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Jakarta as the capital city is viewed as the barometer of every city in Indonesia. The city preparedness to face VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity) caused by Covid-19 pandemic is also in the national spotlight. One of the main solutions to face VUCA is Computational Thinking (CT). CT provides the ability to approach VUCA characteristics by systematically ingraining abstraction, algorithmic thinking, decomposition, and pattern recognition in mind. For this reason, Jakarta plans to disseminate this concept to students as early as possible, namely by embedding CT to every subject in primary and secondary schools. The activity began with online CT socialization, which was attended by 1,761 teachers, of which 238 via Google Meet and 1,523 via live streaming. In this activity we also distributed questionnaires to 258 elementary and junior high school teachers spread across 41 sub-districts of 44 sub-districts in Jakarta. The result is that 93.8% of teachers in Jakarta do not understand CT, excitingly 69.4% of teachers wish to teach CT in the subjects they can afford even though it is not compulsory, but if it is obligatory then all teachers will implement it.

The real research strength of an institution is important for establishing research priorities and developing an institutional research plan. It can also be used as a basis for SWOT analysis, developing vision-mission of an institution and also useful for research funder in distributing their research grants. Unfortunately, there was only a small number of researches found. In this article, we proposed a new method to quantify the quality of research outputs. The method is suitable for measuring research strength. We applied the method to an institution using research articles downloaded from a reputable document database/index. The results were research strength map in 27 subject areas and 337 subject categories.