Disruptions and Corporate Human Rights Responsibility: A Flashback to the COVID-19

This article aims to examine the question of how and to what extent business entities can balance the necessities of making business profits and performing social responsibilities in spite of various disruptions encountered in a pandemic. How and to what extent should their social and human rights responsibilities be managed during the COVID-19 pandemic or a similar crisis? The relevance of these questions arises from the fact that while the main purpose of business is to make profits while providing goods, services, jobs and sources of income to many people, various disruptions arising from policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have been posing very serious challenges to business management practices, profitability and sustainability. These challenges may force businesses to compromise on their social and human rights responsibilities to affected stakeholders for the sake of preserving their commercial responsibilities to their shareholders. This article argues that efforts to ensure effective performance for a balanced approach between commercial responsibilities and human rights responsibilities require a corporate organizational culture that takes human rights risks as seriously as commercial risks. This means there must be an organizational attitude that maintains an unwavering commitment to respect human rights while doing business. In practice this organizational attitude should be manifested through a clear indicator of its commitment to both "know” and "show” human rights responsibilities by way of embedding human rights policy and due diligence procedures into corporate culture. © University of Jember & Indonesian Consortium for Human Rights Lecturers.

Expanding teacher's creativity during Covid-19 era at timor-leste border area in 2020

The life of East Timor residents in the New Settlements becomes a certain problem. The problem of becoming Indonesian makes a certain point to be solved. The problem is about how to handle students creatively in the era of pandemic Covid-19. Objectives of this research consist of some points. (1) To find out teacher's creativity in doing approach to students who are learning at home related to the pandemic Covid-19 era in the border area of Timor-Leste. (2) To seek and to expand models of creativity in the context of teaching from home or school for students who are staying at home in the border of Indonesia and Timor-Leste area. The research method uses qualitative method especially literature studies, contemporary newspaper studies, and survey studies on teacher's creativity in Europe schools. The results of research are: (1) In fact, the technology and creativity are keys to the learning process in the era with the challenges of Covid-19 pandemic. (2) According to the results of the study, students who are learning at home have difficulty accessing the internet. (3) The quality and creativity of teachers need to be considered, expanded, and improved. (4) According to the results of this study, teachers' creative abilities were at a moderate level because teachers were shocked by the spread of Covid-19. © 2021 ACM.