On 2018 and 2019, Malaysian and Indonesian voters set off to the polls to elect their new goverment as Pre Minister for Malaysia and President - Vice President for Indonesia. They are also elect members of the national Regions House, a kind of weak Senate, together with members of the powerful House of Representatives. In addition they will elect provincial councillors from every Provinces and also elect local councillors across local authorities. Related to this situation, discussion and prediction about who is the Presidential candidate in Indonesia become a hot and interesting conversation among Indonesian citizen, and many of them expressed it through social media.

ABSTRAKSistem komunikasi promosi adalah serangkaian komponen komunikasi yangmempunyai fungsi untuk mencapai tujuan promosi. Dalam arti yang lebih luaskomunikasi dalam kegiatan promosi adalah setiap prosedur yang menyebabkanmanajemen marketing dapat mempengaruhi sikap dan keputusan pelanggan atau calonpelanggan. Hal itu akan meliputi seluruh aspek perilaku manusia, termasuk ucapanyang kerap dilontarkan.Saat ini seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi banyak sekalimedia dan strategi yang muncul dan digunakan oleh berbagai produsen untukmempromosikan produknya. Mereka saling bersaing untuk menciptakan teknik terjituuntuk mempersuasi konsumen agar bersedia mengonsumsi dan setia terhadap produkatau jasa yang mereka tawarkan. Namun ada sebuah strategi klasik yang sangat sulittergantikan dalam mempromosikan sebuah produk, yaitu strategi “WOM” (word ofmouth) atau strategi “mulut ke mulut”. Dalam bahasa Jawa strategi ini disebut dengannama getok tular. Keunggulan strategi model komunikasi “WOM” terletak dalamkemampuannya menyentuh unsur terdalam manusia dalam proses persuasi.Kata Kunci : komunikasi WOM, persuasi, strategi pemasaran.

This paper aims to determine how the social media behavior carried out by Muhammadiyah members in China after the Chinese government's viral repressive action towards the Uighur ethnic minority in the Xinjiang region. As an Islamic-based social organization, and even more geographically, both live in China, the Head of the Special Branch of Muhammadiyah China, the Nanjing Regional, certainly has its study regarding the issue which may have a different point of view from the views of most Indonesians on this matter and take action. to respond of the news that, the response of most Indonesians after the virality of the issue. Therefore, the author tries to explain how Muhammadiyah members' media behavior in China and their opinions to build amid Indonesian society after the viral news above uses constructivism logic developed by Alexander Wendt. This paper's conclusion shows that there are efforts by Muhammadiyah cadres in China to calm the heating up the domestic atmosphere as a form of creating a more conducive atmosphere between China and Indonesia.

This research aims to describe the problems of education in terms of the budget, accreditation, and teachers as well as the challenges of developing them, and solutions to the problems of education in Indonesia. This research is a literature review. Data collected through the Central Statistics Agency and Education data from the Indonesian Ministry of Education. The data is then explained and analyzed critically to provide conclusions in the context of designing and solving education problems in Indonesia to welcome the golden era. Education should soon adapt to era development if it is not willing to be left. A country's responsibilities in overseeing the education to achieve a golden education era are required. The planning, process and results of education will reflect the quality of the nation. The results showed that the problem of absorption of school budgets, equitable distribution of school accreditations, and teacher problems were important things that needed to be resolved immediately. This study provides a contribution to the new strategic plan on how to achieve the golden era of education, there not much research focuses discuss the budget, accreditation, vocational education, and character education as the basis for the determination of educational policy. The conclusion is the government should focus more on equity of Education budget absorption, enhancement of teachers from the aspect of skill and well-being, to make vocational education as an arrow civilization, and making character education as a human resource control to keep moral and intellectual integrity.

Politik adalah sesuatu yang sangat dinamis, sehingga ada premis yang menyatakan tak ada kawan dan lawan yang abadi dalam politik, begitu pun dalam dunia perpolitikan yang terjadi di Indonesia. Pasca terjadinya peralihan kepengurusan negara setelah pemilu 2014 kemarin kutub perpolitikan nasional di parlemen terpisah menjadi dua; Koalisi Indonesia Hebat (KIH) dan Koalisi Merah Putih (KMP), dimana yang satu perupakan kubu pendukung pemerintah dan yang lain adalah kubu penyeimbang. Akan tetapi politik tetaplah politik dimana banyak terjadi komunikasi dan konsolidasi di dalamnya, perbedaan ijtihad politik tidak serta merta dapat dijadikan patokan bahwa mereka tidak ada komunikasi antar partai atau antar tokoh yang berbeda jalur koalisinya, bahkan tidak menutup kemungkinan dalam internal koalisi pun ada komunikasi-komunikasi khusus yang dilakukan oleh salah satu anggota koalisi dengan koalisi lainnya. Untuk itu lah penelitian ini kami coba untuk laksanakan gunan mengetahui praktik komunikasi politik yang berjalan antar organisasi (fraksi) dalam gedung parlemen DPR RI