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Award Ceremony and Scientific Paper Presentation by Prof. Yunita

Posted by admin on 2010-03-11 09:25:16

Climate and Culture: Changes, Lessons and Challenges was a scientific speech delivered by Prof. Dra. M.A Yunita Triwardani Winarto, M.S., M.Sc., Ph.D in front of the civitas academica of UI and other invitees in Award Ceremony and Scientific Paper Presentation. The event that was held on Thursday, (04/03) located in Convention Center, Depok Campus, was an appreciation for Yunita Winarto as The First Academy Professor in Social Sciences and Humanities in Indonesia. The event was attended by the President of UI, Prof. Dr der Soz Gumilar R. Soemantri, President of Indonesian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Sangkot Marzuki, M.D., P.hD., D.Sc., and The Director of Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, KITLV-Jakarta, Dr. Roger Tol.

UI President was proud of Yunita Winarto for her research and teaching activities in many universities."She has many activities and great capabilities of working and speaking in several different institutions in order to promote scientific activities. Similarly, Sangkot Marzuki and Roger Tol were sure that Yunita Winarto could do her task well and develop interdisciplinary sciences. Roger Tol also gave "Kappa," a kind of award given to professors who contributed for the development of science.

Yunita, as the first Indonesian professor of Social Sciences and Humanities who won “Kappa” Award, is aware that her duty is not easy. She has to implement the vision and mission of the program in order to intensify academic field and interdisciplinary approach between social sciences and humanities and other useful fields for the community. This interdisciplinary research is an outcome need for the society in dealing with many challenges and obstacles, which are getting more complex than ever.

About the development of interdisciplinary science, Yunita suggested that there should be a change in paradigm and policy along with the need of anticipating limited knowledge and the need of human capability in understanding many intrapersonal and interpersonal consequences. "We need to break through science’s and studies’ disciplinary boundaries, spread a cooperative network with other sciences in an interdisciplinary-not just multidisciplinary-studies," she explained. Yunita, who’s actively researching on climate and its impact to the community of farmers in Wareng, Yogyakarta and Indramayu, West Java, tried to encourage social scientists to solve the current climate problem together and to try to develop interdisciplinary studies.

Social sciences and humanities have significant roles in changing the paradigm of natural resource management from over exploitation into ethical awareness, creating a continuous natural resource and increasing people's sensitivity. Studies on social sciences and humanities is not a complement of natural science, but an integrated part of other scientific disciplines covered in climate change issues. (Din/Rma)