Bangka Belitung is being transformed into a tourism destination area, relying on nature tourism. But unfortunately, the development of nature tourism does not include the development of ecotourism, even though these two things are interrelated. Nature tourism which is a mainstay of the tourism sector provides a very wide opportunity to strengthen ecotourism as part of the environmental movement in Bangka Belitung. This research aims to find out how the fulfillment of the ecotourism principles of tourism natural areas in Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Indonesia, and identifying unique things related to the application of these principles. Through quantitative research methods with a survey approach that is strengthened by field observations, this research found that assessed from 5 interval categories of the ecotourism principles fulfillment, 58% of the tourism areas in Bangka Belitung were included in the category of fulfilled of the ecotourism principles and 42% were in the strongly fulfilled category of the ecotourism principles. The research also found that although the application of each principle was met, there were unique and interesting notes on each principle.

Tourism and ecology are two important issues in regional development planning in Bangka Belitung. As an archipelago that has a productive tin mining area, environmental damage is an important issue. Not only because of the impact of damages due to mining, but the dimensions of tourism which are important sectors in this area are also affected. In recent years, local governments in the Bangka Belitung region are focusing on working on the issue of tourism by relying on the ecotourism sector as an important alternative to post-mining. This study explores how political policies are arranged in regional planning documents. The research method used was descriptive qualitative by examining the regional medium-term development planning documents in 6 districts, 1 city, and 1 provincial government in Bangka Belitung. This study found 4 things. First, that none of the regional governments listed the vision of tourism and only 1 region that included an ecological vision. Secondly, the study found that there was only one government that made the issue of tourism in the development mission and only 3 regions mentioned the ecological mission, the rest only mentioned implicitly. Third, each region places tourism and ecological issues as two different programs, not considered an issue that must be managed synergistically. Fourth, almost all regional planning documents mention tourism and ecology as regional strategic issues, but they are not balanced with a strong vision, mission, and work program as a translation. Fifth, only 4 out of 8 regions have made the issue of developing ecotourism a regional strategic issue even though it has not been followed by a strong design development in development planning. In the end, this study concluded that tourism and ecology had not been placed optimally in planning documents politically.

Chinese ethnic in Bangka Island has been there since the colonialism and has become part of tin mining history on the island. It is no wonder that the acculturation has stated for a long time ago especially in the grass root society. This study found out how is Chinese assimilation in this area using the qualitative approach. Based on the data from interviews and observations on the field, the writer found out that Chinese assimilation on the island formed a unity identity without losing their own identity. Tong Ngin Fan Ngin Tjit Tjong which means Chinese and Native, has become the grass roots’ principle and social bond among them. Since the reformation in 1998, this broadens the relation from social into electoral politics. However, the spirit of acculturation in the grass roots must be kept that it doesn’t appear to the surface. The celebration of Chinese identity recognition must be done naturally so as not to cause antipathy. The tolerance that has been practiced so far at the grassroots must be strengthened so that when conflicts of elite interests occur, relations at the grassroots level are not affected.

An economy founded on natural resource extraction usually presents problems to the environment but tourism development requires the conditions of the natural environment. Meanwhile, the transition from the dependence of Bangka Island on tin mining to tourism is observed to be experiencing fundamental challenges due to the main interest of the community in tin. The aim of this research is to explore the perceptions and attitudes of the Bangka Island community concerning the transition process using descriptive quantitative method by Likert scale. The results showed the community considers tin mining as a sector with high potential and activity despite its harmful effect on the environment and future generations. The people also realize their community is rich in nature-based tourism potential as well as the efforts of the government in its development but mining is observed to still be dominant in the area. Moreover, the two sectors were discovered to be operational in the community including the illegal mining activities. These findings concluded the community is inconsistent in its development approach as indicated by its efforts towards tourism as well as the simultaneous tolerance for tin mining even though it is clear both sectors cannot work together.

Kota Pangkalpinang terus bertransformasi menjadi sebuah kota kecil yang modern, dan tentunya menghadapi berbagai dinamika persoalan dan tantangan kewargaan yang semakin kompleks. Kompleksitas kewargaan perkotaannya tentu memiliki konteks kerumitan yang begitu beragam, sesuai dengan demografi politik kewargaan kawasan pinggiran perkotaan. Kajian ini mengkomparasikan lanskap sosial politik dan dinamika tantangan yang dihadapi masyarakat di tiga lokasi penelitian, yang tercermin pada struktur politik kewargaan sehari-hari.  Pendekatan yang digunakan yaitu studi kualitatif dengan teknik pengumpulan data; observasi, wawancara mendalam, dan dokumentasi. Adapun lokasi yang dipilih merupakan kawasan- pinggiran perkotaan. Studi ini menghasilkan beberapa temuan yaitu adanya disparitas perubahan konteks lanskap sosial-politik daerah pinggiran yang berbeda dalam bentuk dan model intervensinya sehingga menyebabkan warganya semakin individualis dan kapitalis dan semangat komunalitas warganya semakin tergerus, terdapat konteks masyarakat yang ‘terbelah’ pada wilayah Beluluk dan Kace Timur dalam konteks semangat kewargaan daerah pinggiran yang menjadi arena transit ekonomi warga dan semangat kolektif warga. Selain itu, eksistensi modal sosial warga dan aktivasi politik warga di tiga kampung-kota tersebut terlihat perbedaan mencolok dalam hal resiliense terhadap berbagai aspek identitas lokal masing-masing daerah seperti tradisi budaya lokal, pergeseran makna, dan modal sosial warganya.

In a long period, the Indonesian Chinese has avoided electoral political dynamics. Even further, Indonesian Chinese ethnic groups avoid social spaces that openly connoted to the political world. Marginalization and discrimination factors are the right terms to describe the position of the ethnic Indonesian Chinese until later, the situation changes along with the fall of the New Order Regime and the onset of The Reform Era. The emergence of Ahok Phenomenon with its various dynamics has at least become one of the momentums of the rise of Indonesian Chinese ethnic in the political world. In smaller spaces, at the village level, the phenomenon of the election of village heads which come from Indonesian Chinese race groups background illustrates political change at the grassroots level. This paper, through qualitative research methods, explores how the dynamics of power of the Indonesian Chinese ethnic who become head of The Village on Bangka Island. Interestingly, the Indonesian Chinese ethnic who have been known to be apolitical, enter public spaces that come in direct contact with diversity. This paper finds that actually Indonesian Chinese politics at the village level has its own dynamics. The development of democracy extends on the rural level and increases the political participation of Indonesian Chinese ethnic. The political elites in the village government started the career of a communal community organization not because of the influence of the Ahok phenomenon. When a civil servant acts as village head, they generally played a dynamic role and carried out a politics of pluralism. This is an anomaly condition compared to the early Reform Era., their desires more dominated by long-lost identity claims.

Tulisan ini merupakan sebuah telaah kritis dan tinjauan analitis terkait GBHN sebagai instrumen mengelola concencus building dalam rangka memperkuat kembali GBHN sebagai haluan negara yang berhaluan Pancasila. Tulisan ini mencoba meninjau ulang terkait Pembangunan model GBHN; antara idealisasi dan rasionalisasi. Oleh karena itu, tentu menjadi sangat penting kemudian menghadirkan sebuah konsep yang ideal dan memadai dengan tujuan mengkerangkai model ideal dan rasional tersebut menuju pembangunan Nasional yang berkelanjutan. GBHN merupakan manifestasi doktrin ‘state-led economic development’, semacam model pembangunan berencana yang dijadikan basis bagi haluan pembangunan suatu negara. Oleh karena itu, upaya untuk menghadirkan kembali pembangunan model GBHN yang tentu berbeda dengan konteks Orde Baru menjadi penting dan relevan, khususnya GBHN yang berhaluan Pancasila. Ini pada akhirnya penting untuk dijadikan semacam konsep yang ideal dan memadai dengan tujuan mengkerangkai model ideal dan rasional terkait pembangunan Nasional yang berkelanjutan. GBHN model baru adalah proyek bersama untuk menyelaraskan grand design jangka panjang pembangunan Nasional ke depan yang tentunya sangat mengedepankan proses-proses yang diskursif dan demokratis. Memperkuat konteks GBHN yang dibangun dengan basis di atas konsensus yang melibatkan secara aktif dan masif berbagai pihak, khususnya komunitas akademik dan juga komunitas gerakan dan swadaya masyarakat menjadi sangat mendesak dilakukan.

The growth of kids' brain could be optimized by recognizing something. Learning to recognize animals is one of the methods to stimulate the children's brain growth to imagine. Nevertheless, kids tend to spend all their time by playing and could not focus to recognize the animals due to the way of learning which is usually not interactive and not interesting. Therefore, a game application was designed and developed to be used as a way to help children in recognizing the animals. This program was developed as a mobile game application with the animation and attractive display to increase the kids' interest to learn the animals. Beside that, Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm has been successfully implemented on the game to randomize the images which can be found on puzzles, randomize the answers in image guessing puzzles, randomize animals to choose which can be sold, randomize the foods which will be given to the pets, and randomize the initial position to create patterns on rescue rare animal puzzles. After the implementation and testing on the game application, it proves that it could increase the kids’ interest in learning new animals to 4.18 in ARCS interest measuring index compare with textbook method which only 2.74.