Singaraja- The Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the Ganesha University of Education (Undiksha) hosted the Communication Forum for the Indonesian Social Sciences Education Graduate Association (HISPISI), Monday (9/11/2020). This event was attended by 12 universities, including Jakarta State University, Semarang State University, Makassar State University, Yogyakarta State University, Gorontalo State University, Manado State University, Malang State University, Padang State University, Ganesha University of Education, Medan State University, Indonesian Education University, and Surabaya State University.
In addition to this main agenda, this event was also coupled with a National Student Scientific Writing Contest (LKTI), and on November 10, coinciding with Hero’s Day, “The 2nd International Conference on Law, Social Sciences and Education (ICLSSE) with the theme “Entering The New Normal Society”.
Chairman of the Committee, Dr. Dewa Gede Sudika Mangku, S.H., LL.M, revealed that the holding of this forum was intended to align steps between higher education institutions, as well as to make it easier in terms of improving the quality of educators throughout Indonesia by creating scholarly communication between the same institutions. “We hope that through communication in this forum, there will be ideas to improve the quality of education, especially in the field of social sciences,” he said.
Dean of FHIS Undiksha, Prof. Dr. Sukadi, M.Pd., M.Ed., hope that this forum can always cooperate in facing global challenges for better education. Involve all stakeholders in the faculty, this forum will be divided into several levels with groupings for each existing position. “This focus will facilitate the collaboration process because at each level it is predicted to have different problems with different contexts. This grouping is expected to give each other a mutual effect and focus on abilities problem solving on the obstacles that must be faced in the rainbow age of knowledge and skills at every level,” he said.
Chairman of HISPISI, Prof. Dr. Komarudi, M.Si in his remarks at the same time opening the event conveyed the main issues to the actors and managers of higher education institutions in Indonesia. He encouraged the main performance of tertiary institutions to accommodate various policies related to Free Learning and Independent Campus, which included opening new study programs, higher education accreditation systems, higher education institutions with legal entities, and the right to study for three-semester students outside the study program. “This is our shared responsibility,” he said.
In order to make the Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka policies successful, according to him, it is necessary to support stronger collaboration between universities in this forum. On this occasion the importance of the eight Main Performance Indicators (IKU) of Higher Education was emphasized, namely university graduates, the number of students who gain experience off-campus, the activities of lecturers working on projects outside the campus, the number of practitioners from outside the campus who teach on-campus, the results of applied research from lecturers on campus, the number of study programs or study programs that are currently working with world-class partners, the number of courses that in the last evaluation were project-based or participation-based in class, as well as the number of study programs with international standards. (rls)
