Makassar, August 6, 2025 — Dr. Ahmad Ismail, S.Sos., M.Si., a lecturer and researcher from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Universitas Hasanuddin, officially signed a research funding contract under the Thematic Research Group (TRG) Batch 5 Grant Scheme for Fiscal Year 2025, organized by the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) Unhas.
The contract signing took place at Meeting Room A of LPPM Unhas as part of a series of activities for the orientation and signing ceremony for TRG Batch 5 funding recipients, as stipulated in Rector’s Decree No. 10914/UN4.1/KEP/2025, dated July 30, 2025.
Dr. Ahmad Ismail leads a research project entitled: “Community-Based Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: A Socio-Ecological Resilience Model for Fisherfolk in Barrang Lompo Island.” The study aims to develop a community-driven adaptation model in response to climate change, focusing on the resilience of small island fishing communities facing ecological, social, and economic pressures due to coastal environmental change.
In his remarks, Prof. dr. Muh. Nasrum Massi, Ph.D., Sp.MK(K), Chair of LPPM Unhas, emphasized that LPPM actively encourages researchers to not only pursue individual excellence but also engage in collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional research. “Collaboration is key to enhancing the university’s research capacity. Through the TRG scheme, we are building academic synergy at national and international levels to produce impactful and responsive research,” he stated.
Prof. Dr. Suharman Hamzah, Ph.D., Secretary of LPPM Unhas, added that the TRG program is an institutional mechanism to support Unhas researchers in producing innovative, problem-solving research that directly benefits society. “We aim for research outputs that go beyond academic contributions to include real, applicable impact in the community,” he noted.
Dr. Ahmad Ismail’s project is one of nine research titles selected for TRG Batch 5 funding this year, spanning strategic fields such as social sciences, marine and fisheries, agriculture, livestock, pharmacy, and engineering. The program contributes to strengthening Unhas’s position within Indonesia’s solution-oriented research ecosystem.