Workshop #1“How to Get Extra Income as a Students”

Press Release

International Forestry Students’ Association Local Committee Universitas Gadjah Mada

Workshop #1

“How to Get Extra Income as a Student”

Author: Ferizta Hardika Putri

Figure 1. Poster IFSA Workshop #1 “ How to Get Extra Income as a Student”

[Indonesia, 20/11/2023] – The International Forestry Students’ Association Local Committee at Universitas Gadjah Mada (IFSA LC UGM) proudly announces that IFSA Workshop #1 “ How to Get Extra Income as a Student” the event was successfully held on May 13th, 2023. Workshop #1 was held to provide information to the students of Faculty Forestry Universitas Gadjah Mada regarding various part-time jobs that can be beneficial for students' additional income. As time goes by, competition in various aspects and fields of life, including work, is getting tighter. Many middle to upper-class companies provide a mandatory requirement for prospective applicants to have a university degree diploma. However, in times of crisis like the current one, the very expensive cost of education has resulted in a growing phenomenon, namely that many students study while working. The form of work that students most often do is part-time work. Part-time work is defined as work carried out by someone who has a specific purpose that is not related to a fixed time and is adapted to student learning activities.

Figure 2. Nilo Wijaya as the speaker explained being a part-time English tutor in Sinau Asyik.

In Workshop #1, there are various activities such as presentations from the speakers, practice in making a life plan, ice breaking, awarding, and documentation. The main session in this workshop was presentations from the speakers. The speaker in Workshop #1 “How to Get Extra Income as a Student” elaborated on their motivation for working, how they got part-time work, what kind of role play they implemented while they were students and part-time workers, what kind of work regulations they chose, as well as social support from any party that continues to motivate them in balancing activities between lectures and at work. Our speakers are Dela Bintang Wulandari a member of the Universitas Gadjah Mada Channel Creative Team, Nilo Wijaya as an English tutor at Sinau Asyik, Maria Evani Nareswari a Part-timer at Burger King, Nabilah Awalia Putri as an illustrator at Lantai Bumi, and Bintang Rhamadan Kusnandang as a Food Entrepreneur with his business namely Sate Taichan Akang. This activity is intended to broaden students' insight regarding part-time work and is expected to be able to provide solutions to students who need additional income.

Figure 3. One of the participants answered the ice-breaking question.

In this session, there will be icebreaking. At this icebreaking,we will be asked about the logo. So each participant has to guess what the logo is and what the name of the logo is. Participants will raise their hands and the MC will decide which participant has the opportunity to answer the question. The participant with the highest score will be the winner. This session was held successfully with all of the enthusiasm from the participants. The winner of this ice-breaking session is Fadli Yusuf from General Forestry 21, he was so excited to guess every logo.

Figure 4. Participant documentation when presenting the results of the life plan.

Participant Practicum Session, participants will try to make a short-term life plan for approximately the next 6 months with a duration of 15 minutes. This practice is based on material presented by the five speakers. After the life plan creation session, participant representatives voluntarily came forward to present the life plans that had been created within a period of 6 months. In this presentation, we have Muhammad Najwan Akbar who presented his life plan for building design and digital companies. He used 3 months at first to focus on the production line and the rest of the month to focus on the promotion. Here is the picture of najwan’s life plan.

Figure 5. Awarding Ice breaking Participant documentation.

Here we have a Prize Giving Session guide by the MC. There are six prizes that will be given to 1 game winner in the ice breaking session, 3 volunteers in the life plan presentation session, and 2 questioners in the question and answer session. The winner is based on the most outstanding participants. The winner of ice breaking session is Fadil Yusuf from General Forestry 21, the most outstanding QnA are Amelia Ratu Berliana from General Forestry 22 and Nadia Kirani Patria Wisesa from General Forestry 21, and The appreciation for the voluntary life plan was given to Muhammad Najwan Akbar from General Forestry 22, Saddam Putra Setiawan and Aida Maharani from General Forestry 21.

Figure 6. Group photo of all committee members, speakers, and participants.

This event closed by taking pictures with every single person in the room including speakers, organize committee, and the participants. All of them were given a good impression from the start until this event ended. I really appreciated all of the spirits and enthusiasm to make this event successful

This is the first and foremost event of the IFSA Workshop #1 HRD Project. I would like to say thank you to every single person on the HRD team for working hard, and taking your time, thoughts, and opinions. Congratulations to us so that this activity can finally be held, IFSA Workshop #1 was full of joy, love, and insight. Thank you Ms. Difa (DDD), Ms. Nisa (Logistics), Ms. Vina and Binar (events), Ms. Fiana (Consumption), Shafaa (Treasurer), Galuh (Public Relations), Una (Secretary), and also bunch of thank you to our Head of Commission Ms. Citra who guided us throughout the event preparation until the day. To the Board of Directors, thank you for always supporting and helping us. I realize that there are still many things that need to be fixed and improved and I hope this HRD Project can be helpful for all of us.