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Spaces in urban areas have changed a lot/functions since urban areas were placed as locations to spur regional and national economic growth. Perhaps this is relevant to the statement of Lefebvre (1991), the development of world cities in the 21st century tends to lead to development as capitalist cities. Residents flocking to the city with all its social and cultural impacts, has led to the growth of slums everywhere, street vendors on the shoulders and sidewalks, spilled markets, and so on. In addition, the city provides less and less green open space, even though there are regional regulations that regulate it. There is still a crush on the allotment of space for business and school purposes, for example for the construction of malls and offices, for housing and so on. This is a real problem faced by many big city governments in Indonesia. So that spaces in urban areas are really contested by various actors for various interests. Courtesy of Freepick.com Slums and squatter settlement...

Independent isolation policy is a part of biopolitics policy. This policy happened to appear and was intended to rationalize the problem of disease/population death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to generate a healthy population. So that the population can continue their life. This is emphasized by Foucault (1981) that the normalization of society is the historical result of the technology of power that is centered on life. Meanwhile, biopolitical in general refers to specific knowledge of the population prepared through the disciplines of statistics, demography, epidemiology, and biology (Randolph 2020). Not surprisingly, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government always updates statistical and demographic data, the distribution of locations from the number of people who died, lived and were exposed to COVID-19. Courtesy of Freepick.com  Self-isolation after traveling abroad is a disciplinary mechanism that aims to prevent the transmission of infectious disease viruses by impos...

Social sciences in the third world have been occupied by modernization theories since the 20th century. These theories have been claimed universal in nature. Since then, the social scientists have concentrated on producing new products and technologies that have been spread out through text books. The results of various research were assumed to be able to help to free underdeveloped countries, which in the modernization discourse has been called the third world countries. An adequate approach is needed to understand the history of Western social sciences that have been very close to the social sciences tradition since the 19th century, as the antinomy between mothetic-ideographic and universality-particularism concepts. The object of social science analitic, space and time variables have become critical debate, as the dilema in the non-Western countries, between the universality and particular, and nomothetic versus ideographic. Critical social theory has deconstructed the law of capit...

 The central government's political economy policy to generate domestic industry became the main reference in formulation of local public transport policies. The local level public transportation policy maker and planner could not just ignore the automotive sector development. However, the government still has to pay a lot of attention to the impact of automotive industry development policy. Courtesy of Freepick.com The accessibility gap in vertical public transportation is getting wider. From public transportation to individual mode of transportation. The changes of society pattern in choosing the transportation to be used as a result of structural changes of the political economy that occurred during the New Order era, and continues in the current government era. The New Order government had developed a national car project (Mobnas). Beside the Mobnas project, there's also a political economic phenomenon that continues on production and consumption of motor vehicle growth. Th...

 The Covid-19 pandemic could be handled by two main policies: Pemberlakuan Pembatasan Kegiatan Masyarakat (PPKM)/implementation of restrictions on community activities policies and mass vaccination. It has changed people's daily life. To maintain public health, the government carries out strict supervision, enforcement of behavioral discipline and community activities. This study focused on revealing disciplined policies that are implemented by governments (in Indonesia) to face people rebellion. The PPKM policy's implication has in fact forced people to get used to living abnormal lives.   PPKM Surabaya (CSWS's Photo)  The PPKM policy wasn't fully understood by those two industrial areas resident in East Java (Gresik Regency and Surabaya City). Community action against the PPKM policy was sturdy in both areas. The refusal and resistance to the officers in charge of supervising the implementation of the PPKM policy has sparked social unrest. This reached its peak when t...

Violence had already become a reality of human experience. Whereas men mostly engage in physical fights, intimidation, and street crimes (Loeber & Stouthamer-Loeber, 1998) compared to women there is growing evidence that some forms of violence are encountered in everyday life. There are various explanations for why disparities in violence persist. Unfortunately, no single theory or perspective can capture all the reasons why certain groups and ethnicities experience more violence than others. Carok os referred to as tradition, it is associated with someone’s way to regain their pride that was underestimated by others, and carok itself considered as an arena or platform to exhibit one’s real and symbolic power at the same time (Aminah, Kinasih, Koesbardiati, 2007). Therefore, up until these days, the inherent comprehension between the Maduranese. From violence perspective, carok is a direct and cultural violence. Carok is a form of unfolded battle carried out by two people who opini...

There are complex problems as a result of the development that has taken place so far. Spatial planning based on capital development mostly gave an impact on the problems emergence of damage to the social and living environment. This later continues to cause regional inequality and injustice. Such things require attention and integrated handling in various ways that enable policy stakeholders to plan environmentally friendly and fair spatial planning. How to prevent the threat of an ecological crisis? Courtesy of Freepick.com Both Java and Bali Island have their own different characteristics. The characteristics of Bali Province region with local wisdom and culture are concerned in formulating the spatial planning objectives of the province according to the potential, problems, opportunities, challenges, and obstacles faced in spatial planning. Formulation of objectives that take into account the character of the relative area will be more likely to be achieved. Likewise with the chara...