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Construction Of Self-Identity And Social Identity Of "Koes Plus" Music Fans

The development of creative industries in Bandung, Indonesia showed a quite satisfactory improvement. This success needs to be completed by performing revitalization and city branding for Bandung. This study aims to examine the factors of competitiveness and productivity in the knitted industry of Binong Jati in the revitalization of creative industries and city branding in Bandung, West Java Province. The research used census method and verification with statistical method of Confirmatory Factor Analysis. The unit of analysis is thirty people of owners or knitted creative business entrepreneurs in Bandung city. The result of this research is that out of twenty-eight factors studied, the dominant factor of industrial competitiveness is drawn to seven factors which are the production equipment used, the owner quick response, the product trend periods, knitting machine used, the processed of raw material, delivery of goods, and workers with accuracy. There are four factors of productivity and one dominant factor is flexibility.The study has a purpose of elaborating the motives of living in a long-distance relationship, how is the interpersonal communication and communication experience of a long-distance marriage partner if one of them stay in Bandung. The research method uses constructivist paradigm with phenomenology tradition. Data is obtained through in-depth interviews with six informants who undergo long-distance relationship with their respective spouses. The result of this study finds that the motive of getting married in long-distance couples is the motive of cause (because of motive): feeling that they match for each other, the compatibility in communicating and having the same mission/vision in life. While the purpose motive (in order to motive): gaining support and building a sakinah family. Interpersonal communication in long-distance couples is a commitment built on trust and supporting each others activities. Happiness is believed to be the power of commitment to marital relationships. The communication experience of long-distance marriage partners is to maintain quality of communication, such as expression of longing, asking news, encouraging, supporting, and also praying for mutual success. This is done by utilizing various media that the informants have.Despite the government support for economic development in some coastal areas in Indonesia, the paradigm about women’s agency remains almost the same. This is because women are still marginalized. This paper focuses on looking at agency of women in managing their resources. This study proves that women are active agents in coastal areas of North Gorontalo. Specifically, in the seaweed production, empirical evidences show significantly that womens associations succeeded in gaining economic advantages, participatory leadership, and had adaptability towards changes in technology and seaweed market. Applying a qualitative research approach, this study illustrates a number of policy subjects, organizational patterns, regional opportunity, and actors that support the centrality of women’s organizational capabilities in the field of seaweed production in the north coast of Gorontalo. This study justifies the tendency in Gorontalo, and perhaps in other areas in Indonesia, that women groups have an economic reputation in the seaweed production because they are fully involved in all production processes.SMEs (Small and Medium-size Enterprise) in Indonesian are only growing in terms of quantity and undeveloped in terms of quality, which causing a decrease in competitiveness. The solution is not through the provision of financial approach but can be in a form of an agency that knows about the market or those who can provide knowledge about the quality of the product. The objective of this study is to analyze the competence of small businesses and business survival of SMEs in culinary field of Bandung. The analytical method used in this research is Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). CFA method is used to measuring the relationship between each indicator to explain the competence of small business and business sustainability. Indicator of entrepreneur competence and business survival can be explained by all indicator researcher has been used. Small businesses of culinary in Bandung have a high category for the dimension of opportunity competency, organizing competency, strategy competency, social competency, and commitment competency . Nevertheless, there is still category of sufficient dimension, that is conceptual competency.