ICTESS 3

Good 24 Time Zone! Greetings readers around the world, how are you? Hope you all doing well, feeling happy, and healthy. In this post, I’m going to do a review of The 3^rd International Conference on Technology, Education, and Social Science Seminar or ICTESS 3 Seminar for short. The seminar was held on the 10^th of December 2020 via Zoom at 09:00 am-12:30 pm for session one and 01:00 pm-02:30 pm for session two. This seminar was hosted by the Slamet Riyadi University, Surakarta. The theme of the seminar is Global Security and Global Cooperation in a Changing World with a few topics that are discussed, which are Global Food Security, Global Security and Sustainable Agriculture, Global Economic Cooperation, Global Security in the Digital Age, and Law Enforcement in Changing World. The seminar was attended by one keynote speaker and five speakers, originally there was going to be seven speakers, but two of the speakers couldn’t make it.

Keynote speaker H.E. Ambassador Y. Kristiarto S. Legowo was the first one to open the discussion. Mr. Legowo is the Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to the Commonwealth of Australia. The topics that Mr. Legowo talks about are consisting how the pandemic is changing everything that happens in the world, including how diplomacy works, he also talks about great power competitions in politics, security, and economics, and non-traditional security challenges, such as religion, terrorisms, violence, crimes, warfare, et cetera. He also talks about how there are so many differences in future competition as well as the international environment during the cold war and now. Today’s competitive fields are nearly equal, exports imports in the world are increased significantly, and also the countries in the world are contributed towards peace and stability. He also mentioned that in the last few years there are many developments between Indonesia and Australia partnership, it can be seen from The Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) that has been signed by Jokowi and Prime Minister Scott Morrison in February 2020. Mr. Legowo hoped that in the future Indonesia could keep contributing more bilaterally or even regionally, to help and worked with other countries.

After Mr. Legowo, the first speaker to present their material are Prof. Ts. Dr. Burhanuddin from the Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. Mr. Burhanuddin started his presentation by talking about Covid-19. From how Covid-19 started to its symptoms and amount of cases. He then talks about the impact of Covid-19 on business and economy, which are :

1.      The business community is badly infected in the global economy under the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic

2.      Maybank Group estimated that the Malaysian economy may shrink by 3.3%

3.      Malaysia Employers Federation estimated that the number of unemployed persons may reach up to 2 million in 2020 with a staggering unemployment rate of 13%

4.      Financial statements which present a true, fair, and timely picture of the business is vital to assist the company to appreciate their financial condition

5.      Companies need to identify problem impacting their financial statement areas and try to think of countermeasures to address the threats to their survival 

6.      Then, they can derive strategies to overcome the problem

7.      Next, relevant tools should be deployed to give them chance fighting the pandemic

8.      There are various tools and methods available, includes but not limited to Covid-19 difficult time

The company and business strategy in facing pandemic Covid-19 are :

1.      Form call centers and emergency response team immediately

2.      Review staff current locations and their traveling records

3.      Revisit crisis and continuity plans timely

4.      Evaluate the supply chain management

5.      Identify potential points of failures

6.      Get the right communication right

7.      Use scenario analysis

8.      Do not lose sight of other risks

9.      Conduct research to study how to do things differently

10.  Discover related tools and technology

The conclusion is the response window for risk in business is measured in days, while recovery is measured in years. Those companies that are well-prepared and ready for changes will always recover quickly from any disaster.

The second speaker is Prof. Takuya Sugahara, Ph.D. from Ehime University Japan. Mr. Sugahara talks about the evaluation of the healthy function of spices by global cooperation between Indonesia and Japan. He talks about how spices and herbs have powerful health benefits and the use of them has been incredibly important throughout history. Many spices were celebrated for their medicinal properties, well before culinary use. Modern science has now shown that many of them do indeed carry remarkable health benefits. At the presentation, Mr. Sugahara talks about the spice cumin, which has anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-bacterial benefits. He also talks about the collaboration of Japan with Indonesia, specifically the collaboration of Ehime University with Gadjah Mada University, University of Papua, Jember University, and Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences. They did a collaboration on immunostimulation for anti-allergy, anti-inflammation, anti-obesity, et cetera. Ehime University and Gadjah Mada University, do a collaborative development of functional food. They evaluate the health function of spices and the mode of action. In developing the functional foods the both use the same evidence. In conclusion, Japan is making food that has health benefits from using herbs, just like in Indonesia there is jamu.

The third speaker Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chin. Min Lin from the National Taichung Institute of Technology, Taiwan, talks about Student’s Internship Experiences. The Ministry of Education encourages domestic colleges and universities to send outstanding students to study abroad or foreign professional internship subsidies, with the purpose of fully expand the participation of young domestic students in international exchanges and cooperation activities. The outcome of it is the students will have a better understanding of the lifestyle and background of each country’s culture, which will help deepen the relationship and cooperation with each country in the future. The conclusion is, after completing the internship, students had a positive attitude towards the internship experience and valued the experience very much. Whether it was about learning interpersonal communication skills or professional knowledge, the internship had a great impact on the student’s learning.

The fourth speak is Dr. Shielilo Amihan from the University of Perpetual Help, Philippines. He talks about accessible, relevant, and sustainable education. Mr. Amihan explains the vulnerable society during pandemic, resilience in education. Education-wise the impact of the pandemic is on students, parents, and faculty. The crime rate still increased (approximately 5%) despite quarantine measures, other than that mental health cases reported have also risen. On technology and communication, it caused ethical concern and miscommunication, also social media give of false information and negative vibe. He also talks about the good of multicultural education, which are more classroom activites for students to interact with students from other groups. Include the issue of stereotyping.

The last speaker is from the Slamet Riyadi University itself, Dr. Sri Handayani Marwan. Ms. Handayani talks about how education is the key to the continuity of the economy in the 21^st century. She explains that education is a process where a person obtains knowledge, skill, habits, value, or attitudes. There are four pillars of education and skill n the 21^st century which are, know, do, live together, and be. There are  4Cs skills in the 21^st century that we must have which are, critical thinking as in finding a solution to a problem, creativity as in thinking outside the box, collaboration as in working with others, and communication as in talking to others effectively.  The conclusion is, integrating 4Cs skills in English language teaching seminar class was successfully conducted by giving complex project work involving critical thinking, collaboration, goal-setting, meaningful communication, and the development of a challenging product, by that we encourage the learners to have 4Cs skills.

After the explanations and QnA session, the seminar for the students ended at about 12.30 pm. For the second session, it is only for the ones that are invited in zoom break out rooms to explore more.  With that being said, from the seminar, I get to learn about how covid-19 changes almost everything that happens all around the world, how company and businesses have their strategy for facing Covid-19, the benefits of spices and herbs, the benefits of doing an internship in another country, multicultural education, 4Cs skills, and also the collaborations that Indonesia does with other countries. That’s all for my review, a big thank you to all my readers. May you all have a joyful life, God bless you all.

Sincerely, S/N