Social media has a significant impact on political and social life, particularly in policy making. In order to examine social media use in policy making, the researchers obtained and analyzed data on Twitter or Facebook using a NodeXL program from January to June 2016 in three ASEAN cities, Bandung (Indonesia), Iligan (Philippines) and Pukhet (Thailand). Research found that Bandung City has made significant achievement at the engagement level by engaging with the city community in daily city affairs. Meanwhile, Iligan City and Pukhet City are still in the stage of transforming their respective internal organizations. The pivotal factors of social media use in three cities is top and middle leader role, legal standing for social media use, policy framework and internal change management

This study aims to analyze social media protests and resistance to the Job Creation Bill policy and the problem of a government coup. The protests and resistance in Indonesia were in the form of the Job Creation Bill in October 2020. Meanwhile, the protests and resistance in Myanmar in February 2021 were related to the Military Coup. The objects analyzed are related to the use of social media platforms to discuss the Rejection of the Omnibus law Bill on Job Creation in Indonesia and the Military's Rejection of the Government Coup in Myanmar. The method used in this research is a qualitative method with an analytical approach to Qualitative Data Analysis Software (Q-DAS). The data source in this study uses secondary data by taking data from social media, Twitter. The findings in this study include the narratives and themes and the reactions of Myanmar and Indonesia using social media to convey the history of resistance. Second, the relationship between the hashtags of protest and resistance in Myanmar is more substantial than in Indonesia. This shows that the relationship between Hastags and Myanmar is more potent than in Indonesia. Third, the distinctive narratives and use of hashtags displayed in Indonesia and Myanmar are connected with different hashtags with the same goal of protest and resistance in each country. In both cases, social media relationships are prominently displayed. Research Limitation is data limited on social media data.

This study aims to look at the factors that drive the Jakarta BRT public transportation to be of interest. This research method uses qualitative methods, data sources in this study include (satudatajakarta.com), (transjakarta.com) and (opendata.com), this study also uses the qualitative data analysis software (QDSA) NVivo 12 plus method. The results of this study answer the increase in the number of TransJakarta users driven by the number of modern infrastructure and integrated transportation systems. Management of information through social media, websites, and applications encourages the quality of TransJakarta services, trans-Jakarta users can access information quickly about location and information on Transjakarta. Keywords: Transjakarta, BRT, Management, Infrastructure.

Studi ini membahas resolusi konflik kepemilikan asset daerah antara Kabupaten Tasikmalaya dengan Kota Tasikmalaya. Tujuan penulisan ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana proses resolusi konflik yang dilakukan oleh kedua pemerintah daerah tersebut setelah adanya pertemuan antara pihak Gubernur Jawa Barat, Bupati Tasikmalaya, dan Walikota Tasikmalaya pada tahun 2013, dan Kejaksaan Negeri pada tahun 2019. Dalam menulis artikel ini penulis menggunakan metode penelitian studi literatur. Hasil dari penulisan ini menjelaskan faktor-faktor apa saja yang menjadi penyebab terjadinya konflik sengketa perbutan aset dan metode-metode yang digunakan dalam menyelesaikan konflik tersebut.

Local Politics Post-Reform Era: The Roles of Muhammadiyah in the 2004-2014 DPD’s Election in Yogyakarta Special Regions, Indonesia

After the big bang of democratization, Indonesia has been employing a dramatic decentralization practice in Indonesia nationwide. Since 1999, Indonesia has been electing for representative council (DPR RI) and regional representation so called DPD RI in very direct way. This paper aims to analyse the DPD's election in Yogyakarta special region of Indonesia in the competition process among the different group interests which are Islamic group (Muhammadiyah, NU, PKS), Kraton /aristocrat interest, and nationalist group interest (PDI-P). Those groups are the big four that have been playing important role in the competition in DPD election sequentially in 2004, 2009, and 2014. In Yogyakarta special region, four member of DPD since the first election has been represented by three Islamic group both modern and traditional ones and by Yogyakarta palace. this paper more focus on the 2014 election which were followed by more competitor from Pakualaman palace, and also from nationalist group that have same mass with the Palace. this competition was really interesting to explain, how people decide their representative members and how different group compete each other in this election. Also, what strategy and by manner they collect voters in this individual basedindividual candidate election. From the field research, It can be concluded at least there are three point (1) each candidate was strongly endorsed by established organization and community to support for the election since 2004. So, four incumbent easy won the competition; (2) the success team have many thing in common for example the focus on the core of supporter (basis masa) by using strategy 'by name by address list"; and lastly (3) they were employing any symbolic that really easy to understand for the common people such as Islamic value, organization value, ideology, etc. by adopting many social activity and ritual in promoting candidates for example club goods, voluntary organization, and other forms of informal communities.