Civil society organisations or CSOs are unique compared to other groups. They help advocate the society by mentoring, raising public awareness, and campaigning values to improve the quality of understanding the public issues. By analyzing the rejection of the death penalty, this study examines the role of KontraS and Imparsial as norm entrepreneurs in human rights campaigns. Both view the death penalty as incompatible with the universal human rights norm, and the government should comprehensively pay greater attention to this issue. With this belief as a rationale, KontraS and Imparsial are motivated to promote the rejection of the penalty as depicted in their campaigns. The two organizations conduct malicious actions like criticism, demonstration, and collaborative strategies such as research, education, and community empowerment in human rights campaigns. This paper is qualitative research using an intensive literature review combined with in-depth interviews. The findings revealed that both succeeded in overspreading counter norms to create political debates regarding death punishment. However, due to the coalition’s socio-political dynamics and internal factors, KontraS and Imparsial failed to influence the actors and state policies to abolish the capital penalty.
Many previous studies have confirmed that collaboration and transparency are the best ways to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The state must involve other actors such as local governments and civil society in drafting laws, implementing COVID-19 programs, and exercising controls. This article examines the experience of the City of Semarang in applying the principles of open government in handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is qualitative research that combined a systematic literature review and data collected from an in-depth interview, scientific journal, report, and website related to the article's topic. This article focuses on the government city and the local civil organisation's efforts to initiate open government initiatives and implement them in its agendas to deal with the pandemic COVID-19. The article concludes that the two actors has agreed to implement open government initiatives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as those principles has positive impacts handling the pandemic. This article also notice that various factors are still hampering the implementation of open government. For future research agenda, it is important to analysis how to deal with the obstacles.
This article examines concealed meanings of new anti-corruption social movements in Indonesia. The researchers explain the roles of civil society movements in shaping a new social and political structure in Indonesia in the post-reform of 1998. The research method is an intensive literature review by collecting and analyzing journal articles and books related to the article’s topic. The authors reveal that new social movements on anti-corruption issues show various features in their actions by utilizing social media and cultural fields to obtain broader support from society. Besides, the actors have become an epistemic community whose roles create breakthroughs for society. Abstrak Artikel ini mengkaji makna tersembunyi tentang gerakan sosial baru dalam isu antikorupsi di Indonesia. Peneliti menjelaskan peran gerakan masyarakat sipil dalam membentuk struktur sosial dan politik baru di Indonesia pasca reformasi 1998. Metode penelitian ini adalah studi literatur intensif dengan mengumpulkan dan menganalisis artikel jurnal dan buku yang terkait dengan topik artikel ini. Penulis menyimpulkan bahwa gerakan sosial dalam isu antikorupsi menunjukkan berbagai ciri dalam tindakan mereka. dengan memanfaatkan media sosial dan arena kebudayaan yang ada untuk mendapatkan dukungan yang lebih luas dari masyarakat. Selain itu, para aktor yang terlibat dalam gerakan tersebut telah menjadi komunitas epistemik yang mampu melahirkan gerakan dan peran penting di masyarakat.
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