2021 FISIP Mengabdi Committee

Semarang, October 30, 2021 – FISIP Mengabdi was the top program of the FISIP for the Nation (FUN) program. It was held annually by the Community Service Department of the FISIP UNDIP Student Executive Board. This work program was a place for FISIP UNDIP students to get the experience and opportunity to serve the local community. This year, FISIP Mengabdi was carried out with the theme “Small Step Towards Big Changes,” involving several speakers who were competent in their fields.

The 2020 FISIP Mengabdi had been cancelled due to the pandemic COVID-19. In the pandemic situation, FISIP Mengabdi encountered various obstacles where the Live In concept could not be implemented in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Therefore, the 2021 FISIP Mengabdi Committee racked their brains to find a way where FISIP students could still feel the atmosphere of the community service activity and give the benefit to the local community. However, the 2021 FISIP Mengabdi led by Danis Widyadana succeeded to hold the event hybrid through the Microsoft Teams platform with several modifications on the events.

The second day of the FISIP Mengabdi event through Microsoft Teams

The event was held on October 23, 24, and 30, 2021 and was followed by 23 participants. Even though they did not directly contribute to the community, the participants still got beneficial knowledge from the 2021 FISIP Mengabdi program. The series of the events consisted of a talk show webinar on community service and preparation of community service programs that were assessed directly by judges who were experts in their fields. The talk show presented outstanding speakers, namely Diva Sinar Rembulan as the head of the Community Service Division of 2019 FISIP Undip Student Executive Board and Hafizh Prihindrasto as the coordinator of the Environment and Society Division of 2020 FISIP Undip Student Executive Board. There were also Arfa Bahrul Ulum as the Head of the Community Service Division of 2020 FISIP Undip Student Executive Board, Aditya Al Ansori as the Head of the Social Community Division of 2021 FPP Undip Student Executive Board, and Yuan Erlando who was the 2020/2021 National Coordinator of the Social Community National Forum Indonesian Student Executive Board as a guest speaker.

On October 23, 2021, the event was started at 08.00 GMT+7 with several presentations by speakers who focused their discussion on community service. In the first discussion presented by Diva Sinar Rembulan, participants learnt about the basics of community service and how to explore the village problems and potential. Besides, she also explained the condition of the FISIP Undip’s partner village namely Ngadikerso Village. The next discussion was presented by Hafizh Prihindrasto who talked about how village empowerment programs were prepared. Four main aspects needed to be considered, namely education, environment, empowerment, and technology.

On the second day which was held hybrid, the event was started at 09.00 GMT+7 with the committee carried it out online and the participants joined it offline. The participants had gotten the knowledge on the basics of community service on the first day, so on the second day, they applied the knowledge they got by doing interviews with the native of the Ngadikerso Village. The interviewees were Mr Wid who focused on the environment, Mrs Prini who discussed Education, Mrs Lilik who focused on Empowerment, and Mr Chris who focused on Technology. Participants carried out the interviews according to the groups that had been set through breakout room and they were given the freedom to ask anything to the interviewees.

The interview session with the Interviewees was held Hybrid

On October 30, 2021, the event started at 08.00 GMT+7. On the previous occasion, participants had received briefings and opportunities to put their knowledge into practice. On the last day, participants were allowed to present the programs they had prepared. The presentations of the programs prepared by the participants were assessed by competent judges who were experts in the community service sphere. The judges were Arfa Bahrul Ulum, Aditya Al Ansori, and Yuan Erlando. At the end of the event, there was an announcement of the best participant in the 2021 FISIP Mengabdi series of events.

“Through this program, participants were not only triggered to be sensitive on the existing social problems but also to be trained how to prepare a structured and tactical community service programs through systematics of the community service program master plan. In the reality, social problems are complex matters. Thus, structured planning is needed to solve the problems of a community ‘servant’,” explained Yuan Erlando as one of the judges in his last statement. Through this program, Undip FISIP students were expected to be able to actively and tactically contribute to serving the community. (Nanda Athalla & Gracelline Christiano, Communication and Information Bureau of 2021 Undip FISIP Student Executive Board)