PROMOTING STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION IN ADOPTING CIRCULAR ECONOMY PRINCIPLES FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION

Circular Economy (CE) has been recognised as one of the most comprehensive way of attaining sustainable development, which considers every aspect; social, technical, economic and environmental, of sustainable development. For a building construction project that aims to achieve circularity, collaboration of project stakeholders both within vertical horizontal supply chains is vital. This research project establishes importance of such collaboration and proposes methodology to identify stakeholders responsible for attaining circularity in projects through collaboration between such stakeholders. This paper reports of the key literature findings of this on-going research. The key findings from the current paper are establishing importance of stakeholder collaborations to achieve circular buildings and potential of blockchain technology in this regard. loping countries.

Pembaharuan Pendidikan Islam (Studi Pemikiran Muhammad Abduh Dan Rasyid Ridha)

This article tries to discuss the renewal education of Islam in the midst of western modernization by taking the thoughts of Muhammad Abduh and Sayyid Muhammad Rasyid Ridha. Muhammad Abduh and Rasyid Ridha's Islamic renewal education thought was influenced by the thoughts of their teachers. Muhammad Abduh and Rasyid Ridha believe that Islam encompasses political aspect, social aspect and spiritual aspect. In order to arouse these attitudes, Muslims must return to the teachings of Islam taught by the Prophet Muhmmad SAW and his companions. The presence of Muhammad Abduh and Rasyid Ridha as Islamic reformers aims to revive the spirit of the Muslim struggle against colonialism, so that Muslims are free from colonialism in the western world. The spirit of the Islamic community competed with advances in science, technology and the development of times in other fields is expected to increase through their thoughts. The result of this article show that Muhammad Abduh and Rasyid Ridha contribute in the form of thoughts on the renewal of Islamic education in the field of curriculum and institutions

A Competitive Perspective of Sustainable Coffee Production Practices

Background: This study analyzes sustainable coffee production and its competitive perspectives. The present study explains the understanding of sustainable production practices with a triple bottom line approach examining the relationship between production practices and competitiveness. The adoption of a sustainable development strategy has become important for companies as they cannot only be environment friendly but also gain a competitive advantage. The recent studies even found that environmental sustainability has a direct and positive relationship with competitiveness. Objective: The main objective of this study is to find out sustainable coffee production practices and competitive perspectives. Method: The research is descriptive. It explains the data and their characteristics statistically without manipulation. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data using a survey method.Result: The most significant observation of the study is that the strenuous working condition of coffee production changes the living standard of the people in the community in the future. In this study, the majority of farmers responded that they were practicing sustainable coffee production. They were aware of the environmental aspect of coffee production practices and sustainable way of production leads to competitiveness in international markets. Conclusion: The research concluded that the independent variables economic aspect, social aspect, and environmental aspect of sustainable production practices have a significant positive relationship with competitiveness.Implication: The findings of the paper imply that the adoption of a sustainable development strategy has become more important for the companies as they cannot only be environment friendly but also gain a competitive advantage.

Developing and Applying a Model for Evaluating Risks Affecting Greening Existing Buildings

Improving building performance through reducing negative environmental impacts can be achieved by greening existing buildings (GEB), which is considered a very important sustainability process. Due to the risky and uncertain nature of the process of GEB, a growing amount of attention should be given to eliminating the effects of risks on GEB. This research aims to identify most expected risk factors related to GEB, as well as to evaluate their effects through calculating risk factor characteristics, such as risk factor presence (RFP), impact on the GEB process (IGEB), and impact on building performance in the long run (IBP), as new indices describe these risks. Sixty-six risk factors were categorized in seven risk groups related to the economic aspect, social aspect, environmental aspect, managerial aspect, sustainability operation, sustainable design, and renovation. Moreover, a fuzzy model for risk analysis was developed to combine the multi-effects of the aforementioned three risk factor characteristics in one index representing the risk factors’ overall importance. The model was applied and verified for data collected in Saudi Arabia. The results of this study showed that the most important risk group is the greening process of environmental control, while the least important is the greening process of renovation and construction. Using the proposed model improved the results of evaluating risks affecting GEB through merging the multi-effects of risk factor characteristics. The results and analysis proved that the most important key risk factors were environmental in nature. An intricate relationship of the impacts on the GEB process and building performance with the overall importance of the risk factors was clearly found. The decision makers who deal with greening projects in Saudi Arabia should be aware of the key risks identified in this study. The proposed methodology and model can be easily applied to other countries to help decision makers in evaluating their GEB projects, as well as comparing more greening projects based on risk analysis.

The Commodification of “Stay at Home” in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era in Indonesia

The COVID-19 pandemic disease spreading around the world, including Indonesia, makes changes in lifestyle. Stay at home is a jargon to break the chain of virus transmission by working from home, learning at home, and praying at home. All activities are mostly done online and virtually. It certainly becomes the competitive market for the industry of media providing the services for, at least, those three activities when staying at home. In the critical paradigm area, this study discusses how ‘stay at home’ experiences the commodification and it changes into a market for the industry of media related to technology, service provider, application, and advertisement. The findings related to the level of share capitalism and high supply and demand were presented in a descriptive qualitative method. The commodification of stay at home changes the behavior pattern of people who are staying at home related to both relations and interaction, consumption patterns, and the changing needs. The nature of stay at home in people’s lives as the center of life realization, the center of cultural activity, a place for interacting with each other, in the scope of family or community, has changed into a market. Stay at home as a place to communicate people’s necessities starting from the cultural aspect, social, economy, and psychology has changed in a digital home with a virtual theme.

A fuzzy-set approach for multiple criteria decision making in sustainable consumption of organic food

The study proposes a set of enablers of the consumer sustainable organic food consumption and detects the interrelationship between these attributes. This paper adopts the fuzzy set theory and decision-making trial and evaluation to explore the interrelationship between attributes, including consumer demographic aspect, psychological aspect, social-level aspect and stakeholder impact being explained through 13 criteria and being assessed by experts in the industry. The findings show that stakeholder impact and demographic aspect belong to a causal group and impact the other two aspects. The six most important attributes affecting sustainable consumption of organic foods are support and guidance from government support, mass media, education and research institutions, educational level, income status and consumer age. The study grants an alternative approach for sustainable consumption theory through providing a fuzzy-set theory for multiple criteria decisions making in sustainable consumption of organic food.

Pembentukan Konsep Diri Remaja Melalui Penanaman Nilai-Nilai Keislaman

The purpose of the current study is to determine how self-concept forms in adolescents through inculcating Islamic values. Literature study from various sources, including abstracts of scientific writing results, journal reviews published between 2010-2018 and books related to this article, was employed as the research method. The self-concept is all our perceptions about our self-aspects, such as physical aspect, social aspect, and psychological aspect, which are based on our experiences and interactions with other people. The conclusion of this study is that family support plays a very significant role in the formation self-concepts in adolescents, where families that establish good parent-child communication can nurture positive self-concepts in their children. The self-concept develops gradually and is influenced by the closest circle like the people in the family and the views of the adolescents about themselves. In the process of forming the self-concept in adolescents, it is indispensable to instill Islamic values. With the inculcation of Islamic values, positive self-concepts can be formed in the adolescents' minds. The results of this study indicate that adolescents who are implanted with Islamic values ​​tend to have positive self-concepts, compared to adolescents whose self-concepts tend to be negative due to the lack Islamic values inculcation during the self-concept formation progress.

Academic Self-Concept on Bully Victims in Early Adolescent

Bullying that occurs in schools have negative impacts on victims rather than perpetrators. Bullying has an influence on the social adjustment of the victims that affects school achievement. In education, academic self-concept has an important role in the achievement of student learning in school and help students respond to bullying behavior. The aim for this study was to identify the academic self-concept on bully victims in early adolescent that consist of academic, social, and self-regard. This research was a quantitative descriptive research. The population in this research were all bully victims from grade 7 and 8, the sample technique used was total sampling with 91 respondents. Data were taken by using academic self-concept instrument from Sriati which consist of 45 statements using likert scale with validity value 0,339-0,761 and reliability 0,952. The academic self-concept analyzed by mean of both total and each dimension. The results were shown by percentage. The results of this study indicated that some respondents i.e. 47 people (51,6%) had positive academic self-concept and about 44 people (48,4%) had negative academic self-concept. In academic dimension, 48 people (52,7%) had positive aspect, social dimension mostly 55 people (60,4%) had positive aspect, and self-regard most of 51 people (56%) had positive aspect. The positive academic self-concept and negative academic self-concept on bully victims in early adolescents were not much different.

Analisa Studi Kelayakan Bisnis Gula Alternatif Stevia di PT. Mitra Kerinci

The analysis of Stevia feasibility study at PT. Mitra Kerinci as the alternative product of sugar business aims to analyze and study the level of Stevia’s feasibility as alternative product of sugar business as well as what marketing strategies will be used to develop Stevia as sugar business alternative. The analysis of this feasibility study was assessed using feasibility study aspects as follows; market and marketing aspect, production and technology aspect, management and human resource aspect, legal aspect, social and environment aspect, and also financial and economic aspect. From the calculation of the five methods it can be shown that the plan to develop Stevia as sugar business alternative at PT. Mitra Kerinci is acceptable and feasible to run. The strategy that can be applied is by supporting the policies of aggressive growth. The marketing pattern that can be developed must be a vigorous promotion and must be able to influence consumers to replace sugar into Stevia sugar

Validating the GMQ-F in a Canadian Sample of University Students

This study assesses the psychometric properties of the Gambling Motivation Questionnaire for Financial Motivations (GMQ-F) in a Canadian sample of emerging adult university students. Confirmatory factor analysis was first used to test a 16-item GMQ-F for model fit, and then multiple regression analysis was used to test the predictive utility of the four subscales/factors. Results confirmed that the GMQ-F is a valid and reliable measure of university student gambling motivations, in accordance with the four-factor structure proposed by Dechant (2014) despite poor initial results. Regression results were mixed: Three of the four subscales (enhancement, social, and coping) were significant predictors of problem gambling and gambling variety, only the enhancement and coping subscales were significant predictors of gambling frequency, and none of the subscales significantly predicted average monthly expenditure on gambling. The implications of this study support further refinement of the GMQ-F, as differing results from the current study and from prior work on normative samples point to a different reliance on motivational categories or different motivational categories entirely.RésuméCette étude évalue les propriétés psychométriques de l’échelle de motivations financières relatives aux jeux de hasard et d’argent (GMQ-F) auprès d’un échantillon canadien d’étudiants universitaires jeunes adultes. La première analyse factorielle confirmatoire (AFC) a été utilisée pour tester l’ajustement du modèle du GMQ-F à 16 éléments, puis une régression multiple a été utilisée pour tester l’utilité prédictive des quatre sous-échelles/facteurs. Les résultats ont confirmé que le GMQ-F est une mesure valide et fiable des motivations au jeu des étudiants universitaires, suivant la structure à quatre facteurs proposée par Dechant (2014), malgré de faibles résultats initiaux. Les résultats de la régression étaient mitigés : trois des quatre sous-échelles (amélioration, aspect social et adaptation) étaient des prédicteurs significatifs du jeu problématique et de la variété de jeu; tandis que seules l’amélioration et l’adaptation étaient des prédicteurs significatifs de la fréquence du jeu. Aucune des sous-échelles n’a prédit de manière significative les dépenses mensuelles moyennes consacrées aux jeux de hasard. Ce projet a pour effet d’encourager une amélioration du GMQ-F, car la différence des résultats entre l’étude actuelle et des travaux antérieurs sur des échantillons normatifs indique une dépendance différente à l’égard des catégories de motivation, voire différentes catégories de motivation entièrement.