This article explains about the relation of media and politics and how the position ofhow the media position in Indonesian politics. Shoemaker and Reese have twoapproaches see the media , namely passive and active . The passive approach occurs when the media represent reality without distortion . Active approach is when the media come to frame social reality into the reality of media. The second approach is what makes media are not neutral and do tend to be biased in their reporting because the media no longer represent the event as a whole but with some viewpoints that are considered attractive. It is often also referred to as media manipulation. The media in a democracy should be able to independently and not closer to the government and the market.Keywords: Media, Politics and Democratization

This paper describes local government innovations that are part of the Civil Service and Civil Registry (Dukcapil) reform. Arrangement of birth certificate and death certificate integrated village fund is an innovation policy in West Aceh Regency which is abbreviated as Aklamasi Dansa. The issue of legal identity is still a problem in Indonesia, many people do not have a legal identity so it impacts all services provided by the government to the community. The policy of integrating birth certificates and death certificates is an innovation that brings government and society closer together. The Aklamasi Dansa has been running since 2017 and operates in the assisted village. This study uses a qualitative method with a case study approach. The informant of this research is the community as the recipient of services, the government of West Aceh as an innovator. The results showed that the Aklamasi Dansa policy have shown that they are capable of significantly increasing the percentage of ownership, as can be seen from the percentage of birth certificates in 2016, only 86% after the Aklamasi Dansa was implemented to be 94% in 2019. The same thing happened with the death certificate issued by Disdukcapil in West Aceh in 2016 only 86 death certificates after the aklamasi dansa went on to 1629 in 2019. The Aklamasi Dansa as one of the innovations in service to the community went very well in improving village data administration and making it easier for citizens to receive services in taking care of birth certificates and death certificates.

This study discusses the budget for handling COVID-19 in Aceh Province with a Social Safety Net approach. Through this Social Safety Network approach, the Aceh Government has allocated a budget for handling COVID-19 is intended to be given to acehnese people who are directly affected from COVID-19. While the purpose of this study is to find out the extent of the success of the budget for handling COVID-19 is realized to the public to rise from the crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research is an exploratory descriptive qualitative method research to explain and dig up information about the budget for handling COVID-19 by answering various types of questions and problems that occur and are identified and analyzed based on the results of readings and interpretation data related to the research theme. The results showed that the budget for handling COVID-19 in Aceh Province in the Social Safety Net sector was already running and the affected Acehnese people had received social assistance provided by the Aceh Government. However, there needs to be supervision from the people of Aceh in order for transparency in the management of the COVID-19 budget. In addition, in anticipation that the practice of corruption in handling the COVID-19 budget in the Aceh Government environment can be prevented.

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UPTD Pasar is a technical implementer of the Trade Office in managing the Bina Usaha Market in Johan Pahlawan District, West Aceh Regency. This study looks at performance through the UPTD Market through productivity, service quality, responsiveness, responsibility, and accountability. The method used is descriptive qualitative through interviews with related sources such as the head of the Bina Usaha Market Unit, traders who sell at Bina Usaha Market, and the community as users or consumers at the Bina Usaha Market. The results show that the Market UPTD has been effective in managing the Bina Usaha Market Meulaboh because it has put forward the aspects of responsiveness, responsibility, and accountability that can be seen through achievements in the current performance of the UPTD Pasar. Good service results in satisfaction from market users. However, UPTD Pasar also still has shortcomings in terms of productivity and service quality. This can be seen from the lack of employees and supporting facilities in managing the Bina Usaha Market in Meulaboh.