TRAINING STUBE-HEMAT YOGYAKARTA

Development, Public Space and Social Change

13 - 14 September 2014, Wisma Pojok Indah

Condongcatur, Yogyakarta

Development is a situation in which there is an improvement. Does the recent development bring improvements? Nowadays there are many newly birth autonomous regions starting from villages, districts to provinces. It means that both small scale and large development occur everywhere. However, have we ever thought the following effects of development? The advanced information technology facilitates people to have communication easily, to express feelings and ideas, however, the regulation as the rules of the game in communication are not understood well by many users.

Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta through training of “Development, Public Space and Social Change” tried to build understanding and efforts that can be taken by youth to face development, public space dynamics and its implications on social life. The training conducted on Saturday – Sunday, 13 – 14 September 2014 presented Ariani Narwastujati, S.Pd., SS, M.Pd. (the Director of Stube-HEMAT), Dr. Budiawan, the lecture of Culture and Media Studies of Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University and William E. Aipipidely ST, MA, the coordinator of UNDEF of SATUNAMA foundation.

 

Early session performed a mind map that helped participants to figure out the root of a problem and participants are invited to play a role in one problem. Understanding the public and private space in the public spotlight discussed in the second session, people are familiar with the structure of royal government, which has no understanding of the private space what people have was belong to the king or the ruling.

The last session conveyed a topic ‘Be Intelligent and Wise in Public Space,’ especially social media by inviting participants to improve the quality of what she/he wrote by using constructive words in expressing feelings or problems surrounding and thoughts in order to give greater impact so that the readers get inspiration, motivation and new knowledge.

At the end of the training, the participants created action plan started from themselves by increasing quality of their writing on social medias. "We will invite our friends, especially students from Sumatera to study culture in Yogyakarta and try to reduce impression that the Sumateran is stiff, ease to lose temper, less manners, as recently happened in social media," said Indah, one of the participants from Medan, North Sumatera.

 

It is not impossible to give impact if it becomes a movement, is it? Finally, please remember that a wise man accomplish his life by friendship (SAP) ***