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The Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia initiated the Fiscal Corner Program, which is expected to initiate at least one activity, later this year.

This statement was conveyed by Dr. Dwi Prasetyani S.E., M.Sc., Vice Dean for Academic, Research, and Student Affairs FEB UNS, who commenced her remarks at the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for the Fiscal Corner Program, Monday, October 23, 2023, in the 1st Assembly Room FEB UNS.

Furthermore, the FGD, which presents Risky Sulistyanto from the Ministry of Finance, also invited the Head of the Study Programs and FEB UNS Lecturers to further finalize the Fiscal Corner concept, which has been initiated since October 2022.

“The FGD will be held for two days, other than to finalize our previous discussions with the Ministry of Finance, at the same time we will try to gain insight from the Head of the Study Programs and also the FEB Lecturers. The room for the program has been provided, located on the 1st floor of the Soeharno FEB Building,” said Dr. Dwi.

Meanwhile, Risky Sulistyanto from the Ministry of Finance said the initiation of the Fiscal Corner was a transformation effort stemming from the Ministry of Finance Goes to Campus agenda, into an integrated collaboration program package through learning, research/study, internships, and all activities related to fiscal management. Furthermore, the beneficiaries of the fiscal corner were UNS lecturers or students, Ministry of Finance Representative Office/other KL, Community/ Local Government, FEB alumni, and even other universities.

In this collaboration, the FEB UNS team provides infrastructure, supporting IT, layout/ interior design, and human resources or community support. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance Team contributed related to the policy/ content/coordination within the Ministry of Finance scope unit.

Some of the activities and programs for the Fiscal Corner include information/lectures/laboratories/workshops/webinars, access to fiscal policy data/state budget/publications, and also collaboration and partnership/studies/research development. “In addition, there is also a Simple Guideline for Fiscal Corner as a tool and guideline in managing Work Plans and Fiscal Corner Programs/Activities. In the future, it can also function as a Fiscal Corner catalog,” he said.

In the discussion that lasted for about 2 (two) hours, Dr. Dwi said that the material included in the lecture program is from the Accounting and Development Economics Study Program. Further integration is needed in other study programs, including the Management and Digital Business Study Program.

Dr. Mulyanto, Lecturer of FEB UNS added that hopefully, the Fiscal Corner will be able to provide data for analysis, thus, there may be a synergy among the study programs in FEB UNS, namely, the Development Economics, Accounting, Management, and even Digital Business Study Program. The next FGD will take place at the same place, on Tuesday, October 24th, 2023, with the agenda of the Formulation of the Fiscal Corner Work Program.

Pekalongan City is famous as Batik City. In this city, many batik artisans and SMEs can be found, each of which has its own peculiarities. Even Pekalongan has a typical batik motif, namely Batik Jlamprang. The batik culture in Pekalongan City is so legendary that Pekalongan is dubbed the World Creative City. To facilitate the development of batik SME business, many batik SMEs in Pekalongan City establish batik SMEs association. One of them is the Kampung Batik Kauman Association and Kampoeng Wisata Batik Pesindon. The association aims to provide independent parties that bridge the deliberation between the Pekalongan City government and batik craftsmen. In addition, this batik association also makes it easier to coordinate exhibitions, establish a website to display members’ profiles, and so on.

The Pekalongan City Government also highly appreciates the establishment of batik SME associations. On several occasions, the Pekalongan City Government always involves the Batik SME association in the policy-making process related to environmental health, urban planning, and others. Not only that, the Pekalongan City Government also facilitates various forms of batik marketing initiated by the associations. This is manifested in the form of batik exhibitions and the establishment of a special e-commerce platform in Pekalongan City.

However, this batik SME association still facing numerous problems that are suitable as the development focus of the Kosabangsa program. One of the problems is the dilemma of using chemical dyes that are not environmentally friendly. The Pekalongan City Government itself has conducted extensive discussions with batik SMEs to advocate the use of natural dyes. However, this cannot be done due to operational constraints. This problem will be the focus of this community service program.

To achieve an environmentally friendly batik production process, the Kosabangsa Community Service Team assisted the association member on how to utilize batik dye machines, batik heating machines, and cow bone powder, which is in line with the technology offered by the Universitas Sebelas Maret Counsel Team (UNS) chaired by Prof. Dr. Rahmawati, M.Si., Ak.

Prof. Rahmawati said that the production process using this technology is expected to overcome the environmental pollution problem due to batik dye waste and production processes’ inefficiency in Kampung Batik Kauman and Pesindon.

As for the problem of the lack of variations of new batik motifs in Kampung Batik Kauman, the Implementation Team conducted training and assistance to create new batik motifs by considering art management in its creation. This was done with the assistance of the UNS Team which has created a new batik motif technology, namely Kupu Tinebar, which has been registered with IPR.

The training and mentoring are expected to bring up new variations in batik motifs that can follow the advances in fashion trends but remain instilling the characteristics of Pekalongan batik. Furthermore, particular to the business management problem, the Implementing Team held bookkeeping training and mentoring on how to establish Kampung Batik Kauman dashboards. Meanwhile, in Kampung Batik Pesindon, the team proposed to conduct training and assistance on the use of e-commerce applications, google ads, and Facebook ads in accordance with the technology offered by the UNS Counsel Team.

In addition, there will also be training on trademark registration for both Kampung Batik Kauman and Pesindon. This is because many batik artisans have yet to understand the importance of trademark usage. After creating a brand, the team will also conduct brand utilization training to create advertising content and product packaging.

Marketing and Behavioral Research Group (RG), Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) alongside the Indonesian Economics Undergraduate Association (ISEI) Surakarta held a Workshop with the theme Developing a Reputable Journal and Managing Scientific Publications, Monday, October 23, 2023 at Café BoloDewe Manahan, Solo.

Dr. Ahmad Ikhwan S., SE., MT., Chairman of Marketing and Behavioral RG FEB UNS in his remarks expressed his gratitude to Lukman Hakim, Ph.D., and Gunawan Setyadi who had delivered material at the workshop attended by academicians from UNS and those from out of UNS. “This workshop was conducted in line with our concern in the Marketing and Behavior RG, after going through discussions with ISEI, which has a publication division to develop a reputable Journal. Hopefully, there will be a forum that can technically help scientific article publication management prepared by the academic community, especially in FEB UNS,” he said.

Lukman Hakim, Ph.D., added that, so far, for the journals in FEB, there have been initiatives taken in every study program, but the central focus is regarding a journal’s sustainability until it can get indexed in Scopus. “The initiative has been taken in each study program in FEB UNS. In order to be sustainable and to get indexed in Scopus, the most essential foundation in establishing a journal is consistency, and adequate numbers of publications, which should not be too large and not too little, while the reviewers and partners are also well-managed. The journal management is carried out by a professional institution appointed by the faculty, thus, it is not a side job of the faculty members,” he explained later.

Furthermore, Lukman, Ph.D., also talked about the dynamics of managing professional organizations and also publications in ISEI.

Meanwhile, Gunawan in his material explained that international publications resulting from academic research are one of the important criteria for obtaining higher accreditation and university ranking. Based on the SINTA database, UNS produced 8,557 Scopus documents with 49,157 citations as of January 2022, where 3% of the publications were published in the top 10% percentile top journals and 8.4% were included in the top 10% most cited worldwide. However, publications in the fields of business, management, and accounting accounted for only 3% and 5.6% of the Social Sciences publications.

Furthermore, an overview of FEB publications in Scopus as of January 2022 listed 226 documents (159 journal articles, 7 book chapters, and 60 conference papers). “There is quite a hope of seeing this number doubled in the near future because there are quite a number of associate professors who have the potential to be appointed as professors. FEB’s resources and capital can support UNS, since becoming a world-class research university is an excellent achievement and hopefully, it can be realized soon,” he said later.

That is why it is necessary to establish a journal clinic in FEB. The existence of this clinic is to provide international publication assistance for S1, S2, S3, and lecturers, starting from submission to publication process in Scopus/Thomson ISI Indexed International Journal.

In addition, the existence of the publication clinic can also provide technical support for scientific publications to lecturers and students, improving the quality and quantity of research publications in FEB. Moreover, the clinic is also expected to increase research collaboration by bridging the relationship between FEB Lecturers with international and national institutions. In the forum, participants actively discussed, and gave suggestions and input to the two speakers.

FEB UNS Sustainable Business Summit 2023 is a series of activities organized by the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), in collaboration with UNS Innovation Hub and UNS Directorate of Innovation and Downstreaming.

The second series of activities from the FEB UNS Sustainable Business Summit 2023, the Final Pitching Competition & Re-branding Identity Challenge was held on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at UNS Inn. This event was attended by more than 15 participants, most of whom are active students. The series of grand final events began with an opening remark by Catur Sugiarto, S.E., M.SM., M.Rech., Ph.D., CDMP., Head of Business Incubator Division UNS Innovation Hub. Whereas, the first part of the series, a virtual seminar entitled “Navigating the Digital Transformation Landscape: Challenges & Strategies for Sustainable Business,” was held on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

Catur conveyed his brief remark by thanking the participants who had participated in the two competitions to the final stage. “Thank you to all participants. The FEB UNS Sustainable Summit Business 2023 activities serve as a forum for the younger generation, especially students to train their skills in critical thinking, public speaking, business development ideas, and creativity development,” he said.

Following the opening speech from the Head of the UNS Innovation Hub Business Incubator Division, the series of activities continued with the opening of the Final Pitching Competition session. In this session, the Atmagri team opened the final pitching presentation session, with their presentation for approximately 10 minutes and followed by a question-and-answer session. Following them, the other 9 teams also presented their final pitching material and engaged in a question-and-answer session with an average of 15 minutes time allocation. After the entire team presented the material, the jury and reviewers held a deliberation meeting followed by a short break.

After the break, the series of grand final sessions was reopened by the MC and continued with the Final stage for the Re-branding Identity Challenge. The first pitch was conducted by the AI Capone Team, which followed with a question-and-answer session. The same goes for the other three teams. Like the previous Final Pitching Competition session, in this session, the judges and reviewers held a deliberation meeting followed by the second break session.

Commencing after, the session that the participants had been waiting for had finally arrived, the awarding session and the prize awarding session. Marking the end of UNS Sustainable Business Summit 2023, the MC announced the winners of the Pitching Competition, which followed by the awarding ceremony for the champions. The 1st place in the FEB UNS Sustainable Business Summit 2023 Pitching Competition was won by the Panensia Team. The 2nd place is won by Team Mersif Lab, and 3rd place is won by Team Sekuling.

After the Pitching Competition awarding session, another awarding session was conducted to announce the winners of the FEB UNS Re-branding Identity Challenge. For this category, the Basaman Team won 1st place, while 2nd place was won by the AI Capone Team, and 3rd place was won by Irsyad Akmal. The other participants also enlivened the award by applauding and congratulating the champions.