Ahmad R. Pratama

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Data Literacies Lead at Stony Brook University

This study investigated ownership of desktops, laptops, smartphones, and tablets using survey information on Indonesian university students. The data show that 98% of students own at least two of these personal computing devices. Laptop & smartphone are the most common bundle to have, owned by 41% while 15% own all four of them. Applying logistic r...

As mobile devices become more ubiquitous, the benefits of mobile learning (m-learning) can be a great opportunity for educating a vast populace, especially in developing countries. Acceptance of m-learning by individuals is critical for these nations while aiming for a successful implementation of m-learning. A total of 1156 middle and high school...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate if and how government intervention can nudge students to become ebook readers. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional survey research design was adopted for this study. A total of 1,144 students from four middle and high schools in urban and rural areas of Indonesia participated in this st...

Single sign-on (SSO) enables users to authenticate across multiple related but independent systems using a single username and password. While the number of higher education institutions adopting SSO continues to grow, little is known about the academic community’s security awareness regarding SSO. This paper aims to examine the security awareness...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many countries to close their schools and to change their education system to adopt the learning from home (LFH) method, which arguably requires more direct involvement from parents to succeed. This study explored parent’s attitudes toward LFH policy based on a survey of 261 participants from 16 provinces in Indones...

Perkembangan teknologi perangkat bergerak seperti Smartphone, tablet, dan Smartwatch berkembang sangat pesat. Beberapa tahun terakhir, Smartphone dan tablet dengan daya komputasi yang dianggap sudah sebanding dengan komputer desktop, memiliki peran penting di era digital ini. Perangkat bergerak ini banyak digunakan alat bantu dalam berbagai kegiata...

Efforts to understand student performance have long been a highly-researched topic in the field of applied education computing. Current research in the field still places its focus on understanding and analyzing student performance using definitive variables such as the student’s scores and their cognitive capabilities, which by themselves already...

Phishing is one of the most common cybersecurity attacks that target end users. Increasing user awareness of such a social engineering approach is a good, if not the best, countermeasure of phishing. While many have tried to educate users on this matter, such interventions may not work equally good for all demographic groups. In this paper, we cond...

Heritage tourism is important from both cultural and socioeconomic standpoints. Despite the ubiquity of the Internet, some heritage sites are, for some reason, yet to take full advantage of it. Kampung Wisata Kauman in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, is one of those sites lacking in exposure and recognition, partly due to semi-traditional management in the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has a negative impact on many aspects of life. The global economic downturn is one of these negative consequences. Nonetheless, even though everyone feels the threat of this pandemic for themselves, some people still have the empathy to help others. An empirical analysis of this empathy attitude is expected to be a catalyst in...

The Covid-19 outbreak that spread rapidly around the world including in Indonesia, has affected various fields, one of which is education. The government’s policy concerning PSBB forced the schools to change th learning process into online learning. However, there are factors to consider in its application, one of which is student acceptance of the...

Newspapers and other mass media outlets are critical in shaping public opinion on a variety of contemporary issues, including the COVID-19 pandemic. This study examines how the pandemic is portrayed in the news and how the public reacted differently in the West and East using archival data from Facebook posts about COVID-19 news by English-language...

Pandemi Covid-19 yang melanda seluruh dunia, termasuk Indonesia telah berdampak pada semua aspek kehidupan, salah satunya pada pendidikan tinggi. Pandemi Covid-19 memaksa mahasiswa untuk melakukan pembelajaran daring secara penuh. Meski era globalisasi dengan kemajuan teknologi yang ada telah memberikan kemudahan dalam hal pertukaran informasi yang...

Self-regulated Learning (SRL) is a learning method that puts a strong emphasis on the importance of self-learning skills. Unfortunately, many existing educational technologies employed by colleges and universities continue to place a premium on technical support for the learning process within the classroom that does not provide the same level of s...

Smartphones are the world's most widely used personal computing devices. PINs and passcodes have long been the most popular authentication methods in smartphones and even in the pre-smartphone era. Due to the inconvenient nature of PINs and passcodes, a new biometric authentication method for smartphones was developed and has been gaining traction...

p>Proses pemilihan program studi bagi calon mahasiswa baru, khususnya bagi mereka yang masih duduk di bangku SMA atau sederajat, merupakan salah satu momen pengambilan keputusan penting. Tak jarang pilihan yang salah berujung pada kegagalan studi atau kesulitan lain selepas menamatkan studi. Meski sudah mulai marak dilakukan di berbagai negara maju...

COVID-19 has forced many schools and universities worldwide, including Saudi Arabia, to move from traditional face-to-face learning to online learning. Most online learning activities involve the use of video conferencing apps to facilitate synchronous learning sessions. While some faculty members were not accustomed to using video conferencing app...

Organisasi Kesehatan Dunia (WHO) menyatakan COVID-19 pandemi di awal 2020, dan itu tiba di Indonesia pada Maret 2020. Tidak semua orang di dunia, termasuk Indonesia, memandang pandemi dalam cara yang sama. Menganalisis postingan Facebook Covid-19 adalah cara yang baik untuk mengukur opini publik tentang pandemi. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah un...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membandingkan efektivitas dan efisiensi dari metode disk overwrite dan fitur factory reset bawaan sebagai teknik anti-forensik di perangkat Android. Proses pengumpulan data di penelitian ini dilakukan dengan proses eksperimen di perangkat Android versi 10 yang telah melalui proses teknik anti-forensik tersebut secara...

Pertumbuhan usaha online yang tinggi dan bergesernya sikap konsumen menginginkan transaksi serba cepat, fleksibel dan ekonomis menyebabkan pertumbuhan e-commerce kian meningkat. Hal ini mengindikasikan semakin ketatnya persaingan pada penjualan berbasis e-commerce dalam merebut pasar offline atau konfensional. Pertumbukan e-commerce diikuti pula de...

In contrast to several other countries, Indonesian sentiment analysis research is primarily focused on the text-based analysis of Twitter. Given that Twitter users in Indonesia account for less than a seventh of those on Facebook, sentiment analysis on the latter may have a greater impact than on the former. This research sought to close that gap i...

In Saudi Arabia, some e-learning initiatives such as the Future Gate Project (FGP) and Madrasati (MySchool) have been in place since 2018 and 2020, respectively. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, they were used as a means of distance learning for students across the country. This paper investigates the willingness of students to use the e-learning platfo...

People are increasingly turning to the internet for health-related information. It is very easy to perform or obtain health-related services or information on the internet using different types of devices. This study's goal is to assess public acceptance of the internet as a source of health information by combining the Unified Theory of Acceptance...

Selecting a major can be quite difficult for prospective college students. The choice may have an effect not only on their academic life, but also on their career path. Due to some restrictions as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities must find novel ways to reach prospective students and assist them in choosing their majors, one of whi...

Unlike in Western society, Javanese people, the largest ethnic group in Indonesia, do not use family names, but only personal names representing their parents’ hopes. The longer the names, the more aspirations the parents wish for their children. We use this naming practice as a proxy to investigate gender equality progress in Javanese society. Emp...

Homophily is one of the robust findings in social network studies. It persists even in a diverse population where the opportunity to develop homogeneous friendship is not greater than a mere chance and the process of developing heterogeneous friendship is facilitated. In this study, we introduce the Framework for Intergroup Relations and Multiple A...

COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to the virus's uncontrolled spread around the world, including in Indonesia. The Indonesian government has made a number of steps to stop COVID-19 from spreading, one of which is COVID-19 vaccinations. However, not everyone thinks the vaccination is a good idea. Just like i...

E-wallets have been widely adopted in Indonesian society, providing opportunities for fintech companies to competeon delivering the best service. There has been considerable research conducted on the use of e-wallet services acrossthe globe, however not so many research have provided a comprehensive analysis of the profiles and characteristicsof e-...

Permasalahan sampah di Indonesia merupakan sesuatu yang amat serius. Salah satu faktor utamanya adalah kurangnya kesadaran masyarakat dalam membuang dan mengelola sampah dengan benar. Tak terkecuali di area sekitar kampus dan rumah kos yang kebanyakan penghuninya adalah mahasiswa yang tak jarang kurang begitu peduli akan kebersihan lingkungan. Pene...

Before conducting a research project, researchers must find the trends and state of the art in their research field. However, that is not necessarily an easy job for researchers, partly due to the lack of specific tools to filter the required information by time range. This study aims to provide a solution to that problem by performing a topic mode...

In Indonesia, the most commonly adopted electronic payment is an e-wallet. E-wallets have become a part of everyday life for Indonesians. Even so, there are not a few Indonesians who have not used this facility, the acceptance of e-wallets in Indonesia is still uneven. There are not a few studies that discuss e-wallets, however limited to research...

Purpose In this study, the authors seek to understand factors that naturally influence users to adopt two-factor authentication (2FA) without even trying to intervene by investigating factors within individuals that may influence their decision to adopt 2FA by themselves. Design/methodology/approach A total of 1,852 individuals from all 34 provinc...

Donating money anonymously is often perceived as an act of altruism in Western culture and a similar concept of ‘ikhlas’ (sincerity) in Indonesia. Yet, this prosocial behavior can also be utilized to cope with unpleasant feelings associated with such donations (e.g., fear of social judgment, guilt) making it otherwise a rather self-serving act. In...

Freelance marketplace adalah suatu jenis platform online gig economy yang mengkhususkan fungsinya untuk menghubungkan penyedia jasa dan pihak yang membutuhkan dalam jual beli jasa profesional. Pada praktiknya, jual beli jasa profesional juga terlaksana dalam media sosial, yang cara kerjanya berbeda dengan freelance marketplace. Melalui survei yang...

Dari sekitar 143 juta pengguna Internet di Indonesia, hampir 90% di antaranya adalah pengguna media sosial. Meski telah banyak diteliti, namun banyak yang baru menyentuh level permukaan saja dan belum memberikan gambaran yang komprehensif dan menyeluruh. Selain untuk mengetahui platform media sosial apa saja yang marak digunakan di Indonesia, penel...

Online gig economy has been rapidly growing and shown a promising prospect in Indonesia, but little is known about familiarity and participation of Indonesians in this new business model. This study tries to fill that gap in literature by exploring familiarity and participation in four different types of online gig economy, i.e. transportation-base...

Electronic wallet (e-wallet) services have been the most commonly used electronic payment (e-payment) method in Indonesia within the past few years. By using survey data from 409 e-wallet users collected in the first half of 2020 and analyzed with descriptive statistics and logistic regression models, this study explores the top three e-wallet serv...

Saat ini media sosial membuat wisatawan meninggalkan cara-cara tradisional atau konvensional. Hal tersebut merupakan tantangan bagi para pelaku wisata agar tidak kehilangan pelanggan dan dapat menarik pelanggan baru. Pelaku wisata dapat memanfaatkan media sosial sebagai strategi pemasaran baru, yaitu dengan influencer ataupun iklan di media sosial....

In developing countries, where most people have cellphones (even when they don’t have reliable electricity or internet service), e-learning an dm-learning offer great opportunities for educating a vast populace, particularly in rural communities. This article presents ananalysis of primary data from over one...

This article adds more insights into the previous study about the use of mobile apps on smartphones and tablets among Indonesian college students based on a survey of undergraduate students at one private university in Indonesia. Data analysis includes two-sample tests of proportion and multiple correspondence analysis (MCA). The findings confirm s...

This article offers insights into the ownership and use of mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) among Indonesian middle and high school students. The study is based on primary data collected from a survey of 1,157 students at two middle schools and two high schools from two different regions in Indonesia. Data analysis includes multiple corresp...

This study investigates daily mobile device use among Indonesian university students by using survey data collected in the first quarter of 2016. The data show that 55.49% of the students spend more than five hours a day on their mobile devices. OLS regression analysis shows that female students, owners of the most expensive smartphone or tablet, a...

This paper presents an interactive virtual breadboard system that provides automated guidance to electrical engineering students working on electronic circuits labs. The primary contribution of the paper is the unique invariant representation of the state of the breadboard, which enables instructors to develop their own lab assignments with a set o...

This paper explores the relationship between world ICT and education indicators by using the latest available data from World Bank and UNESCO in range of 2011-2014 with the help of different exploratory methods such as principal component analysis (PCA), factor analysis (FA), cluster analysis, and ordinary least square (OLS) regression. After deali...

WhatsApp is a multiplatform instant messenger with the most users worldwide by 2013. The popularity of WhatsApp has raised the need of better understanding on how it stores chat archives within the application. This knowledge is useful in term of mobile forensics purposes. In this paper, the latest version of WhatsApp applications in two major plat...

This study examines the relation of Internet penetration rate with human development level over the last decade. The main purpose is to investigate the possible existence of a digital divide between developed and developing countries during the last 10 years. Furthermore, it also explores how the growth of the Internet penetration rate in developed...

ABSTRAKSI Sebuah layanan web hosting pada dasarnya adalah sebuah server yang di dalamnya telah disiapkan berbagai macam aplikasi pendukung. Untuk mengatur segala konfigurasi dan pengendalian pada situs yang berada pada sebuah layanan web hosting, digunakan sebuah tool terintegrasi yang disebut Web Hosting Control Panel, salah satu diantaranya adala...