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Uniicoms TV Produce a Gen-Z Taste Program

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“After this we will try other unique and extraordinary culinary of Surabaya, come on follow us,” said Annisa Putri Jiani and Nurul Diva Kautsar, host of Rasa-Rasa Program, a new program from Uniicoms TV, an online TV at the Universitas Islam Indonesia. Those persuasive sentences that are now everyday are always repeated repeatedly in the Uniicoms TV editing studio at Communication Science Department. The plan is, this show will be launched on Channel Uniicoms TV to welcomes new students. At present, Uniicoms TV is managed by the Communication Science Department Laboratory which is staffed by Communication Science Department teams, volunteers, and young, creative, energetic crews.

The average crew and activists are young people who have a variety of typical millennial ideas. But the difference is, young people at Uniicoms TV are not just millennial, popular, and young, but have a noble vision in each of their creative serving: empowering and inspiring. Yes, together to be empowered and inspiring. So naturally any program that is produced is the creation that invites the audience to be empowered and inspire.

Although culinary shows like this are already popular and many, Nurul Diva, Uniicoms TV’s Digital Public Relations, believes the culinary model nowadays is strong with a noble mission: empowering and inspiring. Nurul, who is also the presenter of the culinary program, said Uniicoms TV invites young people not to forget their cultural roots and traditions through a culinary program called “Rasa-Rasa”. According to him, it is time for an alternative TV program, in the midst of the spread of TV shows that do not educate, which also maintain traditional cultural heritage in today’s young generation. “In my view, the unique thing about eating here is that young man are few,” Nurul said, explaining the food stalls visited on the program.

On the occasion of this first episode, the Uniicoms TV Team brought up unique and unusual culinary in Surabaya such as Lontong Race with lentho, Rawon Pak Gendut, to Rawon Calculator. Rawon calculator, for example, is one of the culinary attractions that makes its audience stunned by its unique way in its warung, said Nurul Diva, from a production location in Surabaya on July 27, 2019. Check out its uniqueness on the Uniicoms Online TV channel.

 

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Mata Lensa of Uniicoms TV Presents Alternative TV Shows

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If you feel bored with less educating television shows, then it’s time to try switching to Uniicoms TV, the online TV channels. Now Uniicoms TV will launch a new program typical of young people produced by crews from various multidisciplinary at the Universitas Islam Indonesia. After the success of the thousands views of Web Series of its last Ramadan Series, Uniicoms TV tried to produce new programs titled: ‘Mata Lensa’ means Lens Eyes.

The Mata Lensa is a program with a concept made of youth. The Program guided by the Host who travels with a camera in hand to capture the moment he meet. Beside of being educative, it is also entertaining because it is packaged with fresh, typical young people. The Mata Lensa was also selected travel locations are locations that have educational, empowerment and inspiration values, said Nurul Diva, Digital Public Relations of Uniicoms TV, in June.

The program in this first episode invites you, the young viewers, to dive into the ins and outs of the festival which is very old in Yogyakarta. Yes, the legend festival was the Yogyakarta Cultural Festival (FKY), which has always been held annually since 1989. Not many people know that this festival was held in conjunction with the inauguration of the Soeharto order project, the Jogja Kembali Monument. Uniicoms TV brought its audience into the new ancient festival in mid-2019. Mata Lensa presents the ins and outs of Yogyakarta’s distinctive culture with the perspective of young people.

For old connoisseurs of FKY, don’t be surprised if the first episode of this program presents anomalies. Because, this year FKY has changed its name. Previously, ‘K’ in the abbreviation of FKY was ‘Art’, whereas since 2019 it was changed to ‘Culture’ which of course had a wider scope, not just art events, but all seven cultural elements: values of knowledge & technology, objects, culture art, tradition, language and what has now been eroded by the digital age: lofty traditions.

As a cultural and artistic identity in Yogyakarta, FKY cannot be separated from the collaboration of artists, volunteers, the community, and various local creative industries in Yogyakarta. Moreover, FKY this year carries the theme ‘Mulanira’, which means the beginning of a creation in space, variety and interaction, making it increasingly clear that Yogya is the identity of Yogya as the center of national culture.

Besides taking the moment of the peak FKY 2019, the production of this program technically also took advantage of the opportunity before the crew of Uniicoms TV faced the Final Exams Semester, said Nurul Diva who on this occasion as the program director. Uniicoms TV as a online campus-based TV and filled with student crews that not only consist of UII Communication Studies, of course, must consider academic factors as well. Even so, as a center of learning, Uniicoms TV hopes that this program will have a mission to sharpen the sensitivity of art by work and feeling that empower and inspire students and undoubtedly: the entire academic community of UII. Watch Mata Lensa on online TV channels on Youtube: Uniicoms TV.

 

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Students of IP Work on Travel Writing Project in 3 Countries

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Starting by Wednesday, July 31, 2019 until the next nine days, the International Program (IP) of Communication Department will sent 13 students, Mr. Herman Felani Tanjung, MA (lecturer), and 2 staff to conduct an academic tour and doing ‘Travel Writing Projects’ at many variety important locations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. This Travel Writing Project is part of a routine program that is held every year. This visiting program for Asean countries, which are often known as Passage To Asean (P2A) Program, is the second time that held by the UII’s Communication Department, since 2018. Students will also visit three campuses in Southeast Asia: University of Economics and Law (Vietnam), Svay Rieng University (SRU) Cambodia, Thammasat University (Thailand). P2A is a network of Asean universities and institution of higher education.

All the student will learn a lot of things under supervision Mr. Herman Felani Tandjung, MA, lecturer of film and culture studies, Yudi Winarto, and Marjito Iskandar T. G. as profesional supervisor from Audio Visual Laboratory of Communication Department.  The IP students of Communication Department UII, under supervision of Mr. Tandjung, will travel to several locations and sharpen their view and sensitivity to capture the social reality there. According to Ida Nuraini Dewi K. N., Secretary of International Program of Communication Department, in addition to capturing social reality, communication students are expected to be able to probe, analyze, compare and record the history, cultural diversity, religiosity, and many things that will appear behind these tourist sites. Ida also said that, “the most important thing and different than other P2A Program, is student will learn about character building that is consist of problem solving, decision making, and teamwork beside learn to implement their communication skill (such as speaking, writing, photography, video, etc).

Lecturers, staff, and students will also conduct comparative visits on many campuses at three countries. There is a hope that Communication IP students, beside applying their knowledge so far in the classroom, they also will have new perspectives that emerge from these trips.

P2A in principle has the spirit of providing opportunities for students, lecturers, and staff of Communication Department to reach global and international studies and comparisons. The processes that are passed in P2A enable them to get a lot of new perspectives that are insightful for the future of communication studies. Not only that, both student and lecturer of Communication Department are ultimately expected to be able to improve their abilities such as social analysis skills, journalism, reportage, writing, photography, and brainstorming creative ideas in simultaneously.

The previous P2A, the committee of P2A designed P2A with the concept of Photography Workshop and Competition entitled: “P2A 2018 – Workshop and Photography Competition: Humanature”, to capture moment in various destination at Indonesia,  Malaysia and Thailand. Students from three campuses in the three countries were encouraged to collaborated, competed, and sharpen their photography skills in the tourist locations. They also capture iconic, unique, and interesting things into an aesthetic and meaningful photo work. In the end, P2A at that time gave awards to students who had the best photo works in collaboration with Nikon Malaysia, P2A, UII, and Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).

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Communication Departement Achieved A Grade Again

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At least, after a lot of steps, Communication Department can maintain its Accreditation rank with A grade again. The news came after the assessors of the National Accreditation Board for Higher Education (BAN-PT) visited to check documents and evidence of accreditation on July, 10th, 2019. Exactly, six days later, July 16, 2019, a Decree from BAN-PT numbered 2387 / SK / BAN-PT/Akred/S/VII/2019 sent to this office.

The contents of the Decree (SK) wrote, “the decision of the national accreditation body of higher education regarding the accreditation status and ranking of the accredited Communication Department of UII at the undergraduate program of the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII), Sleman Regency,” he wrote. BAN PT’s Executive Board Director, T. Basaruddin, through the letter then continued that he determined the Accreditation Status and Accredited Rank of the Communication Studies Program at the UII’s Undergraduate Program was accredited with grade: A.

Recorded in the UII Communication Department forms for the last three years, the lecturers of this department (accumulatively) already have 269 publications. Whether it’s international, national scientific publications, conference papers, journals, to popular articles in the mass media. These achievements can be exemplified, such as 5 documentary films with various international and national awards, 24 popular articles in mass media, 22 journal articles in international journals, 4 books and chapters with international publishing scale such as Springer and Routledge, and 60 scientific articles which was presented at an international conference. Also there were a lot of outstanding active students, there have been more than 90 awards that have been won by all the students over the past 5 years, which are on a regional, national and international scale.

Congratulations, and never stop empower, and work for others!

 

Photo by M. Iskandar T. G.

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Communication Department Team Welcomes the Re-Accreditation Assessors

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After making preparations on all fronts, finally arrived the awaited day. The Study Program has made several preparations such as document preparation, proof checking, and intensive routine coordination for the past one to two years. All UII Communication academics ranging from students, staff staff, to lecturers unite their hopes for re-accreditation to achieve its targets: A again.

On 10/7/2019 Communication UII welcomed the visit of two assessors from the National Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (BAN-PT) in the context of the Field Assessment (AL) Re-accreditation of the UII Communication Studies Program. The UII Communication Accreditation, which was due to expire in the coming August, will now be reviewed directly after previously the Forms of Study Team and Faculty Former Formers sent documents to BAN-PT. The document will in turn be checked, assessed, and integrated with other assessment components.

On this occasion two assessors were sent to check the evidence and documents prepared by the team. They are Prof. Dr. Hafied Cangara, M.Sc. and Dr. Irwansyah, S.Sos., MA. Both are well-known lecturers who have long been known in the world of communication science universities in Indonesia. For example, Prof. Dr. Hafied Cangara, M.Sc. is a professor from Hasanuddin University and author of frequently referenced books such as Environmental Communication, Political Communication, and Introduction to Communication Studies. Whereas Dr. Irwansyah, S.Sos., MA. is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM) Honolulu in the United States and a consultant on several campuses in Indonesia and central government agencies.

At the end of his visit, Prof. Dr. Hafied Cangara, M.Sc. and Dr. Irwansyah, S.Sos., MA. provide important messages for the development of the UII Communication Science study program. For example, Dr. Irwansyah said that it is very important that in the future all study programs in Indonesia can prioritize courses that have a vision of the future. “So it is not only the present vision, but also the future. Global vision is not necessarily the future, digital is the future,” he said. Dikti grant research also needs to be intensified. Dr. Irwansyah said that now lecturers have an easier opportunity to be able to and manage Dikti grants. Reportedly the criteria and requirements remain strict, but the reporting has eliminated the technical requirements that are counterproductive to the essence of higher education research.

Whereas Prof. Hafied actually reinforced that it was time for UII Communication Studies to advance to become a faculty equivalent to other campuses. More internationalization is also needed. There are also many developments achieved, he said, for example alumni who are now spread in national media, play a role in community empowerment, and also, “the students are good in the realm of practice seen during the day’s visitation. I was also interviewed with alumni who taking part in TVone, Detik, Pertamina and national institutions are very good, “he said. Please note, when the first accreditation of UII Communication was also Prof. Hafied is the assessor. So do not be surprised if he can compare and see the rapid development of UII Communication.

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Lindström’s Tips on Writing an International Journal

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The international journal writing workshop is one of a series of The 5th Conference on Communication, Culture and Media Studies (CCCMS) from April, 14 until 16, 2019 at the FPCS UII’s Auditorium. The program was moderated by Herman Felani Tandjung and Kati Lindström as the speaker. Lindström is a Landscape Semiotic experts from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. On this occasion, hundreds of participants attended both from the conference and invited participants. This event was held to familiarize and give Lindström a chance to share experiences on journal writing internationally.

Lindström said the stages of writing an international journal must be observed properly. Publisher standards also should not be overlooked. First, prepare themes and writings carefully with credible sources. Be careful with self plagiarism. After the preparation stage is complete, the next step is to choose a journal that matches the theme we are writing about. Is it relevant, is the example given right. After that, the submitting or registration process can be done. After submitting, the review stage is entered. At this stage what needs to be done is to discuss with the reviewer and open views and input.

In this workshop Lindström also received several questions. For example the questions of participants from Lambung Mangkurat University. He asked if it was possible to send two journal articles to two different journals. “No, that’s not allowed, take your manuscript back if it’s taking too long in one journal publisher,” Lindström said. Then he asked again, “my journal article disappeared, I have searched it digitally but not found.” According to Lindström, that is impossible. “It must be in the Scopus database, you can track it there,” Lindström said.


Tips and tricks


Lindström suggests many things. For example, “Keep writing everyday an hour. At the last automatically (eventually you will feel accustomed to writing automatically). Never a week because you will forget. (Not until a week, because you can just forgot your idea), “Lindström said. According to Lindström why it has to be every day, because starting is more difficult. But we should also enjoy it. “its hard if you don’t enjoy that,” Lindström suggested. There is also another question, why should I write in an international journal registered with Scopus?” Scopus is more attraction, a lot more people to read. On Scopus there will be more people interested in reading our work,” She said.

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Reflections to All Activist who held Protest At Zero Kilometer Jogja

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Retyan Sekar, a researcher in this discussion under the theme: The Space and Power in Jogja, got interesting and unusual findings. Retyan drew conclusions from her research (research title: Normalization of Demonstrations at the Jogja Zero Kilometers. He tracked during the pre-reformation era in Indonesia, none of the activists in the 80s and 90s were interested in protesting at the zero kilometer of Jogja. “In that era, the demonstration was usually held at the Gedung Agung or the closest is at Keraton Palace,” said Retyan, who is also a student female activist in Yogyakarta.

There is no big magnet to protest at Zero Kilometers’ Jogja, said one of the research sources. Likewise, during the reform era, the concentration of student demonstrations was not at Zero Kilometers’ Jogja. “In fact, the Gejayan Street, Bundaran UGM, and along the Malioboro Street or the Gedung Agung (National Palace) were the points of action,” Retyan said in the Monthly Routine Discussion of UII Communication Department on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in the RAV (Mini Theatre) Room of UII Communication Department.

The student and civil protest is going to be popular to be held at the zero Kilometer of Jogja is in the post-reform era around 2004. At that time, many artists who protested at zero-kilometer Jogja as a form of counter-discourse to the government. In 2010 until now, the opposite happened. The Provincial Government of Yogyakarta carried out a counter discourse by making the zero kilometer jogja, at the end of Malioboro street, as the center of Jogja’s. What have they done was by revitalizing the infrastructure of the zero kilometers so that Zero Kilometer Jogja become the center of everything. Retyan, by the Geographic Communication perspective and using the Foucoult’s theory that listed in “Discipline and Punish”, saw this practice of space production by this local government as the normalization of protest actions.

There is discipline, supervision, and surveillance, by the local government through the media and various factors in the protest actions that held at the zero-kilometer point of Jogja. The demonstration at the zero kilometers is also being mediated by the media. Even though during the pre-reform and reformation, there was no interest and important point to made the zero kilometer as the peak of the demonstration. In the middle of the discussion, during the question and answer session, one of the discussion participants, Razik, questioned Retyan’s analysis, and quoting Henry Lefebvre’s thought.

“How actually happened, is media the only one that formed a Zero Kilometer as an action/ demonstration space or actually there are other factors or elements that formed? Is zero space important because it is part of “mode of production” of the capitalism model in Jogja?” Asked Razik. Retyan answered that she did not deny that there were other factors that formed the Zero Kilometer of Jogja as space of the center of the demonstration, but her research focus was that the media also contributed to the protest actions so that activists in the post reform era choosing zero kilometers of Jogja rather than at other locations such as other activists in the previous era.

This Discussions that were also carried out while breaking the fasting of ramadhan was became a space of appreciation and meeting of ideas. It also became a forum for sharing stories, methods, and techniques in conducting or doing research at the UII Communication Studies.

This writing is a continuation of What’s Up with Jogja Scrummy and the Zero Kilometer of Jogja?

 

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What’s Up with Jogja Scrummy and the Km 0 of Jogja?

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Vivi Mulia Ningrum and Retyan Sekar Nurani, students of Communication Studies (2015), began to sit in front of the participants of the discussion in the Audio Visual Room (Mini Theater) of UII’s Communication Department. Both were accompanied by Risky Wahyudi, researcher and staff of Center for Study and Documentation of Alternative Media NADIM (PSDMA Nadim) Communication Department  of the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). Today, Tuesday, April 9, 2019, the three of them were the center of attention from the attendees at the Monthly Routine Discussion of UII Communication Department under the discussion theme: Space and Power in Yogyakarta.

This discussion is the first series on student research series in the Geography Communication cluster. Risky Wahyudi said, Communication Department hopes that this Monthly Discussions such as this models can strengthen the academic culture, academic pulpits, and become learning spaces for research, service and previous preaching. Both the research conducted by lecturers, students, and academicians can be used as learning and appreciation space.

Vivi and Retyan, in their thesis research, try to dismantle the ideology and practice of space production in Jogja. The results are diverse, Vivi for example, found in her research that Jogja Scrummy produced its outlets and outlets in such a random way just to form the ideology that Jogja was formed as a tourism city. “How can Dude Herlino advertise that Jogja Scrummy is a typical product of Jogja but he wears traditional Javanese clothes which are not typical of Jogja, but Surakarta?” Vivi said. The packed tagline reads “Remember Jogja, Remember Jogja Scrummy” suggests that their consumers are also tourists: people who travel. Jogja is no longer formed as a student city, but tourism, even though it is inconsequential, he said. The design of the interior space is arranged so that consumers who come not only shop but also take photographs.

“So the photo of artist Dude Herlino is mediation, then photographed consumers have also been included as a presenter, twice as much as this,” added Vivi, who claimed to have gone back and forth from Jogja Scrummy outlets for more than 15 times. Starting from interviewing various buyers there, He also recorded interviews, saw forms, found patterns, and simultaneously recited the meaning behind the space in Scrummy Yogyakarta. The atmosphere of the discussion warmed up when Risky Wahyudi, the moderator, questioned the conception of consumers as tourists who were not entirely right. .

For him and according to his observations in recent years, consumers of Yogyakarta Scrummy look not tourists but students or jogja people who buy their products to be made as souvenirs. The formation of Jogja as a tourist city does not seem right. Vivi answered by explaining the emphasis on the meaning of the Jogja Scrummy tagline interpretation that looked as if the consumer segment was a tourist seen from the choice of words in the tagline. Discussion # Series of Geography Communication Clusters

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Earthing One of the “Bone Marrow” of UII Communication Department

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“You are better apprenticed to community media, to be a creator, a planner. Instead of an internship in a large industry but to be a photocopier or clipper who has far-reaching communication skills.”

The three people who have been waiting for sharing their experiences in the professional job are now sitting at the front desk of the UII Auditorium. The three people are expert practitioners who will amaze their professional stories in front of hundreds of students at UII’s FPSB Communication Department. To mention from left, the youngest, is a professional broadcaster from UNISI Radio, Syarif or commonly called Acil’s as his radio name. Then beside him, there was Sigit Raharja, from Diskominfo Kulon Progo, and Ir. Riyanto, MM. Secretary of Community Empowerment and Child Protection Department of Yogyakarta Government.

All three explain the same thing: if you want to get into the world of work, the key is perseverance, want to learn, and believe in yourself. Acil for example said, even though now people often say the world of radio is approaching the twilight, but he rejects it. It was precisely the words of people about his work in the world of broadcasting that made him even more challenged and convinced that the world of radio would still live. People only change the medium, for example there is sound-cloud, there are podcasts, there are radios that can be accessed via the internet. So, perseverance and enthusiasm for learning are the key to facing digital developments in the world of work. Similarly, said Sigit Raharja and Riyanto from the regional government in DIY.

On that occasion, 5/4/2019, at the FPSB UII Auditorium, Anang Hermawan, Lecturer in Communication Department at UII, also gave a brief description of the implementation of the internship as a graduation requirement at the FPSB UII Communication Department.

Today, the this activity titled “Provisioning and Internship Preparation” was joined by dozens of Communication students in the class of 2015 who would start doing an internship.

“It used to be called KKK (Communication Work Lecture), which was held before the thesis. Now it has become an apprenticeship, and is carried out after the thesis is finished,” Anang said.

“The goal is to work on a thesis more seriously. Then you can enter the practical world,” he said. Anang explained, this was one of the three marrow bones of the UII Communication Department. “Our bone marrow is scientific research, academic/ knowledge, and practical,” he explained.

The concept of an communication department’s internship such as like this intends to actualize academic & practical competence. Internships are also an arena for realizing social competence (soft skills).

According to Mutia Dewi, one of the lecturers of Empowerment Communication expertise, now this communication department student can take advantage of the cooperation that has been established between Communication Department with more than 10 partners from government agencies, the private sector, creative industries, NGOs, community media, and others.

These partners such as the Office of Governance, KOMPAS TV, the Office of Women’s Empowerment, Konner Digital Asia, Diskominfo Kulon Progo, UNISI Radio, Tirto.id, X-Code Films, Cinema, Cornellia CO, INFEST Yogyakarta, Mojok.co, UNIICOMS TV, Metro TV, NET TV, BPPTKG, Mafindo, Narasi TV, Combine Resource Institution, Public Relations of DIY Government, Culture Office of Yogyakarta Government, and others.

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Communication Department Design Their Website With The New Interface

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All staff of the Communication Department were excited that morning. The Reason was They will get the new knowledge to be implemented for designing of the new Communication Department’s website for the Re-Accreditation. All website of the faculty at UII now have used content management system that are newest, faster, and easily accessible. There were two trainers from UII’s Public Relations Webmaster who would be there to accompany all the staff all day long. They are Rizka Ariyanto and Risky Falahiyah.

Rizka Ariyanto was presenting in front of the staff in the Training of Communication Department Website. That big and tall man was busy fiddling with his laptop. He were showing how to operate the dashboard of the website of the Communication Department. Communication Department is part of the Faculty of Psychology and Socio-Cultural Sciences (FPCS) of the Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII). “Don’t forget to fill out the Yoast section. This machine will help our sites to be searched easily by Google index and Google crawl,” Rizky said at the Website Training of the Communication Departments. SEO or Search Engine Optimizer allows websites to be tracked quickly by the Google search engine.

While She explained the slide on power point, some participants begin asking questions interactively.

For example, Zarkoni asks about the advantages of creating content with a wordpress CMS. Pambudi, the another participants, also asked how to optimize the website with Yoast SEO. While Risky explained, his colleague, Rizka Ariyanto, help the other participants. He accompanied other participants who did not understand how to upload with the new CMS. Previously, Communication Department still used Joomla Content Management System (CMS), not WordPress, as the basis for managing its website pages.

On Tuesday, March 5, 2019, Risky and Rizka were presenting as presenters of the FPCS UII Communication Department Website in the Primary Room of Communication Department. All of the Communication Department staff are attend this Website Training. Although the participants occasionally frowned on the terms of information technology (IT) that speakers told, but with the open minded and cool speaker, made the participants understand the lesson sooner or later.

Practice Makes Perfect

Moreover, the training also forced participants to practice directly with their laptops. Not only to train how to produce and upload the content, the UII’s web support team, from UII’s Public Relations,  also introduced new practices in website management at UII. This practices introduce the website team also to carry out routine maintenance. “UII’s web has a lot of visits, so many web visitors are vulnerable to hack. The only solution is to do maintenance and backup data just in case of hacker attacks,” said Ratna Permatasari,  Lecturer of Communication Department who is also Head of UII’s Public Relations.

The simplest basic tips and tricks shared by Rizka are actually simple. “The easiest way to anticipate the web hack is to update the plugins that provided by wordpress.  Don’t hesitate to update our passwords as regularly as possible. But yes, you don’t have to do it every day, isn’t it?” He said then laughing. Rizka closed the training with an advice to the site’s webmasters who will take care the website maintenance: backup your data routine and do web check regularly, Rizka said then.