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Politics, coming back to its original meaning which might be defined as influencing other people and which is involves the making of a common decision for people, then, life is never politics-free. When we are thinking, we are contributing in the political life, how to influence or how to be influenced, how to make a decision in life or how to follow a decision. Politics contain of many dimensions, one might think politics in a negative or positive way depending on which dimensions he stick the politics with. Political party is one of the main institutions in the political life which used in practicing the democracy as the representative system needed by the community. It used as a media to transfer the political messages from the community to the government, as peoples' media to send their aspiration to the people 'above', which existence is influencing the development of the policies of the country depending on its effectiveness. As a Muslim-Largest country, Islam has a very important role in Indonesia's political zone. Though, not everything that has an "Islam" name is able to completely represent Islamic values and so some "non-Islam" might also represent Islamic ethical values. The point of this article is to focus more on how is the relationship between politics and Islam in Indonesia by observing the development of Islamic Political Parties and its phenomena. It will be well observed by the historic-phenomenology approach, which is describing and observing the history of Islamic Political Parties in Indonesia and the social facts that happened in the society

Muhammadiyah is one of the Islamic organizations in Indonesia. The existence of Elections in Indonesia's national history were carried out several times, namely during the Old Order era, namely 1955, the New Order period 1971, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992 and 1997. Elections for a democratic country like Indonesia are very important because elections are a channel for people's aspirations. Elections that have been held in Indonesia have their own characteristics with differing democratic levels, so the truth of the argument needs to be proven in order to obtain an accurate answer. The results obtained from this study that the implementation of general elections in the Old Order period can already be categorized as democratic elections, with the many parties participating in the general election signifying the existence of freedom in political life, whereas during the New Order the democratic period faded along with the power of the Suharto regime which always curbed the political life of the Indonesian nation, the implementation of the general election during the Reformation especially the 2004 general election was more democratic because the implementation of the election could represent the aspirations of the people especially with the electoral system which was different from the previous election because with a combination of district and proportional systems then the people can know and know what people's representatives will like to channel their aspirations.

Tourism is one sector that has helped support the Indonesian economy. Effort have been made to improve the quality of tourism in Indonesia, and to specific areas of the country. Practically all major Indonesian cities have their own branding strategies to increase the city's appeal and attractiveness (Parkerson and Saunders, 2004). The growth of specific intend tourism object such as golf, rafting and also MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Exhibition) which show some proofs to get foreign and domestic tourists attention to come to East Java and Surabaya as well. Globalization led to a growing number of tourists worldwide, there are an increasing number of tourists coming to Indonesia, spesifically to the city of Surabaya. In the year of 2008 there are 48,417 tourists coming to Surabaya. And in the year of 2009 that number increased to 136,539 tourists, 116,829 tourists in 2010 and 83,247 in 2011. Of all those numbers, most of them coming to Surabaya for their MICE activities. In 2008, about 63% of them coming to Surabaya to do their MICE activities. That percentage increased to 82% in 2009, 84% in 2010 then in 2011 increased to 85%. Indonesian government has set up 10 MICE destination cities, which one of them is the city of Surabaya. Looking at this big potential growth of MICE industry, it is important to improve the element of hospitality in Surabaya in supporting the growth of MICE industry, both for domestic and international tourists. This research has a purpose to describe through analyzing the preparation of Surabaya which has "Sparkling Surabaya" as its city branding. In advance, as the conclusion, it will be discussed about the obstacles and the solutions of marketing strategy to enhance the city branding of Surabaya.

SME has a very important role to boost economic growth in Indonesia. The Indonesian government through the enterprises owned by government (BUMN) create a partnership program to support SME growth through capital assistance and also training regularly. However, the growth of SME is not optimal yet. One importance factor that determines the success of SME is the role of leadership, such as framing the challenge, absorbing uncertainty, building commitment, specifying limit and path clearing, such roles are importance factors in determining successful of the business and also support the sustainable value creation of business. This research using quantitative approach, include 119 SMEs owner as research sample. Data analyses by Partial Least Square (PLS). Result of the research, indicate that four components of entrepreneurial leadership, framing the challenge, absorbing uncertainty, building commitment and specifying limit, have a significantly influencing sustainable value creation, and one component call path clearing, indicate insignificant in affecting value creation. The result of this research realize that its very importance for the owner and also a manager of the SME have a good entrepreneurial leadership, specially framing the challenge, absorbing uncertainty, building commitment, specifying limit and path clearing components as a role to increase the success of the business through value creation as well.

This study investigates the differences between the SOEs and non-SOEs financial performance and how the presidential election affects their performance. This study uses 3,716 firm-year observations for firms listed on the Indonesian Stock Exchange from 2001 to 2014 as the final sample and uses regression to test the hypotheses. In Indonesia, on average, about 25 parties involved in the presidential election in the past three elections. Due to the complexity of the data collection, this study omits the effect of the unique political parties that also could affect the performance of SOE. This study finds that SOEs outperform financial performance of non-SOEs over the sample periods. Interestingly, this study also finds that the excellent financial performance of SOEs disappears around the election period. It indicates that being a board member of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is a political position rather than a professional position. For policymakers, these results indicate that election periods influence (reduce) the financial performance of SOEs in Indonesia. This study enhances our understanding of how presidential elections affect the performance of SOEs in Indonesia.

Administration as a science has a general nature and universal in the sense of having the same elements, wherever and whenever science of administration is set. But in fact, its found a wide variety and indication of administration that contained in some groups of society from one nation or among various nations. Growth in developing countries ecology administration since 1950, where the problem is the environment which has a variety of aspects that need estabilishing which aspects are relevant for system of state administration or the nationalities. Even in a system of state administration was still found subsystem administration of a group of society who came from thr territory of a certain country, seemingly there was a relationship of influence between administration of a part of the terriory with the surrounding community, both the physical environment and community circles viewed from the science of biology, its an ecology that studies the relationship of reciprocal influence between the natural surroundings with a living organism.

History of 1948 military coup d'etat of Indonesian Communist Party in Madiun

Acceptance of technology for consumers is still an interesting part to be investigated to date. Although the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been widely referred by researchers from various sciences, there are still weaknesses that can be investigated, including not fully answering the problems related to cognitive and affective factors in understanding consumer behavior. The purpose of this study is to develop and test an integrated model to determine the intention of consumers to use technology. The object used is the go-pay application as e-Wallet-based Electronic Money which is one of the relatively new technology products as an alternative means of payment or transaction and is part of the National Non-Cash Movement by the government of the Republic of Indonesia. Modeling in this study, integrating the TAM model by involving affective factors namely Pleasure, Arousal, and Dominance (PAD) theory, and prior experience variables as a direct effect on perceived usefulness and attitude toward usage, then its effect on adoption intention. The sample in this study is millennial age people who have known go-pay in areas of East Java with a total sample of 270 respondents. Collecting data through questionnaires using a Likert scale with analysis techniques using Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of this study indicate that Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Easy of Use, Pleasure, and Arousal have a positive effect on attitude and intention to use go-pay, while Prior Experience supports perceived usefulness, but does not support attitude, neither does Dominance support the attitude of using gopay.

The paper explores creativity, innovation and competitiveness of batik creative industry in keeping of existence in global market. Purposes of this research are to identify how creativity, innovation and competitiveness of batik crafter encounter to global market and to produce the model. Through 7 informants (3 batik associates, 4 retailers) we analyzed and explicated the assumptions of creativity, innovation and competitiveness by locating the study within the interpretive research paradigm and exemplifying the global market that has impacts on batik industries recently. This study also acknowledges and addresses the government roles in supporting of creativity, innovation and competitiveness to encounter global market.