The main problem of vocational secondary school graduates is unemployment or inactive youth. Apart from developing their ability, external support, particularly from their parents, is also important for students in a collectivistic country like Indonesia. Therefore, this study aims to predict the role of psychological capital and perceived student-parent career congruences to the employability development of vocational secondary school students. Participants were 317 final-year students from rural private vocational secondary schools in Indonesia, 46.23% male and 31.76% female. They were 17-19 years old, mean age of 17.21 and standard deviation of 0.64. The data were analyzed by hierarchical regression analysis. We found that psychological capital and student-parent career congruences were indeed significantly correlated with employability development in the vocational secondary school students. These findings are beneficial for vocational schools in preparing the school program to improve students' psychological ability and work readiness. The results also give some insights for parents to provide facilitative support for their children to make them more employable as vocational graduates.

Health information is a commodity heavily sought by Indonesians because of the increasing consciousness of a healthy lifestyle. However, the circulation of health information is consistently disrupted by misinformation and disinformation, particularly on social media and chatting platforms such as WhatsApp. Identified misinformation and disinformation can be found on the official web page run by the Ministry of Communication and Information (https://trustpositif.kominfo.go.id/). Digital information exchange often involves health care workers; they are considered a credible source of health information. The purpose of this study was to delineate the attitudes of health care workers toward health information, determined by gender, educational attainment, and age differences. Health information in this study was information circulated on WhatsApp. We divided the age differences into four digital generations: baby boomers and Generations X, Y, and Z. We used the t-test and analysis of education and age differences when using the analysis of variance to demonstrate the differences among determinants factors of respondents—617 health care workers in West Java—in using WhatsApp when receiving and sharing health information. The results support that attitudes toward health information are determined by education attainment and differences in generation and that gender differences have no effect.

MEA (Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN) menjadi sangat dibutuhkan untuk memperkecil kesenjangan antara negara-negara ASEAN dalam hal pertumbuhan perekonomian dengan meningkatkan ketergantungan anggota-anggota didalamnya. MEA dapat mengembangkan konsep meta-nasional dalam rantai suplai makanan, dan menghasilkan blok perdagangan tunggal yang dapat menangani dan bernegosiasi dengan eksportir dan importir non-ASEAN. MEA juga akan mempercepat pertumbuhan ekonomi, kemajuan sosial dan pengembangan budaya. Dalam rangka menjawab tantangan MEA tersebut, tentu saja hal ini tidak terlepas dari keterlibatan berbagai pihak dalam menyelesaikan permasalahan yang ada. Perlu adanya suatu perencanaan, konsep yang tertata, serta partisipasi antara pihak pemerintah, swasta dan akademisi. Salah satu upaya pihak akademisi dalam menghadapi tantangan MEA adalah menyiapkan suatu konsep yang tertata dalam hal pelatihan & pengembangan SDM, sehingga konsep tersebut bisa dilaksanakan oleh pihak-pihak yang terkait. Pelatihan & Pengembangan SDM merupakan hal yang sangat penting dalam meningkatkan kualitas SDM, karena pada dasarnya setiap manusia dapat “diasah”, dilatih dan dikembangkan.

Gross enrolment rate of the participation of Indonesian children in Early Childhood Education has been increasing significantly every year. Ideally, it should be followed by an increase in children's readiness for elementary school as its main goal. However, the readiness of new students in the first grade of elementary school is still considered low in some aspects. The objectives of this research are to: 1) explore the perception of children's readiness for elementary school, according to the paradigm of teachers and parents, and 2) describe the aspects and indicators that are considered important for children's readiness for elementary school. The methodology of this research used qualitative case study. Participants involved amounted to 83, consisted of 43 teachers and 40 parents. Data were collected through Focus Group Discussion in teacher and parent groups also observations during group discussion process. The results of the study conclude three issues related to the children's readiness for elementary school: 1) readiness of children for elementary school in Indonesia is perceived dominant in the academic domain, 2) there are 6 aspects, 20 sub-aspects and 83 indicators of children's readiness for elementary school which were formulated in this study. Additional aspects cover moral and religious values. This also becomes the 'state of the art' of this research which may not be found in the concept of elementary school readiness in other countries.

Educational and cultural development is strongly influenced by external conditions such as social, cultural, economic, technological, and political. So, there is a strong need to educate their effect. Some of the effects of external conditions on education and culture can be explained. a higher population puts Indonesia in an increasingly important position in the global arena. In Indonesia, this wonder happens in light of the fact that the procedure of statistic progress that created since a couple of years back was quickened by our accomplishment in diminishing fruitfulness rates, improving the nature of wellbeing and the achievement of improvement programs since the New Order time as of recently. Along these lines, Indonesia has a statistic reward which is a reward or opportunity (fateful opening) appreciated by a nation because of the huge extent of the beneficial populace (age extend 15-64 years) in the development of the populace it encounters. At that point a parameter called "reliance proportion", which is the proportion that shows the correlation among beneficial and non-gainful age gatherings. This proportion likewise shows what number of inefficient individuals whose lives must be borne by the gainful age gathering. The lower the dependency ratio of a country, the more the country is to get a demographic bonus as future development capital.