Afrimadona Afrimadona

Universitas Pembanguan Nasional "Veteran" Jakarta | UPN "Veteran" Jakarta · Department of Politics and International Relations

This article investigates how young voters make political choices in the absence of adequate information about the candidates they will vote for. Under conditions of low information, voters often use whatever cues they see in the ballot paper to help them make decisions in a short time. This mental process is known as heuristics. Using online exper...

Abstrak Tulisan ini mengevaluasi klaim konstruktivis bahwa legitimasi yang terdapat dalam sebuah kebijakan luar negeri suatu negara membentuk respon kebijakan luar negeri negara-negara lain. Penulis menguji klaim tersebut menggunakan empat kasus respon Jerman dan Inggris terhadap invasi Amerika Serikat di Irak pada tahun 1991 dan 2003. Pemilihan in...

The Indo-Pacific region creates a new form of dynamics in the international world order, one of the two important situations in which is the rivalry between the US and China, and Indonesia with changes in its foreign policy, named World Maritime Axis. This grand concept under Joko Widodo administration intends to make Indonesia not only a maritime...

Selang dua tahun setelah hampir seluruh negara di dunia mengalami ledakan kasus COVID-19 gelombang pertama, kehidupan manusia beradaptasi seiring dengan bermutasinya virus SARS COV-2 ke beberapa varian. Sejauh ini sampai tulisan ini diselesaikan telah bermunculan beberapa varian seperti varian Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, dan Omicron. Secara global,...

P enyebaran COVID-19 telah memaksa banyak negara untuk mengambil kebijakan pembatasan mobilitas, penerapan protokol kesehatan, hingga keharusan vaksinasi COVID-19. Dalam banyak hal, kebijakan-kebijakan tersebut dinilai melanggar hak asasi seseorang, meski tujuan utamanya demi kepentingan umum. Dalam penelitian ini, kami mencoba untuk melihat apa ya...

Tulisan ini dilatarbelakangi studi migrasi internasional tentang Pekerja Migran Indonesia (PMI) yang tinggal di Brunei Darussalam. PMI memperoleh gaji yang lebih rendah daripada pekerja migran Filipina pada kategori pekerjaan yang sama karena lemahnya penguasaan bahasa Inggris mereka. Kemampuan bahasa Inggris menjadi hambatan bagi PMI untuk mendapa...

Various environmental problems that have occurred lately are more or less caused by the problem of garbage and waste from various activities of living things, especially humans. Therefore, good waste management is one of the solutions to current environmental problems. One of the main problems faced by partners is plastic waste management. Based on...

This article discusses the nature and extent of ideological predispositions of the Jakarta electorate. Using a survey of a random sample of voting-aged Jakarta population, this research attempts to explore how polarised the voters are and how their ideological proclivities are related to their political alignment. The distribution of the ideologica...

This paper investigates how political dynamic shapes voters' participation in 2019 election in Indonesia. Two measures of political dynamics tested in this paper are the partiality of election organizing committees and the level of political competition among candidates. I find that while partiality of election organizing committee could reduce the...

Bab ini berupaya menjelaskan seperti apa relasi antara ideologi dan preferensi kebijakan dari warga Jakarta.

This article explores whether party polarisation in the American Congress affects the length of legislated sanctions. While Congress can enact sanctions, it usually authorises the president to waive, suspend or terminate them. However, Congress can prevent the president from ending a sanction if both parties can cooperate to block the presidential...

The rapid change in the information technology in the age of Industry 4.0 requires the government to produce an innovative and competitive industrial policy in order to push for an independent economic development. Amids the trend of industry 4.0, states are faced with a challenge of advancing national industries, such as the energy, food and bever...

______________________________________________________________________________________________________ How can the presence of industrial parks affect the welfare of the people in the districts/city within which they operate? While studies about the socio-political and economic consequences of industrial parks abound in the academic world, industri...

How can the presence of industrial parks affect the welfare of the people in the districts/city within which they operate? While studies about the socio-political and economic consequences of industrial parks abound in the academic world, industrial parks are still understudied in Indonesia. the paper is a preliminary observation on the relationshi...

What restrains states from employing chemical weapons during modern war? Despite widespread and consistent efforts by the international community to outlaw chemical weapons in the twentieth century, major deviations from this goal occur. Two of the strongest explanations that exist for this trend are the logics of deterrence and norms that consider...

This article assesses the relationship between democracy and welfare policy. There are substantial variations in the empirical evidence regarding the relationship between these two variables. While some works showed that there is a systematic relationship between democracy and welfare policy, others failed to show that relationship. We argue that w...

This article aims to test competing explanations about the US foreign aid policy, namely interest-driven theory, humanitarian theory, and domestic political theory. Using longitudinal data on the amount of Official Development Assistance provided by the US to 155 recipient countries from 1960 to 2008, analyzed using random coefficient models, the r...

Special Economic Zone (SEZ) has been one of the main drivers of economic development in many developing countries. One of the success stories of these SEZs is China. The giant country began its SEZs at the beginning of the 1980s and in several years, these SEZs have branched out elsewhere in the country. The ability of these SEZs to attract investo...

The paper evaluates the constructivist claim that legitimacy embedded in a country’s foreign policy shapes the responses of other countries’ foreign policy. I test the claim using four cases of Britain’s and Germany’s responses to US’s invasion in Iraq in 1991 and 2003. The choice of US’s invasion in Iraq in 1991 and 2003 was made on the ground tha...