Parental divorce, abandonment, and poverty cause many children separated from their biological parents, and extended family should be responsible for their care. However, the current challenges in Indonesia is that there is no regulation that regulates kinship care, making the caregivers fight themselves...

This paper aims to discuss the possibility of adapting Gender Mainstreaming Program years ago conducted by government, non-government organization and educational institution which has shown great achievement for women equal right. Thus, this study tries to answer the following questions: How should...

This study investigated the associations of socio- demographic and socio-culture factors with attitudes toward homosexuality. Using convenience sampling, students were recruited from 5 social work programs at 5 (five) different universities in provinces of West Java, Yogyakarta, East Java and Maluku...

Changing in religious comprehension and behaviour called Religious Conversion. External Religious Conversion is movement from a religion which is followed by an individual to another religion, whereas internal Religious Conversion is changing in religious behaviour in the same religion to become better...

Media has become the dominant source of information not only for individual but also for the community in obtaining a picture of reality. In the construction process of reality, language is the main element. Language is the central instrument for telling reality. The choice of words and how the presentation...

Management of Impression is always done almost by everyone with a variety of reasons, when someone interact with others, in order to get a good impression, positive impressions, impressive impressions, and so forth. Usually, impression management is done to improve social status, in order to gain respect...

Islamic literature regulates all aspects of human life, including the sex ritual. A number of literature such as Qurrot al- Uyun, Fath al-Izar, became mandatory subject in pesantren. The books teach the Islamic intercourse with its rules and prohibitions. Like a prohibition doing sex in a certain position,...

Mental illness is one of the issues that has been increasingly considered as a serious health problem in Indonesia. The number of mental illness cases in Indonesia is quite high. However, many issues related to mental illness has not been addressed seriously such as low public awareness. This paper is...

The issue of diversity and social empowerment might have often been addressed separately. However, the Qur'?n has talked about the two interlinkedly. There are many verses in the Qur'?n that suggest people to get involved in the giving and empowerment of the needy and at the same time to respect diversity....