This study aims to analyze the implementation of Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections, strategies implemented by political parties, and supporting and inhibiting factors in the affirmative action quota of 30% women's representation in Bungo Regency, Jambi, in the 2024 elections. The background of this study is based on the fact that female DPRD members in Bungo Regency are only 14.3%, which is relatively low. The successful implementation of the affirmative quota policy of 30% women's representation in the general election requirements has been administratively supported by the active participation of women as legislative candidates in strengthening the principle of gender equality in the local political ecosystem. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with a case study approach. Data collection techniques were carried out through in-depth interviews with the General Election Commission, 5 political parties, and 5 elected female DPRD members for the 2024-2029 period from the PKB faction, the Gerindra Party, the Nasdem Party, the Democratic Party, and the Golkar Party. Data were collected from various literature, written documents, and field research through observation and in-depth interviews. This study employed four stages of data analysis: data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and data verification. The results indicate that the five parties met the 30% quota for women's representation, and the other participating parties in the election, as stipulated in Law Number 7 of 2017 concerning General Elections in Bungo Regency, had fulfilled the administrative requirements declared by the General Elections Commission. However, the number of women actually elected as members of the Bungo Regency Regional People's Representative Council remains far from proportional. This is due to the open proportional system in elections based on the majority vote, which hinders female candidates from being hindered by the practice of money politics, the existence of gender-biased religious groups, the quality of human resources of irrational voters, patriarchal culture, and local primordialism.
International student mobility research has largely focused on movement from the Global South to the Global North, leaving South-South mobility, including Indonesia as a host destination, comparatively unexamined. This qualitative study investigates the anticipated social remittances of Sudanese and Egyptian postgraduate students in Indonesia: the knowledge, practices, and civic norms they expect to carry home. Drawing on data from ten participants (five Sudanese, five Egyptian) and reflexive thematic analysis, most were found already engaged in informal sharing, mainly via WhatsApp, though only some carried clear developmental intent rather than incidental cultural exchange. Anticipated extensions remained at the idea or informal-discussion stage, consistent with participants' early program stage, and nearly all insisted anything brought home would need local adaptation. Perceptions of home-country receptivity diverged by nationality: Egyptian participants described stable bureaucratic and cultural resistance, while Sudanese participants described a landscape reshaped by ongoing conflict, marked less by pessimism than by reordered priorities and, in one case, a new opening for the digital knowledge-preservation systems observed in Indonesia. The study extends social remittances theory to a temporary, credential-seeking population in a South-South context and offers early evidence on how home-country conditions, including active crisis, shape what students believe they can carry home.
Teaching Introduction to Philosophy to Indonesian students faces at least these three challenges: first, the challenge of patchiness: students know philosophy patchy and erratic because they are never introduced properly to philosophical thinking; second, the challenge of digital nativity: students are part of Gen Z that are constrained with digital world; third, the challenge of inequal starting points: students come from different background as they are coming from different part of the Indonesian archipelago. To address these challenges, this study demonstrates the effectiveness of integrating three distinct pedagogical approaches simultaneously: Flipped Classroom, Refracted and Socratic Learning. We will show that from the theoretical framework, these approaches are surprisingly connected to each other, and from the experimental study, students perceive these approaches positively. Utilizing a qualitative case study framework backed by diverse data points, this paper explores the experimental application of these approaches and highlights how favorably students perceived the intervention.
Red and White Cooperative Program is a national initiative launched on July 21, 2025, to strengthen the people's economy based on villages and villages. As a buffer city with the highest GDP in West Java (IDR 129.35 trillion in 2024) but facing a spike in poverty (129,540 people as of March 2025), Bekasi City recorded implementation achievements that lag behind the surrounding areas. This paradox is even more prominent considering that KKMP at the village level should have a greater chance of implementation because it does not intersect with Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) as happens at the village level. This research aims to identify the main opportunities and challenges and formulate a strategy for the implementation of the KKMP program in Bekasi City. Using a qualitative approach with a case study method, data was collected through in-depth interviews with six key informants as well as qualitative questionnaires to 10 respondents from six cooperatives. The analysis uses a SWOT framework quantified through the IFAS-EFAS matrix, based on the theory of Rogers' Innovation Diffusion (2003) and the Implementation of the Van Meter & Van Horn Policy. IFAS-EFAS mapping puts KKMP at coordinates (−0.289; −0.151) in the W-T Quadrant, with five recommended integrated strategies: policy advocacy, strengthening legality, cluster-based organizational structuring, operational efficiency, and member market segmentation.
Indigenous farming knowledge remains central to the climate resilience of smallholder agriculture in rural Zimbabwe. This study examined how smallholder farmers in Mutoko and Gweru districts use indigenous knowledge to respond to rainfall variability, prolonged dry spells, rising temperatures and declining water availability. A qualitative method and exploratory design were employed. Purposive sampling was used to select 60 smallholder farmers, comprising 30 participants from each district. Data were collected through in-depth face-to-face interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation, and were analysed thematically. The findings show that farmers rely on crop diversification, crop rotation, drought-tolerant crops, early land preparation, mulching, local seed preservation, water harvesting and riverside-well irrigation to reduce climatic risks and sustain production. Indigenous knowledge was also transmitted through intergenerational learning, farmer networks and community institutions. The study concludes that indigenous farming knowledge is a dynamic resource that should be integrated equitably into agricultural extension, climate adaptation policy and rural development planning frameworks.
