Establishing Regional Regulations for the Protection of Local Wisdom

Local governments structure legislation into a policy rule regarding the protection of local wisdom that must be carried out due to globalization. Globalization is something that cannot be avoided. Its influence can become a problem or negatively impact fading cultural identity if the community wrongly addresses it. This is different if the community and local government can respond positively to globalization because this can increase the community's cultural identity. This paper focuses on the study of how local government policies maintain cultural traditions as a pearl of local wisdom? and what is the paradigm of the local government in establishing regional regulations regarding the protection of local wisdom. The approach method utilized is a socio-legal or socio-juridical approach. This research was carried out in the city of Pariaman, West Sumatra. The research data, both primary and secondary data, were analyzed qualitatively. Based on the research result, the concrete paradigm of the Regional Government in protecting the values of local wisdom is a regional legislation on safeguarding indigenous culture as a Pariaman community's local wisdom. It can be interpreted that the Regional Regulation is a concrete agreement towards the ideal concept of protecting local wisdom in the Pariaman community. The ideal concept seen from the substantive values of protecting Local wisdom's worth in the Pariaman community must be founded on sociological, philosophical, and legal considerations. These three factors prioritize or rank the values within this local wisdom

Gender Participation in Political Geography Issues in Pariaman City, Indonesia

:  This research study is related to women's participation in political parties in Kota Pariaman. This study explains the women's participation in political parties in Kota Pariaman so that women's opportunities to fulfil the 30% quota in the legislature can be achieved. This study concludes that first, the low of women's participation in political parties is due to the limitations of women in accessing politics themselves and women recruited in political parties only as a complement to management and women are not involved in policymaking. Secondly, the women's participation in political parties will be seen only in party activities that involve women as committee members, while the women who can participate properly are women who have been involved in social organizations and party autonomous organizations. Third, in the activities of political parties, women have some natural constraints and the constraints that are caused by party treatment. The natural constraints that cause limited space for women in political parties are the activities of women as housewives, as wives and as mothers of their children. The constraints that are caused by party treatment is that women are often not accommodated in policy making towards women or the party policies in general

Gender Participation in Political Geography Issues in Pariaman City, Indonesia

 This research study is related to women's participation in political parties in Kota Pariaman. This study explains the women's participation in political parties in Kota Pariaman so that women's opportunities to fulfil the 30% quota in the legislature can be achieved. This study concludes that first, the low of women's participation in political parties is due to the limitations of women in accessing politics themselves and women recruited in political parties only as a complement to management and women are not involved in policymaking. Secondly, the women's participation in political parties will be seen only in party activities that involve women as committee members, while the women who can participate properly are women who have been involved in social organizations and party autonomous organizations. Third, in the activities of political parties, women have some natural constraints and the constraints that are caused by party treatment. The natural constraints that cause limited space for women in political parties are the activities of women as housewives, as wives and as mothers of their children. The constraints that are caused by party treatment is that women are often not accommodated in policy making towards women or the party policies in general