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”.

CPPS UGM – Population sector is often closely related to public policy terminology. Demeny (1988) defines population sector as a government activity with development planning that is understood and practiced as a centrally coordinated set […].

At the end of the 17th century (1798), Malthus wrote his opinion in a provocative article entitled An essay in the principle of population as it affects the future improvement of society. He was concerned about the imbalance between developing population growth and food availability.

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).

“Besides father and mother in a nuclear family, the extended family such as grandparents, apparently also plays an important role in increasing or decreasing children’s jovial behavior which then has a great impact on their IQ scores,” Sawangde said.

Novi Widyaningrum, a researcher and gender observer at the CPPS UGM, strongly criticized the discourse of the perpetrator to marry the victim. According to her, the discourse of marrying the victim is a form of arrogance based on social class and strong patriarchal culture in Indonesia.

Yogyakarta, with its culinary, has one of the most identical food souvenirs favored by tourists, namely Bakpia. Most of the tourists buy the Bakpia while they are going to come home.

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only hit the health sector, but it has also torn apart the state economy and widened social inequality. To save the health sector and the domestic economy, the Indonesian government should use the state budget as wisely as possible and review economic policies that may be risky and may put Indonesia at a disadvantage position in the global economy.

The Clean and Healthy Behavior (Bahasa Indonesia: Perilaku Hidup Bersih dan Sehat/PHBS) movement is currently being promoted as the way to prevent society from COVID-19. The world has struggled t overcame the COVID-19 for more than half a year and WHO has even declared the COVID-19 a global pandemic since March 11, 2020. The term pandemic refers to a disease that spreads to many people in several countries at the same time. The number of the spread of COVID-19 has significantly increased and globally. As long as the vaccine has not been found, the efforts to reduce the spread and prevention of COVID-19 are to implement the PHBS.