by manajemenfeb | Jun 13, 2025 | News
Kabar baik bagi Bapak/Ibu Dosen di lingkungan perguruan tinggi yang berada di bawah koordinasi Kementerian Pendidikan Tinggi, Sains, dan Teknologi (Kemdiktisaintek)!
Untuk mendukung peningkatan kualifikasi akademik dan pengembangan karier, Kementerian melalui Pusat Pembiayaan dan Asesmen Pendidikan Tinggi kembali membuka Beasiswa Program Doktor untuk Dosen Indonesia (Beasiswa PDDI) tahun 2025.
Program ini memberikan kesempatan bagi para dosen untuk melanjutkan studi doktoral di perguruan tinggi terbaik dalam negeri. Bahkan, tersedia pula skema joint degree atau double degree dengan perguruan tinggi luar negeri.
Apa saja manfaatnya?
1. Biaya pendidikan jenjang doktoral
2. Kesempatan kuliah di kampus ternama dalam atau luar negeri
3. Mendukung karier dan peningkatan kompetensi dosen
Tertarik mendaftar?
Selengkapnya mengenai syarat, ketentuan, serta panduan pendaftaran bisa diakses melalui: https://beasiswa.kemdikbud.go.id/beranda/
Unduh juga buku panduan resmi Beasiswa PDDI 2025 pada tautan berikut: Buku Panduan PDDI 2025 (unduh)
Mari manfaatkan kesempatan ini untuk terus belajar dan berkembang demi pendidikan Indonesia yang lebih baik!
(Manajemen Undip)
by manajemenfeb | Jun 13, 2025 | News
SUMMER COURSE 2025 – EBICCS
Economics and Business International Camp and Courses for Sustainability
📌 Theme: “Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Business Ecosystem to Transforming Societies”
Looking to deepen your understanding of global sustainability and business collaboration?
Join EBICCS 2025, international summer course hosted by Universitas Diponegoro, featuring expert speakers from across the world.
💡 What you’ll gain:
✔ Global perspectives on sustainable business ecosystems
✔ Transferable academic credit
✔ E-certificate & full access to session materials
✔ International networking opportunities
✔ 100% FREE – no fees at all!
🗓 Course Date: June 10–26, 2025
📝 REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN
📍Via ZOOM
🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/EBICCS2025Reg
📘 Guidebook: https://bit.ly/EBICCS2025Guidebook
🌐 More info: https://feb.undip.ac.id/id/summer-course-program-2025/
🚀 Don’t miss this chance to learn, connect, and grow globally—from anywhere in the world!
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by manajemenfeb | May 29, 2025 | News
Congratulations to prospective new students of Diponegoro University for the 2025/2026 Academic Year who have been accepted through the National Selection Based on Tests (SNBT) pathway.
Faculty of Economics and Business Diponegoro University congratulates all prospective new students who have passed the National Selection Based on Tests (SNBT) for the 2025/2026 Academic Year. This success is the first step to starting an academic journey at one of the best universities in Indonesia.
As part of the new student admission process, UNDIP has announced important stages that must be followed by all prospective students, namely re-registration and administrative verification. These stages are mandatory and determine the official status as a Diponegoro University student.
For this reason, we urge all prospective new students through the SNBT pathway to immediately access and understand the official announcement that has been issued by the UNDIP New Student Admissions Committee.
Complete information regarding the schedule, re-registration provisions, and requirements that must be met can be accessed via the following link:
🔗 [SNBT Re-Registration for Academic Year 2025/2026 – UNDIP Official Website]
(https://pmb.undip.ac.id/berita/registrasi-ulang-snbt-tahun-akademik-2025-2026/)
📄Download the Official Announcement Document PDF (https://pmb.undip.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Pengumuman-Verifikasi-SNBT-TA.-2025-2026.pdf)
Prospective new students are expected to read carefully and prepare all required documents in accordance with the provisions listed.
For further information or if you have any questions, please contact the contact person available on the official UNDIP New Student Admissions page or the Contact Person for the Faculty of Economics and Business, Diponegoro University.
Congratulations on joining and good luck in pursuing higher education at Diponegoro University.
Faculty of Economics and Business
Diponegoro University
by manajemenfeb | May 5, 2025 | News
The U.S.–China Trade War and the Resilience of a Nation: Lessons from Russia for Indonesia. The escalating U.S.–China trade war has created waves of global economic uncertainty. As an open economy, Indonesia cannot fully avoid its impact: from commodity price fluctuations and supply chain disruptions to pressure on the trade balance. However, amid this turbulence, Indonesia can learn from countries that have proven resilient in the face of external economic pressures—one of them being Russia. This writing is not a political statement or position, but a personal perspective shaped by the author’s firsthand experience witnessing Russia’s condition during its economic isolation by Western countries.
Before delving deeper into Russia, let us recall that since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has been bombarded with economic sanctions from the U.S. and its allies—ranging from trade embargoes and asset freezes on oligarchs to travel bans on officials. But for Russia, this is nothing new. Their long history as a nation that has endured war, revolution, and Stalin-era Cold War embargoes has taught them one thing: survival under pressure is part of their national DNA.
In 2014–2015, shelves of French cheese and Italian wine suddenly vanished from Russian supermarkets. European luxury goods disappeared. In their place came cheese from Siberia and milk from local farms. The Russian government launched import substitution policies, replacing foreign goods with domestic products. Farmers and small businesses rose to the challenge. “Rossiysky” cheese replaced Parmesan, and vodka remained a national staple. On February 24, 2022, a day after Defender of the Fatherland Day—Russia’s day of honoring its heroes—the invasion of Ukraine began. The economic sanctions that followed were harsher than ever: Russia’s central bank was frozen, SWIFT access cut off, and global companies like McDonald’s, KFC, and IKEA left the country. The ruble initially plummeted, but Russia’s economic team responded swiftly. They pegged the ruble to gold and gas, forcing Europe to pay for gas in rubles. Russia turned the West’s sanctions into a boomerang: energy prices soared while Europe scrambled to find alternatives to Russian gas.
At the grassroots level, the Russian people faced these hardships with a characteristic attitude: “We’re used to suffering.” The older generation who lived through the Soviet era simply shrugged: “We used to queue for hours just for a piece of bread—this is nothing.” Tech-savvy youth turned to VPNs to access blocked platforms like Netflix or bought iPhones through the “grey market” in Kazakhstan. Even in isolation, creativity bloomed: local fast-food chains like “Vkusno i Tochka” replaced McDonald’s. The menu was similar, though with sauces that tasted “more Slavic.”
One thing the West overlooked: Russia is no ordinary country. It has vast natural resources—from Arctic gas to Siberian wheat—that make it difficult to truly isolate. Gazprom, the state energy giant, became both shield and weapon. Meanwhile, China and India, who did not join in on the sanctions, became new trading partners. Russia sold oil to Asia at a discount, but in large volumes that continued to fill state coffers.
Rather than surrender, Russia chose to dance to its own rhythm. It turned embargoes into a stage for proving self-sufficiency. In agriculture, which once relied heavily on imported French cheese and Polish apples, vast wheat fields emerged. Siberian farmers, with resolve as hard as Baikal ice, helped make Russia the world’s largest wheat exporter. Factories in the Urals and Siberia were pushed to produce everything from tractors to smartphones—goods that were once imported from Europe. The Russian economy didn’t collapse. On the contrary, the nation demonstrated impressive resilience. Oil and gas pipelines no longer flowed solely to Europe, but also followed the New Silk Road toward China. Oil transactions in yuan and rubles replaced those in U.S. dollars. In St. Petersburg, Indian spice traders and Arab oil entrepreneurs are now a common sight in a port once dominated by European ships.
Back home in the archipelago—where tropical rains water rice fields and forests—Russia’s resilience is not merely a tale of survival, but a lesson with real, present-day relevance. If Russia has wheat and gas, Indonesia possesses equally rich resources—from nickel buried deep in Sulawesi’s earth to palm oil blanketing Sumatra in green. Yet true economic resilience doesn’t lie in what we have, but in our ability to transform resources into high-value products. Indonesia has long been trapped in a pattern of the “fisherman selling raw fish,” exporting raw materials without value-added processing. Yet value is born not from selling raw nickel or crude palm oil, but from refining them into lithium batteries, cosmetic products, biodiesel, or other finished goods. Through local processing, Indonesia can not only build economic independence, but also create technology-based jobs, increase state revenue through taxes and foreign exchange, and reduce dependency on volatile global commodity prices. Without strategic action, we remain mere spectators in the global marketplace, while others reap the profits from our natural bounty.
Moreover, amid the U.S.–China trade conflict that fuels global protectionism, Indonesia cannot afford to be a passive observer or rely on shrinking traditional markets. While tariff wars surely affect exports and economic stability, the long-term solution is not to lament broken ties but to build a new game plan—targeting untapped, non-traditional markets. In Dubai, Indonesian entrepreneurs not only sell halal products but use halal certification as a “passport” to penetrate Middle Eastern and North African markets—regions with high demand and little competition. In South Africa, Acehnese coffee and Yogyakarta batik are no longer cheap commodities but stylish lifestyle brands competing with global labels. Meanwhile in Brazil, Indonesia’s coffee diplomacy is designed not just for exports, but to forge alliances with local producers and build alternative trade blocs in Latin America. This approach is not mere diversification, but a geopolitical strategy transforming Indonesia from a trade war victim into an architect of new economic pathways. Though tremors from the U.S. and China are inevitable, focusing on these “underdog” markets reduces dependency and creates opportunities to become a price maker—not a price taker. Rather than patching torn fishing nets, it is better to weave stronger, wider nets in uncharted seas—just as Russia redirected its pipelines from Europe to China.
Trade wars are like tropical storms: they tear through the curtain of dependence but also open land for growing independence. Just as Russia was forced to innovate by sanctions, Indonesia must realize that dependence on Western payment systems like SWIFT—vulnerable to political blockade—is a ticking time bomb. Amid threats of global economic fragmentation, Bank Indonesia has taken more than whispered steps. The Local Currency Settlement (LCS) scheme with Malaysia using rupiah and ringgit is a tangible example of cutting the U.S. dollar’s dominance. At the grassroots level, QRIS (Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard) is more than a digital payment tool—it is financial sovereignty infrastructure paving a domestic and regional “toll road” for transactions without foreign intervention. If SWIFT is ever hijacked by geopolitics, Indonesia already has a shield: an independent payment network that reduces transaction freeze risks and ensures smooth trade with partners like the UAE and Thailand. This is not merely a technical fix—it is an economic weapon that gives Indonesia two advantages: first, freedom from foreign currency pressure; second, greater bargaining power globally, no longer trapped in the “proxy war” between the U.S. and China. With a sovereign payment system, the trade war storm is no longer a threat—but a moment to build a resilient, sovereign financial ecosystem.
Still, this dance is not always graceful. Protecting local industries can cause prices to soar, while finding new trade partners is like forging trails in a jungle—it takes years, tough negotiations, and bold risk-taking. For instance, when Europe cut palm oil imports, Indonesia had to seek new markets in Africa or the Middle East. The process is not instant—trials, adaptation, and occasional failures are part of finding the right formula. This is where local wisdom plays a role. Mutual cooperation between the government, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and MSMEs can become a secret weapon. SOEs like Pertamina and PLN could become Indonesia’s own version of Gazprom, while MSMEs are the guerrilla forces that fill market gaps.
Russia and Indonesia may never be alike. Moscow dances on snow with the firm steps of a soldier, while Jakarta sways in tropical rain with grace. But both share the same mantra: self-reliance. Indonesia need not become a “Tropical Russia”—we have our own philosophy: “Where the earth is stepped on, there the sky is upheld.” Nickel and palm oil are our “earth”; downstream processing and diplomacy are how we uphold the “sky” of economic sovereignty. Just as Russia found strength in adversity, Indonesia too can become an unexpected dancer in the trade war stage—agile, flexible, and ready to turn storms into blessings. One final lesson from Moscow? As the Russian proverb goes: “В тихом омуте черти водятся” (In a quiet whirlpool, demons live). Indonesia must remain vigilant, yet quick to seize opportunities amid global conflict.
Irma Tsuraya Choirinnida
