Abstract. The development of infrastructure in developing country such as Malaysia was increasingly founded by the Public -Private Partnership (PPP) scheme. Collaboration with private sector has become popular as a means to improve the delivery of public facilities. Yet, empirical evidence on how PPP initiative has benefits the delivery of public facilities within Malaysia context is lagging. The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the perception of stakeholders on the benefits of adopting PPP in delivering public facilities in Malaysia. Literature review was carried out to identify PPP benefits, which were then incorporated into the questionnaire. The mean score and mean score ranking was conducted to assess the agreement level of stakeholders towards the PPP benefits. The overall findings show that the implementation of PPP has benefitted the delivery of public facilities in both financial and nonfinancial aspects. From the analysis, improvement in service quality is perceived as the top advantage followed by innovation in design and transfer of risk. The findings provide more informed basis on the rationale of PPP implementation and its potential in improving the delivery of public facilities within Malaysia context.

The concept of smart home is a rising trend within the housing industry in Malaysia. With the advance of technology, homeowners are able to control and monitor their home through the smartphone or other networked device. However, it was discovered that Malaysians are highly reluctant in adopting smart home concept and similar Internet of Things (IoT). Within the smart home market, there were cases where potential home buyer may be unaware of the technology, thus hinder its adoption and further development. This research aims to investigate the awareness of potential home buyers specifically among the young millennials on smart home concept; perception on the factors influencing them to buy and key features that they will consider in buying a smart home. Questionnaire survey has been conducted and descriptive analysis has been used to analyse the data. Findings showed that the knowledge on smart home concept is still low among the target population. Respondents with the intention to buy smart home has chosen ‘saving energy, time and money’ as the main factor influencing while ‘wireless lighting system’ as the key features that taken into consideration. These findings may encourage the adoption of the smart home concept among the Millennia Generation in Malaysia and therefore intensify its development in the future.

Pendahuluan; Era globalisasi yang sedang dan akan kita hadapi dibidang kesehatan menimbulkan secercah harapan akan peluang meningkatnya pelayanan kesehatan. Tujuan; mengetahui sikap asertif perawat dalam memberikan pelayanan keperawatan di instalasi rawat inap di rumah Sakit. Metode; penelitian deskriptif menggambarkan tentang tingkat pendidikan, pengalaman kerja, dan jenis kelamin terhadap sikap asertif perawat. Hasil; menunjukkan bahwa komunikasi verbal 38 (69,1 %), komunikasi non verbal 39 (70,9%) dan faktor yang mempengaruhi komunikasi verbal dan non verbal 30 (54,5%). Kesimpulan; bahwa dalam memberikan pelayanan keperawatan, perawat dapat menunjukkan perilaku yang tidak asertif karena dipengaruhi oleh beberapa faktor, contoh faktor lingkungan.  Lingkungan interaksi akan mempengaruhi komunikasi yang efektif.

In 2021 Mamuju Regency, West Sulawesi Province was rocked by a large earthquake. Tampalang Village, Tappalang District, Mamuju Regency, is one village that was affected by the earthquake. This earthquake caused a lot of losses both physically and non-physically. Non-physical losses include trauma, especially to children and pregnant women. After the earthquake, some of the survivors were injured and needed health monitoring. The limited number of health personnel and the damage to health facilities have resulted in many earthquake victims who have not been handled evenly, including pregnant women. Residents live in refugee camps with limited sanitation and rainy season weather worsens the health conditions of the population, especially pregnant women, postpartum mothers, infants, and toddlers. The purpose of this service activity is to provide health services to pregnant women by conducting examinations. The method used in this service activity is through education and health checks for pregnant women. The result of this activity is that while carrying out health services for pregnant women who experience health problems or anxiety because of the earthquake that hit Mamuju Regency.

The therapeutic communication is aimed to change the clients' behavior in reaching an optimal awareness. This research aimed to obtain a client perception view about Nursery Therapeutic Communication in Intensive Surgery Care Unit at Hospital Sidenreng Rappang Regency. The kind of research is descriptive with purposive sampling according to inclusive criteria. The variables are verbal and in-verbal communications. Instrument to collect data is questionnaire, whereas the questionnaires are directly fulfilled by the respondents. From the analysis, the researcher found that the 63,5 % of respondents have a good perception toward nursery verbal therapeutic communication and the non-verbal the researcher found that the 85% of respondents have a good perception toward nursery non-verbal terapeutik. The result shows a great clients' perception about nursery therapeutic communications. As for the suggestion, Hospital Sidenreng Rappang Regency shall give a fresh knowledge or seminars to operasional nurses about nursery therapeutic communications in hospital scope.