USU PR- The Student Consultative Assembly (MPM) and Student Executive (PEMA) of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (FISIP) of the Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) for the 2022-2023 period have been officially inaugurated. The inauguration ceremony, which took place at USU's FISIP Hall on Tuesday (21/06/2022), was also continued with a discussion entitled "Finding the Role of Students in the Collaboration Era 5.0".

Responding to the theme raised at this event, the On Duty-Dean of USU's FISIP, Dr. Hatta Ridho, S.Sos., MSP said that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data became the mainstay in the 5.0 era.

The PEMA FISIP of USU was expected to synergize with universities and the academic community to collect big data and achievements that are useful for achieving the Main Performance Index of Rector (KPI) and the community as USU stakeholders.

"So 5.0 is the mainstay of artificial intelligence and big data, so we hope that the newly inaugurated players can synergize with faculties and universities as well as other academics to be able to help collect big data, collect achievements," he said.

As On Duty-Dean of USU's FISIP, Dr. Hatta Ridho hopes that FISIP can achieve higher achievements with excellent study programs that are internationally accredited. He also mentioned that USU's FISIP is preparing 4 study programs, including Communication Studies, Social Anthropology, Social Welfare, and Sociology to achieve international accreditation.

"Later on, we hope that all study programs are excellent and can be internationally accredited. Because we are preparing 4 study programs, namely Communication Science, Social Anthropology, Social Welfare, and Sociology, to compete for international accreditation," said Hatta Ridho.

The Governor of USU's FISIP for the period 2022-2023 Haris Matondang said that the reason for the theme "Finding the Role of Students in the Collaboration Era 5.0" in this discussion was because era 5.0 was an era that demanded to be critical and collaborate by contributing all one's potential to achieve a good goal.

"Yesterday we passed the 4.0 era. we emphasize more competition and technology invasion. But we have entered the 5.0 era. Our era is critical, collaborating, because at our age, it's better if we collaborate by contributing all our potential to achieve a good goal," said Haris.

He said that he would approach elements in FISIP such as HMJ and UKM as one of the first steps in the plan to advance the government of FISIP.

“First, we approach the elements in FISIP, HMJ, UKM. We have just entered the activity. The important thing is the approach first," he explained.

Author: Bambang Riyanto - Humas

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Photographer: Irsan Mulyadi - Humas