Good Governance
Good governance has been recognized as vital if countries are to pursue and meet sustainable development goals. They will require strong leadership, transparent and evidence-based decision-making, democratic and open justice, and the willingness to transfer power out of central government to local centers.
The Student Executive Board (BEM) KM UGM is the university’s student union 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 Student Executive Board 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.
The university understands the significance of student unions and encourages their activities in the 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).
The student unions provide 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.
Source: Student Executive Board
The Student Executive Board oversees 50 Student Activity Units. Therefore, all students can develop their talents, leadership, teamwork, and social responsibility according to their own strengths and character.
UGM’s Student Executive Board is connected/affiliated to a wider national student union body, such as the Student Executive Board in Indonesia (BEM SI), BEM Nusantara, and the National Student Alliance (AMI).
The student union elects its leadership, allowing students to vote. In UGM, the election of the Student Executive Board is organised by the Student General Election Commission.
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