The University provides a platform for students to engage in the learning governance environment as well as carry out good organisational practices, including providing governance input to the university, support for students (e.g. scholarship platform), and organising social activities (knowledge dissemination, advocacy, service programmes, and various forms of community empowerment activities). UGM recognises the existence of Student Unions based on Rector’s Regulation Number 1 2017. As mentioned in Article 5, Paragraph 3, this gives students the right to establish student unions under the supervision of the Directorate of Student Affairs (Article 5, Paragraph 2).
Source: https://bemkm.ugm.ac.id/
Student Executive Board (BEM) KM UGM is a student organisation that acts as a forum for activism and self-development of UGM students. BEM KM facilitates various activities that support the academic, social, and leadership capacity of UGM students. There are several points of the BEM KM UGM agenda:
- Student Affairs: Inclusive student services to accommodate and become a medium of access for students’ basic needs, development, and welfare.
- Community: Containing community service to encourage development and ignite community welfare.
- Movement: Presenting issue-based movements in the corridor of an advocative paradigm that is active, participatory, and impactful.
- Internal: Building an internal organisation based on the principles of mutual cooperation, humanism, adaptiveness, and creating participatory, transparent, and accountable organisational governance.
- External: Creating relationships with entities outside BEM through collaborative, egalitarian, and humanist principles.
Besides BEM KM UGM, there are other student unions called UGM Student Activity Units, totalling 50 Student Activity Units at UGM.
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