This study aimed to examine the role of environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy in influencing pro-environmental behaviour. Data were obtained through a survey of 72 students at one of the training centers in Malaysia. The hypothesized relationships were tested using partial least squares (PLS) methodology. Results showed that environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy positively influenced pro-environmental behaviour, thereby providing new insights to existing literature on environmental sustainability. The results may be used by educational institutions, the government, and private agencies to strengthen students’ knowledge, attitude, and behaviour that support environment-based education. The scope of the study was limited to students at a training center, so the results may not be generalizable to different settings. Another limitation was that the study used limited contextual elements. The novelty of this study is that it examined the role of environmental commitment, environmental consciousness, green lifestyle, and green self-efficacy as determinants of pro-environmental behaviour among students in an educational setting in Malaysia.

Today, the spread of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to impact on world public health and bring about considerable human suffering partly due to government policies on reducing the spread. COVID-19 has significantly affected human health and it has impacted on the occupation of vulnerable groups such as tour guides, drivers and shop assistants. Of these, the present study aims to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 self-isolation policy on the occupation of vulnerable groups in Semarang City, Indonesia. To achieve this objective, this study uses a qualitative method with an ethnography approach considering a rational or non-rational thinking model. The binary opposition thinking pattern pioneered by Lévi-Strauss was used in the interview process with 25 informants in Semarang City, Indonesia. The data analyzed the response pattern of informants through the taxonomy analysis. Three levels of vulnerability among groups relating to occupation were identified; jobs lost, income decreased, and delayed salary. The result of the analysis found that the group who obeyed self-isolation was categorized as a rational thinking; these groups stay at home, do not go to work, and have no income. Besides that, the group who ignored self-isolation is categorized as non-rational thinking; they work, as usual, get their salary, and believe that the COVID-19 pandemic is a disaster and they pray for their safety to God. In conclusion, COVID-19 brings a significant impact on occupation in the forms of postponing, declining, and missing income besides the health effects among vulnerable groups in Semarang city, Indonesia. In avoiding COVID-19 infection, the circumstances of vulnerable groups are worse when self-isolation is required. Thus, this study suggests that the government needs to assist vulnerable groups by focusing on strategic policies, such as strategies for survival, providing access to basic needs, including health, and offering livelihood plans by providing access to medical services and other source of income.

This research investigated Thrutuk, a traditional art from Semarang. Thrutuk is an art that started from the habits of the ancient Semarang people which is small-talk then came up with the idea of doing theatrics with patrol equipment which is Kenthongan. This research aims to describe cultural values, symbol system, thrutuk performance pattern, then studied about relevance to the character of Semarang’s people. This research used Clifford Geertz’s symbolic interpretative theory that culture is a value system, knowledge system, and symbol system. This type of research is qualitative research using an ethnographic approach and supported by quantitative data. The data used were obtained through interviews with artists, cultural observers, the government, as well as data in the form of articles discussing Javanese culture, Semarangan art, and art as identity. Data collection methods in the form of interviews, discussion group forums, observations, literature, and supported by qualitative data in the form of questionnaires. The analysis was conducted by interpreting data of researches (observations, interviews, and secondary data) in the context of socio-cultural weaknesses concerning the value systems and patterned action systems of the community concerned. The report form used is a descriptive analysis report. The results of the research are: cultural values reflecting coastal culture; symbol system that characterizes coastal Javanese culture; truthuk performance pattern consists of two forms; simple form and traditional form. As well as relevance to the culture of the Semarang people.

In the last two decades, northern coast Java Island occasionally experienced a tidal flood. One of area that affected by tidal flood is Pekalongan City, a small city in Central Java. Many studies have been conducted to investigate this issue. The area of investigation includes physical damage and people’s adaptation with tidal flood. This paper tries to explore people’s adaptation pattern in Pekalongan City with tidal flood. The meta-analysis approach was adopted as there are many papers that had investigated this phenomenon. This paper shows that community’s adaptation patterns in Pekalongan city tidal flood are divided into two response patterns, cognitive map and artifact patterns. These patterns have produced a new way of life or culture in the community. By understanding how people adaptation with tidal flood, hopefully, scientist and policymaker can bring more appropriate solution or policy to help people’s adaptation with tidal flood or how they minimize tidal flood effect in more sustainable way.

This article was written from the results of the study "Practices of Multicultural Journalism in Suara Merdeka Newspaper". This article reveals how environmental issues are packaged in the news through multicultural journalism conducted at Suara Merdeka Newspaper. This article is based on the assumption that news production always involves actors who have their imaginations, and a number of images are exchanged in the process of contestation and negotiation. The image becomes an entity that connects some interests which are outside media into the newspaper. Through the ethnographic method, this study reveals the dynamics of the relationship between actors that occur behind news writing. This study found that environmental issues have been successfully included as themes that meet the criteria for enforcing environmental purification and at the same time, criteria of the environment commodification. In terms of economics, this theme has relevance to the importance of economic growth driven through the use of the environment without destroying itself. While in criteria of environmental purification, bringing the issue of citizen rejection to the plan a cement plant is same as carrying out the mission of reducing activities of environmental exploitation.

The spread of the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic continues in impending world public health and bringing considerable human suffering. The present study investigates the vulnerable groups' reaction from informal sectors to the execution of the self-isolation policy of COVID-19 in Semarang City, Indonesia. This study is designed using a qualitative method with an ethnography approach. Using the binary opposition thinking pattern pioneered by Levi-Strauss, this study conducts the interview process with 25 informants in Semarang City. The data analysed using the response pattern of informants. We use the taxonomy analysis and finds three levels of vulnerability group; (a) jobs lost, (b) income decreased, and (c) delayed salary. The result of the analysis found that the group that obeys self-isolation is a rational thinking model. They stay at home, do not go to work, and no income. Also, the group who ignored self-isolation is a non-rational thinking model. They work, as usual, get their salaries, and believe that Covid-19 is a disaster; they pray for their safety to God. In conclusion, COVID 19 brings an economic impact on vulnerable groups in the forms of postponing, declining, and missing income. Even its circumstances are worse when self-isolation is forced. Thus, this study suggests that the government needs to assist vulnerable groups by focusing on strategic policies, such as strategies for survival, providing access to basic needs, and livelihood plans by providing access to improve livelihoods sustainably.