According to the Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs report, Prof. Ahmad Yunus, UNS as a Pancasila Fortress Campus upholds the noble values of the nation’s culture. “Therefore, today, UNS will be declared as an anti-violence campus. Later, this declaration will be submitted and read by student representatives,” said Prof. Yunus.

Meanwhile, the Rector of UNS, Prof. Jamal Wiwoho, is highly supportive of this activity. This support is encouraged by the fact that a campus is a place full of scientific values, honesty, morality, and humanity. “The UNS academic community member continues to uphold its commitment to fight against both physical and verbal violence. Moreover, this effort is initiated by students who will later become future leaders. In general, campus violence, which leads to fatalities, can no longer be considered as an ordinary incident. This is an extraordinary incident,” said Prof. Jamal.

Additionally, Prof. Jamal is also concerned about the departure of Gilang Endi Saputra, a student of the Diploma in Health and Company Hygiene and Work Safety (K3) Study Program, Vocational School (SV) UNS. “We express our deepest condolences. May the departed be accepted by Allah, and his family will be given fortitude,” he added.

The Anti-Violence Declaration was delivered and read by Maulidina Zahra Nabila, a student from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) UNS. Then, after being read out, this declaration was signed by four representatives from student organizations, lecturers, academic support staff, and university (UNS) representatives. The student organizations were represented by Zakky Musthofa Zuhad; UNS lecturers were represented by dr. Paramasari Dirgahaju, Ph.D., academic support staff were represented by Wuji Anggraini, M.Pd.; and the UNS leader was represented by Dr. Sutanto, DEA. Humas UNS

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The UNS Vice-Rector for Academic and Student Affairs, Prof. Ahmad Yunus, in front of the students, reiterated that UNS does not tolerate violence in the campus environment. “Once again, I reiterate that UNS does not tolerate any form of campus violence, whether perpetrated by education support staff, lecturers, students, and Student Organizations,” explained Prof. Yunus.

For this reason, UNS entirely hand over the inquiries and investigations process to the Police. “We leave everything to the Police. Until now, UNS has also not received the results of the late Gilang Endi Saputra’s autopsy,” added Prof. Yunus.

In this case, UNS has also formed an Evaluation Team for the Korps Mahasiswa Siaga Batalyon 905 UNS. “The Evaluation Team for the Korps Mahasiswa Siaga Batalyon 905 UNS is reviewing various sources to obtain data related to this incident,” said Prof. Yunus.

Meanwhile, the Korps Mahasiswa Siaga Batalyon 905 UNS Evaluation Team Leader, Dr. Sunny Ummul Firdaus, said that currently, the team is working to obtain data to uphold justice. “We work based on data, not on guesswork and assumptions. UNS continues to support the Police investigation process for this incident by coordinating and fully cooperating in terms of providing information and facilitating the smooth inspection process conducted by the Police to students and lecturers or education staff related to this incident. UNS fully trusts the professionalism of the Police in the ongoing investigation process and really hopes for the disclosure of the real facts; thus, the truth and justice will be truly upheld,” said Dr. Sunny. Humas UNS

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The Vice-Rector emphasized that the digitalization trend amid the Covid-19 pandemic is unavoidable development for the community because people will seek a quick, practical, and efficient way of life. Therefore digitalization will become a need, and with the support from modern technology, it will fasten the globalization process. This observation was shared by Prof. Ahmad Yunus as a speaker in the “Local Wisdom Value Existence in the Digital Transformation Process” webinar broadcasted through the MASTEL TV YouTube on Wednesday (6/10/2021).

“Information Technology has become one of the vital instruments for people to achieve their life objectives. Thus, affecting their actions and lifestyle,” he stated.

Prof. Ahmad Yunus stated that even though the digitalization trend is unavoidable, there are several concerns about the possibility of disturbing local wisdom and national unity. For example, the changes in perspectives, culture, traditions, and lifestyles of millennial society, cyberbullying, hate speech, hoaxes, and the spread of radicalism. These concerns could pose a serious threat if the community was not equipped with knowledge on digital literacy. He added that the concerns over digitalization have a negative impact on Indonesia, according to the report published by IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking 2020.

IMD World collected data on the country’s competitiveness power regarding the acceleration of digital transformation from 63 countries worldwide. The result of this survey placed Indonesia at 56th rank or on the bottom 10, indicating that Indonesia’s competitiveness index is still low. “This could turn into a threat; Indonesia will only act as a market and lose the opportunity to generate benefits due to the low digital technology,” Prof. Ahmad Yunus stated.

Maintaining the Local Wisdom

On the occasion, Prof. Ahmad Yunus also mentioned that the government needs to prepare a strategy to improve local wisdom immunity in facing the digitalization trend by taking the positive benefits of information technology advancement to develop national potential based on the local wisdom. He also reminded that local wisdom impact needs to be maintained in facing the digitalization trend.

Prof. Yunus explained that in the modern era, the key to master development is in a country’s capability in managing information technology. He does not want Indonesia to be controlled by superpower countries and demanded the Indonesian government to be watchful over the increasing cyber-attack.

“Digitalization needs to be treated with wisdom as positive results of modernization that push the community into advancement. Refusing globalization is not wise because it will hamper the development of science and technology,” he stated. Humas UNS

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