Vol. 8 No. 16 (2009)

NII (The Indonesian Islamic State) called DI (Dar al-Islam) is an Islamic movement organization (Harakah Islámiyyah) is led by Maridjan Sekarmadji Kartosoewirjo (MSK), a prominent of Masyumi from West Java. This organization has its own soldiers called TII or The Islamic Indonesian Soldiers. They proclaimed "The Indonesian Islamic State "“ The Blessing State of Allah (NKA- NII) on August 7th 1949. DI / TII had been destroyed by TNI (The National Military) with the various ways. MSK has been caught on June 4th 1962 and executed on September 5th in the same year. Most of Indonesian people…

As the majority in this country, the Moslems have an important role in determining who and what party will win the upcoming general election this year and then lead this country for the next five years. Dealing with leadership, Moslems believe that Prophet Muhammad is the best leader ever in the world. However, some Moslem intellectuals argued that Prophet Muhammad was only a religious leader, instead of a political leader. This article discusses any issues on the leadership of Prophet Muhammad that is presumably related to our present national concern, the general election.

The meaning and concept of the word “saleh” is unique in literary studies. There are many interpretations of “saleh” in the short story “Robohnya Surau Kami” written by Navis. The meaning and concept can be comprehensively analyzed by using many approaches, one of which is by Cultural Semiotics approach. This study shows a process of signification and extension of meaning and concept as a very dynamic metalanguage.

Bilingualism or multilingualism may imply socioeconomic advantages. But a further literature study indicates that this may also affect psychological and cultural viewpoints. The acquisition of second language would significantly influence the mentality or perceptual framework of the language users. Consequently, this finding may inspire to the appropriate pedagogical methods in language acquisition.

It has become a reality that a woman is the second class citizen in the society. The role of the woman had not been counted on. In the field of education, economics, social, religious conviction, also politics, woman has always been gazed at an eye. Furthermore, the woman is the creature who has always been set aside in the world of politics. In the matter of political jargon, the woman did not get the place, did not have the right, and her role was stunted. Development of political jargon today really does not take sides with the woman. Jargon like "a leader must be man", "woman might be…

This study focuses on the syntactic and semantic features of the benefactive verbs in double object construction (DOC)in English sentences. A combination of various thoughts of linguists is used to serve as an eclectic theory employed in this research. This research uses the descriptive method with distributional techniques. The results of the research show the following. First, benefactive verbs assign three specific benefactive roles, namely beneficiary, recipient, and goal. Second, benefactive verbs come in two types of clauses, the double object construction (DOC) with a structure of (S +…

The purposes of the research are: (i) to describe the type of the noun Phrase (NP) functioning as the complement in the English clause; (ii) to describe the structure of the constituents of the noun phrase functioning as the complement in the English clause; (iii) to describe the constituents that may be reduced, inserted, substituted, or transformed. The techniques used in the research are descriptive method with substitution. Permutation, deletion/reduction, and, paraphrase techniques. The research results are: (i) The types of noun or noun phrase (NP) functioning as the complement is…

Ideologi para pemilih politik adalah suatu domain aktivitas sosial yang menyangkut terjadinya perebutan dan distribusi kekuasaan. Pola interaksi dalam dunia politik yang terjadi sangat dipengaruhi oleh sistem nilai (value of system) yang berkembang dalam masyarakat. Karena sistem nilai dalam masyarakat selalu dinamis, pola interaksi politik dalam masyarakat pun bersifat dinamis Jika dilihat dari perkembangan-nya, politik di Indonesia mengalami banyak fase. Dilihat dari segi pemilih, interaksi politik di Indonesia meng-alami beberapa perubahan. Pada awalnya, partisipasi politik warga negara…