CPPS UGM – Center for Population and Policy Studies (CPPS) UGM held an international online seminar titled “The Dynamics of International Migration during Covid-19 Pandemic: Multiple Perspective”. The Center invited three expert speakers, namely Prof. Aris Ananta (the President of Asian Population Association), Salman Al Farisi (The Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia in South Africa), and Anis Hidayah (The Head of Center for Research and Migration Studies Migrant CARE). This seminar was guided by the Senior Researcher of CPPS UGM, Dr. Sukamdi. This is part of the Center’s contribution to strengthening transdisciplinary research activities in collaboration with research institutions through Twin Center institution.

See the recording of this seminar at: online seminar

CPPS UGM – Total Fertility Rate (TFR) is the average number of children born from a woman during her childbearing age (between the ages of 15-49 years).

Center for Population and Policy Studies (CPPS) UGM held an online seminar “Population and Policy Perspective on COVID-19” on Monday (04/20/2020).

Here is the link for the seminar material.

Yogyakarta, CPPS UGM – A religious foundation in Bandung routinely holds annual mass female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). At the latest FGM/C, the foundation targets the number of girls to participate by 130. However, the number of participants who registered reached 220, as reported by Vice Indonesia (01/10/2020).

According to Basic Health Research (Riskesdas) 2013 data, 51% of Indonesia women at the age of 0-11 years have performed FGM/C. Further, 72.4% of them have performed FGM/C at age of 1-5 months, 13.9% at the age of 1-5 months, 13.9% at the age of 1-4 years, and 3.3% at the age of 5-11 years.

Indonesia, which has been spared the FGM/C “radar monitoring” at the global level, is now emerging with this problem. In addition, the practice of FGM/C is considered as an African phenomenon, a phenomenon that only occurs in Africa. Data from Riskesdas 2013 underlines the presence of another view that FGM/C also occurs in Asia, especially Indonesia.

In commemoration of the Zero Day on Tolerance of FGM/C, Center for Population and Policy Studies (CPPS) UGM in collaboration with Yogyakarta Women’s March held a seminar “Dissecting Myths and Facts about Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting” on Thursday, February 6, 2020 at Auditorium Prof. Dr. Agus Dwiyanto, Masri Singarimbun Building, Jalan Tevesia, Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta.

This seminar did not only present the researchers of CPPS UGM, but it also invited gender activists, reproductive health activists, and Islamic scholars. This seminar aims to see FGM/C from perspectives, such as culture, religion, and policy.

The researcher of CPPS UGM, Sri Purwatiningsih, S.Sc., M.Kes., as the seminar speaker said that in some regions, the practice of circumcision or FGM/C in Indonesia is considered a religious obligation that must be fulfilled and has become a hereditary tradition that is hard to eradicate. The statement refers to the results of CPPS UGM survey 2017 entitled Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Intersection between Tradition and Modernity.

The results of the UGM CPPS survey show that the majority of FGM/C is performed by dukun (45 percent), midwives/nurses/health workers (38%), FGM/C dukun (10%), and doctors (1%). CPPS survey results also show that 84.6% of dukun performed the FGM/C using a knife or razor blade; 3.9% using scissors; and 7.7% using needles.

Based on WHO typology (2012), there are four methods used in FGM/C; clitoridectomy (cutting part or all of the clitoris or membrane above it), excision (cutting part or all of the clitoris and/or labia minora with or without cutting the labia majora), infibulation (the practice of narrowing the vaginal opening with the lining by cutting or changing the shape of the labia majora and labia minora, while the clitoris is not cut at all), and other methods of action that injure the vagina without medical purposes, such as scratching, piercing or scratching the genital area.

Meanwhile, according to the results of the FGM/C survey 2017 conducted by CPPS UGM, the fourth type is the most widely used method in Indonesia. In addition to these findings, the study also found types of FGM/C practices that are not included in WHO typology, such as partially cutting the clitoris and prepuce, scratching or scraping the urethral opening, and symbolic without injury.

The survey of CPPS UGM 2017 was conducted in ten provinces; seven provinces have a fairly high FGM/C prevalence rate, such as Gorontalo, Bangka Belitung, Banten, Riau, South Kalimantan, West Java, and West Sulawesi; and three provinces have local regulations that support the practice of medicalizing women in health service facilities, such as East Kalimantan, Jambi, and West Nusa Tenggara.

No Health Benefits, Only Harm

Referring to WHO data, FGM/C has no health benefits, it endangers girls and women in many ways, such as excessive bleeding, genital tissue swelling, fever, infections such as tetanus, bladder problems, and injuries to the surrounding genital tissue to death.

For the long term, FGM/C can cause problems in the bladder (painful urination, urinary tract infections), vaginal problems (vaginal discharge, itching, bacterial vaginosis, and other infections), problems during menstruation (menstrual pain, menstrual pain menstruation, and so on).

Further, it can also cause sexual problems (pain during intercourse, decreased satisfaction), increased risk of childbirth complications (difficult childbirth, excessive bleeding, caesarean section, and newborn consciousness), newborn mortality, psychological problems (depression, anxiety, post-trauma stress disorder, low self-esteem), and other health complications.

Due to the strong background of customs and culture and without medical reasons, WHO issued a new guideline stating that FGM/C is a violation against human rights.

seminar material links

Below we provide the link of monthly seminar #1 material “Finding a Research Gap” by Prof. Ben White.

Link #1 Finding a “Research Gap”

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Universitas Gadjah Mada, in cooperation with Indonesia Population and Family Planning Agency (BKKBN), will hold The 5^th Asian population Association Conference on 24-27 November, 2020 at Royal Ambarukmo Hotel, Yogyakarta.

CONFERENCE THEMES:

1. Future Challenges of Asian Population Dynamics
2. Population Census/Survey, Vital Registration, and Big Data
3. Fertility, Fecundity, Reproductive Health, and Reproductive Rights
4. Mortality, Morbidity, Epidemiology, and Causes of Death
5. Population Mobility (Internal and International Migration, including Refugees) and Urbanization
6. Family Formation and Dissolution, Family and Kinship
7. Demographic Theory and Methods (Including Demographic Training)
8. Population Dynamics, Demographic Transition and Population Ageing
9. Population and Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development
10. Special Population Group (Youth, Persons with Disability, etc.)
11. Population and Economy: Demographic Dividend, Labor Market and Population Policies
12. Ethnicity/Race, Religion and Language
13. Others (Education, Wellbeing and Happiness, etc.)
14. Indonesia Special Sessions

GUIDELINE FOR ABSTRACT PREPARATION

1. Abstract is required and should not exceed 200 words
2. Extended abstract is optional and should not be more than 5 pages. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font, and all illustration, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
3. Full paper is optional. Length of the manuscript should not exceed 8,000 words excluding references (about 25 pages). The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
4. The paper title must not be in ‘all capital letters’ (e.g. “INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL EDUCATION ON NUPTIAL BEHAVIOR: AN ANALYSIS OF HINDU COMMUNITY IN INDIA’ must be ‘Influence of Parental Education on Nuptial Behavior: An Analysis of Hindu Community in India’).
5. The authors’ names must not be in “all capital letters’ (e.g. ‘SAM SMITH’ must be ‘Sam SMITH’).

 KEY CONFERENCE DATE

Submission opens : 1 October 2019

Submission deadline : 31 January 2020

Notification of decision : 11 May 2020

Registration opens : 8 June 2020

Early bird registration closes : 14 September 2020

Main conference : 24-27 November 2020

See the details of important dates on https://www.asianpa.org/78-apa-activities/449-important-dates.html 

More information can be accessed through www.asianpa.org

Seminar “How to Enjoy the Process of Scientific Writing” held by CPPS UGM on Friday (11/15/2019) was one of interesting event to note.

Prof. Ben White, as the speaker, gave some tips on good and fun scientific writing. First, when the writer(s) writes scientific paper like a thesis, he advised the writer(s) to be able to firstly forget that he is writing a thesis. Second, anything related to the affairs with the supervisor can also be forgotten for a moment. He then emphasized the participants to try to communicate with what they wanted to write, “Hear the voice of your book speaking to you, and write it …” he said.

The fourth tip is to keep on exercising. “Writing is not just a matter of talent, but also about practice,” he said. The exercise is supported by frequently reading books and not delaying to write it immediately. Finally, he reminded to continue writing in a discipline habit.

“All successful writers usually have discipline or routine writing habit. Some are happy to write in the morning, some at night. It’s also important to do and get used to,” he added.

 

 

Yogyakarta, CPPS UGM –  Politics and comedy have a long history and level. In recent decades, politics and comedy have changed from ‘awkward friends’ to ‘inseparable alliances’.

Couple weeks ago, huge demonstrations held by thousands of students from various campuses were seen in major cities of Indonesia. The protesters were taken to the streets to urge the government to pass the new Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) law and revoke the new Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and Draft Bill of Criminal Code (RKUHP) laws.

One interesting moment during the protest occurred from “funny” writings on the posters, such as ‘My skin care products are expensive, there must be a serious problem that finally made me head to the streets’.

People of generation Z are trying to convey their political aspirations in a new way, that is, by making demo posters or banners in a humorous style.

Sakdiyah Ma’ruf, while presenting the related topic on a seminar held by CPPS UGM entitled “Fighting with Joy: Humor in National Political Communication,” Monday (10/21), said that humor is currently gaining its moment.

Different from the youth of 1998, according to Sakdiyah, the people of generation Z who participated for the first time in democracy (i.e. voting on elections) and preserving democracy (protests and demonstrations) seemed not only to focus on the problems they were fighting for, but also brought the issues with random and personal references.

The sentence like, ‘my skin care products are expensive, there must be a serious problem that finally made me head to the streets’, colored the sphere of demonstrations throughout Indonesia and made the protesters of the year excited and the most important thing is viral,” Sakdiyah said.

There are four things about people of generation Z. Sakdiyah explained, “They are gathered in groups but their expression is very individual because for them, standing out (not partisans) and having a personal dialogue are important way to resolve the existing conflicts and to make the decisions pragmatically”.

The posters brought by the Gen Z to the streets had gained people’s attention because of their unique humor and messages of celebration and participation. But the posters also might also not raise public awareness on the main issues of demonstrations.

“They (protesters) made strong and clear messages, showing that the new generation (Gen Z) is alive and wholesome, and ready to fight for it in any ways they wanted,” she continued.

Sakdiyah added that the writings have four categories; Focus Issues, Pop Culture, Personal and Random Life References.

The posters with Focus on Issues writings were referred to the political conditions they were experiencing, such as “Dear police officers, please don’t persecute me! I’m Mr. Tito’s nephew.” There were also Pop Culture writings in which the appreciation was conveyed by including the latest trends, such as “Korean drama is not as fun as the parliament drama.

Meanwhile, the reference concerning personal life showed the poster referred to personal matters such as, “It’s ok that my love story failed, but not KPK!”. The last category has referent ‘random’ that is not directly related to the context of demonstrations (e.g. “Dear Mom, your son wants to get married soon”.

Humor is not merely a joke, but a meaningful entity, especially in political contestation to voice and get the authorities’ attention.

It can also help people gain perspectives, digest problems, and release tension regarding situations of anxiety, confusion and hopelessness.

Mutual self-recognition in humor is the most powerful weapon for showing humanity, political maturity and a respect for people intelligence. “We understand the satirical and metaphorical languages, but what we don’t understand is hate speech,” she responded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & SUMMER COURSE 2018

“POPULATION AND SOCIAL POLICY IN A DISRUPTED WORLD”

Cooperation with Center for Population and Policy Studies (CPPS) Universitas Gadjah Mada, Master and Doctoral Program of Policy Study (MDSK) Universitas Gadjah Mada, and PT. Bank Mayapada Internasional, Tbk.

 

Yogyakarta, PSKK UGM – Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) proudly holds International Conference “Population and Social Policy in a Disrupted World” and series of Summer Course “International Labour Migration in the Shifting World: New Insights and Policy Challenges” activity.

The implementation of the activity departs from three problematic matters accompanying world change. First, the incompleteness of epidemiological transition in rapidly developing countries such as countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The epidemiological transition begins from complex changing in health status and the main pattern of disease causing death, where there is a decrease in the prevalence of communicable diseases, while degenerative diseases tend to be catastrophic, such as heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes, are increasing.

Changing of lifestyle, increasing of consumption of fast food highly containing cholesterol, salt, sugar, but low in fiber; and low physical activity such as exercise cause people vulnerable to degenerative diseases. Lately, many teenagers suffer from degenerative diseases. If it is not well handled, it will affect the quality of the young population. Handling such problem draws most of the financial and technical resources belong to the government.

Second, issues and problems of complex voluntary and forced international labor migration. Voluntary or forced international migrant workers become a group which is vulnerable to human right violation and they become a trading “commodity”. This has been going on for a long time and demanding a commensurate policy to avoid hardship suffered by international migrant workers. In general context of international migration, trends in some countries implementing “anti-migrant” policy also emerge a separated problem. This mainly refers to migration policies applied by the United States and some countries in Europe. An important question in this context is; where is the role of the states, in both sending and receiving countries? Addition to that, technological progress should provide opportunities for the government to develop protection policies for international migrant workers.

Third, the lack of social protection aimed to minimise population problems previously explained. The increasing number of elderly people, for example, needs to be accompanied by adequate health services for the elderly and a better and comprehensive policy scheme. All formal and informal workers, local or international migrants, should also have a social protection scheme which protects them from illnesses and accidents at work. Moreover, the problem of poverty as an unfinished agenda demands rethinking of all applied policies.

The three issues above are getting complex after major changes occur, those are marked by developments of information and globalization technology, which cause a very fast change or “disrupted world”. Almost every line of our lives, both in private and public spheres, changes to be digital, online, connected to each other. Not only is it without problems, in industrial relations for example, the existence of an all-digital system actually also contributes serious employment issues.

The conference taking place at University Club Hotel, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta is able to generate various critical questions on the issues. The conference presents resource persons whose reputations in their fields, they are Dr. Lothar Smith (Human Geography, Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands), Prof. Dr. Ben White (International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands), Prof. Maria Fasli, Ph.D., NTF, FHEA (UNESCO Chair of Analytics and Data Science), and Prof. Rebecca Surender, Ph.D., (Department of Social Policy, Oxford University, the United Kingdom). Minister of National Development Planning/National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), Prof. Dr. Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro is scheduled to attend, at last he will be represented by Director for Planning, Population and Social Security of BAPPENAS, Maliki, ST, MSIE, Ph.D., to deliver keynote speech.

Summer Course

The activity series of Summer Course activities taking the title: “International Labour Migration in the Shifting World: New Insights and Policy Challenges” will be carried out for ten days, from 7 to 17 August 2018. This activity combines discussion activities in class, study field, report writing, and presentation sessions.

The Summer Course will be participated by 35 participants from Indonesia and overseas. Foreign participants are coming from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, India, New Zealand, Australia, Taiwan, Syria and the Philippines. In the field activities, participants of the summer course will make visits to three Villages of Migrant Workers (Desbumi) in Wonosobo District, those are Kuripan Village, Rogojati Village, and Lipursari Village. The only goal is the participants of the summer course will be able to recognize one of local initiatives with all problems and challenges. []

*Open this link to download the press release (pdf version):

Siaran Pers ICSC UGM 2018 (Ind)

Press Release ICSC UGM 2018 (Eng)

Yogyakarta, CPPS UGM – In some developing countries family planning program is still encouraged to regulate the fertility rate of the population.