Digital platforms or marketplaces are part of digital economy which is very developed in Indonesia. This digital economy can be an advantage for Indonesian MSMEs, as one of the potential economic driving actors. But in its development there are still many limitations. There are several problems that require political policy intervention, while these problems are rarely researched. Aims: This research is conducted to analyze how the government’s policy in encouraging the global competitiveness of Indonesian MSMEs through the digital ecosystem. Methodology: This is a descriptive qualitative research, using library research methods. Data collected then described the situation or the phenomena in detail using descriptive analysis methods. Results: To encouraging the global competitiveness of Indonesian MSMEs, the government launched MSMEs go global and go digital through synergies between various main players to provide financing, coaching and markets. The government establishes policies that lead to increased technological progress, socioeconomic adjustments by utilizing geopolitics, and supports environmental changes that encourage MSMEs to adapt to the digital ecosystem. Conclusion: The government as regulatory institutions need to ensure those providing digital ecosystem apply sufficient protection to the MSMEs growth. As the digital economy spreads around the world, it will be interesting to see how businesses adjust, adapt and adopt available digital tools to their daily activities. It is important about how the government policy of a nation respond this phenomena, while the whole economy becomes more digitally inter-connected going forward.

In the GVC of cocoa commodities, Indonesia has a potential position as one of the suppliers of cocoa commodities. However, the cocoa industry sector is increasingly threatened when the world enters a crisis period due to the global pandemic in early 2020. For this reason, Indonesia has made many efforts to maintain its position in the GVC of cocoa commodities. This study attempts to analyze Indonesia's position in the global cocoa chain in the pandemic era. The method used is qualitative research with a library research approach. The theory used to analyze focuses on global value chain theory. This study finds that Indonesia's tried to maintain it’s position in global cocoa chain through economic stability, both at the domestic and global levels. This position is described in the aspect of increasing the contribution of cocoa commodities to GDP, increasing the export market share of Indonesian cocoa commodities in the global market, as well as increasing the competitiveness of the Indonesian economy. This condition becomes a parameter to measure the performance of Indonesia's political economy as well as demonstrates the capability of the Indonesian government in dealing with the global crisis due to the pandemic and minimizing the impact of the crisis on national stability. Thus, it can be concluded that Indonesia can still maintain its position in the global cocoa chain as an important supplier.

This research was motivated by a debate related to the presence of globalization which considered an agent of 'the hegemony of the superpowers'. Hegemony rise a culture of global consumerism, as well as new socio-political schemes, which often refer to the ideology and interests of Western countries. On the other hand, culture can be a 'soft-power' aspect in the efforts to fight against this foreign hegemony. Solo City was an interesting area because it was trying to maintain cultural identity through the holding of various cultural festivals. This research attempts to map a counter culture hegemony scheme in Solo, through local wisdom that promotes cultural festivals. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between cultural identity in its role as a counter culture hegemony. The research method was qualitative with a critical ethnographic approach. The results showed that the counter cultural hegemony in Solo was carried out using soft power tools in the form of local culture, in the form of cultural festivals. Implementation by involving the community strengthens the self-belonging of the community towards local culture. The impact of strengthening local wisdom on foreign hegemony was considered to have a positive influence and was able to strengthen the existence of local culture.

We can see the growing use of social media for politics through 2020 U.S. elections. This social media presence has the potential to shift the perspective of democracy. This paper is a reflection to explore the use of social media in the United States democracy, especially in the 2020 election. This paper explained that social media has a significant role in the United States democracy, including those of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Social media, with its shortcomings and advantages, contributed greatly to the election results, increasing public engagement, and increasing political participation. On the other hand, social media also gave rise to public polarization in the U.S. and opened up foreign intervention opportunities. However, by the 2020 U.S. election, the foreign intervention was relatively low, so that it did not have enough effect on the election results. Trump and Biden became two candidates who understood this social media potential and sought to attract voters in their respective ways. With the right and structured strategy, Biden was able to achieve deeper engagement through numerous interactions on social media. As the result, Biden emerged as the winner of the election, one of which with social media support.

Gen Z is currently facing challenges from foreign hegemony that comes with digital technology. The research analyses Gen-Z local wisdom campaign agenda in framework of counter-hegemony, digital-hegemony, and cultural-hegemony. This study uses a method based on research-based development, involving 100 Gen-Z participants with a series of discussion agendas and a local wisdom campaign on their social media. Result show that local wisdom content can be a solution for educating young people to have positive activities such as getting to know local values, increasing nationalism, and counteracting negative impacts of foreign cultural hegemony. It concluded that local wisdom can be a counter to hegemony that takes place in the new era of digital hegemony, as form of cultural hegemony.