Rumah Melayu ‘Cindai' Model Rumah Panggung Bercirikan Seniukir Ornamen Melayu Deli

Rumah Melayu Cindai merupakan salah satu pelestarian yang penting dalam kehidupan seni dan budaya di kota Medan saat ini. Rumah Melayu Cindai berupaya menggambarkan satu bentuk budaya bagi orang Melayu yang dahulu pernah mendiaminya kota Medan. Rumah Melayu Cindai dapat dijadikan model referesentatif mewakili seni bina orang Melayu Deli telah didesain bentuknya serta dibuat sehingga menampilkan betapa arif dan kreatifnya bangsa Melayu dalam bidang seni bangunan. Perencanaan bentuk rumah tersebut menggambarkan kebijaksanaan dalam penggunaan dan keluasan ruang mengikuti keperluan zaman, mengadaptasi cuaca dan penggunaan bahan bangunan. Rumah Melayu Cindai bercirikan Seni Ukir Ornamen (hiasan) melambangkan cara hidup dan sikap terbuka orang Melayu Deli dan kota Medan itu sendiri

Upacara “Tolak Bala” Refleksi Kearifan Lokal Masyarakat Nelayan Kenagarian Painan Kabupaten Pesisir Selatan Propinsi Sumatera Barat terhadap Laut

Nagari (local village) of Painan is a fishing area located in Pesisir Selatan Regency, West Sumatera Province. Sometimes the number of fish fished in this area is so low. The community believes the reason for this is some kind of mystical strength. Therefore they try to avoid it by holding ‘tolak bala\u27 (rejecting misfortune) ceremony. The main question of this study is what role does the ceremony play in the Painan fishermen community? The data is analysed using functional structural theory of Redcliffe-Brown. As a materialization of local wisdom, the ceremony is important among the fishermen community. Religious, social, and economic aspects of the ceremony can change the perception of society. Fishermen realize the harmony between human and supernatural creatures. In the other hand, the ceremony helps develop and preserve the social binding and teach them about the importance of saving and economical spending

Konstruksi Realitas Pemberlakuan Perda Syariah oleh Koran The Jakarta Post

This research aims to analyse the construction of reality on sharia bylaws in the English newspaper The Jakarta Post. The Jakarta Post is currently the biggest national English newspaper with readership includes educated middle class and high-end as well as foreign audience, making its role siginificant in representing news of Indonesia abroad. This qualitative research uses descriptive design and framing analysis to analyse the framing of news about the implementation of sharia bylaws by The Jakarta Post. The research concludes that The Jakarta Post frames sharia bylaws as controversial and incompatible with the legal system and the plural society of Indonesia. The construction of reality is influenced by its pluralist and secularist ideology

Permasalahan Gambir (Uncaria Gambir L.) Di Sumatera Barat Dan Alternatif Pemecahannya

Problem of gambir (Uncaria gambir) in West Sumatera and its their alternative solutionsGambir plant is a specific location commodity of West Sumatera. Gambir farming is obne of activities to increase farmers income. It is also an export commodity which contributes to local PDRB and increases export earnings. Around 80% of world demand is fulliled by West Sumatera Province with destiniation country : Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, France, and Switzerland. Demands for gambir have increased all the years, and during five years (2000-2004) export vlume increased 87.49% and export value increased 17.16%. Gambir is esed raw material for medicine, food, and textile industries, and also as sunlight proof color agent and for leather processing. The main problems of gambir are low producticvity and low quality resulted from inoptimal cultivation and post harvest processing technoloque. One step to value the problems is to identify the problems and to draw a program for research and development of gambir which are comprehensive, synergic, and sustainable. This program in solving the gambir problems in West Sumatera, and it is also important to avoid duplication in planning and implementation, and also for research evaluastion so that it can produce action program which is strategic and dynamic since pre-production to post-harvest and marketing

Perbaikan Sistem Hukum dalam Pembangunan Hukum di Indonesia

Since reform marked by fall downing regime himGovernance of New Order, peeping out a period totransition in course of democracy. Word democratizelikely become tidy political jargon in the form of socialissues and HAM which later then diekspos to societyto oppose all policy of governance. Proper confessedduring governance of New Order, democracy likelybecome very matter of taboo to be talked openlypublic. This matter of mirror from various legislationproduct which do not express justice of society ingeneral