Regional development level assessment is a way of measuring the level of welfare of an administrative region. This research aims to identify the level of regional economic growth, the level of regional development and clustered region based on the characteristics of the region. The analyses used in this research are Klassen typology, scalogram, entropy diversity index (EDI) and clustering. The results of this study indicate that the region’s economic growth rate in the province of Aceh during the year 2010-2016 amounted to 2.30%. The level of regional development in Aceh province is divided into 3 hierarchies. From 2011-2014, there are 3 regions that have developed to become more developed areas including the following: Banda Aceh City, Langsa City, and Sabang City referred to as Hierarchy I. There is also a negative development trend occurred in Aceh Singkil Regency as it has transformed from Hierarchy II to Hierarchy III. The Province of Aceh has the same level of economic activity in each regency which is dominated by the agricultural sector. Aceh Utara Regency is the region that has the most evenly distributed economic activity, while Sabang City is the region that has the most unequal distribution. Based on the regional characteristics, the cluster analysis in Aceh Province has identified 3 groups including the following: Group I (3 regencies), Group II (11 regencies), and Group III (9 regencies).

This study aims to determine the framing of the news in the Kompas and the Republika newspapers on the debates of the presidential and vicepresidential candidates in the 2019 elections in the Republic of Indonesia. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method comprising the framing analysis developed by Zongdang Pan and Gerald M. Kosicki which suggests four analytical tools, namely Syntactic, Script, Thematic and Rhetorical structures. The results showed that the Kompas newspaper reported the presidential and vice-presidential debates in a balanced and neutral manner, because the owners of this media were not affiliated with any political interests in the 2019 presidential elections. The Republika newspaper constructed the news of the presidential and vicepresidential debates by giving coverage to news in favour of the presidential election of Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin. This is influenced by media ownership factors, as its owner, Erick Thohir is a chairman of the National Winning Team (TKN) for Jokowi and Ma'ruf Amin.