Religious issues that are no longer relevant to modern living are represented in The Wonder (2022) film by Sebastián Lelio. This research aims to unravel the Religious Dogma in the film by focusing on examining the religious situation of Irish society in the nineteenth century. Tracing the religious life of the Irish community in the nineteenth century, where the majority adhered to Roman Catholicism, this research uses the sociology of literature method. In more detail, this research applies Max Weber's theory of the sociology of religion approach. The Wonder film entirely is the research data, but specifically, the writer takes the socio-religious context, screenshots from several scenes, and film dialogues as the secondary data. So it can be said that data collection in this research used documentation and literature study techniques. Analysis of the sociology of religion in The Wonder (2022) film by Sebastián Lelio is still rare to find, so this research is essential so that it can add to criticism resources of the sociology of literature. Aside from that, the results of this research are that the modernization and logicalization of religion can occur along with times of development and the relevance of public interest.

Along with the times, the implementation of tolerance must continue to increase, starting with growing knowledge and implementing it. Among these elements are members of the legislature who have policies that play a significant role in political communication with their constituents. This study aims to examine the knowledge of DPRD members in the West Java region regarding religious tolerance, the political communication of DPRD members in the West Java region regarding religious tolerance policies, and formulate a model of political communication carried out by DPRD members in the West Java region in a policy of religious tolerance. Using qualitative research methods, this study used interview data collection techniques. The conclusion is that DPRD members in the West Java region have extensive knowledge about religious tolerance, the political communication of DPRD members in the West Java region is quite complete involving internal and external political communication, and the model of political communication developed is making regional regulations, monitoring, and creating regulations budgeting for religious tolerance programs. The impact of the research results is expected to increase religious tolerance in the West Java region and inspire DPRD members in other regions to increase knowledge and political communication regarding religious tolerance.

Local contents in broadcasting institutions, both of local broadcasting stations (SPL) and network station systems (SSJ), still face a problem. An effort to encourage the existence of local content in broadcasting institutions can be done by regional legislative institution (DPRD). The implementation of regional legislative function in encouraging optimization of local content existence in broadcasting institutions is the main focus of this study. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method with an empirical juridical approach with study documentation subject of regional legislative functions in encouraging the existence of local content. The results of study show that optimizing the function of regional legislative is significant in encouraging local content existence since they have access to KPID (The Regional Indonesian Broadcasting Commission) and Local Public Broadcasting Institution (LPPL). At least, there are implementation model of DPRD functions in encouraging the optimization of local content actualization in Broadcasting Institutions, namely: Accessibility Model through KPID and LPPL & LPS Broadcast Network Models

<p class="Default" align="center"><em>Abstract</em><em></em></p><p class="Default"><em>One of the problems of the government's staffing policy is political communication which is less relevant to the democratic political system between the political superstructure and political infrastructure. What is the reality of the Government's political communication in the non-state civil apparatus manpower management policy and what kind of political communication model can be developed in the non-state civil apparatus manpower management policy. By using an interpretive subjective approach, qualitative research methods, and descriptive research types, it was found that there were problems of political communication carried out by the Government as a political superstructure in issuing political policy messages in the form of legislation related to the management of Non-State Civil Apparatus. A sound political communication model is an option that must be developed by building positive interactions between the Government and employees, so as to get an explicit response regarding the pure aspirations of honorary workers and outsourcing workers.</em><em></em></p>

Novels The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written by Mark Twain and The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini have similarities in describing struggle against hegemony. The term of “hegemony” is related to a domination of dominant group to subordinate group through agreement. In addition, this hegemony can also include physical violence to strengthen the domination. Meanwhile the term “Struggle” means that there are also resistances against the hegemony. These two novels were analyzed by comparative literature theory by Susan Basnett and Antoni Gramsci’s theory about hegemony. Focus of this research is how the writers describe hegemony and counter hegemony in social environment through literary work. This research aims to describe hegemony from dominant group to subordinate group in several kinds such as culture, ideology, intellectual and moral leadership, and state. This research also describes about several resistances, such as active, passive, and humanistic resistance. The result of this research is that there are similarities and differences of hegemony and counter hegemony based on state of factor of American and Afghanistan. The similarities can be found in the struggle, such as passive and humanistic resistance. Meanwhile for the difference in hegemony, the novel The Kite Runner includes physical hegemony through war and assassination. For the difference in struggle, The Kite Runner provide an active resistance toward a dominant group.Keywords: Hegemony; Counter Hegemony; Comparative Literature