In many developed countries, public transportation modes are the principal options for mobility. On the contrary, the majority people in Indonesia still use personal settlement so that it creates congestion. This indicates that the public has not yet fully utilized public transportation modes for activities. Public value is a public standard assessment of policy, security, and compliance with good policy standards, including public transport service policies. Applying library studies and amplified with qualitative approach, it was discovered that the aversion of urban societies such as Jakarta, Semarang and Malang using public transportation was related to the disparity between the condition of transportation and public transportation provided by the government. Public transportation is a solution to the problem of congestion. As a result, the establishment of public transportations should consider the involved stakeholders’ values such as the operators, the public users, government and public. Public transport should be able to have a direct impact of road safety, the efficiency of public mobility, cost affordability, comfort and easy access for disabled people.

The Surakarta City Government is known as one of the areas that is progressive in its public services, but there are still several problems in its innovation development. The purpose of this research is to get an overview of the capacity of public service innovation in the Surakarta City Government. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The results show that the Surakarta City Government has bureaucrats or officials who are ready to face change, have good understanding and skills in developing innovation capacity, this is evidenced by sufficient experience in the process of developing the sustainability of public service innovation. The conclusion of this research confirms that the development of innovation capacity is a determinant in improving public services, innovation capacity requires understanding, experience, skills, and diversity, all of which are well managed. The most important recommendation of this research is related to the development of institutional forms of public service innovation in each work unit, to be used as a medium for transmitting the value of change so that they are accustomed to generating innovative ideas and realizing them in various forms of innovation in improving public services in a sustainable manner.

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly been affected by various development sectors, and tourism was the biggest sector had dropped by Covid- 19. Change Management in tourism is needed for facing Covid-19 era and afterwards, therefore this study aims to analyze changes in tourism management in the Riau Islands Province. Phenomenology qualitative research approach used in this research, data analysis techniques with interactive models. The result shows the Riau Islands Province Government had begun to make changes in tourism management through establishing a sense of urgency, namely delivering the belief that the tourism sector must immediately rise considering that the economic wheels in the Riau Islands are greatly supported by the tourism sector. The Riau provincial government has also done creating the guiding coalition, which is an effort to analyze the Batam Tourism Polytechnic (BTP) in the management of the tourism sector. Then the last one is developing a vision strategy, which is related to continuing to promote tourism by making changes to tourist targets which are the Riau Islands Province during the pandemic. The recommendation from the researchers is the need to develop a vision and strategy in a systematic and structured manner by involving stakeholders with interest in development in the Riau Islands Province.

In recent years, civil society as IR actors has actively challenged the dynamics of international politics. This paper aims to explore the role of Civil Society in Indonesia, engagement, and advocacy in world politics, particularly in the Human Rights Issue. While globalization has raised numerous network civil society, Information Communication Advancement enhanced the power and influence of civil society engagement in world politics generating the online activism movement. We use several concepts such as cyber- activism and Transnational Advocacy Network to explain the role and engagement of civil society. In the human rights issue, the Civil Society in Indonesia has been involved in online activities including social media communities, and social movements of collective actions. These actions form functions of civil society as Watchdogs: hold institutions to account, promote transparency and accountability; Advocate: increase awareness of social problems and challenges and support change; Representative: gives power to marginalized or under- represented voices; Citizen Champions: encourage citizen involvement and support citizens' rights; Solidarity supporter: promoting the fundamental and universality of human values.

The construction of road infrastructure in Grobogan District is a priority, but the percentage of poverty remains high. This research aims to analyze the extent impact of road infrastructure development carried out by the Grobogan District Government in improving the welfare of its people, both from Social and Economic Factors. This method uses policy impact from Patton, Sawicki and Clark [1] compares the results before and after comparisons. Researchers used data on road improvement, poverty percentage, Open Unemployment Rate, and Gross Regional Domestic Product (PDRB). The secondary data show that the expected effect of road infrastructure development to reduce poverty rates in Grobogan District. Moreover, the socioeconomic welfare level of people in Grobogan District low compared to some other districts in Central Java Province. Recommendations are Improving Human Resources and strengthening the business field, so that the society of Grobogan District can take advantage of the road infrastructure improvements made by the current Government.

Political education as a means of political socialization is certainly needed in an effort to improve the democracy quality. Political education can be carried out through political socialization and a process of transforming political values from society to individuals. Political education aims to increase public knowledge so that they can participate optimally in the political system. In accordance with the understanding of people sovereignty or democracy, people must be able to participate. Civic engagement is defined as collective and individual action taken to identify and demonstrate the relevance of general issues. To realize civic engagement, political knowledge and political information are needed. Civic engagement is synonymous with civic participation in which citizens participate in making policy. Civic engagement requires the citizens' engagement in policy making and other political activities for strengthening democracy. This study discusses political education, civic engagement and strategies or models in political education by all parties. This research is conducted by using an explanatory approach, and the finding shows that one of the most widely used and effective models in the implementation of political education is the extension model, religion recitation with the involvement of community leaders who have an interest in political activities.

The Covid-19 pandemic that attacks most countries in the world, including Indonesia, shows an increase over time and causes more casualties and material losses, which have implications for social, economic and social welfare aspects. In accordance with the President's instructions, the policy to prevent the spread of Covid-19 has become the autonomy of each local government in Indonesia. Local governments are expected to realize the urgency of data transparency for the public in their policies because data transparency is one form of government accountability in realizing Good Governance. In this study, the researcher wanted to examine the implementation of good governance in the aspect of data transparency in Central Java province related to Covid-19. Central Java Province is a province that is in the top seven with the highest number of Covid-19 sufferers in Indonesia (update data until July 10, 2020). In this study, researcher’s processed big data from 36 online mass media articles from March to June 2020 which contained the statement of the Governor of Central Java. Then processed using the Orange application.

Covid-19 pandemic forces everyone in the world to change lifestyle dramatically, including our education system. Teachers, parents, and students in kindergarten are required to do teaching and learning activities from and at home for quite a long period. Children in kindergarten who are ideally very limited in their gadget consumption now have more access to gadgets due to parents' burden in running the house and working from home. As the teacher also become parents, they face a double burden in teaching someone else’s children and children of their own. This research is the result of our community service activity to the teachers of kindergarten in Semarang by online meetings via group WhatsApp and zoom. It is aimed to evaluate the shift of understanding and attitude of the teachers regarding the use of gadgets and the learn from home activities before and after treatment. The treatment was intended to change the understanding and attitude of the teachers to be more positive in assisting and facilitating the kindergarten students to learn from home.

The spread of Covid-19 throughout the world prompted the WHO to establish a pandemic status. This condition is also experienced by Indonesia, where 187,537 people died. This situation encourages the government to make policies in the form of social distancing through the work from home (WFH) program. No exception, the Ministry of Education determines the status of WFH from early childhood education to higher education. For higher education, e-learning has become a program in the development of learning, especially in the 4.0 era. However, not all lecturers and students have the capability in e-learning. The purpose of this research is to explore individual learning for lecturers and students in the context of WFH. The research was carried out throughout Indonesia by distributing questionnaires via a google form. The distribution is carried out for 6 (six) weeks, through various networks. The responses from distributing questionnaires were 420 respondents. Data analysis was performed using factor analysis through SPSS. The results show that all the items analyzed can explain the factors forming the Individual Learning variable. There are 3 (three) forming factors, self-directedness, acquiring, and applying new knowledge, and realizing learning opportunities.

Survey on children internet consumption shows as many as 2064 children aged 9-12 years old have varied internet consumption purposes e.g., for studying, playing games, watching movies or video, using social media, e-commerce, reading news, downloading, and listening to music. One of many things that bring children closer to the internet today is the obligation from teachers to students to finish their assignments by accessing information from the internet. Unfortunately, there is also a lot of bullying happening in social media. Social media can influence a person’s social behavior, including bullying. Social media has a big influence on bullying. This study aims to see how children’s consumption patterns and forms of child bullying behavior on social media. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze social events, phenomena and circumstances. The pattern of media consumption is related to the information seeking behavior model, where this model explains that the use of information exists because of information needs, so that information searches are carried out.