Topic on “One Belt One Road (OBOR)” is the main idea of China’s Xi Jinping political speech conveyed at the forums of multilateral and bilateral cooperation since 2013. The speech texts on OBOR as a case study is analyzed through qualitative analysis within a dialectical cognitive method, and mainly...

A notion to integrate all areas in Indonesian territory, which consisted of islands and waters (seas), in the midst of domestic upheavals and foreign interventions, particularly in relation to the West Irian (West Guinea) dispute, motivated the government to make a declaration known as the Djuanda Declaration...

Technology development has affected various elements of life, including the way people shop and read books. Online retails like Amazon and the innovation of e-readers seem to bring an unpromising future for brick-and-mortar books, especially independent bookstores. However, American Booksellers Association...

This paper aims to offer a critique on the treatment of morality and moral problems in the network society through the use of alternative explanation. The main argument advanced in this paper is that despite augmenting human abilities to organize and integrate, technological progress in the network society...

This research focused on a Korean independence movement organization named Shinminhwe (New People’s Association). Shinminhwe is a secret organization that was formed in 1907 and moved for 4 years. During its movement Shinminhwe managed to bring the idea of progress into Korea. This idea of progress influenced...

This article is an attempt to reflect the revolutionizing sharing culture of digital social media in Indonesian context. The method used in this research is textual qualitative studies of the textual poetic expressions chosen from two young and current poetry writers as to get the sense of nowness and...

Culture shock is often referred to completely different experiences faced outside one’s hometown or comfort zone. The factor that causes culture shock is mainly geographical, such as living in the East and West would serve one differently. Nevertheless, in this contemporary era, where technology advances...

German language beginner learners faced difficulties in learning the listening skill, such as limitation in vocabulary knowledge, the pace of oral L2 input, and the lack of listening materials. Because of those, learners’ learning results are not optimal. Learners are pushed to use learning strategies...

This research focuses on the effect of religious values on several life aspects in the Majapahit. There were two kinds of religious doctrine which had been grown in the Majapahit era, Hinduism and Buddhism. Therefore, this research is limitedly focusing on those two religions doctrine’s effects to be...

This research discusses the Tentara Kanjeng Nabi Muhammad (TKNM) in Java 1917–1918. TKNM is a movement founded by Abi Koesno Tjokroesoejoso and H.O.S Tjokroaminoto to fight against those who insult Islamic religion. In 1916–1917 there has been a blasphemy event in Surabaya and in January of 1918 in Surakarta...

Depok emphasizes the importance of culture in social life. By analyzing the language used among its people, one can trace the identity of Depok. Historically, the indigenous Depok people speak the suburban Betawi subdialect. Geographically, Depok has common borders with Jakarta, Bogor, Bekasi, and Tangerang,...

Wedding is an important rite of passage in various ethnic groups and cultures. It marks a milestone in individuals’ lives. Because of its significance in life, its ceremony and rituals are very elaborate, complex, and full of meanings. Yet, cultural and social factors influence how wedding is conducted....

The consequence of the network society emergence in the 2019 simultaneous election is the power that the digital media must provide the issues consumed. This paper aims to explain the identity project carried out by young candidates (age 21–30) against the legitimate identity in the Indonesian political...

This paper tries to understand politics and Islam in Indonesia during the electoral years (2014–2019). Within the five years, the relay of politics contestation has birthed phenomena such as identity politics and Islamic populism. The elaboration of political and Islamic issues will always be anchored...

The use and development of digital information technology sparks a significant social structure shift. Luciano Floridi, through his re-ontologization technology explains that information could radically change the social structure. The re-ontologization is created through the interaction of inforgs and...

Manuel Castells believes that ICT is a factor that determines the pattern of life and the level of economic inequality, depending on the failure or success of a person or a group in utilizing it. SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), on the other hand, seeks to direct the development of the world towards...

Manuel Castells proposes a thesis on technoculture, a form of culture that is determined by technology. The revolution of technology determines the emergence of a new form of culture, a network society culture, which is characterized by its informational, networked, and global scale attribute. Castells’...

Information disclosure, digitization, social networks and social media in the era of the Indonesian Revolution 4.0 opened up opportunities for foreign parties to carry out misappropriation actions on cultural arts and traditional knowledge in Indonesia. One of the issue that will be discussed in this...

Clothes not only function as a cover for the body, but also understood as a metaphor for power and authority. This paper examines the discourse about the role of the artwork of the Indonesian traditional textile art and costume shown as embodied dependencies during the Dutch colonialism in 17th–19th...

Systematic review is a method for research synthesis to summarize the results of primary research based on comprehensive and balanced facts. The development of the deacidification method is an interesting and important theme to be reviewed with a systematic review. So that new knowledge is obtained and...

Talking about the use of technology in education realm, especially in ELT, is not a hot issue today. It is assumed that technology can improve the quality of education. Thus, teachers have a prominent role to fulfill the demand in globalization era, which is the integration of technology in teaching...

Chongryeon is a community organization of Korean permanently living in Japan. This organization publicly supports North Korea. Therefore, they have a bad reputation in Japan’s public eye. Newspaper is one of the tools that represent them. Also, this organization has ethnic schools that are widespread...

Within the scope of a university that has a high archive volume, the Electronic Records Management System (ERMS) exists as a solution to facilitate the management and preservation of archives both in digital and non-digital format. In facing the challenges of Industry 4.0, with a high community need...

In the New Order era, there were only a few organizations for women. Therefore, the role of women is not prominent compared to men in the organization. This happened in Pramuka (Indonesian Scout Movement organization) which were dominated by Boy Scouts. The purpose of this research will focus on analyzing...

The implementation of Health and Safety Environment (HSE) is done by placing slogans at work-site. The slogans encourage and sensitize workers the importance of HSE. HSE slogans must have prescriptive illocutionary force. This research focuses on illocutionary force in the slogans, especially the degree...

Children’s literature in Indonesia is still identical with an educational medium that shapes children’s characters through the teachings of values and ethics, including religious ethics. A teaching which encourages a person to do good to their parents, Birrul Walidain, is a dominant value in Islamic...

This paper reports on oral language production of adult Indonesian learners whose first language is English. It aims at examining communication strategies used by four pre-service diplomats with intermediate language proficiency. Data collection instruments included audio recordings of semi-structured...

This research tried to break down the Istiqamah Youth Association in Bandung which had been set up in 1972 in the face of ghazwul fikri (invasion of ideas). Development became the focus of the New Order government which focused on people's lives and encouraged the separation of religion and the...

The economic recovery at the beginning of The New Order Era was an opportunity for women entrepreneurs to contribute to national development. However, government economic policies, lack of knowledge, culture view, and gender bias in banking policy became obstacles for women entrepreneurs to develop their...

In general, nouns are the only word class that could be regarded as definite. In Indonesian language, suffix -nya could functioned as a definite marker as well. However, word with suffix -nya that has definite meanings are not limited to nouns. By corpus-based analysis combined with dependency theory,...

Video game is one of the mediums for channeling human’s expressions. At first, it is considered as a mere entertainment, but recently it received attention from the academic world. The complexity of current video games opens up interest from various field of studies. Literary studies find the incorporation...

This study explains the existence and benefits of Pertamina's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) funds in Cepu by establishing the Krajan Batik House. Several oil mining companies conduct mining activities in Cepu, however until 2012 the Cepu community has not been able to increase revenue through...

This study employed an approach combining critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and transitivity analysis to unravel the representation of Ulamas in online Kompas as the online media in Indonesia. The transitivity analysis unravels 6 process type found in the corpus of Ulamas, those process...

Network society has provided bigger opportunity for people to get connected globally and gain a lot of advantages in many aspects of life, such as education, business, etc. However, with the rise of post truth era, marked by huge prevalence and dissemination of fake news, what was once considered as...

This paper investigates the strategy of personal digital archiving (PDA), especially on storage devices and challenges faced in the digital era. Using the systematic literature review of paper published over the last ten years from 2009 to 2019 related to personal digital archiving strategies and challenges....

Nineteenth-century mosques in Agam, Sumatra Barat, are an example of tangible heritage that can picture how Islam religion and Minangkabau custom blends in Sumatra Barat, especially in Agam Kecamatan. These mosques are Masjid Bingkudu, Masjid Kubang Putih, Masjid Pincuran Gadang, and Masjid Siti Manggopoh....

Old women are constrained by unequal power relations to have a prosperous and comfortable life. The unequal power relations affect access, power, and control of old women. In this case, the autonomy of old women to determine the decision on their life choices is hampered. In addition, old women are more...

The wearing of the veil in the public domain has become a common sight for Indonesian women, especially among young Moslem women. The acceptance of wearing veil in public domain, including social media, has changed the means of the Islamic outfit as an attribute of identity of being an Indonesian woman....

The increasing number of foreign refugees throughout the world also has an impact on Indonesia as a developing country that is used as a transit country by foreign refugees. By 2016, according to UNHCR, in Indonesia there were 13,840 refugees and asylum seekers who came from many countries such as Afghanistan,...

This article reviews the sexual harassment experienced by female dangdut singers as female workers. Research data was collected through in depth interviews with four female dangdut singers in DKI Jakarta. The collected data was then observed specifically in regards to the practice of saweran, and was...

President Donald Trump since the presidential campaign has echoed the idea of building border wall. This wall aims at reducing the number of illegal migrants who arrive in the United States by crossing the US – Mexico border land. The idea of wall reaps to public criticism both in national and international....

This article reviews the position of indigenous women in the economic system of indigenous community, henceforth referred to as indigenous economy, by analyzing the experience of indigenous women in their struggle for livelihoods. Indigenous women have been marginalized in various domains—family, indigenous...

This article reviews the developing of beauty myth among Instagram users and the role of cosmetics industry in the dissemination beauty myth. This is a literature review conducted by exploring previous studies relevant with the spread of beauty myth through Instagram and the influence of the cosmetic...

This paper highlights the issues of memory network by looking into President Jokowi’s recent proposal to build a new capital elsewhere. It considers a range of factors that could have led to such a decision, which include Jakarta’s socio-political and environmental crises and Indonesia’s historical memories...

Cultural identity in each region has characteristics or values ​​that distinguish it from other regions. One of them is the Wetu Telu Islamic group. It is a Muslim group in Lombok that still believe in animistic ancestors and anthropomorphic objects, thus forming the identity of a cultural group. The...

Humour is a powerful tool to convey social critique. This research aims to investigate how four young Chinese Indonesians stand-up comedians strategically use comedy to contest the hegemonic discourses of Chinese Indonesians identity. By conducting a textual analysis on recorded television performances...

The 2012 Syrian conflict forced millions of refuges to Germany that introduced changes to German policy. In the middle of public weighing of the pros and cons, a special edition of The Economist (April 2018 edition) published an editorial titled Cool Germany voiced a tone of optimism for the refuges...

Majapahit is believed by some experts to have a center of power in eastern Java. Meanwhile, based on written data, Majapahit's territory includes central Java, eastern Java, the islands of Bali, and Lombok. In the collection of the National Museum, there are two inscriptions found in the Tajuk area,...

When entering the 21st century, China’s spectacular progress, especially in the economic field, has led to the emergence of the opinion that the 21st century is the ‘Chinese Century.’ Xi Jinping, who started leading the PRC in 2012, seemed to want to emphasize that opinion and started by propagating...

Since 1949, People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (ROC) support the ‘One China’ policy, stated that there is only one state called ‘China’, but each side has their own interpretation. Chiang Kaishek (1949–1975) is pursuing unification under Republic of China. Chiang Chingkuo (1975–1988)...