It was held on September 26, 2025, at the Soekiman Wirosandjojo Auditorium Building, 3rd Floor, UII. This programme had been deliberately prepared in response to global challenges such as natural disasters, climate change, social injustice, armed conflicts, and wars in various countries.

To support this objective, various workshops were held, with the hope that IPC batch 2025 students who participated would be able to understand the role of media and communication in various contexts. Among other things, how media and communication shape narratives and build intercultural understanding to the point of being able to drive positive action through information on various media platforms.

The following are various workshops full of insights for IPC batch 2025 students:

Workshop on Promoting Global Solidarity through Creative Writing

By Nadia Wasta Utami, S.I.Kom, M.A

Active as a lecturer and marketing director at UII, the speaker delivered material focusing on how people use social media to fulfil their needs for news, entertainment, connection, and personal validation. To take on this role, students were encouraged to focus on the understanding that social media is a space for daily activities and to actively produce content.

One of the purposes of producing content is to conduct social campaigns. In relation to the ACSS 2025 topic, the speaker mentioned that social media is a space to create movements. The goal is to learn how to create powerful content to achieve a specific objective, such as spreading a social campaign. There are four stages in the process of creating a powerful social media campaign, including understanding the brief, gaining the idea, creating a creative brief, and the idea development process.

‘When a story is relevant, people will listen; when an issue is relevant, people will act; when content is relevant, people engage. Like, comment, share, save,’ she said.

In this workshop, students were divided into three groups to produce social media campaign posters. They had to discuss current political issues that were viral and urgent to resolve. They had to clearly define their objective, goal, or target for the campaign.

Workshop Introduction to Academic Writing

By Iwan Awaludding Yusuf, Ph.D.

The workshop began with a reflective question to the students, ‘Why is academic writing important?’ The speaker explained that written words are considered the best way to convey ideas.

He also mentioned that ‘humans are natural researchers,’ meaning that humans naturally have a tendency or inclination to conduct research, make observations, and seek knowledge and new things. Humans always try to understand the reality around them to find answers in order to survive and adapt.

‘You can put your interest in academic writing. Write something you really enjoy. Write something that’s been bothering you or on your mind lately,’ he added.

Academic writing is a systematically structured piece of writing that follows a logical flow accepted by the scholarly community, is open to scrutiny, and is subject to testing for its validity.

After presenting the material, students were invited to discuss the use of AI. ‘Can we use AI for writing academic papers?’ Some students argued that using AI would lead to the possibility of plagiarism, while others believed it could be used to enhance the quality of the writing itself. After further discussion, the session ended with an individual writing activity that was instructed for them to review their overall understanding of the workshop material.

Alumni Sharing

By Arsila Khairunnisa, S.I.Kom.

Arsila is an IPC alumnus from the 2020 batch who became the best graduate of 2024 with a GPA of 4.0. She shared her story through a PowerPoint presentation titled ‘If I Could Start Again,’ recounting her struggles until graduation.

Despite being considered successful, she mentioned various decisions she regretted. She shared these regrets during the Alumni Sharing session. She said that before starting class, we must prepare ourselves in advance by reviewing tomorrow’s material for certain subjects. Never be absent from class activities so that we have a maximum understanding of the material. Involvement and effort are also necessary to continue to develop by starting several projects as a portfolio because we will use it to build our future careers.

‘You are always stronger than you think and more capable than you believe,’ said Arsila, offering motivation.

Arsila also provided several tips and tricks to maximise results and achieve perfect scores in studies. She also gave a brief explanation about passion and how to explore our true passion by taking advantage of opportunities and practising consistently, because passion is related to effort, not happiness.

Workshop From High School to Higher Education: Developing Resilience in a Changing World

By Wanadya Ayu Krishna Dewi, S.PSI, M.A.

This workshop was a session where students met with lecturers who are also psychologists from UII. The transition period from secondary school to university certainly requires adaptation skills. Some of the differences point to five things, namely academic expectations, time differences, high independence and responsibility, perspectives on presence and individual awareness, and being far from home and family.

‘No pain, no gain,’ she said.

‘No matter what challenges you have faced, in the future, have tawakkul in Allah, and trust your life in God’s hands, and no matter what path He has led you on, it will always be a good opportunity.’ She added.

Difficulties are faced with resilience, but that does not mean students should avoid stress; rather, it is about how we adapt. Resilience is important during transition because it protects mental health and well-being.

In this workshop, students were invited to do various activities, such as drawing the natural scenery they wanted. This is related to the growth of mindsets, namely fixed mindset and growth mindset. How students are invited to understand the process rather than the results.

Next, the students were divided into several groups with four people in each group. They discussed fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. ‘We don’t know any other way that can lead us to success.’ ‘I can still grow from my goals and must always be grateful for what has been given.’ ‘Be open to future opportunities.’ Another activity was resilience mapping, where each member shared one major challenge they had faced.