UNAIR NEWS – Entering the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, the industrial sector now emphasizes computer automation in its framework. The job demand on the old model (manual working) will shift to high-tech work system which is full of mastery of special skills and advanced science.
This led to the existence of binary opposition between graduates of social humanity program (soshum) with graduates of science and technology (science and technology) in the context of job hunting after college where inequality always happens. The social humanities program was not very popular with students compared to the science program.
As a response, Faculty of Humanities Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) History Student Association (HMD) held a panel discussion, Umur Pendek Humaniora (Humanity Programs Short Life, ed) on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 in FIB front yard.
Raising the topic on LPDP scholarships quota which was reduced at the end of 2017, the person in charge of the event, Rafif Alim Rizqullah, said that there was involvement of bureaucratic and industrial interests which finally reconstructed the social humanity education itself.
Meanwhile, one of the speakers, Dian Handayani said that social humanity science that is close to public policy is often perceived as having no scientific autonomy. So often, social humanity products only become means of political legitimacy so that a regulation looks scientific.
“If science and technology is practical knowledge. There is a laboratory as a place of practice. As for social humanity science the laboratory is abstract, ” she added.
The former head of History Student Association, Toni Prasetyo, said that as students who learn social humanity science, do not just stick to the formal sector.
According to Toni, social humanity students must be able to be flexible following the current developments, not only prioritizing academics, but must be aware that technology develops rapidly.
“The science technology and social humanity science programs should be able to collaborate with each other to face this industrial revolution. Both of them can work together to maintain humanitarian industrial sector, “he added.
The discussion activity is a monthly work program of History Student Association. It is held with different topic each month. This month’s topic was in line with the commemoration of World Intellectual Property Day. (*)
Author: Shofiyyatul Mahrushah
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
