Not only the students, but UGM also has creative alumni who keep producing innovations. This time, UGM alumni have created an e-learning platform called LatihID released last August 2020. It is an education platform aimed to increase the MSME (Micro, Small & Medium Enterprise) in Indonesia. Currently, it has gained a lot of engagement from its users.
“Although it’s a new platform, this can further assist MSME in Indonesia. There have been 10.500 users in less than two years,” said Yulisyah Putri Daulay.
Two alumni from the UGM Faculty of Engineering, Yulisyah and Muhammad Nabil Satria Faradis, initiated this platform during the pandemic last year. It starts from their conclusion concerning MSME’s great potentials in all aspects of life, but some of these potentials are unsustainable and lack management.
Some problems that generally occur within MSME are product competition, marketing strategies, business license certification, and unanticipated problems, for instance, a pandemic.
“MSME stakeholders still need more lessons in starting their productiveness to prevent these problems from happening,” she said.
To protect the MSME sustainability during a pandemic, the alumni also engage other UGM alumni in designing this app (LatihID). The team includes Rischa Agustina, Dyah Ayu Permatasari, Santika Wibowo, Muhammad Ersan Ramadhan and Aulia Arman. The LatihID program consists of LatihID Book (online book), LatihID Talks (webinar and online workshop), LatihID Academy, LatihID Expert Class, LatihID Talks, and LatihID Mentoring. The implementation of these programs is still online so that it is accessible for everyone.
Members of the platform also come from alumni from abroad universities. Yulisyah said the community welcomed the release of LatihID by showing a completion program for more than 33,000 around 34 provinces.
“Besides its members, LatihID also has users from various regional backgrounds,” she said.
Source: https://www.ugm.ac.id/id/berita/21073-tim-alumni-ugm-kembangkan-platform-e-learning
