Environmental Dynamic, Business Strategy, and Financial Performance: an Empirical Study of Indonesian Property and Real Estate Industry

Firm’s strategic orientation involves synchronizing environmental dynamics, corporate strategy and capital structure in order to achieve firm performance targets. The co-alignment model used successfully in the hospitality industry might be used in a wider context as a framework in explaining these relationships simultaneously. Using the data of public firms in Indonesia during the period of 1996-2010, we found that co-alignment model can be implemented in property and real estate industry as well as in hospitality industry

Study of Art Plaza Circulation Theory and Shape of Art Plaza

The circulation system is a vital linking infrastructure that connects various activities and uses land on an area and inside a building that considers functional, economic, flexibility and comfort aspects. The explanation of this theory emphasizes the uniqueness of the building itself. So that there are various shapes of buildings in an effort to adjust to environmental conditions, climate, and natural surroundings. As a result, the resulting building has a special shapeation in accordance with the idea of an architect

Comparative Analysis of Sharia Bank Financial Performance and Conventional Bank in Period 2003-2007

Sharia banking industries provides a significant contribution to the Indonesia's economy. The existence of bankimplementing sharia (i.e., Islamic) principles has triggered a tighter competition in the nation's bank industries. This requires bank managements to work harder in improving their financial performances. Aims of this study are (i) to compare financial performance between sharia banking and conventional banking with respect to ratios which follow: loan to deposit ratio (LDR); return on equity (ROE), and deposit to asset ratio (DAR), and (ii) to analyze the effect of loan to deposit ratio (LDR) and deposit to asset ratio (DAR) on return on equity (ROE). Objects of the study were three sharia banks and 20 conventional banks having highest assets according to the Indonesian Banking Architecture (API). Multiple linear regression analysis was applied to accomplish the second objective. Results of the study indicated that there no significant financial performance differences between sharia banking and conventional banking. Return on equity (ROE) was not affected by loan to deposit ratio (LDR) and deposit to asset ratio (DAR). It was also found that bank income mostly obtained from activities other than its primary function (i.e., financial intermediary institution). It is suggested that to increase their income as well as to improve their financial performance banks are required to increase their loan, especially to real sectors (i.e., small and medium enterprises), to restructure the non performing loan and to minimize their operating costs.Key Word: Performance Analysis, Conventional, Syariah Ban

Hukum dan Kekuasaan

Pasang-surut hubungan antara hukum dan kekuasaan dalam perjalanan negeri ini telah menunjukkan menguatnya salah satu aspek dan melemahnya aspek lainnya, sangat terpengaruh oleh pemerintah negara. Maka suatu ketegasan sikap perlu ditempuh, ialah bahwa apabila ada "pergolakan" antara hukum dan kekuasaan, maka seharusnya hukum lah yang dimenangkan, demikian terungkap dari tulisan Imam Suhadi berikut ini

Revealing Possible Truths Behind “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle”: Ideational Making Analysis Approach

Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)-commonly defined as a discourse analysis approach that focuses on both linguistic and non-linguistic resources- has been witnessing increasing popularity in the research area. It has been argued, on the one hand, that the greater level of practicality the approach has to offer compared to its predecessor (Critical Discourse Analysis) becomes the main reason of why researchers gradually turn their reference on analysing discourses to this method (Han, 2015). An increasing trend of multimodal communications - that no longer use speech or writing exclusively in their occurrences - has become the logical ground on the other (Kress, 2011). This paper, using H&M ‘monkey' hoodie advertisement (refer to appendix) as a form of multimodal communication, employs MCDA to explore the possible advantages one can learn through the process. To start with, a brief account of the key factors in the development of MCDA will be presented. This part is then followed by the discussion of the analysis approach employed in the paper and also the rational basis for choosing the approach over others. The analysis of the advertisement is done by drawing on related language and social theories to scrutinize the ideologies the company implanted on their advertisement. A thoughtful discussion on what is understood through the analysis process and what and how one can relate the practicality of multimodality analysis to another social area such as pedagogy will mark the end of this paper's discussion

Brand Activation Klub Merby “Happy-Happy Holiday Merby One Day Course”

Being the oldest creativity and arts institutions in Semarang, gives Klub Merby a lot of experience and achievement. However, when it brand is no longer exists and rarely known to the public, it become attention to be solved. This project is designed to increase brand awareness from Klub Merby as educational institutions that focus on art and creativity as well as being a credible institution in developing talents of children. Brand activation strategies into marketing communications activities Klub Merby would be effective in increasing brand awareness and interest in Klub Merby through approachment from AIDDA, IMC, and promotion mix. By taking a moment of school holiday time, the theme of the event is the “Creative Holiday with Klub Merby” by titled “Happy-Happy Holiday Merby One Day Course”. event aims to fill children\u27s holiday with creative and interesting games with their parents and to make bonding between parents and their children with Klub Merby. This event was also filled by singing contest, drawing contest and completing picture, as well as a fashion show competition to hone talents and self-esteem for the children. Through this event, target audience is expected to know better about Klub Merby and impact of increasing the number Klub Merby\u27s students in the end. Based on post event research, awareness from target audience of Klub Merby increase from the original 32,5% to 72,5%. While the interest of target audience to put their children to Klub Merby increased 13% from the original 35,3% to 46,7%. It means, brand activation is effective to increase awareness and interest of audience. This project is expected to provide the implications from academic and practical aspects. Implications of the academic work of art in the form of contributions to enrich the knowledge of the application of IMC, AIDDA and brand activation. Meanwhile, the practical implications of providing knowledge and experience to create effective promotional activities and fit for purpose