Adaptations of political actors and organizations in Asian democratic countries to the media and social media logics have been increasingly visible. This article is specified to answer the following questions of how Indonesian political parties’ leaders and presidential candidates after 2004 Indonesian presidential election adapted to the news and social media logics and what drove such adaptations. Focusing on such questions, this article adopts theoretical models of mediatisation of politics formulated by Mazzoleni and Schulz, Strömbäck and Stromback and Van Aelts and extracts in-depth interview data derived from six Indonesian political parties’ leaders, two political consultants and six senior journalists associated with Indonesian media using the qualitative content and thematic analyses. The findings are as follows. These political parties’ leaders and presidential candidates favoured adapting to the news and social media logics when they got to deal with political issues and affairs, formulate political policies and secure their personal images in Indonesian political sphere. Such development was driven by the following factors, including establishing democratic political and media systems, increasing the roles of the media as sources of political information, escalating freedoms of Indonesian media and journalists to manage the media logic. Theoretical implications are chronicled and research recommendations are displayed.

Bunga Bondar Village has a unique culture called Marjambar. Marjambar is held by distributing pastries typical of the local community during religious holidays, which are ahead of Eid al-Fitr for Muslims and one day before New Year for Christians. This study aims to analyze the multiculturalism model that exists in marjambar. This study uses Mead's symbolic interaction theory. The research method of this study is a qualitative descriptive approach, while data collection technique is conducted through observation, interviews and documentation. A total of eight research informants were interviewed, comprising two Islamic religious leaders, two Christian religious leaders, one traditional leader, one youth leader, two village apparatuses. This research found that in realizing the values of multiculturalism there is a philosophy of life "thick water is thicker, brotherly relations and we are one blood (alkot aek alkotan dope mudar dan hita dongan samudar). The implementation of marjambar local wisdom reflects the value of cosmopolitan multiculturalism in which each individual is free with his cultural life, without intimidation and domination, thus creating an attitude of concern between people of different faiths and ethnic groups. In conclusion, intercultural life which exists side by side shows equality between people. The researcher suggests that local governments through schools provide formal and informal education to educators who stay at the forefront of the effort to disseminate local wisdom among students. It is necessary to provide bailout funds to preserve marjambar local wisdom, for example, for monthly meetings between religious leaders, community leaders, traditional leaders and the community.

Young people, particularly members of Generation Z, are the technological generations. They are always on the cutting edge of technology. Apple is one of the technology brands with generationally positive sentiment. This generation uses Apple products not only for technical reasons but also as a form of personal branding. They frequently upload photos taken with an Apple device to their social media accounts. Consequently, this paper describes how and why they brand themselves by using Apple products in their Instagram account. Personal branding theory related to impression management theory by Littlejohn and Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) by Tomic describe these phenomena. The study employed qualitative descriptive methods by interviewing a young apple addict. The outcome of their use of apple products as personal branding is netizens’ favorable perception of social media. They believe that using Apple products will enhance their personal brand. Their personal branding will improve their relationships, friendships, existence, education, and careers, as well as their amusement and usefulness. In order to develop their personal brand, they utilized impression management by displaying an Apple product in a photo or video mirror selfie directly within their Instagram content.

Online news publication had undergone revolutionary changes since the fall of Berlin Wall, 09 November 1989. When Malaysian Government regulated the Movement Control Order (MCO) beginning 18 March 2020 till 03 January 2022 to curb the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of online news reading became much more significant. This phenomena has brought massive implications to media audience, predominantly among university students – of which, utilizing most of the online news material for their academic references. The online news became major reading materials for the university students in deriving latest information, especially on COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, this study was conducted to identify its implications, news preferences, and satisfaction levels. This purposive random quantitative study had been conducted by disseminating questionnaires via online, due to the restriction of movements. A total of 400 respondents were involved in this study, and interesting findings had been discovered. The study was purposively focused on random public university students within The Klang Valley, due to the fact that students from these universities had been the nation’s catalyst of change ever since. Conclusively, this paper provides significant insights for media practitioners and consumers in developing pertinent strategies for better maneuvering such challenges in our digital future.

The Vietnamese music market has recently welcomed the phenomenon of young artists using traditional Vietnamese cultural materials to create modern entertainment MV products. In this research, we use qualitative research to identify cultural factors appearing in MVs of two singers Bich Phuong and Hoang Thuy Linh. At the same time, the research team evaluates the effectiveness of integrating Vietnamese cultural elements in the music products of the two singers mentioned above by surveying students of University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Vietnam National University-HCM via a questionnaire. The survey results show that Vietnamese traditional culture is still a topic of interest to many young people. However, instead of learning through traditional channels such as schools and books, the public now has more choices and videos have become one of the most popular approaches thanks to the vivid combination of images and sound. Concurrently, the majority of students said that they regularly follow and watch newly released MVs from artists. The MVs carefully invested in terms of images and skillfully combined folk with modern materials will impress the public and inspire young people to get to know more about conventional values. Traditional culture is expressed through MV. Thereby, it can be seen that the integration of Vietnamese cultural elements into the MV is not only entertaining and educating, improving efficiency in preserving, preserving and spreading diverse and rich cultures, but also imbued with Vietnamese identity.

It is expected that an organization will conduct a communication process in building a culture. The management of a company presents some policies and responsibilities through verbal and non-verbal messages continuously. It aims to shape a safety culture behaviour for the organization members of the company themselves. Research of the internal and external organizational communication influences the effort to improve Safety Culture through conceptual system or communication model. In addition, it also aims to improve the influence of risk and K3 communication including in the implementation of Safety Culture in PT. XYZ’s work environment. This study used quantitative method in order to easily understand communication process in internal and external organizational communication. There are 162 respondents used as sample in this research. The data sampling technique uses Probability Sampling method with Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling. The analysis method that was used first for linear regression analysis was normality test. Then, the researchers conducted a validity and reliability test. The hypothesis test used significance test simultaneously and partial significance test. The research data was analysed through the SPSS 24 software. This test was conducted by seeing the value of F that was present in ANOVA table, significance level that was used was 0,05. Climate and satisfactory in communication developed a measurement in safety culture comprehensively that included safety culture instruments that was categorized into independent variables (X). It included safety culture indicators, safety culture climate, safety management system or situational, safety behaviour, and organizational communication.

Persons with disabilities are a vulnerable group when obtaining reliable information, particularly during the current Pandemic of COVID-19. This group needs accurate and dependable information related to the effort of prevention, treatment, and other information on the Pandemic. Each 34 provincial government of Indonesia has their own dedicated COVID-19 information websites providing such information to the public. This study attempt to find accessibility issues that would impact a person with disabilities on all 34 COVID-19 websites managed by each respective provincial government. This study uses aXe (https://www.deque.com), an online tool that measures the total accessibility issues, types of issues, and impacts on people with disabilities on a website. Most COVID-19 websites managed by the provincial government have shown many issues, indicating failure to comply with the web content accessibility guidelines. The biggest issue is insufficient color contrasts in elements and images and the absence of illustrative text, which are very important for a person with visual impairment. We also find that level of accessibility is not correlated with the number of visitors.

Based on Government Regulation Number 8 of 2016 concerning the Second Amendment to Government Regulation Number 60 of 2014 concerning Village Funds from the State Budget (APBN), village funds must be managed in an orderly, obedient, efficient, economical, effective, transparent and responsible manner by paying attention to the sense of justice and propriety and prioritizing the interests of the local community. Therefore, it is important to strengthen village institutions and village officials, so that they are qualified and empowered to carry out development. Indonesia has a total of 83,820 villages which need to be assisted so that the disbursed village funds are not wasted. This study uses a qualitative grounded theory approach by observing, interviewing 30 informants and analyzing village documents. The results of the study found that the human resource factor of the village head as a communicator, was more trusted by village institutions and the community because of his open, democratic communication style, willingness to accept suggestions/opinions and empathy according to the equalitarian style and the relinquishing style of communication. The government communication model in strengthening village institutions is a mentoring model where communication starts from regency and district. However, the strengthening has not been seen optimally because of the high dependence of village institutions and village officials on village heads and village assistants so that they are less independent. The use of messages is more face-to-face, using messages and WhatsApp with information functions that are more persuasive and educative.

The internet penetration rate in Indonesia reached 77.02% in the first quarter of 2022. The internet and social media are suitable media for the process of communication and political campaigns. With the growing number of users, social media TikTok becomes a new strategic tool for politicians to drive political narratives. One of the Indonesian politicians and state officials who use TikTok social media is Ganjar Pranowo, who is currently serving his second term as Governor of Central Java (2013-2023). Ganjar Pranowo was selected for review because of his electability in the top three positions in June 2022. This article aims to: 1) find out and analyze the politics of Ganjar Pranowo's image on the TikTok account @ganjarpranowofc by exploring the meaning of the messages contained in it; and 2) interpret the political image it displays through the impression received by the audience. This article was compiled using a descriptive qualitative method with a semiotic analysis approach model from Roland Barthes on the video content of the @ganjarpranowofc TikTok account. The results found: that video content was uploaded as a strategy for shaping Ganjar Pranowo's political image. The messages in the video show Ganjar Pranowo's charm who is close to the people, does actual work, balances world life with spirituality, shows social empathy, is friendly to the issue of diversity-child-women and is responsive to up-to-date issues. The uploaded videos also show the figure of Ganjar Pranowo, who enjoys his job as a governor who serves the community. The visual strategies used include 1) biographical strategy, 2) incumbent strategy, and 3) the strategy of the Head of Kagama. TikTok account @ganjarpranowofc is also managed professionally from pre-production to post-production.

The rapidly advancing technology and the emergence of new media give a new color to communication especially internet-based digital communication. To interact without any limitations of space or time, the main characteristics of new media are their interconnectedness, their access to individual audiences as recipients and senders of messages, their interactivity, their diverse uses as an open character, and their ubiquitous nature. The daily life of human beings, ranging from children to the elderly, cannot be separated from the role of digital communication that shapes the character of addictive behavior which will be difficult to control. This study aims to examine the effect of digital communication on TikTok play addiction behaviour among the students of the Putra Kita Private Elementary School (SDS) in Menteng, Central Jakarta. This study uses a quantitative approach. This study is conducted by testing two variables between the independent variable Digital Communication X and the dependent variable Addictive Behavior Y. The population of this study were SDS Putra Kita students. The sample size of this study includes 80 respondents, who were taken using a random sampling technique. The entire population had the same opportunity to become a sample. The sample was randomly selected to be a respondent. Based on the analysis of the coefficient of determination (adjusted R2) the adjusted R2 = 0.638. This means that there is a contribution to Digital Communication in influencing addiction behavior by 63%.