Category Archives: Opinion

The Culture of Regional Elections in the Pandemic Era

The Chairman of the General Elections Commission (Komisi Pemilihan Umum/KPU) of the Republic of Indonesia, Arief Budiman, has stated that the Regional Elections (Pilkada) scheduled for 9 December 2020 will proceed with direct in-person voting. This is despite the KPU having also considered alternative voting options through online systems. In line with the experiences observed […]

Illiteracy and the Serious Violation of Educational Rights

Can we still call ourselves a society rooted in community and popular welfare when we’re more preoccupied with ourselves, our parties, our cronies, or narrow exclusive interests, even as children across the country remain trapped in pockets of ignorance, illiteracy chief among them? Do we still deserve to be labeled a Pancasila-based society when millions […]

Khofifah and East Java’s New Direction

Tittle Khofifah Indar Parawansa; Leaders of Change Author M. Mas’ud Said Publisher Airlangga University Press Year 2020 Total page 129 pages By reading the title of the book, we can already tell that it’s a biography. However, it’s not like most biographies. This book doesn’t recount the heartwarming stories of a famous figure’s childhood. Written […]

Online Learning to the Next Normal

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), in his address at the opening of the Indonesian Rector Forum Conference on Saturday (4/7), noted that online learning which had previously been adopted at an extremely slow pace has now advanced with remarkable speed. Online lectures have become the new normal, and are now poised to become the next normal, […]

Achieving A Accreditation, Unisma’s postgraduate study program is a great choice

Postgraduate program at Universitas Islam Malang (Unisma) is the right choice for higher education. In addition to the six reasons discussed in the previous article, there are several other advantages offered by this university, whose motto is “Dari NU), untuk Indonesia, dan Peradaban Dunia” (From Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), for Indonesia, and World Civilization) One of […]