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Culture Communication and International Asian Food Travel Vlog 

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Food Vlogs are becoming more and more common now. They were not only producing information or any entertainment content but also communicating the culture. The cultures are not only about art but also language, tradition, and the special way the food make. It varies what is covered. Starting with vloggers who produce content about regional Asian food in Indonesia. There are varied viewpoints regarding his vlog audience as well. Of course, a wide range of factors influences these diverse perspectives.

On the occasion of the Nadim Discussion session I in October, Bella Cita Nanda Hawa, UII Communication Alumni (international class) batch 2018, shared her experience researching viewers’ perceptions of Vloggers who create Asian food content. Through the Zoom digital conference room mediation, Bella was at the Nadim Discussion on October 7, 2022. The PSDMA (Center for Study and Documentation of Alternative Media) Nadim Communications UII is held regularly as a meeting room for academics at the Department of Communications UII to discuss temporary findings and research results, both in the form of a thesis, freelance research, and others.

In her research entitled, “Perceptions of the International Food Travel Vlog: Asian Food from Ria SW and Jwestbros,” Bella captures three findings. Viewers interviewed by Bella get international food Vlog content by Vlogger Ria SW and Jwestbros as three things. First, vlog content is a source of information, education, and entertainment. “Food vlogs affect the way viewers see and rate food. Food vlogs also influence viewers to try the food reviewed,” said Bella.

Viewers interviewed by Bella fall into two categories. First, viewers of food travel vloggers who have never been abroad and who have. After watching these two vloggers, She found no difference in effect or influence between these two categories.

Another finding is that this Asian food vlog does not only provide information about food content and traveling but also becomes intercultural communication between countries. “In some content, this Asian food vlogger also uses the local country’s languages,” said Bella. For example, when trying Thai cuisine, there is a Thai insert when reviewing. “The International Asian Food Travel Vlog also inserts information about the local culture that was visited,” said Bella.

Bella also compares some of her findings with international journals that discuss similar topics. For example, researching Food Vlogs in Bilaspur, India, food vlogs can be a restaurant promotion tool. Not only content affects viewers research in Chennai, India, also found that vlogger content can attract viewers’ attention due to three things: the vlogger’s body language, unique food, to technical aspects such as thumbnails on the video blog on the screen.

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The Language of Photography, To Capture The Subjectivity 

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Perhaps not everyone will reach a consensus when discussing good and terrible images. There is always a subjective issue with the power of the camera shutter finger. Subjectivity can also evolve in photography; it does so periodically when the mind and body pick up new information.

How the mind and body process and discipline themselves in the process of doing photographic works were conveyed by Zaki Habibi, Lecturer of the Department of Communication at the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), in a series of DOC-Camp (Documentary training and media camp) Photo Discussion and Exhibition events in collaboration between PSDMA Nadim UII of Communication Department and Klik18, the Student Photography Club, at the Department of Communication UII, on September 22, 2022. Zaki is a researcher in urban and visual culture studies and a photography enthusiast and practitioner. This photo exhibition took place from September 20 to 23, 2022.

In the photo exhibition entitled Islam and Transformation, Zaki said that this photo discussion is a space of appreciation and a room for reflection on the hard work, thoughts, and determination of Klik18 members. “Appreciating the work of friends who have presented their work. It cannot be separated from work, efforts, thoughts, and hard work, which have been in progress since the first Doc-Camp was held in 2018,” said Zaki Habibi opening his session.

Mind and Body in Process

In this discussion, Zaki Habibi talked about subjectivity, sensitivity, and sensitivity to one’s mind and body processes. He started from his experience when he started his studies in a small Swedish town, Lund. He invited the audience to a discussion to imagine how Indonesians of color and body are relatively small among Caucasians. Who first set foot in the city. The eyes of local people must have been on him. Foreigner.

On his first Friday as a Muslim, He went to a mosque. How surprised he was, it turned out to be the mosque he imagined with a dome, and other distinctive ornaments, more appropriately called an ordinary building. It is not the same as the usual mosque in Indonesia that also build with a dome above. He also took pictures of the oddity.

Zaki Habibi, the Lecturer of The Department of Communication, UII as the Speaker of Photo Discussion of Doc-Camp 2022

After weeks, he lived there and visited the place on hundreds of Fridays. The mosque there no longer made him a stranger. He can now come closer and more intensely by seeing several sides of the place. Able to interact more deeply with other people. Can dig up stories about immigrants from Gaza. “I was able to chat with a lot of people, including Gaza immigrants, about how he came, about who came with him, about who he had to protect, who he left or was forced to stay.”

“Yes, I went with my son and brother, and my wife drowned while here. That’s how it is,” said Zaki telling how his friend told the story in a flat tone, but there was a deep sadness that his friend had held back for years. A photographer can capture sensory and even internal sensors through photos. And this subjectivity will unite with body discipline if it has been trained for years.

Zaki describes how subjectivity is formed and how subjectivity is not neutral. From the simplest things, Zaki explains how someone takes a selfie or selfie. “We are not neutral in front of our cameras. Let’s just take a selfie and choose an angle. Which side of us looks photogenic,” said Zaki.

 

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To Capture Sensory Experience in Photo 

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A photo is more than just a still image that is contained within a frame and cannot move. A photograph might enable the spectator to perceive good and challenging circumstances. The smell of the waste gathered at the Piyungan Final Disposal Site can be captured in pictures (TPA).

In a series of DOC-Camp Photo Discussions and Exhibitions as a result of collaboration between PSDMA Nadim UII Department of Communication and Klik18, Zaki Habibi, a lecturer in the Communication Department at the Universitas Islam Indonesia, became one of the triggers for the photo discussion with the theme “Islam and Transformation”. In the discussion that showcased the 12 themes of the story photos, Zaki conveyed how a photo can turn on various human sensory sensors ranging from taste, smell, and even inner nuances.

“Seeing one photo, we will be taken to feel the rotten smell of a pile of garbage as high as a mountain,” said Zaki, describing the atmosphere of the Piyungan TPA.

Zaki also recounted how he was in the process of recognising a mosque in Sweden, which he initially felt foreign. But after a while, he got acquainted with the place and even conversed with another mosque-goer who is also a Gaza immigrant whose wife drowned in her search for asylum. “Photos can also turn on the inner sensor of suppressed sadness.” Zaki added.

To capture images that turn on the sensors in the body, it also takes a human sensory experience behind the camera itself. Photographers themselves need to explore experiences and keen observations for a long time. “It could be that we just hang out for weeks there, without taking photos,” said Zaki.

Zaki appreciates the Doc-Camp photo exhibition while quoting the curatorial notes from the representative of the curator, Risky Wahyudi, who has been able to present the image of Islam not as a normative matter about the teachings of goodness. But precisely because of seeing from a variety and a different perspective. “It takes sensory sensitivity and social sensitivity to produce a photographic work that is not only a normative issue but also a solution. It’s not just about the teachings of Islam but more about how Islam is present in various aspects of our society’s life,” Zaki quoted the curatorial statement.

“The detailed story in this photo will store and display the wealth of body and mind to make us enrich the other side of just a normative story,” said Zaki.

 

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Photographing Photo Story with High Difficulty Level Photo Techniques  

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The official Doc-Camp photo story exhibition and discussion were held from 20 to 23 September 2022. In the first Photo Discussion, Nadim (the center of media alternative studies) presented Boy Harjanto as a speaker to dissect 12 photo story themes from UII students across the globe. From across the class and department. Boy said in addition to technical photography, the photo exhibition of the participants has tried to raise various themes. Even so, there are some assessments from him.

He judged that some photographers were still not brave enough to experiment with photo techniques with a fairly high difficulty level. “For example, using panning, slow motion, zooming, rotation, and other technique,” said Boy Harjanto in a Photo Discussion by Participants of the 2022 Doc-Camp Photo Exhibition; this discussion is a result of the collaboration between PSDMA Nadim Communication UII and Klik18 that held on September 20, 2022. Boy gave an assessment and dissects the photos of the participants while also showing examples of his works that capture the moment of Iqra’s printing around Kotagede or freezing the routine activities of Ramadan in Jogokariyan with various experiments of high-level photography techniques.

Therefore, in addition to considering the technical aspects of photography and photo experimentation, photo story photographers must also consider what Boy calls the storyline exposure technique. A photo story is a technique of telling stories through photos. So photo story photographers must be able to play smart with photos and storylines.

“In terms of storyline presentation, Doc-Camp photographers, some of them have focused on making story photos according to the plans made,” Boy explained. “Although there are also participants who are less focused on the plans that have been made previously,” said Boy. For example, there is a team that creates another storyline in the photo of the story itself.

This Doc-camp Photo Story class combines student photographers from across generations, departments, faculties and multi genders with various themes. So, not all photographers are dominated by men. “This class is divided into two groups with different durations. Doc-camp 2019 resulted in the production of seven photo story titles that were done individually and in groups. Then Doc Camp in 2022 produced five photo story productions. Personally and also the majority are made in groups,” said Boy. In total, 12 story photos have been produced by all participants with various themes. For example, the theme of Islamic traditions at the Ancient Kraton Pathok Negoro Mosque in Plosokuning, the anti-mainstream recitation of Ngaji Filsafat (a religious recitation that study of Philosophy as the material) at the Sudirman Mosque, Biker Subuhan (Subuh bikers), to portraits of a pesantren with deaf majority students in Sleman.

At the end of the event, Naufal Syahrofi, Chairman of Klik18 (UII Communications student also the head of the student photo community), gave a memento from the Department of Communications, UII, to Boy T. Harjanto, their speaker and mentor during the process of making and producing photo stories in 2022. Boy has accompanied the participants from the training process, planning, sequencing, to photo curation and exhibitions.

(Featured Photos by Nabiel Marazieq)

Gunawan Marjito, speaking on behalf Doc-Camp initiators, talk about the idea of Doc-Camp as a students media development program with high-quality standard driven by a lot of mentors from staff and lecturers of The Department of Communications, UII since 2018 (Photo by Desyatri Parawahyu)

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Capturing the Face of Islam in Photos: the Opening of the Doc-Camp

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After being delayed because of two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition of seven photo story themes from the Photographer who received the Doc-Camp (Doctrine-Media Camp) scholarship in 2019 was also successful. This time, the exhibition also collaborates with 16 participants of the 2022 Doc-Camp, a collaboration with a communication student community that focuses on the world of photography at UII, namely Klik18. Klik18 contributed five photo story themes to this exhibition.

The aspiration to see the face of Islam 20 years after reform has existed since 2018. “We, Mas Muzayin, Ali MInanto (both are Communication Lecturers at UII), and I have a dream to take a picture of what Islam looks like after 20 years of reform. Then we made training to make films, photos, videos, and feature writings,” recalls M. Iskandar Tri Gunawan about the first release of Doc-Camp. Initially, Doc-Camp was two activities with two names to be merged: Doctrine (documentary training) and Media Camp in 2018. According to Iskandar, in 2019, these two student development programs were merged into one name with the same passion for becoming Doc-Camp 2019 At Doc-Camp 2019, the theme raised is no longer about Islam 20 years after the reformation but Islam and transformation: depict the cities and villages, said Iskandar at the opening of the 2022 Doc-Camp Photo Discussion and Exhibition on September 20, 2022, at the Mini Theater of Department of Communications, UII.

Several years of creating a series of training called Doctrine in 2018, Media Camp in 2018, and Doc-Camp in 2019. “The year 2020-2021 is a vacuum due to the pandemic. Until finally, we invited our friends to collaborate with Klik18 for a joint exhibition,” said Iskandar, a Laboratory Assistant in the Communication Department at the Universitas Islam Indonesia, at the opening of a photo discussion entitled Islam and Transformation on September 20, 2022.

Pause and Reflection Space

The time lag for activities is two to three years because the pandemic provides an important time marker. “The existence of this event also manifests the results of that process. The process of providing space for creativity, space for expression, and encouraging dialogue with clubs from other campuses,” said Zaki Habibi, one of the lecturers of the UII Communication Department, giving a speech representing the UII Department of Communications. According to Zaki, the 2022 Doc-Camp photo exhibition and discussion in collaboration with PSDMA Nadim Communication UII and Klik18 is a space to reflect on photos and Islam after a break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“This stage is an appreciation for Klik18, mentors, the Department of Communications of UII crew and all of you. Our waist is stiff because he’s been lying down for two years,” joked Zaki, a Communication Lecturer at UII specializing in Urban and Visual Culture studies.

Photos are like a pandemic. Zaki explained that photos are part of frozen moments, space and time to give pause. Pause for a moment to read the visual space. Pause, take a little time to take a break from the constant flow of routine, to reflect.

Zaki Habibi, a representative of the Communications Department of UII, gave a speech at the Opening of the Doc-Camp 2022 Photo Discussion and Exhibition on September 20, 2022. According to him, this exhibition is the result of a pause and reflection during the two years of the Covid-19 pandemic (Photo by Desyatri Parawahyu)

 

Here in this exhibition, reading photography and reading society in terms of content. “It seems that our friends see Islam as not narrow, not only Islam with theology and rituals,” said Zaki.

Through photographs, Zaki said, it can be seen in our society that Islam is not limited to theological, ritualistic, and spiritual teachings. “But we can see Islam which is more cultural, which interacts with the community,” said Zaki in his speech

. “We must be able to read it with glasses that are beyond the symbol of worship.”

On many other sides of culture, photography can take a moment to pause to see the world stopped in the frame. The hallmark of photography is that it freezes the moment, freezes space and time to stop for a moment, giving us pause to reflect together.” the lid.

The next session was filled with material on Photo Editing from Boy Tri Harjanto, a training companion since 2018. Boy is a photographer for the European Press Agency (EPA) Photo, he provides both technical and conceptual input on several photos exhibited at this photo exhibition with the theme of Islam and Transformation.

*Featured Photo by Nabiel Marazieq

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Making Photo Stories about Islam: Portraits in The Urban and Rural

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The theme of photo stories about Islam is now easier to pick up. In addition to the theme being quite universal, the subjects taken for the subject of the photo story are quite common because the majority of Indonesians are Muslims with various backgrounds. Both male and female students can have no difficulty assembling a story through the shutter and lens of a photo story.

“The growth of Islam in the archipelago is also significant, both in big cities and in villages, making it easier to take Islamic issues in photos story,” said Boy T. Harjanto, a photographer from EPA (European Press Agency) Photo, which became the main speaker in the Discussion and Photo Exhibition of Doc-Camp 2022 stories in collaboration with the Nadim Communication Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation UII and Klik18. Boy sees photo exhibitions with Islamic themes that are currently very easy to take because they are also abundant in variety besides being universal.

On this occasion, on September 20, 2022, Boy was appointed by the Doc-Camp 2022 committee to be the reviewer of 12 photographic works of photographers from UII students. Nizli Nailunni’mah the moderator of this evening’s discussions said, all photographers are here and share their experience of making the photo stories. Many of them face obstacles while taking pictures, particularly a refusal from the subject. According to Boy, from the photography aspect, the 7 themes of the photo stories from the early Doc-Camp participants had the opportunity to find momentum and photo events to be more flexible and explore photos more. “The 2019 Doc-Camp participants have quite a bit of time, so it is possible for the participants to produce better photo repetitions than the 2022 Doc-Camp participants,” said Boy judging from the photographic aspect.

Meanwhile, Doc-Camp 2022 participants experienced limited time, and the tight schedule of lectures and campus committees made it difficult for them to take photos again. Although the hunting period is also entering the exam holiday period, not every team has the opportunity to take photos again, so it is difficult to get better photos.

According to Boy, the photos from participants’ stories, in terms of taking photos, the basic technique of taking photos is quite good, “although there are still some technical errors, such as lack of focus and under and overexposure,” added Boy.

Dozens of participants attended this discussion. Both from the student community and clubs at UII to several photo communities and photo lovers from outside UII. In addition to discussions, a photo exhibition has also been held from 20-23 September 2022 with 12 photo themes and more than 150 photo frames exhibited at the UII Library with the Kimpulan Temple as the background. Visitors to the photo exhibition recorded more than 300 participants from inside and outside UII, such as Unriyo Yogyakarta, Fotka, Lens Club Sanata Dharma, Semarang student photo community, and others.

(Featured Photo by Nabiel Marazieq and Galih Abimanyu: featuring Nizli as the moderator (left) and Boy as the speaker (right))

A Souvenir was given to Our Keynote Speaker, Boy Harjanto (Left), by Naufal Syahrofi (right), The Head of the Committee of this Discussion and Photo Exhibition on 20 September 2022 (Photo by Desyatri Parawahyu)

 

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NADIM Monthly Discussion: Online Concert Space: K-Pop Online Space Liveness in Contextual Meaning

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The music industry has been affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The pandemic in an unclear time frame makes the music industry have to make creative innovations to turn the wheels of their industry. The concept of digital concerts must be lived. They must consider how digital concerts can feel real instead of just showing regular video shows. For example The Online Concert BTS, NCT 127 online concert, and etc.

Salsabilla Dewi Kemuning, a student of the Department of Communications at the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), raised this digital concert phenomenon as the topic of her undergraduate thesis research. She saw how the audience could feel the atmosphere of this digital concert. He explained the liveness concept of this online concert at the Monthly Discussion Center for Alternative Media Studies and Documentation (PSDMA) NADIM of Communication Department UII on Tuesday, 28 June 2022.

To make the digital concert so real, the event organizer made various efforts, both visual appearance and audience experience. For example, by presenting a live chat feature, video calls, rest breaks, and stage creations. Some of the explanations for these efforts are as follows:

Live chat

The audience can feel so connected to the concert directly (synchronously) by providing a live chat feature where the audience can comment directly in the chat column provided.

Video call and lightstick

The existence of this video call makes the audience feel that when they are watching this concert, they are sure that this concert is taking place. Especially when the stage screen also shows all the audience from all directions, their faces live. In addition, the lights tick on the ticket is also used to impress a real concert.

Breaktime for rest

The impression of liveness is also felt when the artist needs a short break to rest. This break is also often done by artists when they do live concerts. Participants also got a real concert atmosphere when the artist asked for a break to change clothes or take a break.

Stage layout

The event organizer does two kinds of stage layouts when building a liveness image. The first is to use the studio during concerts and Augmented Reality (AR) to present effects on stage. The second is to build an outdoor concert stage with all the concert equipment like a real concert. “The two methods received different responses from the audience. The audience can feel the aura of the concert more with the second method,” said Kemuning.

 

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Nadim Monthly Discussion: Empowerment Communication in Improving the Welfare of Rural Communities

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The phenomenon of Tourism Villages is increasingly widespread. Especially in the Instagram age, now many people want to visit various Instagram-able places. In addition to healing from fatigue, it continues to exist in the virtual world by updating Instagram stories pages and feeds.

However, developing a tourist village is not easy. There are many things to consider and prepare. Starting from human resources, infrastructure and also funding sources. The rise of this tourist village is the main attraction to investigate further how to seek the formation of a tourist village, what obstacles are, and how to overcome them.

To find out how the community and the Karangrejo village government built this tourist village, Zubaidah Nur Oktafiani, a Communication Department student, chose it as a theme to complete her final assignment as a student. Empowerment Communication in Improving the Welfare of Tourism Village Communities in the Borobudur Magelang Region is the theme. Zubaidah explained this in a monthly discussion organized by the Center for the Study and Documentation of Alternative Media (PSDMA) NADIM of the Communication Department at the Islamic University of Indonesia (UII) on Thursday, June 9, 2022.

She recounted the most important steps the village government and community had to take were planning, including exploring village potential, making a master plan of development plans, and forming supporting organizations.

According to Zubaidah, several basic principles are often neglected to consider when forming a tourist village. In the establishment of the Karangrejo Borobudur tourism village, the principles that are maintained and applied are, among others, equality, participation of all components of society, and independence without relying on assistance from the government or other parties, and the principle of sustainability.

There are seven village government efforts toward the development of tourist villages. The first is that the Village conducts human resource development through educational activities, skills training, discussions and comparative studies. Second, the Village cooperates with various parties. For example, partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, travel agents, and even state companies.

In the third effort, the Village also organizes government activities in the Village by holding meetings, annual events, and also meetings. Meanwhile, the fourth effort made by the village government is to strengthen the image and promotion through online and offline means.

These four efforts ultimately support how the fifth effort works effectively. The village hosts festivals or other activities that attract visits and popularity. Apart from festivals, for example, volleyball matches and cultural festivals are also held regularly.

Of course, this sixth effort is also important to support other efforts. This sixth effort is also carried out to support tourism. This effort was made to form a citizen organization as a tourism support system. The seventh effort is to partner with universities. Some partner campuses are ISI, UGM, UNY, Sahid Tourism School, UMS, etc.

The positive impact of community empowerment in the Karangrejo tourism village can be seen in several ways. According to Zubaidah, for example, is the impact of institutional improvements in the village scope, other improvements such as improving the business climate, improving income in the economic sector, improving the environment, for example by increasing public awareness of clean and healthy living that supports clean tourist sites. There is also an impact by increasing the standard of living of the community and improving the community’s social conditions, which are becoming more cohesive with the existence of several community institutions that support tourism.

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FPSB Milad: Mosque-Based Student and Community Development

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This article is a follow-up article from this article,

Imam Mujiono also, in his lecture, commented on how good the new FPCS UII Mosque was. The prayer room, which the Dean built at the end of the term of the Dean of FPSB UII, Fuad Nashori, had just been completed three days ago when this event was held. According to Imam, along with constructing a co-working space called Ruang Bahagia located in the Master of Psychology Room of FPSB UII, it became a unit for student development at FPCS.

Imam Mujiono, a speaker at the FPCS UII Grand Recitation in the context of the 27th Milad of FPSB UII, believes that it is time for lecturers and educators (and staff) to contribute to the prosperity of prayer rooms and mosques on campus and around their homes. This is an effort to develop the religious life of students and the community around the campus, said Imam, at the event, which was held on Saturday, May 28, 2022. The FPSB UII Grand Recitation was held in the framework of the 27th Anniversary of FPSB UII, which was broadcast live from the first online TV at UII named Ikonisia TV, belonging to the UII Communication Department.

“Let’s prosper the mosque; whoever is the congregation in this faculty, we will immediately approach the mosque. It is like if we are close, we will surely enter the mosque easily,” said Imam to the audience.

“Well, if you are not close, you will probably not come to the mosque. So let me invite all of us so that if there is an offer to become the mosque manager, just hurry. So that if you are close to the mosque, when there is a call to prayer, it will be easy to walk. At least it is in Magrib prayer. Ha-ha,” he said. While joking, it would be unique if UII’s academic community rarely went to the mosque.

“I once again hope that the lecturers and staff of this faculty will be willing to become managers at nearby mosques. Because student development is not only on campus, On-campus, the coaching may only take six hours. But coaching can also be done by the mosque manager closest to students. Mosque managers can involve and develop students around the mosque,” said Imam, who, according to his confession, has always been an activist for being a mosque manager since he was a student until now as a lecturer.

“From the student days, when I moved around on every place I lived, until now, I’m still a mosque manager. The difference is, I’m about to retire and change the mosque management, uh, I was asked to be on the Board of Trustees, so I’m still mosque manager too. I truly can not resign. Ha-ha,” he said with a chuckle.

In the past, the story goes, he made the campus mosque a center for student and community development. “In the afternoon, we provide these long tables for student coaching. Then in the afternoon, we can use these long tables for the Quran education for the children of the surrounding community. I don’t know how it is now. This story was before,” he said nostalgically to used to be a student.

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FPCS UII Anniversary: ​​To Make Prayers Heard

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Why do prayers often go unanswered? How to make it easier for prayers to have the possibility of being answered? These questions often arise in every human effort to pray to the divine. Sometimes people don’t know when their prayers will be answered and how their efforts and endeavors can produce the expected results.

Imam Mujiono, a lecturer, said at the FPSB UII Grand Recitation, expressed the same thing in the context of the 27th Milad of FPCS UII. The event, which was held on Saturday, May 28, 2022, occupies at the FPCS UII Mosque, which has just been renovated for three days. This recitation program was conducted in a hybrid way (online via Zoom and Youtube broadcast live by UII Communications Department, Online TV “Ikonisia TV” and offline at the Mushola).

“Ud’uuni astajib Lakum (Almu’min: 60) and Fal Yastajibuu lii wa Yu’min Billah (Al Baqarah: 186). If you want prayers to be heard, the key is to follow this verse of Allah,” said Imam Mujiono, a Lecturer in the Program Islamic Religious Education Studies, Faculty of Islamic Studies, UII.

According to Imam, people often want something but do not understand why prayer does not come true. “Even though the SOP in Islam is clear. If you want something, pray to me,” said Imam. “The word ‘me’ is referring to Allah. Not referring to the magician, not to shamans, not to superiors, etc.”

Then the next thing is to carry out the commandments of Allah. Each order, according to Imam, means SOP (Standard Operational Procedure). “Follow the SOP. If you want to make a stall that sells well, make an SOP so that people are interested in coming,” said Imam. The stalls should be clean, and the service should be polite, the prices are cheap, and don’t forget to ask Allah, the owner of the fortune, not the traditional healer or shaman, said Imam.

Then after that, humans are asked to believe and believe in the provisions of Allah. “So, pray that don’t hesitate to Allah. You must be sure that You will achieve everything you ask to God,” he added.

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