Have
you ever found a problem in your place of origin? Have you ever thought about
expressing your concern about it? Or documenting it on video? Nowadays, videos
are highly liked to be studied and video-making skills are liked among young
people, especially students amid technological advances. The combination of
technological advances and revealing reality has become Stube HEMAT
Yogyakarta's strategy in the Peace and Justice Program to hold short video
competitions for students throughout Indonesia. This competition is not just
about telling events or data into an interesting video-shaped work but
encouraging students to recognize children's rights, the reality of the
problems faced by children in their respective regions.
This
short video competition starts from 6/08/2021 until two weeks for participants
to work on videos. Twenty student participants from various study programs and
various regions in Indonesia took part in this competition. This activity is
also one of the challenges for the Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta team to recruit
participants and provide assistance during the PPKM period. However, this is
not an obstacle, the team and participants continue to assist online. The
participants who took part in the competition started the competition process
by studying together with the Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta team as a companion to
understand Children's Rights, then mapped out problems related to the
implementation of children's rights in their area. From these findings, they
explored why it happened and what alternatives to overcome these problems.
Then, they designed a narrative and made it in the form of video recordings,
either in the form of reports, narratives to short films containing creative
and in-depth messages to promote children's rights in Indonesia.
At the end of the deadline, nineteen videos reveal the reality of the problems faced by children in various regions in Indonesia, including from Manggarai, Alor, Sumba, Nias, Humbang Hasundutan (North Sumatra), Gunungkidul, Sukoharjo, West Sulawesi, and East Lampung. The video making required struggles because the participants have to map the situation in their area, analyze, design scenes and record to edit videos, even they have to overcome the limited communication networks. However, they completed the video according to their capabilities.
Considering
an objective assessment, Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta involved practitioners who are
competent in their fields as juries, including Ifa Aryani (Indonesian Child
Protection Commission (KPAI) for the city of Yogyakarta), Bandel Ilyas (actor,
director, casting director), and Richard Panggabean (multimedia, recordings,
and audio-visuals). Based on the content, artistic, and appearance aspects, the
top five videos emerged, namely, 'Why should I?' by Jakson Hamba Tana from East
Sumba as first place; “Have My Rights Been Fulfilled?” by Merlince Pauline
Maure from Alor as second place; “Mama, I Want to Go to School” by Angelina
Delviani from West Manggarai as third place; “Why Am I Getting Married?” by
Thomas Yulianto from East Lampung as fourth place and "Don't Leave
Me" by Eufemia Sarina from Manggarai as fifth place.
From
the juries' response, it was revealed that they appreciated the efforts of the
participants to reveal the reality of the problems faced by children in their
hometown. However, the participants must continue to improve the quality of the
video, starting from formulating ideas, compiling narratives, taking pictures
and transitions, sound volume, using pictures that are part of the video. Young
students need not to be afraid to express themselves. Starting to sharpen
sensitivity to see reality, be creative in utilizing technological advances,
and dare to voice the call of humanity, especially children's rights amid
civilization.***
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