In Malaysia, Small Medium Enterprise (SME) has become the main contributor for the income generation and employment thus are expected to increase country's GDP growth. Hence, it is important for the SME owners to ensure the sustainability of their business in today's business settings that has moved to digital businesses in which technology is used to create new value in business models, customer experiences and the internal capabilities that support its core operations. Yet, there are still local SMEs who did not fully utilized the advantages of adopting Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in their business operation and transactions. This paper presents an interview done with 12 SME owners that operates their businesses in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor. The study is to gain an understanding on the factors affecting SME owners in adopting ICT in their business by using the Thematic Analysis method. The outcome shows that there are two central themes that affect ICT usage in SME which are the (1) Internal Factor and (2) External Factor. Further, we identified two (2) components that effect the Internal Factor, namely Company (capital, company's age, less skilled workers and family business) and SME Owners (time, education, perceptions and experiences) and another two (2) components that affect the External Factor, namely Technology (high cost, complicated, system's security and stability) and Regulators (government's initiatives, training skills and no urgency). Hence, the result is important to the SME owners and management as well as the government or the authorities to resolve these issues in order to increase the ICT usage among the SME owners in Malaysia.
Woven crafts made by women at the Sajingan Besar frontier, besides that it also has economic value, historical value, cultural values that show the identity of the population at the national boundary. The aims of the study were to describe the role of weavers’ women in strengthening nationalism, woven is a culture that is typical of the society in Sajingan Besar frontier, Sambas District. There are two data used in this paper, i.e primary data is field studies, and secondary data is literature studies. The result of research shown that there is an important role from weavers’ women in Sajingan Besar, namely: (1) Utilization of Natural Resources is to strengthen nationalism by utilizing the availability of natural resources in managing them into woven crafts which are a form of expansion of nationalism because woven crafts are a cultural heritage and has local characteristics of Sajingan Besar, (2) The Role of weavers’ women in Sajingan Besar is able to realize a harmonious life with the Malaysian community to strengthen nationalism has become a role model on the frontier whose territory is inhabited by a variety of different tribes, religions and cultures but unity is maintained.
This paper aims to explore the ideas and thoughts of Malik Bennabi on the issue of civilization, especially the Islamic world. At the same time, this article will identify ideas that can be taken as lessons from the ‘post-al-Muwahhidun’ according to Malik Bennabi. Besides that, it also discusses the situation of Muslims after the fall of the caliphate of al-Muwahhidun which he referred to as colonisabilite who have lost ‘spirit’ and ‘idea’. This situation is described by Malik Bennabi as in a state of stagnation for a long time. This paper uses the method of content analysis through inductive and deductive forms from Malik Bennabi’s books as primary sources and other related documents. In addition, historical analysis was also conducted to strengthen the arguments and findings of the article. The study divides Malik Bennabi’s analysis of the issue of ‘civilization’ into four main lessons. First, the issue raised is that Muslims need to understand the current phase of Muslims in the context of the cycle of civilization, second; reconstructing the culture, third the importance of education, science and ideas and fourth Muslims need to respond to the call of religion. The issues raised are seen as significant and relevant to the development and situation of Muslims today. Together, it needs to be understood and internalised to regenerate the glory and strength of Islam as achieved in the past.
Penggunaan Google Meet dan Youtube berlaku peningkatan mendadak ketika pandemik corona virus (COVID-19) melanda negara. Perkara ini turut memberi kesan kepada pendidikan termasuklah bagi mata pelajaran bahasa Arab dan perlu melakukannya secara pembelajaran terbuka dan jarak jauh (ODL). Walau bagaimanapun, pembelajaran bahasa Arab secara ODL bukanlah semudah yang disangka dan mempunyai pelbagai cabaran. Tambahan pula, pelajar mengatakan bahasa Arab sukar untuk dikuasai. Oleh itu, objektif pertama kajian ini adalah mengenal pasti cabaran pembelajaran bahasa Arab secara ODL yang dihadapi pelajar semasa pandemik COVID-19. Kedua, menganalisis keberkesanan Google Meet dan Youtube dalam membantu pelajar menguasai bahasa Arab secara ODL semasa pandemik COVID-19. Kajian kuantitatif ini merupakan kajian tinjauan dengan menggunakan instrumen soal selidik. Instrumen soal selidik digunakan untuk mengumpul data terhadap 100 orang pelajar diploma yang dipilih secara persampelan rawak mudah daripada UiTM Cawangan Melaka. Analisis secara deskriptif dilakukan dan dipersembahkan dalam bentuk jadual. Hasil dapatan menunjukkan cabaran teknikal yang dihadapi pelajar dalam pembelajaran bahasa Arab secara ODL yang tertinggi adalah cabaran data internet terhad. Manakala cabaran terendah adalah rumah pelajar banjir semasa pandemik COVID-19. Namun begitu, pendekatan pembelajaran bahasa Arab secara ODL melalui Google Meet dan Youtube dapat membantu pelajar dengan berkesan semasa pandemik Covid-19. Kajian ini mencadangkan kajian akan datang agar dapat menyelidiki aspek cabaran yang dihadapi pensyarah bahasa Arab semasa pandemik COVID-19 dan kajian dilakukan terhadap perluasan penggunaan data internet.
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