Citizens political participation and engagement on various social media handles have made it necessary for scholars to investigate and understand the potentials inherent in the political engagement and discourse of individual citizens. Hence, the study examined Twitter discourse on the 2019 pre-presidential election campaign in Nigeria. Purposive sampling technique with thematic textual research method was used to thematically analyse tweets based on the research questions. Findings from the study showed that the kind of engagement made or done by Nigerians regarding the 2019 pre-presidential election campaigns was based on the topic, with most topics being met with sarcasm. The sarcasm found in the tweets pointed to the way Nigerians react in a situation that they have no way of rectifying. Also, findings from the study showed that celebrity tweet gets more engagement compared to tweets made by unpopular tweeps. Conclusively, the study found that the level of discourse on Twitter regarding Nigeria s 2019 pre-presidential elections was very rich and participatory this implies that Nigerians have a high propensity to relate on social media as their rate of responses as well as their frequency of responses remained high throughout the election campaign period which to a large extent predicts real-life events.

Covid-19 Pandemic gives many social changes in society specially in communications study. One important policy made during Covid-19 is related to students who are required to study at home. Ruangguru is top of mind in digital based learning company, especially during this pandemic. Covid-19 and this policy made Ruangguru as Indonesia online learning company with the most followers, to adapt in giving online communication message, especially in @ruangguru (Instagram). This research aims to see the social presence of Ruangguru in social media (Instagram) during Covid-19 Pandemic through three dimensions of social presence, which are: social context, online communication, and interactivity. On previous research, it was mentioned that social presence relates to brand engagement. Brand's social presence in social media is important to be researched due to more brand using social media as primary communication tool to gain brand engagement. Method used in this research is case study with qualitative approach. Through Ruangguru's post on Instagram, researcher observes using three dimensions of social presence. The result of this research depicts Ruangguru as showing good social presence based on three dimensions of social presence during Covid-19 Pandemic in social media Instagram.

This article dealt with Korean TV dramas consumption among Muslim youth in Pekanbaru. It aimed to undestand their interpretations on the television dramas. The values of being a Muslim was constantly under scrutiny by the image representation in Korean TV Dramas. As transnational cultural products, they were considered as reducing Islamic values for Muslim youth. Using ethnographic study, forty two informants were selected based on a purposive sampling technique in which they loved on consuming Korean TV dramas. This article found that Muslim youth were active audiences consuming and interpreting Korean TV dramas. This can be seen from two characteristics. The first is that Muslim youth consumption of Korean TV dramas was not dominantly done through television medium, but through their lapptop. As a result, their position as an active audiences or viewers was obvious. This was because the dramas to be watched were not interrupted by some advertisements. The audiences could also actively watch them without depending on the schedule decided by television stations. The second is that young Muslims watching Korean TV dramas did not accept some representations contradictory with their Islamic identity. However, some of Korean TV dramas were accepted due to their proximity with Islamic values.

Going by the proposition of the Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT), people are motivated to use media by various psychological factors and for obtaining different forms of gratifications. However, as social media continue to play an essential role in shaping the sociability and bridging social connectivity and interactions among its users, therefore, this study seeks to incorporate social influence and social interactions as the social gratification sought in social media utilization, as well as both bonding and bridging social capital as social gratification obtained from social media utilization. An online survey was conducted among 400 users of Instagram in Nigeria. The data analyzed with PLS-SEM revealed that social influence and social interaction significantly motivate social media utilization. Also, social media utilization is significantly associated with bonding and bridging social capital. Impliedly, this study shows that social media is a social and networking tool which is stimulated by social factors and for achieving social purposes such as getting help, support and community engagements.

Newspaper industry is entering a state of emergency in Indonesia. Dewan Pers demands that the government provide incentives to press companies during Covid-19. The growth in the number of internet users, the downward trend in advertising revenue, and the number of newspaper circulation are problems in the print media business. List of questions in this study: what are the trends in the use of internet technology and social media in Indonesia?; why did various newspaper companies in Indonesia collapse and die in the digital era?; how is the effort to save the newspaper business? Meanwhile, the research paradigm is qualitative. The time of the study is November 2019 to May 2020. The results of this research, the growth in the number of internet users has been extraordinary in the last 20 years. Signs of the newspaper era are over, strengthened by many newspaper companies turning to online media. The number of readers fell, the number of advertisers plummeted, number of copies narrowed, and the cost of producing newspapers became increasingly expensive to cause the closure of various newspaper companies. Rescue by attracting young readers and doing various innovations. Tragically, the print media industry will end and die on its own.

The study was conducted in Batang Regency, Central Java. Still high levels of family poverty in this area, especially the condition of the family head women and tend to have non-permanent work, make the authors interested in doing this in-property research. Research methods using quantitative mixed methods are strengthened by qualitative analysis. The sampling technique uses stratified random sampling, using the Slovin formula to determine the magnitude of the number of respondents. The study population numbered 535, with a total sample of research were 229 female heads of households. The results showed that indicators of group roles and companion roles had a very large contribution in encouraging the characteristics of women's household heads to be more empowered. Through a companion role, making a family of female heads more actively communicating. Through the development of public speaking, establishing a critical culture in the group, thus growing self-confidence, forming a empowered, independent, and potential self. Important research is conducted to see the extent to which the women's head program has walked the trunk, creating many tough women. Research novelty was obtained based on a combination of group communication attributed to economic empowerment.

DPR memiliki fungsi pengawasan kepada kinerja Presiden disertai dengan hak mengusulkan pemberhentian Presiden kepada MPR, sebagai pelaksanaan fungsi pengawasan. Namun dalam sistem presidensial, hal ini bertentangan dengan syarat fixed term executive. Selain itu politisasi DPR dalam penggunaan hak tersebut menimbulkan anggapan bahwa fungsi pengawasan akan melemahkan sistem presidensial. Hal ini selanjutnya diteliti dan disajikan dalam penulisan analitik deskriptif, menggunakan metode penelitian hukum normatif. Berdasarkan analisis, fungsi pengawasan DPR dalam sistem presidensial tidak melemahkan sistem presidensial. Pengawasan merupakan perimbangan dan pengawasan terhadap kekuasaan Presiden. DPR sebagai lembaga pengawas harus taat pada asas transparansi, akuntabeL, independen dan imparsial. Selain itu adanya MK sebagai penentu keabsahan usul pemberhentian Presiden yang juga dapat mencegah politisasi dalam pemberhentian Presiden. Dengan demikian maka tercipta fungsi pengawasan DPR yang mampu mendukung jalannya sistem presidensial serta membentuk kekuasaan berimbang antar 3 (tiga) bidang kekuasaan negara menurut pandangan Montesquieu.

Transaksi bisnis antara pelaku usaha dan konsumen akan selalu dipertemukan dengan suatu perjanjian atau perjanjian yang mengikat para pihak. Khususnya dalam perjanjian kredit perbankan, pihak bank mencetak formulir perjanjian kredit secara massal dan kolektif yang klausulanya disusun sepihak oleh kreditur tanpa keterlibatan debitur. Fenomena ini memberikan pandangan seolah kreditur menggunakan kekuasaannya dengan memanfaatkan ketidakberdayaan debitur untuk kepentingan sepihak sebagai bentuk penyalahgunaan keadaan. Penelitian ini membahas tentangparadigma interpretif penyalahgunaan keadaan pada perjanjian kredit perbankan. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui paradigma konsep penyalahgunaan keadaan kreditur terhadap debitur dalam perjanjian kredit. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian normatif dengan pendekatan konseptual sebagai terobosan atas permasalahan yang terjadi. Hasil penelitian ini menyajikan paparan interpretasi penyalahgunaan keadaan yang seharusnya pada perjanjian kredit perbankan dan harus terkait dengan tindakan nyata yang merugikan debitur baik pada saat melaksanakan perjanjian.

Based on the Department of Agriculture which still does not have the tools or media to manage the letter of service, both the incoming and outgoing mail which impact on the weak supervision follow-up of the service letter due to ignorance that the letter should be processed. This study was made as a visual and text notification of incoming and outgoing mail data with more detailed archive storage. This website application is supported by using social media telegram API service that is used as notification in the form of notification to the employee so that the Service Letter can be followed up immediately.

Ekstrak aseton didapatkan dari daun Tristaniopsis merguensis Grifft menggunakan metode maserasi. Ekstrak aseton selanjutnya difraksinasi dengan metode partisi cair-cair dengan pelarut etil asetat. Penentuan kadar fenolik total dilakukan berdasarkan metode Follin-Ciocalteu dengan standar asam galat. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa fraksi etil asetat dari ekstrak aseton daun Tristaniopsis merguensis mengandung senyawa fenolik total 86,724 ± 1,83 mg GAE/g fraksi etil asetat kering. Berdasarkan spektrum FT-IR fraksi etil asetat ini mengandung senyawa yang memiliki gugus Ar-OH (fenolik), -OH (hidroksil), C=O (keton) dan C=C (aromatik). Gugus Ar-OH ini yang menandakan adanya senyawa fenolik pada fraksi etil asetat ekstrak aseton daun Tristaniopsis merguensis.