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  • Encouraging the Young Generation to be a Great Achievers in Their Field

    The Talk Show & National Seminar of “Capture the Moment for the Greatest Future”, Saturday October 12th, 2019, brought an exciting and inspiring atmosphere in UNS Auditorium. This event presents various excellent speakers such as dr. Andri Putranto, Abel Cantika, Ernest Prakasa, Aulion, and Amri Naufal. National Talk Show is a media for the young generation to meet inspiring speakers for knowledge, experience, and motivation sharing on business.

    Such event also provides a learning tool and entertainment for UNS students, and the wider community in general. Through various events like this, it is expected that student’s competency in the competitive and academic field would be improved. Moreover, it is expected to encourage students’ innovation to use their potential as an asset to achieve better economy.

  • To be an Entrepreneur in Creative Economics Era

    To be an Entrepreneur in Creative Economics Era

    The main differences between employee and entrepreneur is in term of time. For instance, employee will have to work for around 8-12 hours a day, their job is limited by time and has no rights to delegate task. Meanwhile, an entrepreneur can control their money and time. An employee earns a fixed payroll, if they do not work, they will not earn any salary, with a constraint on age. On the other hand, an entrepreneur can get greater earnings from their business with no age constraint. This matter is expressed by Endang Kurniawan, the alumni of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS, who shared about their success story on the event of Entrepreneur & Charity with Alumni “to be an Entrepreneur in Creative Economics Era”, in Saturday October 12th, 2019.

    In the front of a hundred of students who are member of the Entrepreneurial Community of FEB UNS, Endang encourage the students to be a tough entrepreneur and does not have a “block” mentality. He mentions that “block” mentality refers to restraints on one’s memory or thoughts. Having a “bad” feeling or misgiving that prevent someone to take an action. For examples having a presumption such as “what if it is rejected”, “what if they are busy”, “what if they think my product/goods is bad”, etc. Entrepreneur should focus on the advantages they have and should be able to differentiate between business and social. Should not mixed-up both aspects, thus management can be conducted orderly.

    The important point is an entrepreneur should build a customer base to gain insight on their customer, tracking individual behaviour, establish a basic individual and organizational competency, high-skilled and multi-skilled employee, as well as establish a new scheme from Customer to Customer relationship such as in cooperation and joint competence.

  • Many MSMEs do not have Sufficient Knowledge on Export Procedure

    To date, most of the Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs) in Jogjakarta has not capable to export their product directly. This is not because of there is no demand on their product or craft internationally, but because they do not have sufficient knowledge on the procedure of export. Dr. Evi Gravitiani, a faculty member of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS, mentioned this problem during the release of a Workshop on Export Procedure for Handicraft Product, in CV Ragil Craft showroom, Gamplong Village, Moyudan, Sleman, Yogyakarta, on July 2019.

    The workshop was initiated by the Sustainable Development and Green Business Research Group of FEB UNS. The event was attended by 23 participants who are crafters of woven products that made from natural fibre and knitting yarn, from Sleman and Kulonprogo. Dr. Evi, as the team leader, assisted by Dr. AM Soesilo and Dr. Erni Ummi Hasanah delivers a briefing on the export procedure as well as product quality improvement.

    Further, it was mentioned that the workshop is embodied in the community service program under the Export Product Development Program that aims to improve the quality and quantity of MSEs products, thus it can be highly competitive for domestic and foreign markets. Moreover, as part of an active effort to maintain the sustainability of local cultural heritage. The community service program is funded by a multi-year grant started on 2018 to 2019, that intended for the MSEs partner. The partners are CV Ragil Craft, which located in Gamplong Village, Moyudan, Sleman, and Q’s Craft, which located in Banggan, Tuksono, Kulon Progo. Both MSE have similar input basis such as pandanus, agel fibres, water hyacinth, coconut sticks, mending, and fragrant root.

    All the natural materials are woven with Non-Machine Weaving Tools, as well as material from nylon thread. To help optimize production, the community service team donate a machine to the MSEs. For CV Ragil Jaya Craft a modified Non-Machine Weaving Tools with a dynamo was given. This tool will assist the weaver in creating a product, thus they do not need to manually operates the machine/tools. It is expected that the machine will improve the efficiency of natural fibres woven production.

  • Dr. Hunik Inaugurated as a Professor in Human Resource Management

    The Rector of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Surakarta, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, inaugurates Dr. Hunik Sri Runing Sawitri, S.E., M.Si., as a Professor in Human Resource Management of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and Dr. dr. Yulia Lanti Retno Dewi, M. Si as a Professor in the Science of Nutrition for the Faculty of Medicine, on Tuesday, 15th October 2019.

    During the open senate congress of the Universitas Sebelas Maret in UNS Auditorium G. P. H

    Haryo Mataram, Prof. Dr. dr. Yulia Lanti Retno Dewi, M. Si delivers an inauguration speech entitled “Lack of Iodine within Ecological Perspective and Its Prevention”. The speech was the result of a research of Prof. Yulia under the Research Group of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (Gangguan Akibar Kekurangan Iodium-GAKI). In her opening speech, Prof. Yulia mentions that Iodine deficiency is a global problem and in Indonesia it is estimated that the population living in Iodine deprived area approximately 54 million and is scattered all around Indonesia.

    “The Minister of Health has decided that iodine deficiency is one of the major nutritional problem, because it meets the criteria such as many people suffer from the problem, spread-out through out Indonesia region, and has a negative impact on the quality of Indonesia citizen in a long-term,” Prof. Yulia explains.

    Meanwhile, Prof. Dr. Hunik Sri Runing Sawitri, S. E., M. Si, delivers an inauguration speech entitle “Organizational Commitment, Culture, and Employees’ Performance”, which highlight the relationship between commitment and employee’s performance. “Many assumed that an employee with a high commitment will have a high performance. However, empirical research offers different result regarding this matter,” Prof. Hunik mentions the topic at the opening of her speech. She explains that various research is conducted to examine the relationship between the two constructs. But the result shows a varied and unclear relationship between the two.

    “Therefore, when conducting research on the relationship between commitment and performance, the construct of commitment should be defined clearly beforehand, which organizational commitment is examined in the research,” Prof. Hunik explains.

    With the inauguration of Prof. Hunik and Prof. Yulia in UNS; the Rector of UNS Prof. Jamal Wiwoho expect that Prof. Hunik and Prof. Yulia can maintain and develop scientific and academic values, as well as contribute to the development of UNS.

  • Entrepreneur Talk Show

    Entrepreneur Talk Show

    The Faculty of Economics and Business Universitas Sebelas Maret (FEB UNS) Surakarta in collaboration with the Harian Bisnis Indonesia, hosted a Talk Show in Campus: Successfully Become a Young Entrepreneur in Disruptive Era. This talk show is held in the FEB UNS Hall (3rd Building), on Tuesday, 10th October 2019. The event was opened by the Rector of UNS, Prof. Dr. Jamal Wiwoho. The speakers invited for the event are the Director of Strategic Human Capital of BTN: Yossi Istanto, Owner of Regarsport: Jumariyanto, INDEF Economist: Bhima Yudhistira, and Rector Staff Expert in Academics Affairs and Business Development UNS: Dr. Sutanto S.Si. DEA.

    In his opening remarks, the Rector of UNS, Prof.Dr. Jamal Wiwoho mentions that industrial revolution 4.0 that is happening in all countries, encourage a disruption on various fields. This can give an opportunity as well as challenge for the young generation, which also known as millennial generation. The millennial generation is quite dominant in the digital era and are expected to have an important role in dealing with the industrial revolution 4.0, which related with demographic bonus for Indonesia in 2030.

    “We are aware and admit that the technological change currently happened rapidly due to disruption. The trend on technological change has shifted, thus the digital technology has led the world ecosystem and economics. Other challenges we face are related with the availability of employment that shrink due to technology advancement,” Prof. Jamal explains. He added that approximately there are 5 million people who will lose their job due to automatization. A huge change in industrial world will have a direct impact on millennial generation existence. Because even though the generation have a high entrepreneurial spirit, the execution remains weak.

    On this digital era, it is convenient to be an entrepreneur because of technology advancement. However, the success rate of millennial business is low due to their consumptive lifestyle. Therefore, a paradigm or millennial point of view should be changed, not only working in efficient and productive manner, but also to be tough in winning competition, have a great innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship. Currently there are 130 million people in productive age who can take on new opportunities to develop business in the digital era. For instance, Gojek, Tokopedia, Bukalapak, and the most current one Ruang Guru, which predicted to be a Unicorn in Indonesia.

    With the vast development of digital business, the Indonesia government is targeting the creation of 1,000 technopreneur in 2020. “For that, I and UNS should encourage the millennial generation especially the one present here and across Indonesia, to grab the opportunity and take an active role in digital industry era,” Prof. Jamal says.

    Prof. Jamal adds that UNS should empower human talents it has to face the industrial revolution 4.0 and VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complexity, Ambiguous) era. The main key is competitive and innovative human resource. “To prove that UNS capable to innovate, we currently have a start-up as research result from junior lecturer from Engineering Faculty, namely Lithium Battery and Natural Colouring Batik (Ecody), which will be the Teaching Factory of UNS.”

    Meanwhile, the Editor in Chief of Harian Bisnis Indonesia, Hery Trianto explains that this event is not only conducted in UNS, but also in other campus. “We hope that when the students are graduated, they will not only focus on finding a job. Because they can establish a new business and employment,” Hery explain.

  • 12 Teams Impress the Jury at the Final of SMBCC

    12 Teams Impress the Jury at the Final of SMBCC

    Twelve teams from 8 (eight) universities in Indonesia went to the final of Sebelas Maret Business Case Competition (SMBCC), on Friday October 11th, 2019. The teams are from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Institut Teknologi Sepuluh November (ITS), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Universitas Indoensia (UI), Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Bina Nusantara (BINUS), Universitas Udayana, and Ciputra University.

    SMBCC is a national level competition in business case, hosted by the Students Association of the Bachelor in Management Study Program (HMJM) of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS. This competition is a part of the series of activities including in Management Carnival, which aims to solve the social problem through students’ creative thinking. It is expected to encourage students’ critical thinking on a problem as well as improving their competitiveness in academic field.

    Previously, the participants who passed to the final stage followed a company visit to the Balekambang for a survey and collecting data, for their final presentation on the next day. In front of the four juries, which consist of Balekambang management, Dinas Pariwisata (Tourism Bureau) of Surakarta, and Academician from FEB UNS. The teams present their survey’s result, the problems found, as well as proposing creative ideas for the development of Balekambang.

    The juries are impressed by the presentation and creatives ideas provided by the participants for the development of Balekambang. “We gained a lot of benefits from this event, as if we were shopping for inspiration. The students’ creative ideas are excellent,” Wahyu, a staff from Tourism Bureau, says. The result of assessment will be announced on the Talk show and National Seminar on Saturday, October 12th, 2019, in UNS Auditorium. The final score consists of written paper assessment (35%), presentation (30%), and final presentation (35%).

  • Visiting FEB UNS, UNSRAT is Impressed by Archive Management

    Visiting FEB UNS, UNSRAT is Impressed by Archive Management

    The Faculty of Business and Economics Universitas Sebelas Maret (FEB UNS) welcome the Archive Management staff from Universitas Sam Ratulangi (UNSRAT) Manado, which consist of Prof.John S. Kekenusa (the Head of Archive Management) and Gleyvi G. Mamesah, SE. (Operator of Archive Management UNSRAT), on Thursday, September 10th, 2019. The visit was welcomed by the Head of Administration FEB UNS, Dra. Eny Widayati, together with the Head of UNS Archive Management.

    Prof. John S. Kekenusa, express their wish to know the Standard Operation and Procedures (SOP) of the archival unit and the management of electronic archives in UNS, because the archival unit in UNS considered as having a better archival management. On this opportunity, Nike Sri Sunarni, S.Mn, the archivist of FEB UNS explains the SOP of archive management in FEB UNS to the UNSRAT team, while inviting them to take a look on the archives stored in archival room in FEB UNS. She further explains that the archive management in FEB UNS as Unit II of UNS Archival is more optimal and professional. The archivist is responsible in the management of inactive archives. The archivist also responsible for transferring archive from work units or sub-sections in FEB, in accordance with procedure of archive transfer.

    “The received archives, later, is categorized and stored manually (for the hard file). Gradually the archives are scanned and then they were uploaded to the archival service application. The archive management in FEB UNS is online, which is the first in UNS,” she explains.

    Nike also shows the gallery of FEB UNS establishment in 1978 and the development of all 5 buildings in FEB UNS. The UNSRAT team is impressed by the archive management in FEB UNS, especially the storage of old archives in the form of textual administration books.

  • Ayya Agmulia Went to Singapore After Passing the IndonesianNEXT 2018 Competition

    Ayya Agmulia Went to Singapore After Passing the IndonesianNEXT 2018 Competition

    Ayya Agmulia Asmarani Islam, a final year student of Bachelor in Economics Study Program, the Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Sebelas Maret (FEB UNS), has succeeded in reaching the top 32nd in the IndonesianNEXT 2018 after a tight competition with approximately 17,309 contestants from 21 universities in Indonesia. The best 32nd finalists are from 8 cities: Bogor, Padang, Lampung, Bandung, Makassar, Pontianak, Semarang, and Malang, and Ayya represents the Regional 3: Semarang. For this achievement, Ayya, earns an opportunity to follow a short course in DBS Asia office and the biggest telecommunication firm in Singapore, Singtel (Singapore Telecommunication) on April 2019. While the top 10 contestants follow a similar program to Japan.

    The Indonesia Next Competition is a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) education program from PT. Telkomsel Tbk, a biggest communication provider in Indonesia. This program gives opportunity to the university students to improve their competency by following an International Certification test, in order to prepare themselves in a global competition. The trainings provided are including Communication Skill (Talk Inc), Critical Thinking, Industry Insight, Digital Content Marketing using Hubspot, Technical Design Presentation using Microsoft Office Powerpoint 2013, and Visual Design and Communication using Adobe Photoshop CS6/CC. With a theme of “Yes, I’m the Next”, the IndonesiaNEXT present various seminars and talk-shows, international certifications, communication skills and digital marketing training, and finally the bootcamp program to select the best participant in IndonesiaNEXT 2018.

    “In IndonesiaNEXT we are competing to establish a creative idea to develop a better Indoensia through Telkomsel service,” she explained to FEB UNS PR staff during the breaks after her thesis consultation. She adds that for the competition, she chooses a topic on “Telkomsel for Millenials”, she chooses the topics because she found that many users that using the MyTelkomsel application is millennials, and she feels that MyTelkomsel has a potential to be developed as a super apps.

    “Initially, I thought the program is not user-friendly for millennial, therefore I proposed to introduce a special feature that can attract millennial user to make them more engaged with MyTelkomsel application,” she explains. “I did not expect that my idea would pass the selection process, or even made me reach the top 32nd position. There are many other excellent contestants with great ideas, but I am grateful to be able to contribute to this institution prestige and proved that UNS BISA (UNS Can),” she ended the interview with a bright smile.

  • FEB UNS Establish a Student Entrepreneurship Community

    FEB UNS Establish a Student Entrepreneurship Community

    The Vice Rector of Student and Alumni Affairs Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Prof. Kuncoro Diharjo appreciate the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS, who establish a community for student entrepreneurship. Onward, along with the development of UNS as a Higher Education Institution as Legal Entity (PTNBH), the university will encourage start-up program and alumni will be a great supporting force for the program. This statement was expressed on the official announcement of the FEB UNS Students Entrepreneurship Community, Thursday, September 19th, 2019.

    “We want to bring you, students with entrepreneurial spirit, together with the successful alumni in order to establish a collaboration. We are confident that many start-ups from UNS will be established,” he explains.

    To develop students’ entrepreneurship, UNS has provided a budget to support Students’ Creativity Program in Entrepreneurship (PKMK). Prof. Kuncoro also encourage the students who currently manage a business to develop theirs through creative thinking. “Think about something different or think differently, there should be a modification, and that’s what we called creativity,” he added.

    The activity initiated by the Associate Dean of Student and Alumni Affairs of the FEB UNS, Dr. Mugi Harsono, invites around 70 students from diploma and bachelor program who currently have a business in service, culinary, and fashion. Different than the usual events, the official announcement was conducted during the evening time with a relaxed nuance. Aside from the Deanery of FEB UNS who attended the event, there are two successful alumni of FEB UNS who also attend the event they are Sih Wiryadi and Teguh Imam Santoso. The alumni tell their success story and also provide a special opportunity at the end of the event for the students to consult on their business.

    Meanwhile, L. Setyo Budi, S.IP, the Head of Alumni and Students Affairs Sub-Division of the FEB UNS, express that the faculty hope that alumni can support the academic activities in the faculty through motivation and training. Other than that, alumni can also give donation for students who are in needs.

  • The Master in Management Study Program Prepares an International Curriculum

    The Master in Management Study Program Prepares an International Curriculum

    The Vice Rector of General and Financial Affairs Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS), Dr. Bandi, acknowledge the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNS that provides an inspiration to other study programs in UNS, to obtain international accreditation. The Study Program in Master of Management FEB UNS become the first study program that earn an international accreditation from ABEST21, while the Bachelor of Management and Bachelor of Economics is certified by AUN-QA. The Faculty itself has become the member of AACSB, and followed by the Bachelor in Accounting Study Program that become the member of AAPBS and EFMD-EPAS. For its international recognition, FEB UNS develop a collaboration with international universities and institutions such as Purdue University USA, University of Limoges France, University of Twente Netherlands, University of Portsmouth UK, Science Po Toulouse France, and Curtin University Australia.

    “Currently we aim to be a world-class university, and FEB UNS has started through several international collaboration and certification. Moreover, one of the Faculty members, Dr. Irwan Trinugroho has succeeded to be an assessor for AUN-QA. This achievement is the pride of UNS. If there is an addition for internationalization program, the Rector of UNS will put a full attention on it, and I will support the budget implementation,” Dr. Bandi explains during his opening remark on Curriculum Workshop hosted by the Master in Management Study Program, September 18th, 2019.

    Retno Tanding Suryandari, PhD, the Head of Study Program explained about the preparation of an international level curriculum for the program. One of the Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of the UNS is internationalization program that includes Faculty member involvement in various international level activities such as research collaboration, international conference, and mobility lecturer.

    “Improvement on the number of international students is also important, currently the Master in Management Program have one international student who is in their third semester. Another international student from Turkey is already graduated. Meanwhile, we also get exchange students from Malaysia and Turkey,” she explains. The study program will start to prepare to develop international programs that can be offered to the international student who want to enrolled in MM FEB UNS, such as student exchange, credit transfer, double degree program, as well as full degree program.

    Further, she explains the challenges for the development of an international curriculum is the availability of lecturer to teach in English, the tuition fee that will be offered to international student and national students is not yet established, and unsystematic promotion to the target market. As for the opportunities, the study program is accredited by ABEST21, which can attract international students; various active MoU with partner universities both from European and Asian universities, that needs further follow-up action; as well as opportunity to enhance lecturer’s competence in English comprehension from the US Embassy.

    Short course non-credit program is in demand by the international universities from Europe, Australia, and USA. Through international exchange program those universities can sent their student to get a short course in other countries.

    At the end of the workshop session, Dr. Retno Tanding Suryandari hopes that she can summarizes all suggestions given by the participants for the development of the international curriculum in MM FEB UNS.