well by religious leaders and the community even they thought the government banned them to worship.

 

 

 

The noise rose when a chain message with video uploaded on social media Facebook (March 25, 2020) saying  that "a newborn baby said that by boiling a chicken egg and consumed at 24.00 local time will kill the virus and also make a person safe from it". Suddenly this news shocked the public and they flocked to bang several groceries stores at 22.00 to 02.00 a.m to buy eggs. It indicated that the public are very afraid and worried, so they ‘consume’ any news about Covid-19 carelessly, so they became victims of false information easily. The hoax news has its characteristics, such as excessive news, producing panic and fear, creating hatred or anger, besides the source of the news cannot be justified. The common people needed to be educated about hoax news.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The local government of East Halmahera took several efforts by distributed budget of 3,4 billion for Covid-19 emergency response. Besides that, the health department has conducted socialization and started to collect data from the community to trace those who made travelling outside of the region in 1-2 weeks before, especially those from the red zone.

 

 

 

Our responsibility is providing valid information by socializing the true facts about the virus through WhatsApp group, Facebook group, and other social media, as well as the positive things that happened during pandemic. Take care of your health by consume meals regularly, have enough rest and vitamin C every day. Let us fight against Covid 19 by having clean-live and healthy habits! (SAP).

 


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