Learning academic writing seems to be a great challenge for most English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in non-native English-speaking countries, including in Indonesia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the issue appears to be more challenging where teachers are persuaded to learn from their home environment (LHE). Several online applications are freely available, and one of the most common applications is Google Classroom. However, the use of such application towards the students’ performance and perception remains understudied. This research aimed at exploring the practices of Google Classroom in facilitating the Academic Writing course of EFL undergraduates. Engaged by 96 participants of third-year students in the English Education Program, the research conducted an explanatory sequential research design by correlating the results data on writing assignments and a set of questionnaires. The findings indicated a significant correlation between using Google Classroom and the students’ writing performance. Moreover, most students expressed their satisfaction with Google Classroom’s practical features to get involved in the academic writing course. The students were satisfied with Google Classroom’s features that were easy to be recognized and easy to be operated. The Google Classroom features also provide clear instructions, practical directions, and the most valuable feature, that is assignment reminders for the students. It can be said that using Google Classroom in the EFL academic writing course at higher education is a great experience and brings great advantages to students’ outcomes.

AbstrakIndonesia menghadapi jumlah penduduk lanjut usia (lansia) yang semakin meningkat dan diikuti oleh peningkatan frekuensi penyakit tidak menular kronis atau multimorbiditas. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui prevalensi dan faktor yang berhubungan komplikasi kronis pada lansia penderita diabetes melitus. Penelitian ini menggunakan data Riset Kesehatan Dasar (Riskesdas) Tahun 2007 dengan desain cross sectional representatif Indonesia dan metode cluster 2 tahap untuk pengambilan sampel. Sampel adalah 1.565 lansia penderita diabetes melitus. Metode analisis yang digunakan meliputi analisis deskriptif dan multivariat. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa prevalensi komplikasi kronis pada lansia adalah sekitar 73,1%, dengan hipertensi sebagai komplikasi terbanyak. Berdasarkan analisis multivariat diketahui pula bahwa faktor-faktor yang berhubungan dengan komplikasi diabetes adalah usia, jenis kelamin, obesitas, merokok, dan aktivitas fisik dan faktor utama yang berhubungan adalah merokok (OR = 2,48). Hasil penelitian menyarankan program untuk mencegah kesakitan dan komplikasi diabetes pada lansia perlu ditingkatkan. Saat ini program Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia yaitu CERDIK meliputi cek kesehatan secara berkala, enyahkan asap rokok, rajin berolahraga, diet sehat kalori seimbang, istirahat yang cukup dan kendalikan stres perlu diperluas. Kata kunci: Diabetes, komplikasi kronis, lansia Abstract Indonesia faces a growing number of elderly people is increasing, with increasing elderly, not infectious diseases increase chronic or multimorbidity, there by the study has aims to explore the prevalence of Chronic Complications on elderly with diabetes mellitus and related factors. The research used data from National Basic Health Research 2007. National Basic Health Research is a cross-sectional design survey, two stage cluster method for sampling. The result is shown that the prevalence of chronic complication on the elderly with diabetes mellitus is 73.1%. Hypertension disease is the most of chronic complication that has been frequent appeared on elderly with diabetes mellitus. Based on multivariate analysis revealed to diabetes mellitus complication related with age, gender, obesity, smoking, and physical activity. The study purposes to emphasize of prevention and promotion program such as CERDIK program from Ministry of Health, Republic of Indonesia. The CERDIK program has many intervention programs, for example, reducing smoking, delegating regularly exercise, balancing healthy-diet calorie, resting and taking control of stress. Keywords: Diabetes, complications chronic, elderly PendahuluanAngka rata-rata harapan hidup penduduk di dunia telah meningkat secara drastis. Saat ini, di Indonesia, proporsi lanjut usia (lansia) yang berusia di atas 90 tahun diperkirakan mencapai 1,2% dari total penduduk. Jumlah tersebut telah meningkat 400% dari sensus tahun 1990. Angka harapan hidup orang tertua di dunia mencapai 115 tahun pada wanita dan pada pria lebih singkat. 1 Peningkatan ini berdampak pada transisi ep...

Pasal 18B ayat (2) UUD NRI Tahun 1945 mengamanatkan perlindungan konstitusional terhadap kesatuan masyarakat hukum adat. Namun, perlindungan kontitusional KMHA belum mewujudkan keadilan bagi KMHA itu sendiri. Penelitian ini menggunaan pendekatan sosio-legal, dalam rangka menjawab masalah yang diteliti. Faktor-faktor penyebab belum terwujudknya keadilan bagi KMHA Sedulur Sikep adalah: (1) Belum adanya Undang-Undang khusus tentang KMHA serta keragaman Istilah yang dipakai untuk menyebutkan KMHA, (2) Ego sektoral para pihak, (3) Pengakuan keberadaan KMHA Sedulur Sikep Pati belum dituangkan didalam Perda. Ketiga alasan tersebut berdampak pada konflik yang sering terjadi antara pemerintah dengan KMHA Sedulur Sikep. Constitutional Protection of Indigenous Community in Achieving Social Justice Article 18B paragraph (2) of the Indonesia Constitution 1945 mandates the constitutional protection towards indigenous communities. However, the protection still cannot bring justice for the community. This research uses a socio-legal approach in order to answer research questions. The factors of why Sedulur Sikep Community has not get justice are: (1) There is no any specified law regarding indigenous community and various terminology used to refer to the indigenous  community groups; (2) The sectoral ego of the involved parties (3) The recognition of Sedulur Sikep Community has not been embodied into Regional Regulations. Those three factors result the conflicts oftenly happens between the regional government and the Sedulur Sikep Community, which depict a clear gap between them.

Berdasarkan penelitian, rata-rata Ibu tidak dapat memberikan ASI secara eksklusif bukan karena ibu tidak mau memberikan ASI tetapi ASI ibu yang keluar tidak lancar. Faktor yang mempengaruhi kelancaran ASI ibu dapat berasal dari tingkat stres. Suami memiliki sumbangan yang besar terhadap tingkat stress Ibu. Peran suami yang baik dapat menurunkan tingkat stres ibu dan meningkatkan rasa bahagia yang dapat melancarkan produksi ASI. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui peran Ayah ASI yang dapat mempengaruhi keberhasilan praktik ASI eksklusif serta melihat bagaimana ekskpektasi ibu dan peran ayah dalam mendukung praktik ASI eksklusif.  Metode penelitian ini menggunakan desain cross sectional yang dilakukan di wilayah kerja Puskesmas 23 Ilir sebagai daerah terendah ASI eksklusif di Kota Palembang. Sampel adalah pasangan suami istri sebanyak 60 pasang yang terdiri dari 60 ibu dan 60 ayah. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa 68,3% ibu yang memberikan ASI secara eksklusif. Berdasarkan hasil statistic diketahui dukungan fisik antara sudut pandang ibu dan ayah yang paling tinggi gap nya (p-value < 0,001) sedangkan dukungan yang paling diinginkan ibu adalah dukungan emosional dengan skor 7,5. Para ayah atau suami memiliki peran yang besar terhadap keberhasilan ASI eksklusif . Ayah dapat lebih banyak memberikan dukungan emosional pada ibu seperti memuji, tidak memberikan kritik terhadap bentuk tubuh, dan membahagiakan hati ibu agar hormon oksitoksin dapat diproduksi dengan lancar dan ASI yang keluar akan ikut lancar.

Communication skill nowadays becomes a must that everyone should master. The agreement of such conceptual meaning in communication should meet the same perception among speakers. One of the tools to improve one’s communication skill is by learning pronunciation through Reading Aloud for misperception emerged from mispronunciation can be avoided. This research aims at improving English pronunciation through reading aloud in the form of short texts. The research was carried out in Statistics Data Center (BPS) by employing A Classroom Action Research with two cycles of assessments. There were 20 IT engineers of Networking Operation Center with various background of knowledge as an object of the research. The data was collected by observation, note taking, and test. Questionnaire is designed and administered to identify the participants’ core and frequency of English tasks and also to investigate participants’ previous experiences with English. Findings show that there is an improvement on participants’ pronunciation skill through Reading Aloud as it can be seen from the increase of a mean score on the second cycle with 77.75 that is considered as good predicate.