Vol. 8 No. 17 (2009)

Darul Arqam (DA), Negara Islam Indonesia (NII), and Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) are the Islamic movement (harakah Islamiyah) which posses its own view on democration and deliberation, clearly distinctive from the view of common Indonesian and world people. Why they posses their own view, what is the argument behind, and what the experts say about these movement, this is matter that everybody must know. The goal of this research is to cover valid data and scientific facts about these three view of the Islamic organizations about democracy and deliberation, analyzed them, and compared with…

The United States is a super power country. Its potential human resources and advanced economy are the powerful weapons for the US to dominate the wolrd economy. Several ways are done to ful fil the anbition. To achieve if, the US after breaks orther countries

The use of foreign terms in the field of automotive absorbed into Indonesian can enrich Indonesian lexicons and positively affects the development of Indonesian. From morphological point of view, foreign terms in the field of automotive can derive from morphological process: (1) affixation, (2) reduplication, (3) abbreviation. While from phonological point of view, the absorption of foreign terms in the field of automotive into Indonesian can be categorized into four: (a) full absorption, (b) absorption through the letter adjustment, (c) absorption through the letter adjustment and…

The analysis of implicatures made by the legislative candidates in the campaign billboards and banners shows that these two media are basically used for their political struggles. The campaign language in the media is used as an instrument for the candidates to create their good images to win the public

The term BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) which expresses 4 high-growing and large-economic-size emerging countries is introduced in a paper by Wilson and Purushothaman (both represent Goldman Sachs). The paper predicts that by 2050, those 4 countries will outshadow the present sum of major economies that we now know as G6. The prediction also notices that Indonesia will be placed as the 7th largest economies in 2050. With the present global economic downturn and how each country responds the situation, this prediction might eventually change. The negative growth of many developed…

In pragmatic research One of the data collection instrument whichreleability is being questioned about its reliability is the Discourse Completion Test (DCT). This issue appears due to several weaknesses of DCT. Firstly, the authenticity of the situations is limited. Then, the hypothetical nature of the situations in DCT simplifies the complexity of interactions in real conversation. Moreover, what people claim they would say in the hypothetical situation is not necessarily what they actually say in real situations. In addition, DCT is not able to bring out the extended negotiation which…

The purpose of the research: (i) to describe the construction of the noun phrase (NP) functioning as the adverbial in the English clause; (ii) ) to describe the semantic role of the noun phrase functioning as the adverbial (iii) to describe the verbs preceding the noun phrase functioning as the adverbial; (iv) to describe the prepositions preceding the noun phrase functioning as the adverbial when the noun phrase functions as the post-modifier of prepositional phrase. The technique used in the research is descriptive method with distributional technique. The research results: (i) the…

Scavengers refer to people that have an activity of collecting used things. They are workforces that have low payment by industries. Their activity is not protected and developed by the Department of Manpower because it does not have work relation and guarantee of work continuity. The purpose of this research is to obtain the data of social economic life of scavengers in Bandung City, study their social life, and analyze the research findings. Descriptive method is applied in this research, and direct field observation is done to collect data through questionnaires. The results show that…

Semarak hajatan demokrasi di negeri ini seakan-akan menemui puncak pada tahun 2009 ini. Hal ini disebabkan pada tahun ini terjadi dua hajatan besar di negara ini: Pemilu legislatif dan eksekutif. Berlangsungnya pemilihan umum legislatif dan eksekutif ini menyebabkan hampir semua perhatian masyarakat tertuju pada hal-ihwal pergelaran hajatan ini.