Multimedia Nusantara University

Risk perception is a key predictor of the preceptors' intention to evaluate risk, treat and reduce risks, and adopt protective behavior. Using the photovoice method, this study examines risk perception among junior and senior high school students in three schools regarding their experiences with disasters. The thematic analysis found that children experience affective responses such as trauma, fear when alone, and feeling secure when their parents are around during a disaster. Schools and disaster advocates need to understand children's risk perception to enhance existing disaster education and preparedness strategies.

This article analyzes the long-term relationship between Islam and media in Indonesia through the lens of mediatization. While most research on the mediatization of religion is grounded in Western secular contexts, this study examines how the process unfolds in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority country, whose religious life and cultural dynamics differ significantly from the Arab world. Using a historical approach, this study traces the evolution of Islamic media from the early twentieth century to the digital era, encompassing prints, broadcast programming, and social media platforms. The findings show that the interaction between Islam and media in Indonesia is a gradual, negotiated transformation shaped by political shifts, technological change, and evolving religious authority. Instead of producing secularization, successive media formats have enabled the continual rearticulation and popularization of Islamic values. New actors such as televangelists and digital preachers have emerged, challenging traditional authorities and prompting adaptations in religious practice to fit media formats and audience expectations. Although commercialization and algorithms sometimes result in a banalized expressions of religion, media developments also create new participatory spaces for religious engagement and personal piety. The study offers a non-Western model of mediatization grounded in Indonesia’s unique media and religious landscape.

Purpose: This study aims to explain how The Pandawara Group constructs, disseminates, and negotiates environmental discourse through TikTok and YouTube content by analysing the language strategies and narrative structures they use in describing the environmental activist with the largest number of followers in Indonesia. Methods: This study uses a qualitative approach with Teun A. van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis. Teun A. van Dijk’s discourse analysis was chosen because it can read texts, social cognition, and social context simultaneously. The Pandawara Group’s YouTube and TikTok content analysed consists of videos announcing polluted locations, which serve as calls to action, documentation of clean-up activities in the field, and clarification posts when criticism or rejection arises from local government or communities. Findings: The findings show that the Pandawara Group successfully portrays environmental issues as a shared moral obligation through inclusive language, persuasive calls to action, and visual before-and-after comparisons that encourage mass voluntary participation. Their rhetoric strategically shifts the conversation from blame to cooperation, allowing them to negotiate socio-political resistance and strengthen legitimacy in the digital public sphere. Originality: This study addresses a gap in prior research, which largely treats collective-action narratives alone, by proposing a dual-narrative framework that combines collective mobilization with discursive resistance-clarification, analysed by van Dijk’s three-level model. Extending connective action theory, it explains how non-institutional Gen Z activists negotiate legitimacy and manage socio-political backlash while sustaining mass participation.

The important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is well recognized, yet many struggle to sustain their operations. This study aims to identify factors influencing SMEs’ performance by combining the resource-based view (RBV), resilience theory, and dynamic capability. A quantitative study involving 251 SMEs in Indonesia was conducted. Smart-PLS was used to analyze the measurement model of constructs and the structural model. This study revealed that digital capability, innovation capability, and organizational resilience strongly influence SMEs’ performance in Indonesia. Meanwhile, transformational leadership strongly and positively influences digital and innovation capabilities, as well as organizational resilience. This study also supports the positive influence of digital and innovation capabilities on organizational resilience. Furthermore, it reveals that digital capability has a positive association with innovation capability. However, this study fails to confirm a significant relationship between transformational leadership and firm performance. This study brings theoretical significance through the integration of RBV, particularly dynamic capability and resilience theory, providing insights into the complex factors affecting SMEs’ performance. It expands the existing literature by clarifying the interrelationships among digital capability, innovation capability, organizational resilience, and transformational leadership. From a practical standpoint, the study offers valuable guidance for SMEs, policymakers, and practitioners. Policymakers can develop targeted strategies to assist SMEs in cultivating digital and innovation capabilities, while practitioners can capitalize on the positive impact of transformational leadership in bolstering digital capability, innovation capability, and organizational resilience.

Traditional retail sector SMEs are financially susceptible to risks and encounter considerable obstacles in obtaining financial resources. This study investigates the determinants and outcomes of FinTech adoption among traditional retail market SMEs operating in Indonesia, with a focus on how technological and financial factors affect access to finance and organizational performance. Data were acquired from 210 traditional market vendors using a quantitative research design and judgmental sampling. The research utilized Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the interrelations among critical constructs: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social impact, FinTech adoption, financial access, and the efficacy of conventional retail small and medium-sized enterprises. The findings demonstrate that all three antecedents significantly affect the adoption of FinTech. The implementation of FinTech significantly improves access in financial services, which in turn boosts business performance. These results highlight the strategic significance of cultivating digital financial ecosystems to enhance the competitiveness of SMEs in the traditional retail sector, promote financial inclusion, and strengthen economic resilience.