This paper attempts to study the role of Generation Y in expressing their problems, engaging the government through the media especially the social media, and in deciding and voicing their views in the ballot box during the 2008 and 2013 general elections. Generation Y has utilized the social media after the traditional media, like the print and broadcasting media, give them limited space for them to engage with the government and the oppositions Therefore, a survey had been conducted in studying the perception of Generation Y towards media and political participation. This research was able to gather 1,029 respondents from the age 15 till 25 years old. In overall, the findings show that this generation was a little bit sceptical on the new media but they believe that the new media can be the best tool for the youth to engage more with the government. Therefore, it is clear that the result of the survey election is in line with the importance of social media and Generation Y in dominating the public sphere in Malaysia.

This paper describes and analyzes political parties in Indonesia's democratic transition from their political communication patterns in ambiguity of cartelized democracy, where political parties work together to enjoy the state's resources and conflict simultaneously. Three conceptions are being used to explain the patterns of political communication occur among coalition parties: first is the output of political process, which contains political impression management and substantive action; secondly, the definition of the situation; and finally the cartel party. The conclusion shows that of political communication among coalition parties tend to be most stable when there is an entity that could dominate the popularity and public support. The pattern changed to be in conflict when there is no one could dominate the popularity and political structure.

Satira politik merupakan satu bentuk komunikasi politik terdiri daripada pelbagai jenis. Satira politik melalui pendekatan Internet trolling pula dilihat semakin berkembang di Malaysia. Internet trolling boleh didapati dalam bentuk gambar (memes) atau rakaman (video) dan merupakan salah satu medium yang menarik digunakan dalam media sosial sebagai alat menyampaikan maklumat. Fenomena ini telah menular dalam kebanyakan aplikasi media sosial. Internet trolling seringkali digunakan terhadap para pemimpin politik sebagai bahan sindiran. Fenomena ini semakin rancak kerana rakyat kini dilihat cenderung untuk mendapatkan maklumat berkenaan berita politik menggunakan media baharu. Ini kerana medium ini mudah untuk diakses dan lebih bebas. Artikel ini memberi tumpuan kepada penyertaan pengguna media sosial dalam komunikasi politik berbentuk satira. Reka bentuk kajian ini adalah berdasarkan sorotan kajian yang terbatas dan pembacaan teori mobilisasi sosial dan teori penggunaan dan kepuasan media. Analisis kualitatif kandungan pula dipilih sebagai metodologi kajian. Media sosial Facebook menjadi medium analisis manakala komenkomen pengguna Facebook digunakan sebagai unit analisis. Kajian ini merumuskan bahawa fenomena trolling politik dalam media sosial menjadi indikator bahawa corak kebebasan bersuara dalam kalangan masyarakat kian berubah. Sungguhpun trolling politik yang selama ini tersebar melalui pelbagai aplikasi media sosial ini dilihat agak keterlaluan, namun pemimpin-pemimpin ini masih meneruskan tugas masing-masing tanpa menghiraukan bahan satira yang keterlaluan tersebut.

This research studied the village regulation making process based on the Law No. 32/2004 and the relationships among head of village, administrators of Village Consultative Board (Badan Permusyawaratan Desa/bpd/bhp), and adat leaders in the village of Adat Saibatin community. The research was conducted in several villages of Cukuh Balak sub-district, Tanggamus district, Lampung province, Indonesia in 2012. The data were collected by employing interview and observation. The results of this study showed that the regulation making process in the village of Adat Saibatin community did not have clear stages to which the regulations were made unilaterally by the head of the village himself/herself. The adat leaders’ participation as community leaders in the villages almost disappeared and unstated in the regulations. Furthermore, Village Consultative Board was also in a weak position due to the absence of deliberation and agreement as the core principle known as the villages’ law in the process of making the regulations.

The ruling party Barisan Nasional (National Front) inherited the trust and tradition initiated by the Alliance Party that achieved the Malayan Independence. The Alliance first test was the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council's election in 1952 where they won convincingly 12 out of 14 seats. The support continued in the 1955 General Election, where they won 51 out of 52 seats contested. Nevertheless in the 1969 election, the Alliance has experienced a major loss when they failed to get the two-third majority and even lost several state governments to the opposition. This party later changed its name into National Front in 1972 and simultaneously expanded their components into a bigger coalition party. It has become a unique political formula in Malaysian politics to reduce politicking and keeping the divided ethnicized parties together.