Universitas Sanata Dharma (English: Sanata Dharma University) also referred to by its acronym USD or Sadhar is a private, Catholic, research, coeducational higher education institution run by the Indonesian Province of the Society of Jesus in Yogyakarta Indonesia. The two words, "Sanatana Dharma", come from the ancient Sanskrit language. "Sanatana" is a Sanskrit word that denotes that which is Anadi (beginningless), Anantha (endless) and does not cease to be, that which is eternal and everlasting. With its rich connotations, Dharma is not translatable to any other language. Dharma is from dhri, meaning to hold together, to sustain. Its approximate meaning is "Natural Law," or those principles of reality which are inherent in the very nature and design of the universe. Thus the term Sanatana Dharma can be roughly translated to mean "the natural, ancient and eternal way". The dedication is to the greater glory of God and the service is to humanity. Universitas Sanata Dharma has 8 undergraduate schools with 25 departments, along with 7 graduate programs, 1 professional program, and 3 certificate programs.
This paper explores the "Orange Rush" - a 72-hour period in August 2025 when global corporations adopted a standardized orange-and-glitter aesthetic to align with Taylor Swift's announcement of her twelfth studio album, The Life of a Showgirl. Using critical semiotic analysis, the study deconstructs this phenomenon as a site of "semiotic opportunism," where brands utilize the "brand as fan" myth to infiltrate communal spaces. The analysis reveals how corporations perform "strategic authenticity" by professionalizing fan labor and mimicking subcultural rituals like "clowning." While these strategies aim to manufacture corporate intimacy, findings show that the "branded enclosure" remains vulnerable to fan resistance and political d & eacute;tournement, specifically within the context of the 2024-2026 BDS movement. Ultimately, the paper argues that corporate semiotics has undergone an infrastructural turn, where brands no longer simply sponsor culture but seek to function as the environment in which cultural life unfolds.
This collaborative autoethnography (CAE) aims to explore our lived experiences as four female language teacher educators (LTEs) in tertiary-level education across different contexts (U.S., China, and Indonesia). Drawing upon the concepts of intersectionality, we report on our constructed identities at the intersections of diverse backgrounds (e.g. cultural, linguistic, gendered) and the impact of the intersectional identities on our practices in language teaching and/or teacher education. Our CAE reveals that identities are not shaped by discrete categories but by multiple intersecting factors, such as cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, while also highlighting the contextual dynamics of LTE identity negotiation. Further, our lived experiences indicate that marginalisation and empowerment are not mutually exclusive but coexist within our LTE identity construction. Despite the challenges we experienced as LTEs, we turned those challenges into resources to empower ourselves and students, specifically by agentively utilising asset-based pedagogical approaches, advocating for ourselves and students, and engaging in scholarship on bilingualism, translanguaging, and marginalisation. Lastly, the study provides implications for LTE education and research.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) excel at image classification but remain vulnerable to common corruptions that humans handle with ease. A key reason for this fragility is their reliance on local texture cues rather than global object shapes—a stark contrast to human perception. To address this, we propose two complementary regularization strategies designed to encourage shape-biased representations and enhance robustness. The first introduces an auxiliary loss that enforces feature consistency between original and low-frequency filtered inputs, discouraging dependence on high-frequency textures. The second incorporates supervised contrastive learning to structure the feature space around class-consistent, shape-relevant representations. Evaluated on the CIFAR-10-C benchmark, both methods improve corruption robustness without degrading clean accuracy. Our results suggest that loss-level regularization can effectively steer CNNs toward more shape-aware, resilient representations.
Objective: Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a crucial role in Indonesia's economic development, but many challenges are faced, so the psychological factor, namely trust, is needed to increase the confidence of MSME actors, which can ultimately increase the use of digital financial services and realize sustainable management strategies. This study seeks to investigate the impact of financial literacy on MSMEs' use of digital financial services in Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, with trust as a mediating factor. Research Design & Methods: The study included 100 MSME participants chosen through accidental sampling. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the data. Findings: According to the findings, financial literacy has a substantial influence on the usage of digital financial services. Furthermore, trust mediates the link between financial literacy and the use of digital financial services among MSMEs in Bantul Regency.. Implications & Recommendations: The results of this study emphasize the importance of utilizing digital financial services as a business management tool, not just a means of transaction. This strong trust will encourage MSMEs to use digital financial services more consistently for financial planning and strategic decision-making, ultimately supporting business sustainability. Future research should include a wider sample size and locations to achieve better results. Contribution & Value Added: The research contributes to MSME development projects by emphasizing that increased financial literacy and confidence in digital financial services can help people gain easier access to finance and improve competitiveness, allowing them to achieve sustainable management goals.
The issue of Christianization is one of the major issues that interferes with interfaith encounters in Indonesia. Relationships across religious identities are hindered by the generalization that all activities involving interfaith encounters initiated by Christians, both Protestant and Catholic, aim to Christianize others. This research intends to show the influence of such issues in the social humanitarian work of the Catholic Church, represented by Karitas Indonesia of the Archdiocese of Semarang (KARINAKAS), and the Christian Church, represented by Emergency Unit of Christian Foundation for Public Health (YAKKUM Emergency Unit/YEU). Both organizations work in disaster response. Using a qualitative approach, the researchers collected data through in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with official staff and volunteers from both organizations. Drawing on Christopher Falzon’s Social Dialogue Beyond Fragmentation Theory, this research identifies opportunities for building interfaith relations. This research found that the issue of Christianization limits social relations within the community and at the same time it also encourages people to continue exploring possibilities for cross-identity encounters. The volunteers’ engagement generates new awareness that challenges the dominant narrative of Christianization as the sole framework for understanding intereligious encounters in Indonesia. At the grassroots levels, interreligious relations are not defined by rigid binary oppositions. Shared experiences in responding to human suffering create common ground that enables collaborative action for others’ well-being.
