The Academic Support Staff (Tendik) of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) participated in a Discussion meeting in the Konimex Hall of the Bachtiar Effendi Building, on Tuesday, September 5, 2023. Aside from serving as a performance evaluation for the Academic Support Staff, the agenda also aims to introduce the new Coordinator for the Administration Affairs at FEB, Iwan Kusmartono, SH.
The Vice Dean for Human Resources, Finance, and Logistics of FEB UNS, Dr. Djuminah, M.Si., Ak., in her remarks, conveyed that FEB Academic Support Staff should always maintain a sense of unity and collaboration in conducting their job duties, working together for seamless tasks completion at FEB.
“When conducting your duty, do not get divided into groups as it will erode our comradeship. We must be able to help each other,” she stressed.
Furthermore, she added that each staff has their own strengths, which similar to units or faculties. Weaknesses and strengths must make opportunities for the staff to work better, together, in facing the challenges of a rapidly developing era.
Meanwhile, starting his remarks Iwan shared his experiences when serving in the HR department at the UNS Headquarters Office. He also invited more than 40 Academic Support Staff who attended the discussion to remain grateful.
“We must strengthen our hearts, and always be grateful that we are here more fortunate than people out there. This is important because if we do not strengthen our hearts, we will always feel like we are lacking in something. Harboring this feeling, at the time when we are assigned to do a task, which is outside our main duty, it will definitely feel heavy and we reject it,” he revealed.
Iwan also emphasized the importance of maintaining trust in work, things related to job duty shall be resolved first while maintain discipline to comply with predetermined working hours. 
Certain values and principles in helping, alleviating, and facilitating other people’s affairs needs to be instilled, thus the staff can conduct their job well and contributes positively to FEB in particular and also UNS.
“At the beginning let’s try to build synergy, build a good work ethos, build good working relationships, thus all work can be completed well too, not for person per person but for FEB,” he stated.
Iwan also advised the participants to be careful in providing services, do not make statements that hurt others. In this era, any dissatisfaction from those we serve will be very easy to go on social media, especially Twitter.
Iwan also conveyed several things that had previously been discussed with sub-coordinators at FEB, including improvements in terms of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), evaluation of Main Duties and Functions of Academic Support Staff, application of legalization in carrying out work, and the latest in data collection needed for the information services that must be contained on the PPID Website, Information and Documentation Management Officer FEB.
At the end of his direction, Iwan invited Academic Support Staff to work together to improve and build FEB, without the need to overthrow each other and condemn each other. Build a good work ethos with a sense of sympathy and empathy.
The discussion also opened an exchange with Academic Support Staff, hoping that with close relationships, existing problems can be resolved well. In the future, discussions are planned to be held regularly once a month.
One of the collaboration initiatives that is still in the discussion process is the establishment of a Fiscal Corner. The Fiscal Corner will be a space for collaboration between FEB and the Ministry of Finance.
Meanwhile, Dr. Suryanto said Indonesia as an agrarian region was also certainly affected negatively by climate change. According to the records of KLH (2004), examples of climate change are the rise of air temperature and continuous rainfall over a long period of time between 50 to 100 years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that global air temperatures have increased 0.6 degrees Celsius (1 degree Fahrenheit) since 1861.
“Just like us, if we are disturbed once, we may withstand it, the second we can withstand it, the third time we can’t withstand it anymore and will get angry. A similar concept applies to the earth, the environment, and how can we be kind to the environment, thus creating a mutual relationship between the environment and humans. Meaning that we can carry out our economic activities, while the environment also maintained to supports our lives,” he explained.
The Dean of FEB UNS, Prof. Drs. Djoko Suhardjanto, M.Com (Hons) Ph.D., Ak., in his remarks, welcomed all new students and also introduced the Deans, Head of the Undergraduate Study Programs, Coordinator Head, and Sub-Coordinator Staff.
The Dean also motivates new students to be diligent during teaching and learning activities. During academic sessions, students are required to be more independent, study alone, find their own journal articles, and find their own books with the guidance of lecturers or teaching assistants. Students must be able to manage time well so that they can graduate on time.
