This study aims to investigate the differences in attitudes of young generation in showing their political expression on social media before and after the socialization in community service. The issue is related to the attitude of young generation in using social media as a means of expres-sion. Meanwhile, we realize that the internet can often be misleading with the abundance of in-formation and hoaxes. It requires the user’s ability to choose and filter the correct and useful information. As the generation that dominates social media and the internet, Generation Z is al-so a target of politicians and political issues on the internet. Therefore, political literacy for young generation in the internet is crucial. The data in this research were collected by quantita-tive descriptive methods through surveys before and after the socialization of social media and politics. The survey was conducted on 100 high school students in Semarang City. The results showed that the program for political literacy socialization increased the political literacy of the high school students by providing a positive knowledge regarding politics. The results showed that the program increased the high school students’ political literacy and attitude towards the use of social media for political expression.

Advances in digital media not only encourage effectiveness and efficiency in the economic and educational fields, but also make a major contribution to the management of public information disclosure. Seeing this fact, it is important for the relevant public bodies to optimize the availability of digital media as a medium for public information disclosure services. This study aims to describe the use of digital media as a public information disclosure service at the PPID of the Communication and Information Office of Central Java Province using descriptive qualitative methods. The results of this study revealed that the public information disclosure service carried out by the PPID of the Central Java Communication and Information Service had fulfilled the provisions stipulated in the Peraturan Komisi Informasi Nomor 1 Tahun 2010 tentang Standar Layanan Publik. Not only referring to applicable regulations, through its website www.ppid.diskominfo.jatengprov.go.id, PPID Diskominfo Central Java also includes a number of information and supporting services such as reports on circulating hoax issues, service satisfaction surveys as a form of reciprocity from the community.

The government issued a policy of Law no. 14 of 2008 concerning Public Information Disclosure. It aims to create good governance, especially in the transparency of state administration. However, there are many government agencies that have not carried out these regulatory instructions. This unpreparedness can be seen from various factors, including human resources who do not understand the substance of the contents of the law, the limited number of staff and education to the public about the practice of public information disclosure. The implementation of public information disclosure is managed by the Communication and Information Office of Central Java Province as the Main Information Management and Documentation Officer, assisted by the Information Management and Documentation Officer at the Regional Apparatus Organization level as an Assistant Officer. The Department of Communication and Information Technology of Central Java Province has a strategic role as the coordinator of the implementation of public information disclosure, as well as carrying out an evaluation role on the performance of information and documentation managers at the auxiliary level. The main Documentation and Information Management Officer is also obliged to encourage discipline and awareness of all staff at the main and auxiliary levels to implement this policy properly.

Public Information Disclosure is one of the important elements that the government needs to take seriously. Not only as a form of implementing public information transparency, but also as a form of public participation and evaluation of government performance. This study aims to describe the service mechanism and participation in the application of public information at the Communication and Information Office of Pekalongan City with a qualitative descriptive method through indepth interviews with the Communication and Information Office of Pekalongan City and PPID Diskominfo of Pekalongan City. The results of this study indicate that the level of participation indicates that access to information in Pekalongan City can be monitored on the statistical features provided on the PPID website of the Communication and Information Office of Pekalongan City which can be identified based on the categorization of gender, type of request, request status, and origin of the requester. . Based on these data, it was found that the demand for public information services was dominated by students for both assignments and research. Unfortunately PPID Diskominfo Pekalongan City is still limited to using its official website platform https://ppid.pekalongankota.go.id and has not utilized social media optimally.

The election of the Governor of Central Java in 2018 result was Ganjar Pranowo and Taj Yasin as the winners. Messages in political campaigns are important elements that can determine the candidate's victory or failure in political contestation. The messages in the campaign are specifically designed based on the character of the specific target voters and should not be generalized to all groups of voters. As one of the national food barns, it was interesting to figure out how specific messages related to food security are perceived by voters. The research method used was a mixed method with in-depth interviews with voters with agricultural background and survey to young voters who are considered by researchers to have the greatest opportunity to be exposed by a variety of specific issues in the campaign because of their high media consumption. The results of the study show that specific issue like food security was only a concern for voters who have strong relevance to the issue. However, it was not the only basis for consideration in choosing candidates for related voters.