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Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Gadjah Mada congratulates Andreas Kurniawan (Economics 2009) and the team from UI and ITB who has successfully passed the national selection on the P&G ASEAN Business Challenge 2012 was held on April 26, 2012 in Jakarta. Next they will represent Indonesia to follow P&G ASEAN Business Challange 2012 in Singapore on June 2012.
Hopefully this achievements can be advocates for students to perform better again.
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UGM in partnership with Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) launches their program 'BRI Entrepreneurial People'. The signing of a memorandum is made by the Director of Research and Training of Economics and Business (P2EB), Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Gadjah Mada, Dr. Anggito Abimanyu and the Chairman BRI Yogyakarta Regional, Eko Wahyu Andriastono, on Tuesday (3/4)at Auditorium Pertamina Tower FEB UGM. Director of UMKM (micro small medium enterprises) BRI, Djarot Kusumayakti also presents in the occasion.
Director of P2EB FEB UGM, Dr. Anggito Abimanyu delivers this program designed to create the best UGM entrepreneurial with strong social minded, innovative, and competitive. The program is also targeted to attract UGM students to be innovative entrepreneurs.
"The program is intended to encourage the best UGM students to become entrepreneurs who can create new employments," he said.
Dr. Abimanyu adds, this program is aimed to build a new paradigm for outstanding students to become entrepreneurs. "these days entrepreneurship is considered as job which is because of ‘accident’, lived with whom are not welcome in the empolyment world due to the lack of GPA. Hence, we should change the entrepreneurship world with highly achieved graduates for it is the foundation of the nation's economy," he explained.
"This program does not only provides an opportunity for students to become entrepreneurs," said Dr. Abimanyu. For the business it is expected to encourage the birth of new products that are innovative and creative, to improve the quality of market competition, and to strengthen the regional economy. As for FEB UGM, it is expected to create graduates who grow to be job creators. And for BRI will strengthen its image as the bank supporting small and medium business units.
BRI Entrepreneurial People's Program is for UGM alumni who graduate last three years and final year students when register. Having minimum GPA of at least 3.00 is a must. "There are three selection steps in this program; the selection made by FEB, product development research using community development funds from BRI, and business starting up by submitting the bankable proposal for further partnership with BRI," said Dr. Abimanyu.
He said that in one year it is targeted to form 10 groups of entrepreneurs. Within five years it will generate 50 groups of entrepreneurs who are expected to successfully manage their business. "Each group will receive a grant of 50 million rupiahs for research and product development with the incentives of three million per month.
Accroding the Director of Small and Medium Business Units BRI, Djarot Kusumayekti, said that 99.98 percent of business people in Indonesia are engaged in the field of entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Business Units. They absorb up to 91.8 million people to work with.
"What is interesting here is the dominance of UMKM is still so great. On the other labors absorbed is as well large and serves to reduce the state burden for it can create employments. In this case the entrepreneur is positioned as a locomotive to lift up the country," he said.
Similar to Dr. Abimanyu, Mr. Kusumayekti said that today being entrepreneurs are not designed early in the young age or even prepared, but they are doing it as if they are forced to become. With the release of this program it is expected to give birth to innovative and competitive entrepreneurs.
"The country will be safe if it has entrepreneurial sector more than 2%, while the number of Indonesian entrepreneurs are still less than 1% that cause huge burden to the nation. The hopes are that this program can generate the seeds of outstanding entrepreneurs who are able to lift up nation burden", he hoped.
The registration of BRI Entrepreneurial People's program will be opened in May 2012. The participants are required to submit executive summary including complete business plan. The final round will be in July and followed by a presentation to investors in August 2012. The announcement of winners will be released at Faculty Anniversary on September 2012.
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Gresika Bunga Sylvana, student of the Faculty of Economics and Business UGM, was elected as the delegate for Yogyakarta Special Province Indonesia to join Indonesian Youth Parliament Assembly. 33 delegates accross nation attended the event which took place in Jakarta from January 28 – February 3, 2012.
Indonesian Youth Parliament is organized by the Indonesian Future Leaders, a nonprofit corporation engaged in the empowerment of youth for social change. Indonesian Youth Parliament is a youth empowerment program to enhance youth participation in political decision making.
Gersika Bunga convey himself that she is elected as DIY ambassador for the activities at Indonesian Youth Parliament after a series of selection process including the selection of files, interviews via campaign and youth parliament website. At the stage of the campaign, he was competing with four other participants who have successfully passed the final selection to win votes. The participants are required to campaign, deliver the mission and the ideas related to a number of issues in education, health, and environment.
"I am elected as DIY ambassador after winning more than 1,000 votes during the result of a campaign for a month, around October-November 2011. At that time I highlight the issue of commercialization of education. Education, "said Bunga, her nickname in her school at Accounting Department class of 2009, Monday (26/3) at UGM.
As a provincial delegation of DIY, Bunga together with 32 representatives accross Indonesia are invited to Indonesian Youth Parliament assembly held in Sampoerna Strategic Square Jakarta. The general assembly is a program for young parliamentary delegation to convey ideas and views on the issues of education, health, and environment. "Every delegate representing his/her province to voice concerns and provide solutions related the issues in their respective areas. And the outcome of the assembly represents the resolution of policy recommendations for further addresse the governments and state agencies that are relevant, "explained the girl born in Sleman 20 years ago.
Besides doing the assembly, the young parliamentary delegations also actively participate in various activities such as workshops, seminars, visits and discussions with academic institutions.
Bunga hopes through Indonesian Youth Parliament he can increase youth participation in national political arena, as an effort to maintain the values of democracy and human rights protection for the sake of the people of Indonesia. It also increases the awareness of youth on national issues, accumulating ideas about the youth and provide solutions to real problems.
"Preparing young people with the ability and necessary skills to build a nation and as future leaders of Indonesia," said Bunga, who was also elected as a UGM delegate in the Youth Parliament organized by the Parliament of Indonesia.
After representing himself during the assembly of Indonesian Youth Parliament, Bunga and other delegates are given a mandate to plan and execute social projects and advocacy to the provincial governments respectively. During the event every delegation get grants to support the success of the Future Leaders program.
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Investment opportunities is not only meant for the have or well-established people from an economic standpoint, yet the business finance may be started from college year when the students are accustomed to plan better financial future. By knowing the right way to invest in capital markets as delivered in a public lecture by the Investor Sales Head Citi Indonesia, I Made Budhi Purnama Artha, for his public lecture in "Financial Market Outlook 2012" at the auditorium MM UGM, Friday (16/3).
In his presentation, Budhi Purnama said that Indonesia's economic growth in the next 3-4 years will inevitably be influenced by the economic situation in Europe and the U.S.. Despite America's economic crisis, it indicates good signs of growth. While in Europe it shows the opposite condition. "What is happening in Europe today will still occur the next 2-3 years due to the slow recovery than in the U.S. While in Asia, there is a correction in economic growth in some countries, one of which Indonesia, "he said.
He said that Indonesia's economic growth this year is predicted to perform a slowdown. Construction and manufacturing are still the driving force of economic growth. "The growth is moving in the level of 6.3 percent than last year reaching at 6.5 percent. The unemployment fell from 11 percent to 6.6 percent. Even more interesting, many informal sector businesses that have grown into the formal sector," he said.
The conducive political conditions support the better investment opportunities by the year 2014 although in 2012 the government will implement unpopular policies, such as increasing fuel prices. "But the years 2013 and 2014 policy is usually more of a direction to build the party's image," he added.
Branch manager of PT. Danareksa Securities Cabang Yogyakarta, Yahuda Nawa Yanukrisna, acted as moderator says that the public lectures on financial market opportunities are very useful for students to plunge into investor. One way to figure the economic and financial conditions not only the national economy but also the global economic situation. "Courses such a financial market is very useful for an investor, in order to help financial decision where our funds are supposed to be invested," he said.
Deputy Director for Academic Affairs and Research Magister of Management UGM, Dr. Nurul Indarti, said that the activities of such public lectures is regularly held at MM UGM program to increase knowledge among students. "Through the lecture we would like to educate students to explore the knowledge related to financial market particularly for 2012," said Nurul.
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Doubts of the government's fuel subsidy in 2011 and are mainly due to the strong political overtones imaging. The government also tends to be indecisive for the preparation of the elimination strategy of the most optimum fuel subsidy. Even the roadmap of the fuel subsidy reduction has been prepared by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, The Governement is still away from realizing it. Moreover, the studies recommendations from three university consortium consisting of UGM, UI, and ITB in 2011, are ignored. Whereas the subsidy control study is the mandate of the decree, article 10 of the Year 2010 pertaining the State Budget 2011.
"If the problem is imaging, ideally the government inquiry the public about the methods of reduction in fuel subsidies as well as its reallocation of savings " said researchers from the Research and Training of Economics and Business (P2EB), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UGM, Dr. Rimawan Pradiptyo, on Monday (5/3).
In the perspective of Dr. Pradiptyo, it has exceeded the reasonable limits, particularly in 2011. Government subsidy amounting IDR 129,7 trillion in state budget 2011 has reached IDR 160 trillion, but in its realization, it has increased 23.4%. These irregularities occurred due to the wrong concept of that the application of commodity subsidies is not on individual or target group. Consequently the misdirected subsidies is flowing mostly to wealthy households than poor ones.
"Unfortunately, this halts the government's fuel subsidy for the budget allocated for strategic programs; namely poverty reduction, infrastructural and regional development," he said.
Motivated by the lack of the government in resolving the issues of fuel subsidies and the importance of knowing the community's response is then shared by Dr. Pradiptyoand other P2EB Faculty researchers, Gumilang Aryo Sahadewo, M.A., on their study of the reduction of fuel subsidies in the perspective the household.
The study is the collaboration between P2EB-FEB UGM with the Economy and Environmental Programs for South East Asia (EEPSEA), Canada. The research takes six months time from September 2011 to February 2012.
Dr. Pradiptyo outlines the research conducted using the experimental method, in which 335 non-student community members and non-students are invited to play a simulation game in a computer lab of FEB UGM. The participants come from various members of the experimental community, ranging from housewives, parking-man, drivers, angkringan sellers, to civil servants and private employees.
The research team, said Dr. pradiptyo, is not asking about the 'fuel subsidy reductionprice' but asking the most freaking issue of namely 'the removal of fuel subsidies' to supporter and political imagery doers.
"Of course there is no economic actors who are willing to leave behind fuel subsidies that have been available for years disappear. In the case of the fuel subsidy allocation errors, households are faced with a choice between 'bad' or 'worse'," explained Dr. Pradiptyo, the researcher who actively involve in the research consortium of three university in the year 2011.
The results of experiments carried out show that the policy options mostly acceptable household are gradual elimination of subsidies to reallocate earmarked for the program (specific allocation). On the other hand, the choice of the most unacceptable are the elimination of domestic subsidies for the payment directly with the reallocation of government debt and other government programs (non-specific allocations or non-earmarked).
In addition, people who do not have vehicles, are more 'daring' to take the option to direct the removal of fuel subsidies. This is understandable because for those who do not have a vehicle, the removal of fuel subsidies do not affect them directly. The removal of fuel subsidy scheme is not related to kerosene subsidy, as in 2005 and 2008, so the direct impact to households not owning vehicles tend to be minimum.
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Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Gadjah Mada and Djarum Foundation helds its Hand Over assistance ceremony of Djarum Foundation educational assistance to the Faculty of Economics and Business. The aid given is in the form of educational infrastructure manifested in furniture and electronics of the auditorium at the Pertamina Tower. A simple ceremony held at the Faculty hall attended by all faculty members, alumni, staff, students, and also Djarum Foundation scholarship recipient.
The event is opened with the remarks from the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business UGM, represented by prof. WihanaKirana Jaya, M.Soc.Sc., Ph.D. as the Vice Dean for Students, Alumni, and Cooperation. The Following remarks is from representatives of Djarum Foundation, Agus Santoso Suwanto. The representative from alumni, Drs. Harinowo, also gives a speech and congratulates on the educational grant.
Agus Santoso Suwanto from Djarum Foundation and M. Singgih, as director of Asset Management and Maintenance Directorate of UniversitasGadjahMada, both then sign the ratification of the Hand over Assistance.
The event is also continued with the performance of GadjahMada Chamber Orchestra, AnggitoAbimanyu, AningKatamsi, Nugie, and Sierra Sutedjo. Afterwards, the guests are invited to the seventh and eighth floor of Pertamina Tower for a visit.
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