Cadre formation is essential in a political party. The current phenomenon is that many political parties have not been able to carry out the selection and regeneration process as expected, especially for women legislative candidates. In comparison, the quality of cadres in a political party determines the selling power of the social party. This study is essential to do considering that the legislative members who sit as people's representatives in the DPR must carry out their functions as people's representatives in conveying their aspirations and ideas to the government. The Legislature who is elected as the people's representatives in communicating aspirations must be people or cadres who have capability and acceptability. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of regeneration in understanding party values​​. The results of this study can provide recommendations to political parties in selecting and nominating their members. The qualitative research method with a phenomenological study approach and systems theory in organizational communication is considered relevant for analyzing existing cases. Data was collected through interviews with party officials, women legislative members, female legislative candidates in Jambi city, political observers or academics. The results showed that the higher the quality of the cadre system carried out by a political party, the better the quality of the party’s cadres when occupying political positions both internally and externally.

People in Jambi city assume that Pasar Hong Kong, a traditional market located in Jelutung sub-district, is “a Chinese market”, even some areas in the city of Jambi such as Jelutung, Koni, and Talang Banjar are dominated by the ethnic of Chinese. This research aims to explore how social inequality that occurs due to the advantages and disadvantages of an ethnic group so that it can affect individual attitudes that damage social capital. This research uses a case study approach with in-depth interviews and literature study as data collection techniques. The subjects of this study were ethnic Malay and Chinese female merchants in Pasar Hong Kong, Jambi city, Indonesia. This research found that social inequalities that occur among the female merchants of ethnic Malay and Chinese in Pasar Hongkong occur naturally, where both merchants and buyers have a high tolerance when interacting. Although sometimes there are differences in attitude when the merchants serve different ethnic buyers. The involvement of traditional leaders in managing social inequalities is very important due to the lack of assimilation among ethnic Malay and Chinese.

This research departs from the curiosity of researchers related to the interaction process in intercultural communication, which is mostly influenced by differences in culture. Realizing excellent or effective communication with different cultural backgrounds, not as difficult as imagined and not as easy as many people think. When communicating and interacting in different cultures, many things must be considered and allow for misunderstandings. This study focused on verbal communication by using the theory of symbolic interaction to sharpen the analysis of verbal communication of ethnic Chinese and Malay ethnicity in controlling conflict in Jambi City. Data collection techniques included participant observer/observation, observation without participation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The results of the study found a model of verbal communication that occurred between Chinese and Malay ethnic groups, namely the transactional model consisting of several components, namely language and how to speak. To realize effective communication, language, and ways of speaking have an essential role in capturing and conveying messages and symbols in verbal communication carried out.

Penelitian ini berjudul Analisis Lirik Lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan” Pada Kasus Politik di Indonesia. Dengan rumusan masalah bagaimana bentuk kritik lembaga politik di Indonesia dalam lirik lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan” serta bagaimana makna lirik lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan” pada kasus politik di Indonesia.Indonesia sedang gencar kasus lembaga politik yang menyimpang dari hukum. Slank dalam lirik lagunya “Gosip Jalanan” yang didalamnya terdapat kritik-kritik terhadap oknum lembaga politik dengan sindiran melalui lagunya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan jenis penelitian deskriptif yang berupa deskriptif kata, kalimat, dan hasil analisis tidak berupa angka atau koefisien tentang hubungan antar varibel. Dengan arti, data yang diperoleh dari cara mengumpulkan data melalui lirik lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan”, berita, video, dan internet. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori komunikasi politik dari Harold Lasswell. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam lirik lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan” mengandung unsur sindiran kepada pemerintah dan lembaga politik. Dan juga terdapat makna dalam lirik lagu Slank “Gosip Jalanan” yang berkaitan dengan sikap pemerintah dan lembaga politik. Kata kunci: Lirik lagu Slank, Gosip Jalanan, Kasus politik

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