The influence of participatory assistance and organizational culture on strengthening social capital of Buddhist cooperative

The social capital of an organization strengthens mutually beneficial cooperation to achieve common goals. This research aims to analyze the influence of participatory assistance and organizational culture on strengthening the Buddhist Cooperative's social capital. This research employs a quantitative approach with an ex post facto method. The sample was 77 members of Cooperative Maju Makmur Sampetan, and data were collected by using a questionnaire. Findings show that participatory assistance and organizational culture significantly influence strengthening the social capital of Buddhist Cooperative. Based on the regression analysis, it shows that there is a positive and significant influence of participatory assistance on social capital, which is equal to 44.5%. Organizational culture also has a positive and significant influence on social capital, with a determination of 32.1%. Furthermore, multiple regression analysis results show that both variables simultaneously influence strengthening social capital, with the coefficient of determination by 76.6%. Thus, participatory assistance and organizational culture have a positive effect on strengthening social capital of Buddhist Cooperative.

The influence of parenting styles and thematic learning on the ethical relationship of Buddhist Sunday School students

The aims of this research are that to determine the influence of parenting styles and thematic learning on the ethical relationship of Buddhist Sunday School students. Employing correlational qualitative research, this research was conducted at the Vihara Dewi Kwan Im Kayong Utara Buddhist Sunday School with 25 samples aged 12-18 years old. Determination of the sample in this study using non-probability sampling with saturated sample technique because the number of samples is below 30. Data collection is done by using a questionnaire technique. The collected data were analyzed sequentially with the prerequisite test for data analysis, descriptive analysis, classical assumption test, multiple linear regression test and effective contribution analysis. The results of the study show that: (1) parenting style has an influence on the ethical relationship of Buddhist Sunday School students with a significance of 0.004 and a tcount of 3.269 and is effective at 27.8 %; (2) thematic learning on friendship has an influence on the ethical relationship of students with a significance of 0.015 and tcount of 2.642 and effective reaching 18.9%; and (3) parenting style and thematic learning on friendship simultaneously have an influence on the ethical relationship with a significance of 0.001 and Fcount of 9,645 and R2 of 46.7%, which means that they are in the sufficient category. Based on the results of this study, the contributions of this study are to give beneficial awareness of appropriate parenting styles and the thematic learning on the ethical relationship for teenagers.

The role of educators in education transformation and development of Buddhist students in the era of covid-19 pandemic

The outbreak of a new coronavirus disease 19 (covid-19) has caused global pandemic that lead to a dramatic changed of education system, including Buddhist education. During the covid-19 pandemic, Buddhist educators are required to made tireless efforts to maintain learning continuity. Besides, the educators also should be able to adapt new pedagogical concepts and modes of delivering their teaching. This research is carried out a literature study to explore the role of educators in the effort of education transformation and the development of Buddhist students in the covid-19 pandemic. It is found that those educators still face various kinds of obstacles that need to be solved, such as (1) lack of skill and knowledge to carry out the teaching and learning process properly in accordance with the situation of covid-19 pandemic situation; (2) the availability of Buddhist teaching-learning sources in Bahasa Indonesia; (3) frequent changes of the curriculum; and (4) low education budgets to conducted online teaching and learning process, particularly in the remote areas. The results of this study contribute practical insights for educators, especially Buddhist educators in maximizing their role to transform and develop Buddhist students in the covid-19 pandemic.

The influence of parenting styles and parents' mindfulness practices on adolescent emotional maturity behavior

Emotional maturity can be obtained through parenting and mindfulness practice. This study aims at looking the relationship between parenting and the parents 'mindfulness practice on teenagers' emotional maturity behavior. This research utilized quantitative method using descriptive analysis with collecting data by the questioner. The sampling method was done by proportionate stratified random sampling method with a sample of 89 teenagers at the Ekayana Serpong Temple, Tangerang, Banten. Based on the results of the hypothesis test with regression analysis of the parental value is Sig 0.003 <0.05, or Tarithmetic 3.010> ttable 1.98793. Therefore, it can be concluded that there is a relationship between parenting on the emotional maturity behavior of teenagers. Hypothesis test results on parents 'mindfulness practices are Sig 0.000 <0.05, or t arithmetic 3,988> ttable 1.98793, these show that there is a correlation between parents' mindfulness practices on the emotional maturity behavior of teenagers. Based on the results of the hypothesis test, it is known that the significance value for the influence of parenting and parents' value is 43.189> F table 3.10. Thus, it can be concluded that there is an influence of parenting and parents 'mindfulness practices simultaneously towards emotional maturity behavior of teenagers, amounting to 50.1%, which means there is a positive influence between parenting and parents' mindfulness practices on emotional maturity behavior of teenagers. The results contribute to valuable knowledge for parents to be aware of better parenting patterns and the importance of practicing mindfulness, especially to shaping the emotional maturity behavior of teenagers.

The effect of blended learning and digital literacy model on understanding the Sutta Piṭaka

Understanding of Sutta Piṭaka is extremely important for master’s degree of Buddhist Education students. The purpose of this study is to explore how the influence of blended learning and digital literacy learning models on the understanding of Sutta Piṭaka for master’s degree of Buddhist Education students. Employing a quantitative approach with ex-post facto research methods, the sample in this study is all master’s degree of Buddhist Education students (S2) year of 2019 with a total of 36 students. The instrument used in this study is a questionnaire with a Linkert scale. The results of the validity and reliability test stated that the instrument was valid and reliable. Hypotheses were tested using regression analysis. The results showed that the blended learning model had a positive and significant effect on understanding the Sutta Piṭaka with an effective contribution of 32.88%. Digital literacy has a positive and significant effect on understanding the Sutta Piṭaka with an effective contribution of 45.51%. The blended learning and digital literacy learning models have a positive effect of 78.4% on the understanding of the Sutta Piṭaka. Based on the result, it can be said that blended learning and digital literacy give a good impact on students to gain sufficient understanding of the Sutta Piṭaka. The research contributes to the growth of science and technology in the education field, particularly maximizing the skill and knowledge using blended learning and digital literacy model on understanding the Sutta Piṭaka.

Professionalism and personal integrity: a humble example in a humble fisherman

The paper addresses professionalism and personal integrity, what lies between them, how they connect each other, and what real example could be drawn into both issues. It discusses professionalism and personal integrity as proposed by Suseno (1991). It also highlights professionalism from Buddhist perspective. Finally, it analyzes professionalism and personal integrity in the character of Santiago, Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) as proposed by Khan (2014). The paper concludes that professionalism is not only about mastering certain skills and having certain knowledge, but it should be built based on personal integrity.