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Model-model Penelitian Kualitatif

Konten dan naskah jurnal yang masuk ke meja redaksi tak hanya bermetode kuantitatif. Banyak pula penulis naskah yang mengirim naskahnya ke redaksi jurnal dengan metode kualitatif. Meski begitu tak jarang pula yang tak jelas metodenya.

Maka dari itu Prof. Irwan Abdullah menjelaskan secara rinci melakukan penelitian agar bisa dengan mudah menggunakan jenis-jenis penelitian kualitatif. “Kenapa ini saya hadirkan? Karena pada naskah penelitian kualitatif, dia seringkali tidak jelas. Ini dia CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis) kah, fenomenologikah, dll. Ini kita seringkali tidak memperhatikannya,” kata Prof. Irwan Abdullah, Profesor antropologi UGM, di Pelatihan Penelitian Kualitatif pada 13 September 2021.

Acara ini diadakan oleh Unit Pengelolaan Jurnal dan Publikasi Karya Ilmiah, Fakultas Psikologi dan Ilmu Sosial Budaya (FPSB), UII. “Kami berharap para pengelola jurnal di lingkungan FPSB UII dapat mendapat penyegaran metode dan meningkatkan kualitas jurnalnya,” kata Puji Rianto, Kepala Pengelolaan Jurnal dan Publikasi Karya Ilmiah FPSB UII.

Irwan mengatakan, setidaknya ada enam jenis penelitian kualitiatif. Dengan memahami jenis-jenis ini, Irwan berharap akan memudahkan pengelola jurnal mengenali dan memperbaiki kualitas naskah jurnal. Irwan, yang juga adalah reviewer jurnal nasional dan internasional, ini berkata bahwa selain memahami 6 jenis penelitian kualitatif, para pengelola jurnal juga harus memahami empat nalar metode kualitatif.

Enam Jenis Penelitian Kualitatif

Enam jenis penelitian itu misalnya grounded research. “Grounded research ini menarik karena dia merangsang munculnya ide-ide dan hipotesis-hipotesis survei,” jelas Irwan. Irwan menepis anggapan sebagian orang tentang grounded research yang keliru. Grounded research, menurutnya, bukan penelitian tanpa teori. “Tapi penelitian yang bertujuan membangun teori,” ungkap Irwan. Selain grounded research, kita juga bisa memahami model kualitatif yang lain seperti narrative analysis.

Irwan menjelaskan bahwa, “Narrative analysis itu dia making sense of reality. Bagaimana dia membuat realitas itu make sense.” Contoh, kata Irwan, kita meneliti berita tentang keberhasilan seorang tokoh agama yang hebat. Kita wawancara dia menggunakan analisis naratif.

“Bagaimana kita melihat tokoh kita ini menarasikan keberhasilan dna menjelaskan keberhasilan itu,” jelasnya. “Jadi di dalam narrative analysis ini kita berusaha making sense dari realitas-realitas bahasa, pake ungkapan apa, cara bahasa apa yg digunakan si tokoh. Jadi dia making senses of reality,” imbuhnya kemudian.

Jika narrative analysis mengungkap narasi bahasa, maka jenis selanjutnya yaitu Analisis konten justru berusaha mencari pola. “Content analysis berusaha mencari frekuensi dan kecenderungan pola. Biasanya di komunikasi ini. Ia melahirkan tabel-tabel,” papar Irwan, yang sejak 2018 menulis untuk jurnal-jurnal Scopus.

Sedangkan selanjutnya, Irwan menjelaskan bahwa analisis wacana berbeda dengan analisis isi. Peneliti menggunakan analisis wacana untuk melihat, “bagaimana dalam sejarah atau kultur seseorang itu membangun discourse/ wacana. Kita melihat bagaimana sejarah dia, budaya, mempengaruhi dia.”

Ada pula jenis fenomenologi. IPA fenomenologi itu merekam pengalaman. Misalnya, Irwan menyontohkan, misalnya pengalaman sembuh dari covid-19. “Dia akan menceritakan pengalamannya hingga sembuh dari Covid dan bagaimana dia memberi meaning/ makna,” kata Irwan. “Jadi di setiap tahap dari pengalamannya diberi meaning.”

Menjelang menutup materinya, Irwan mengatakan, penelitian kualitatif ini seringkali diwakili dengan istilah studi kasus. Ini kurang diperhatikan juga oleh beberapa peneliti. Ada tiga macam jenis studi kasus. Pertama, Intrinsik studi kasus. Ini adalah studi kasus mikro yanh satu peristiwa diteliti secara mendalam. “Bahkan seorang tokoh diteliti dan dijadikan biografi itu intrinsik,” ungkap Irwan.

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Problems and Challenges of Digital Journalism in Indonesia

There are two things that greatly affect the mass media business lately. First, is digital disruption which is getting more and more common. Then the second is the Covid-19 pandemic. Both are considered to have greatly changed the landscape of the media business pattern in Indonesia. Not only upstream, but also downstream.

While still in conventional media, journalists controlled upstream to downstream. “Meanwhile, the current media upstream to downstream has changed completely, and there are even distribution problems to the accessors,” said Suwarjono, Editor-in-Chief of Arkamedia Group which is flashy with the Suara.com portal, on Friday (10/9/2021) at the National Webinar with the theme of Digital Journalism Business Models in Indonesia.

This National Webinar is made by lecturers who are members of the study interest and Digital Journalism research cluster. Lecturers in this study are also currently conducting research collaborations on Journalism and Digital Media.

In the past, conventional media could regulate distribution and even develop, now distribution is controlled by giant developers of the digital world such as Google and social media.

Both are the top two distributors to the viewer. “After that, there are aggregators such as babe, kurio, to private conversation platforms WhatsApp and Line,” said Suwarjono, giving an example of distribution lines that are not even directly controlled by digital media.

Another problem in the digital media sector is advertising. Suwarjono said, one of the effects of digital disruption is that some advertisers often turn to social media platforms. “The problem in digital media is that you still have to pay taxes, pay this and that, but influencers don’t,” said Suwarjono, who was the chairman of AJI (Independence Journalist Alliance) in 2014.

On the other hand, according to Wahyu, digital disruption has made the mass media life and death on the edge. In order to be read, all media compete to provide the latest and fastest news. “As a result, there are many similar news stories,” said Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO of Tempo, one of the speakers for this webinar. Not to mention, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this disruption, he said.

“When news tends to be uniform, its relevance to public needs decreases,” he said again. In the long term, public trust will also decrease. In turn, content richness will also decrease as well.

“This makes the urgency even stronger, because the pandemic accelerates digital disruption,” Wahyu said.

During the disruption, what Elin Kristi calls an existential crisis in journalism also occurred. Elin Kristi, Vice Editor at Liputan6.com, said that the media business is still in the process of finding a digital journalism business model.

In this digital era, various challenges also emerge. “People now have the ability and freedom to voice themselves. Everyone can load media in this digital era,” added Elin, a seasoned journalist who started his career in the Jawa Pos media.

According to Elin, news media revenues have fallen drastically in the last few decades. “There is no clear business model to sustain news in the digital era. High quality content is the key, but good journalism does not come free,” She said in a presentation screen explaining the reality of digital media today.

In addition, there is also the threat of hoaxes emerging from social media. Especially hoaxes about covid-19. The increase in Covid-19 hoaxes in the pandemic era has substantially increased the demand for trusted media.

“From here we learned that by doing fact checks, the media cannot run alone. We have to work with the public,” said Elin, who is also an activist for digital literacy and checkfact.com.

The speakers in this webinar are all members of the IFCN international fact checking network. The media that are members of the IFCN are committed to fighting hoaxes. In order to gain public trust, only this commitment can make it easy for the public to determine which one is trustworthy in the midst of a flood of content in the current digital era.

 

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Reading Comments on Social Media as Entertainment

 From era to era, entertainment has changed along with changes in the media used. With the smartphone, a lot of choices of entertainment media are offered. But unexpectedly, reading comments from content posts is also one of them.

Research on the motivation of readers of comments as entertainment was investigated by Athifah Nur Husna, a student of Communication Studies at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII). The results of his research were discussed in a monthly discussion conducted by the Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) Nadim Ilmu Komunikas UII on Thursday, September 9, 2021. “Some of my friends often show me the comments they read. I think it means these comments are interesting. And it can be a separate research topic,” said Husna.

Today’s media is so diverse that it offers a variety of entertainment options. They start from videos, sound clips, short films, blogs, and a wide selection of content on social media. But who would have thought that comments were entertainment in itself? Columns containing comments also eventually become material that can be seen by the public and impact their readers. And no kidding, this comment can be very long. “I have a resource person who can spend hours just scrolling through the comments,” said Husna, who turns out to be usually called Una.

In this research, Husna wanted to know the sources’ motives and level of satisfaction in reading comments on specific content.

From the research results, all of the informants stated that they wanted tattoos about the content. “Usually, there is additional information that people put out in the comments,” said Husna imitating one of the sources.

In addition to additional information and information, the informants also sought different views by looking at what comments were made by people in the column. Seeing these different perspectives helps them have an opinion on a particular topic.

And what is certain, reading the comments is a different entertainment for the readers. Reading funny comments, quirky comments, or even seeing blasphemies can be entertaining.

Not surprisingly, the speakers also received inspiration from slang trends, such as the latest and new languages, to be applied every day. “It’s fun if you can find a new language or term. You can practice it later when you are chatting with friends.”

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Problem dan Tantangan Jurnalisme Digital

Ada dua hal yang sangat mempengaruhi bisnis media massa belakangan ini. Pertama, adalah disrupsi digital yang kian lama kian menggurita. Lalu yang kedua adalah pandemi Covid-19. Keduanya dianggap sangat mengubah lanskap pola bisnis media di Indonesia. Tak hanya di hulu, melainkan juga di hilir.

Pada saat masih berada di media konvensional, para jurnalis menguasai hulu sampai hilir. “Sedangkan media kekinian hulu sampai hilir berubah total, bahkan ada masalah distribusi ke pengakses,” kata Suwarjono, Pemimpin Redaksi Arkamedia Grup yang mentereng dengan portal suara.com, itu pada Jumat (10/9/2021) di Webinar Nasional bertema Model Bisnis Jurnalisme Digital di Indonesia.

Webinar Nasional ini merupakan besutan para dosen yang tergabung dalam minat studi dan Klaster riset Jurnalisme Digital. Dosen-dosen di Minat studi ini juga tengah melakukan kolaborasi riset tentang Jurnalisme dan Media Digital.

Jika dahulu media konvensional bisa mengatur distribusi dan bahkan berkembang, kini distribusi dikuasai oleh pengembang raksasa dunia digital seperti google dan media sosial.

Keduanya adalah dua ditributor teratas ke pengakses. “Setelah itu ada agregator seperti babe, kurio, sampai platform percakapan pribadi WhatsApp dan Line,” kata imbuh Suwarjono memberi contoh lini distribusi yang bahkan tidak dikuasai langsung oleh media digital.

Problem lain di sektor media digital adalah soal iklan. Suwarjono bilang, salah satu efek disrupsi digital adalah beberapa pengiklan banyak lari ke Platform media sosial. “Problem di media digital adalah tetap harus bayar pajak, bayar ini itu tapi influencer kan tidak,” kata Suwarjono, yang dahulu adalah Ketua AJI pada 2014.

Di sisi lain, menurut Wahyu, disrupsi digital itu membuat hidup mati media massa di ujung tanduk. Agar dibaca, semua media berlomba memberikan berita teraktual dan tercepat. “Akibatnya yang terjadi adalah banyak berita yang serupa,” kata Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO Tempo, salah satu pembicara webinar ini. Belum lagi, pandemi covid-19 mengakselerasi disrupsi ini, katanya.

“Ketika berita cenderung seragam, relevansinya untuk kebutuhan publik menurun,” katanya lagi. Secara jangka panjang trust (kepercayaan) publik juga akan menurun. Pada gilirannya, kekayaan konten juga akan menurun pula.

“Ini yang membuat urgensinya menjadi semakin kuat, karena pandemi mengakselerasi disrupsi digital,” kata Wahyu.

Ketika disrupsi itu, terjadi pula apa yamg disebut Elin Kristi sebagai krisis eksistensi pada jurnalisme. Elin Kristi, Wapemred Liputan6.com, mengatakan bisnis media saat ini pun masih dalam proses menemukan bisnis model jurnalisme digital.

Pada era digital ini, beragam tantangan juga bermunculan. “Masyarakat sekarang punya kemampuan dan keleluasaam untuk menyuarakan dirinya sendiri. Setiap orang bsia memnuat media di era digital ini,” imbuh Elin, wartawan kawakan yang memulai karirnya di media Jawa Pos.

Menurut Elin, pendapatan media berita turun drastis dalam beberapa dekade terakhir. “There is no clear busines model to sustain news in digital era. High quality content is the key, but good journalism does not come free,” katanya dalam layar presentasi menjelaskan realitas media digital kini.

Selain itu, ada pula ancaman munculnya hoax dari media sosial. Terutama hoax soal covid-19. Meningkatnya hoax Covid19 di era pandemi secara substantif meningkatkan pula permintaan media yang terpercaya.

“Dari sini kami belajar bahwa melakukan cek fakta, media tak bisa berjalan sendirian. Kita harus bersama publik,” kata Elin, yang juga adalak aktivis digital literacy dan cekfakta.com, ini.

Para narasumber dalam webinar ini semuanya tergabung dalam IFCN international fact checking network. Media-media yang tergabung dalam IFCN berkomitmen dalam melawan hoax. Demi meraih kepercayaan publik, hanya komitmen tersebutlah yang dapat membuat publik mudah menentukan mana yang terpercaya di tengah banjir konten pada era digital kini.

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Membaca Komentar di Media Sosial sebagai Hiburan Generasi Masa Kini

Dari jaman ke jaman hiburan ternyata berubah seiring dengan perubahan media yang dipakai. Dengan adanya telepon pintar, banyak sekali pilihan media hiburan yang ditawarkan. Tapi tak disangka, membaca komentar dari postingan konten juga menjadi salah satunya.

Riset tentang motivasi pembaca komentar sebagai hiburan ini diteliti oleh Athifah Nur Husna, salah satu mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). Hasil risetnya dibedah dalam diskusi bulanan yang dilakukan oleh Pusat Studi dan Dokumentasi Media Alternatif (PSDMA) Nadim ilmu Komunikas UII pada Kamis, 9 September 2021. “Beberapa temen sering menunjukan ke saya tentang komentar-komentar yang mereka baca. Saya pikir berarti komentar ini menarik dan bisa jadi topik riset tersendiri,” ungkap Husna.

Media sekarang begitu beragam menyajikan berbagai pilihan hiburan. Mulai video, soundclip, film pendek, blog, dan berbagai pilihan konten di media sosial. Tapi siapa yang mengira bahwa komentar menjadi hiburan tersendiri. Kolom -kolom berisi komentar juga akhirnya menjadi bahan yang yang bisa dilihat publik dan bisa memberikan pengaruh bagi pembacanya. Dan tak main-main, komentar ini bisa sangat panjang. “Narasumber saya ada yang bisa menghabiskan waktu berjam-jam hanya untuk nyekrol komentar,” kata Husna yang ternyata biasa disapa Una.

Dalam riset tersebut, Husna ingin mengetahui motif dan tingkat kepuasannya narasumbernya dalam membaca komentar atas konten-konten tertentu.

Dari hasil riset tersebut semua narasumber menyatakan ingin tatu tentang konten. “Hiasanya ada info tambahan yang dilontarkan orang di komentar,” kata Husna menirukan salah satu narasumber.

Selain informasi dan info tambahan, narasumber juga mencari pandangan berbeda dengan melihat komentar apa saja yang dilontarkan orang-orang di kolom tersebut. Melihat perspektif berbeda inj membantu mereka untuk meliliki pandangan atas topik tertentu.

Dsn yang pasti, membaca komentar itu menkadi hiburan tersendiri bagi pembacanya. Dengan membaca komentar-komentar lucu, cara berkomentar nyeleneh, atau bahkan melihat hujat-hujatan bisa menjadi hihuran.

Tak disnhka juga, para narasumber juga mendapat inspirasi trend slang seperti bahasa terkini dan baru, untuk dia terapkan sehari-hari. “Seru kalau bisa nemu bahasa baru atau istilah. Bisa nanti dipraktekan kalau lagi ngobrol sama teman.”

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Diskusi Nadim: Membaca Komentar di Media Sosial sebagai Hiburan

PSDMA Nadim Komunikasi UII
Mengundang dalam Diskusi Rutin PSDMA Nadim Tema:

Membaca Komentar di Media Sosial Sebagai Hiburan

Kegiatan membaca komentar di media sosial menjadi sebuah kebiasaan bagi sebagian pengguana media sosial. Tema-tema yang diakese pun bermacam-macam. Ada teknologi , game, K-Pop, politik, kesehatan, humor, dll. Pada diskusi kali ini, narasumber akan memaparkan selain konten, fitur komentardi media sosial juga dapat menghadirkan motif dan kepuasan tersendiri bagi pengguna media sosial.

Jadwal:

Kamis, 9 September 2021
16.00 WIB

Bersama Pembicara:

Athifah Nur Husna, Mahasiswa Ilmu Komunikasi UII, 2017

Tautan Zoom:

Zoom di sini

 

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Webinar Nasional: Model Bisnis Jurnalisme Digital di Indonesia (Link Zoom)

Program Studi Ilmu Komunikasi, UII
Minat Studi Jurnalisme Digital

Mengundang anda hadir pada
Webinar Nasional “Model Bisnis Jurnalisme Digital di Indonesia”

bersama:


Pembicara (dari kiri ke kanan): 

Suwarjono, Pemimpin Redaksi Suara.com

Elin Yunita Kristanti, Wapemred Liputan6.com, Aktivis kampanye literasi media, Cek fakta, dan data driven journalism

Wahyu Dhyatmika, CEO Tempo Digital

Moderator

Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf, Ph.D
Dosen Komunikasi UII, Alumnus School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University, Australia.

Jadwal:
Jumat, 10 September 2021
15.00-17.30 WIB

GRATIS

Tautan Zoom:

Zoom

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Doing Research Before Making a Podcast

Research is essential in the production of creative content. Research determines how strong your podcast content will be. Creative ideas will also come naturally when podcast content research is done. This includes researching other people’s podcast content.

At least, there are five tips for researching to make your podcast content unique and exciting. “First, determine what content you want to present and who the source is,” said Tri Rizal Ghofur, Content Creative at Narasi TV  in 2018 – 2020, on Tuesday, August 31, 2021.

Ghofur is a speaker in the Webinar Series “Is it important for research in Podcast Interviews?” This webinar event with Ghofur is the 2021 Inspiring Content Festival (FKI) Series of Events. Uniicoms TV held this second year of FKI, the first online TV at UII, to produce quality and inspiring content in cyberspace.

Ghofur, the man who is also a Producer at Lemonilo, said that apart from determining the sources, we also have to read all the articles about potential sources to talk to in the podcast content. “This is important so that our content becomes unusual content,” said Ghofur, Tri Rizal Ghofur’s nickname. The second tip, said Ghofur, is to watch all the videos about the potential sources. In this way, we will also get enlightenment from the source.

Then, the fourth tip, said Ghofur, is, “chat with people closest to the source.” According to Ghofur, from the chat with the resource person, he hopes to find ideas and words that can be used as creative packaging content with the resource person.

It is also worth trying the last tips from Ghofur and for example, following and tracking the social media content of the source. From here, chat material for podcasts can become more prosperous and, indeed the material for hosts so as not to run out of chat issues.

In conclusion, Ghofur gives brief tips from starting to maintaining interesting podcast content. “Just tell me about something very close, and don’t think about using a good tool, just use a cellphone,” said Ghofur. Of course, the podcast’s producer must research the topic you want to talk about first. Then lastly, and most importantly, consistently produce content.

 

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Understand Gender-Sensitive Journalism Before Writing

Women are still a minority, very few women occupy strategic positions in the media. Whereas the presence of women in strategic internal media positions can reduce the objectification of women by the media. Both media films, television, advertising, games, and journalistic products.

The objectification of women by the media often occurs because women are considered as attractive commodities in the media. Both as a form of the depiction of women who are very male and a form of harassment of women.

“For example, body shaming or sexist jokes that are not gender-sensitive are present in media content,” said Iwan Awaluddin Yusuf, a doctoral student at Monash University, Australia on May 30, 2021, at the LPM Meeting Public Discussion at Pasundan University.

Then what is the role of the media in the objectification of women?

According to Iwan, there is the worst role of the media, for example, the media in reproducing inequality and commodifying women. In addition, the media also perpetuates and celebrates the objectification of women. Another role of the media is also still passive in educating the public.

Iwan hoped that the media should educate the public. The media should carry out the functions of surveillance and prevention. “The most ideal and progressive is the media that plays the role of implementing and developing gender sensitive journalism,” said Iwan. “For example, journalists in Konde and Magdalene are committed to joining associations and advocating for the rights of women and the marginalized,” said Iwan as an example. Rights such as menstruation leave, pregnancy, lactation rooms and others are often voiced in the media called Iwan.

So what should the media do? What to avoid?

Media workers, including in the student press, try to avoid victim-blaming as much as possible. “In reporting, avoid defending the perpetrators, avoid using sensational, sadistic, and bombastic elements. This element in this journalistic code of ethics violates,” explained Iwan, Communication Lecturer at UII, who made gender-sensitive journalism his study while at Monash University.

Mainstream media, student press media, and community media are important in understanding gender sensitive journalism. According to Iwan, primarily public media such as RRI and TVRI have the potential to educate the public. “If there is something we need to criticize, it is that RRI and TVRI are not tools of the government, that hope should not be broken, any media needs to work together on this (gender sensitive journalism), including from RRI and TVRI,” continued Iwan.

The media can also balance the portion of sources in their coverage. The easiest thing is to balance male and female sources. “Also balancing sources that has a gender perspective,” he explained to the participants, most of whom were students.

Today’s mass media should also be able to adopt the Unesco Gender Sensitive Indicator for media which was released by Unesco in 2012. With this indicator, at least the media can apply it at the organizational or management level. The media can implement policies that are pro-women by creating a balanced structure and recruitment between female and male managers, leaders and journalists.

These efforts are important to avoid objectification of women and marginal groups in today’s media.

Today’s Media Challenge

“Startups or over the top (OTT) companies such as Google, YT, FB, Twitter, etc. have not all been willing to take responsibility if there is content and applications that are not gender-sensitive,” said Iwan. Iwan sees the challenges of today’s media not only among journalists but also in the scope of companies and digital media.

Not to mention, the fact that so far there has been no gender-sensitive curriculum in the academic environment. Yet this is also important to produce gender-aware journalists and media practitioners.

Iwan also feels the need to support the capacity building of media regulators to be able to identify various forms of objectification of women. Media regulators, such as KPI and the Press Council, must be able to see and observe carefully the discourses that actually hinder efforts to eliminate violence against women that appear in the media.

Another speaker, Nani Afrida, a journalist at Anadolu Agency, said that the need for an independent and gender sensitive mainstream media presence is urgently needed. “The position of the media is very difficult to be independent because it is co-opted by the conglomerate of media owners. The position of women is so unheard of,” She said.

 

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Dive into Yourself By Joining IISMA          

“Indonesia is not made up of map boundaries, but the movement and big role of young people,”

These are the words of a leading Indonesian journalist: Najwa Shihab. Indonesian youths play an essential role in advancing the nation and state. So in 2021, to increase young people, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) will hold the IISMA or Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards program through the Merdeka Campus. The government sends 1000 students to make credit transfers to 500 leading campuses around the world.

One of the UII students selected in the 2021 Indonesian International Student Mobility Awards (IISMA) is Nadira Muthia Supadi. The girl, usually called Nadira, is a student of the 2018 UII Communication Science class. Nadira was accepted by the University of Leeds in England and will stay for one semester.

Nadira can spend a semester at an overseas partner university to study. In addition to studying, Nadira will experience the destination country’s culture and carry out academic activities to hone her skills. This year, Nadira managed to pass along with 1000 students from 2700 students who participated.

Nadira said that she needed two weeks of preparation time for registration. She started from drafting documents to submitting files. She said as many as 100 UII students participated, and only 24 people were selected. Nadira feels grateful to have this opportunity.

Nadira said that She could freely choose the courses offered by the University of Leeds in this program. IISMA invites all students to be free to study whatever suits their interests and IISMA’s mission. The plan is that Nadira will leave in early September and will return in January 2022.

UII’s Response to the IISMA Program

Dr.rer.nat. Dian Sari Utami, S.Psi., MA, as Director of the Directorate of Partnerships/Office of International Affairs UII said that UII responded well to the IISMA program. After receiving the program socialization from the organizers, She immediately spread the news to the study programs at UII. “The study program then immediately sent several candidates who met the criteria, including students who are in semester 4, have a GPA of not less than 3.00 and a minimum TOEFL score of 500,” said Dian Sari Utami via Whatsapp, Tuesday (31/08/ 2021).

According to Dian Sari Utami, 200 UII students joined the WhatsApp group chat. However, only 72 children complete the file. Of the 72 students who have undergone the selection process, only 24 students were selected. The 24 students come from nine study programs at UII and will transfer credit to 15 well-known universities worldwide.

She also added that the selected students could maximize their time while studying abroad. For example, it could be while building connections with the academic community at the related university. The goal is that this academic journey is helpful when you want to take further studies or work in the country.

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Author/ Reporter: Erinna Zandra (UII Department of Communications Student, Class of 2017, Internship Student at the International Program at UII Department of Communications Program)

Editor: AP Wicaksono