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{"title":"SCENARIO AND DILEMMA OF FARMING WORK AND ACTIONS OF STATE ADMINISTRATION AUTHORITY IN THE ERA OF JAPANESE OCCUPATION IN KEDAH (1941-45)","authors":"Mohd Kasri Saidon, Zolkefli Bahador","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.412003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.412003","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a review and display of two aspects that occurred during the Japanese military occupation of Kedah, namely the story of rice production work and the administration of Kedah. Kedah is ready to be the main rice supply field for the whole of Malaya. It is Kedah's main product and the state's identifying identity. Under Japanese rule, the concentration of paddy fields in Kedah was emphasized. The move is also aimed at achieving the mission goal of expanding Japanese power throughout Asia especially in the supply of food for their soldiers. History proves that Kedah can still produce rice supply despite the shortage due to the disruption of social life at that time which did not stimulate productivity as in the British era. The governance of the Japanese military administration, which is seen as oppressing the farmers, is also one of the reasons for this to happen. The Japanese are seen trying to come up with some improvement measures to improve productivity but it is not very widespread. The Department of Agriculture, led by local children, is also seen as not able to be more productive in this farming effort as before the war. The oppressive social situation made agriculture return to self -sufficiency.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"577 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116539552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"PERKASA INTERVENTION: A PSYCHOTHERAPY INTERVENTION AMONG PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH LEUKEMIA IN MALAYSIA","authors":"Muhammad Syamsul Mat Zin, A. Azman, Z. Abdul Latiff, L. C-Khai","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.412004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.412004","url":null,"abstract":"This study, known as PERKASA Intervention, is a psychotherapy intervention towards parents of children with leukemia, implemented in one of the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Kuala Lumpur, and has been conducted by a Medical Social Worker. This Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) is a sequel study adapted from a pilot study that has been done previously. This intervention consists of four sessions with 60 minutes per session emphasizing emotional, rational thinking, cognitive, and behavior. A total of 60 samples are selected using purposive sampling, and a 1:1 ratio has been used at randomized stages. A total of 30 participants were placed in the Experimental Group (EG), while the remaining 30 participants were placed in the Control Group (CG). All the participants were approached by the researcher with rigorous monitoring by Pediatric Oncology/Hematology and cooperation from two Chief Nurses. Participants from EG have been assessed three times; pre-intervention (T1), mid-intervention (T2), and post-intervention (T3), meanwhile CG participants were assessed just at the post-intervention (T2a) and compared with EG. This study used chi-square, multivariate ANOVA repeated measures, and independent samples t-test to analyze the intervention interactions. Intent-to-treat analysis shows no significant correlation and no significant differences between remaining participants and participants who withdrew from the study. At pre- to mid-intervention in EG shows no significant changes, except in emotional-focus; the pre- to post-intervention assessment shows significant changes in anxiety, problem-focus, and emotional-focus. Comparison between two groups tested at post-intervention assessment reveal that all variables show significant differences, except in depression level. This PERKASA Intervention successfully overcame the emotional and psychological distress and enhanced coping strategies used among parents of children with leukemia at post-intervention. Recommendations for a future study to be performed in a larger scale of participants and should be done over a long period of time.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128599438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE INFLUENCE OF PARTY BRAND EQUITY ON ATTITUDE OF THE YOUNG GENERATION","authors":"Labuda Mad-A-Dam, Syamsyul Anuar Ismail","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.412001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.412001","url":null,"abstract":"Party brand equity is an essential strategy of political brand. Party brand equity relates the attitude to support or deciding to vote in a political party of the young generation. The methodology of the study is cross-sectional using survey questionnaire. Also, the objectives of the study are (1) purpose to examine the strategy to enhance the importance of voting in the young generation, and (2) to investigate the strategy of political party by influence of party brand equity and other party brands; there are party brand image, awareness, quality, loyalty and leadership on attitude of the young generation in the age 15 to 29 years. The study was analyzed the attitude by using party brand attitude. The findings of this study shown that, party brand equity and other party brands have a significant influence on attitude of the young generation.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123927921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF EXECUTIVES’ ENGAGEMENT ON EXECUTIVES’ PERFORMANCE IN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES AT KULIM HI-TECH PARK, KULIM KEDAH, MALAYSIA","authors":"Bokhori MD AMIN","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.412002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.412002","url":null,"abstract":"Executives’ engagement plays the important role in addressing issues related to job performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to assess the extent of the mediating effect of executives’ engagement and its contribution to the performance of executive in manufacturing industries. A questionnaire was designed for data collection to measure executives’ engagement related participation in decision making, participation in training, participation in determining rewards, participation in communication session and participation in pass the opinion related bonus on executives’ performance. Data were collected among executives in manufacturing industries at Kulim Hi-tech Park, Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia. Stratified sampling method was used to collect data and the data obtained were analyzed using SmartPls 3.7.8. The results of the study found that there is a significant relationship between participation in determining rewards, participation in communication session and participation in pass the opinions related bonus on executives’ performance in manufacturing industries. While participation in decision making and participation in training has not-significant. It is proved from SmartPls analysis shown that three independent variables have a significant impact on executives’ performance in manufacturing industries with two not-significant. The limitation of the research only covers the manufacturing industries. Another limitation is the respondents only included executives. Apart from these limitations, this research can give the strong impact to the top management of manufacturing industries to design the strategy of executives’ engagement in order to be more effective in improving the work performance of executives.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115672763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"SOCIO-POLITICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MALAYSIAN NET GENERATION WHO USE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR POLITICAL INFORMATION: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS","authors":"Jue Jun Tan","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.411002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.411002","url":null,"abstract":"Political information appears to be a precious commodity in political process to ensure a healthy, functioning democracy. With the emergence of the Internet, social media has become one of the central premises for political information creation, circulation and consumption. Many have touted social media as effective platforms to garner and mobilize voter support, especially among the wired youth, of whom are the dominant users of social media, and in recent years, even to sway the Malaysian general election results. By employing an online self-administered survey questionnaire with 379 Malaysian respondents aged between 18 and 24 at a local university, this paper aims to provide an exploratory analysis of the socio-political characteristics of the Malaysian Net Generation who rely mainly on social media for political information. Given Malaysians as young as 18 years old are now eligible to cast a vote in the elections, the study comes in timely as it offers insights on who are these Net Geners. The findings, even preliminary in nature, would contribute emerging insights in explaining the implications of social media on youth participation as well as the shifting Malaysian political landscape.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"188 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116880548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"FACTORS AFFECTING SOLID WASTE SEGREGATION PRACTICES AMONG HOUSEHOLDS: A CASE STUDY IN SELANGOR","authors":"Noryati Ngah","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.411001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.411001","url":null,"abstract":"Malaysia, as one of the countries committed to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations (UN), has set out to achieve those goals by 2030. One of the efforts undertaken is through the Resource Allocation Initiative (SSI) under the Solid Waste Management and Public Cleansing Act 2007 (Act 672) was launched and came into effect in September 2015 in which Malaysian households are encouraged to participate by practicing solid waste segregation at home. Although there are various negative effects on unstructured waste management, many past studies have only discussed factors of intention and recycling practices among households as opposed to solid waste segregation practices. Therefore, the objective of this study is to highlight the role of intrinsic motivation in influencing solid waste segregation behavior by using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a framework. A survey of questionnaires was conducted among the residents of residential units in the state of Selangor, and a total of 361 questionnaires were returned. Smart PLS software is used to analyze the data. The results showed that all variables including attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral control had significant relationships in predicting solid waste segregation behavior. Based on the results of this study, recommendations are made to encourage solid waste segregation behavior among households. In addition, this study makes a significant contribution to the knowledge of household behavior in practicing solid waste segregation. From a practical point of view, this study is very important for local authorities in Malaysia and around the world to encourage the involvement of households to segregate solid waste to protect and safeguard the environment and reduce pollution.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"286 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113958855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A GLANCE OF HOME GUARD (HG) IN KEDAH AND THE STRENGTHENING OF HIS WORK JOURNEY IN THE EMERGENCY ERA","authors":"Mohd Kasri Saidon, Zolkefli Bahador","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.411003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.411003","url":null,"abstract":"This article delves into the Home Guard (HG) which is a defense force that involves the involvement of the general public as its backbone. HG was introduced in Malaya in the emergency era (1948-60), operating actively in 1950. The content of this writing is about HG in Kedah, as Kedah is one of the great states threatened by the Malayan Communist Party (CPM) in emergency episodes. This article highlights some of the aspects made by the government at that time to strengthen the work of HG. The force was streamlined with a more robust administrative arrangement to make HG a second defensive bulwark against the Communists at the time. This includes the involvement of expatriates from outside Malaya and the strengthening of domestic officers. This article also features about the welfare of team members done during HG activities. Not to be outdone also this article touches on the aspects of leadership that are seen to be core to the integrity of HG’s work journey. All the contents of this writing are from the main source generally from the file of the Kedah State Secretary (SUK) as well as interviews with several respondents to strengthen the facts and comments. In general, HG has played its role well and the participation of the people is a wise move on the part of the government to fight the communists.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126450132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE EFFECT OF POLITICAL BRAND EQUITY ON YOUNG THAI VOTING INTENTION: A STUDY OF FUTURE FORWARD PARTY","authors":"Labuda Mad-A-Dam, Syamsyul Anuar Ismail","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.310001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.310001","url":null,"abstract":"Political branding is an essential duty to present ideology, policies, image of a political party to the electors. Therefore, the party brand equity in political branding is enhances property, reliability and extent the strength of political brand. Both of strategies are influence on the remembrance and voting intention of the young generation. As well as, increase opportunity to achieve in an election. The research purposes to examine (1) the components of party brand equity are party brand image, awareness, quality, loyalty and leadership have a significant relationship influence on voting intention of the young generation (2) to investigate that the party brand attitude mediates on the relationship between the components of party brand equity and voting intention of the young generation. The research findings indicate that the components of party brand equity have a significant relationship on voting intention of the young generation and party brand attitude has a significant mediates on the relationship between the components of party brand equity and voting intention of the young generation.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134045579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"THE ROLE OF POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION ON FACEBOOK AMONG MALAYSIAN CHINESE","authors":"Edwin Michael, Yee Mun Chin","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.39001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.39001","url":null,"abstract":"The Barisan Nasional (BN), Malaysia's dominant coalition party that has ruled since 1957, lost the 14th general election. Various analyses were conducted, and many discussions centred on Chinese voters who had switched to opposition, Pakatan Harapan, and rejected BN entirely. This situation raises an interesting discussion about what prompted Chinese voters to make drastic changes in this ethnic-based country's politics. This study, therefore, focuses on whether political socialization in social media will build a political opportunity for Malaysian Chinese. In investigating how social media propaganda can provide Malaysian Chinese a political viewpoint, these studies argue that the internet and social media have led to unparalleled complexity in Malaysia's political socialization process. A bottom-up, constructivist approach is used to decide how social media played their position as Malaysian political socializers.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"146 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131289568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"USING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR POLITICAL CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATION AND ITS IMPACT ON POLITICAL POLARIZATION AMONG YOUTHS IN UGANDA","authors":"Faiswal Kasirye","doi":"10.35631/ijppsw.39003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35631/ijppsw.39003","url":null,"abstract":"The current study is aimed at examining the use of social media for political communication and its impact on the political polarization of youths in Uganda. The study specifically focuses on determining social media platforms that are often used by youths in Uganda, find out the levels of social media usage, political campaign communication, and political polarization among youths in Uganda as a result of social media usage. Lastly, the study also focuses on determining the relationship between social media platforms, social media usage, political communication, and political polarization amongst youths in Ugandans. The study adopts the uses and gratifications theory to help in guiding the study and explaining the available relationships between the variables of the study. A quantitative research design and survey method with a questionnaire as the tool for data collection were used in this study. 192 valid responses were extracted from youths residing in Kampala and Wakiso districts in Uganda as the respondents of the study. The findings of the study reveal that youths in Uganda often use Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Instagram while looking for political-related information to help them form a decision on who to give their support in the election. In addition, the study also reveals that the more the youths look for such political information, the more they become polarized because all the politicians just feed them with information that is divisive and there exists a huge amount of hatred as a result of the consumption of such information on the Ugandan internet space. The uses and gratifications theory is also supported in the study.","PeriodicalId":292239,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Politics, Public Policy and Social Works","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127516591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}