Democracy is experiencing it is worst setback since the mid-20th Century. The US magazine Foreign Affairs even posed the question in an article entitled “Is Democracy Dying?” Published on April 2018 issue, assessing the impact that exogenous factors have on liberal democracy. The exogenous factors is...

The study deals with Javanese traditional leadership. As global culture penetrates nearly all aspects of social life including leadership, it could be stipulated that the cultural values of Javanese traditional leadership need to be negotiated with global values of leadership especially those derived...

In this modern era, journalist also plays an important role as the one who will decide how an information will be delivered to public. Especially with the development of technology recently, people tend to use the easiest online news platform (whether it is reliable one or not) as their sources and unreliable...

As the time goes by, political campaign and marketing have entered social media quickly. In this era people were more interested in accessing social media than conventional media social media is obviously very different from the mass media. Although it has been more than 10 years since Obama used social...

The phenomenon of absent voters has emerged since the New Order era and has continued to shade the Election Commission during the national and local elections’ processes. This study aims to explain the factors behind the phenomenon of absent voters in Sragen regency during the election. The research...

Creative economy has a significant difference from other types of businesses. Important characteristics of this sector include originality, skill, and the quality of products. Due to the creative development in a society, creative economy becomes a new emerging sector. This aim of this research is to...

Social media is one of many online platforms on the internet. This research chose Facebook among existing social media sites to analyze its context as a virtual public sphere ahead of the 2019 Indonesian General Election. Democracy requires freedom of expressions from every party. Social media is one...

The House of Representatives (DPR) of Indonesia issued Law no. 2 of 2018 as a renewal of Law no. 27 of 2009 which regulates the People's Consultative Assembly, the House of Representatives, the Regional Representatives Council, and the Regional Representative Council (MD3). The main purpose of this paper...

The socio-legal theory stated that a law is an instrument for social engineering (Pound, 1985). Social engineering is a process of a directed and planned social change. Organization of the public bureaucracy describes the process of achieving goals in which statuses and roles of persons organized under...

Since the monetary crisis and reformation in 1998, Indonesia has developing to be a democratic country. The direction of the economic system in Indonesia has led to capitalism where the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) entered Indonesia and influenced the International cooperation in the country. The...

The technology impact on objective journalism culture towards press or media democracy is believed to have an important role in creating a democratic society (Gans: 2003). Hence, it is important to develop an objective press. The culture of objectivity should be developed and applied in journalism. As...

Social media offer so many advantages to interact and to communicate while making access to information even easier. The issues of gender equality and women's empowerment are the content that may has an impact the trend of divorce. About 70% of total divorce rate in Indonesia puts women as the divorce’s...

The Cambridge Analytica Cases with Facebook is already widening in worldwide since March 2018. This case became one of the mistakes in the political world, where the campaign process took unhealthy because it uses personal data in social media as an illegal analysis material. The case of Cambridge Analytica...

The Libya Revolution in 2011 believed as a progress for democracy in Libya. However, after the revolution, the situation did not get any better and worsened by chaos in Libya. It is already almost seven years from the revolution and there still no clear future of Libya. The civil war and split government...

The end of the Cold War is marked by the changes of issues related with the dynamics of the international political constellation. The urgency of traditional issues such as the military, have begun to change to non-traditional issues such as humanity, environment, and democracy. The existence of these...

Recently in Indonesia, social media have been chosen as a campaign tools with a segment targeting technology users. The question then arises about how the campaign participants position social media in their campaign activities. This study applied semiotic approach to deepen on how the positioning trend...

Radicalism develops rapidly in Indonesia at the post-reform period. Globalization, transparency information, and the rights to assemble are the factors that supporting the growth and the appearance of radical movement to the surface. The result of this article is the prevention of radicalism in Indonesia...

Children’s voice is considered as unnecessary to be taken into account in development planning up to now, while the number of children is nearly a third of total world populations. Children’s Forum is established by the government as the fulfillment of The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the...

Accountability in governance is important for five reasons: as a form of democratic oversight, strengthening the integrity of governance, strengthening organizational norms, legitimizing governance, catharis, and implementation of democratic values. Thus, accountability becomes a key of good governance....

Society has made smartphone become the symbol of prestige and supported the existence of people in cyberspace. Social media give the space for recognizing others by not conducting face-to-face interaction process and becoming the place to disseminate daily activities occurred in their life due to the...

Public services are an important part in the life of society and nation. In order to obtain the appropriate services to the needs of the society, they must be involved in taking the policy through the participation as the basis of democracy to create a democratic government. The case study in this research...

Several times ago, the presence of online transportation created a conflict among the government and the users. The presence of online transportation is supposed to replace the cultural values of conventional transportation and carry away the business area of theirs. Moreover, the polemic with the government...

Democracy is as a realization of public sovereignty. Public space becomes a media to establish interactive communication between the public and the state which is usually called as public participation or public opinion. Democracy is not only related to politic (e.g. parliament decision), but it is also...

Indonesia as a sovereign state goes through all the way to make a difference with its foreign policy. As a democratic state with bebas aktif foreign policy, Indonesia keeps showing its commitment to spread the value of peace outside its territory. June 2018, Indonesia is announced as a non-permanent...

The issue of democratization in Syria is indeed a worthy event to be discussed. Many changes occurred in various aspects of life when the Syrian conflict emerged in early 2011. The chaos that occurred gives impact to the development of economic, social, politics, and even the field of IT and mass media....

Surabaya is the second largest metropolitan area in Indonesia after Jakarta. This city has become the destination of urbanization and industrial centre in the eastern part of Indonesia. As a big city, Surabaya certainly has complex problems as usually faced by common big cities in Indonesia, such as...

Pentingsari tourism village as a pioneer of the natural tourism sector in DIY has a high level of vulnerability to disasters, especially natural disasters. There needs to be a joint program between the government, institutions and the community where tourism village managers are provided with facilities...

It is netizen civilization era, the era in which economic booming and the entrance of information and communication technology have led us to the concept of cyberspace citizen (netizen). Prevalent drug trading and human trafficking have generated a moral crisis and broken religious belief. Human beings...

Nationalism is an important aspect in sustaining the existence of nation-state but on the other hand it can also be a cause of disintegration if the government neglect on caring a certain area including the border area. The border area often lacks allocation of resources of the development. Therefore,...

In late 2013, Surakarta local government launched an online complaint handling service or e-complaint known as the Surakarta Complaint Handling Service Unit (ULAS, Unit Layanan Aduan Surakarta). The local government hopes that the unit can become the primary place for Surakarta citizens to submit their...

This paper aims to evaluate how e-government implementation held in a rural area. The rapid development of information and technology has changed all aspects of our life. It gives impact on the issues of politic and democracy itself. E-government becomes a new way of serving people in terms of advocacy...

Democracy becomes a central issue in the last decade related to social change dynamics and Indonesian state administration. Indonesians highly expect the improvement of democratic development results in their state. On the other hand, there are some debates on substance and implementation of democracy....

Disaster may occur anytime and anywhere, and is generally unpredictable. Therefore, the most important to do is the disaster management to minimize any harmful impacts of the disaster. To be more effective and efficient, it needs to involve all related parties. In regions, the relationship between village...

The emergence of online transportation has caused conflict with conventional transportation. This conflict does not only occur in developing countries such as Indonesia but in developed countries as well. This article tries to illustrate the causes of conflicts between online and conventional transportation...

Growth and development of organizations through innovation and improvement basically require the involvement of all members of the organization including women. The fact that the development of the organization is dominated by men when the contribution of women also cannot be underestimated. The gender...

The Politics became currently used for the general public. Reform has generated a stream of freedom in public disclosure and disclosure as its supporters. This article discusses the role of regional libraries in strengthening the political literacy by the general public. Articles are reviewed through...

The existence of digital technology is necessary in this era of globalization. The application is very broad and challenging to the extent where humans can explore it. One of the implementation is in the field of digital marketing, namely through electronic word of mouth or e-WOM. By the medium of digital...

Juliatmono - Rober Christanto (YURO) pair won regional election in Karanganyar regency on June 27th 2018. The victory could not be separated from the role of mass media in covering every election stage. Every media has its own views to presents reality. Radar Solo is one of the media that cover YURO...

The discovery of the internet has significantly changed the way people live the life in the contemporary world. People are increasingly easy to connect and build a network with the outside world that they have never seen before. The Internet is also used for a variety of needs, from searching and disseminating...

This research seeks to examine the media culture which takes place on radio stations in Pontianak, West Kalimantan that has lasted about 20 years by focusing on the state of human resources at radio broadcasting media and broadcast programming. The study on cultural media in this research systematically...

This study is motivated by author’s interest in political communication activity which recently happens on social media, one of which is Twitter. Social media has grown to become one of the most popular media today, and also become one of the most popular platforms for political communication. Political...

Despite several research have been conducted to understand the relations between PR and journalists, in fact, it is always interesting to know that tangible facilities for journalists in press room setting. This paper seeks to elicit the journalists’ perceptions towards the importance and their satisfaction...

The presence of social media has led to changes in the online community participation. Public participation does not only happen in the real world but also in cyberspace (Ali & Samsudin, 2012). In fact, social media has had a huge impact on community involvement in current issues. Lack of individual...

The topic this paper is to question the paradox of active citizen representative’s role in poverty coping policy process. This case study was conducted in one Indonesian city often becoming the location of fund distribution from international donor institution to reinforce civil society’s role. The problems...

The aim of this research is (1) what can be learned from the literature about e-government, e-democracy and how the cost has been problematized; (2) the status of e-government/e-democracy level in Central Java Provincial Government. And (3) how is the participation cost being discussed in Central Java...