Volume 5 | Number 1 | 2023

Journal of Humanity and Social Justice

Articles

  • This paper examines the learning process during the pandemic by sending questionnaires to 6 educators and 50 students in high schools in Banda Aceh City and Aceh Besar Regency. The aim is to determine the learning process implemented in schools during the pandemic, the implementation of educational policies in conducting learning activities during the pandemic, and the integrated learning methods related to the pandemic applied in these two regions. This research method is quantitative research using a questionnaire. The results of data analysis indicate that 88.3% of educators and 78.5% of students implemented online learning. Regarding educational policies during the pandemic, 94.2% of educators and 84.4% of students made efforts to implement emergency standards during the pandemic. In terms of integrated learning methods related to the pandemic, 100% of educators and 66.7% of students provided learning materials through WhatsApp groups. However, it is recognized that the results of online learning are not as optimal as offline learning. Therefore, it is hoped that schools can find better techniques for quality learning processes while avoiding the spread of Covid-19.
    Published January 30, 2023
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  • Atma Ras, Dimas Ario Sumilih, Hariashari Rahim, A. Annisa Lutfiah Rimaisya
    Women's participation in the economic empowerment of rural communities today has become a fact and a social reality that attracts interest and should be studied in depth through research in the field of anthropological sociology. The participation of the Samaenre women, who play a role in increasing the standard of living and welfare of the people in the village through the cultivation of mushrooms (fungi), is the focus of this research, which is examined using the social fact paradigm with a structural-functional approach through the theoretical framework of Durkheim (mechanical solidarity) and Spencer (biological organisms). This study aims to uncover and present the social facts of Samaenre women's participation in the economic empowerment of mushroom cultivation. The method used in this research is qualitative with an explorative-descriptive form. Data collection is done through observation and interviews. The analysis follows the flow of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that Samaenre women's participation in the economic empowerment of mushroom cultivation through farmer groups and cultivation groups was intertwined with bonds of mechanical solidarity and showed a system of biological organisms in society to improve their standard of living and welfare .
    Published January 31, 2023
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  • Setiana Sitepu, Iyehezkiel Parudani
    The conventional teaching materials and methods used for the conversation classes improved the students pronunciation and intonation significantly. Nevertheless, these methods of teaching speaking do not seem to give students tconfidence to be involved in spontaneous conversations and create their dialogues. As a result, when asked to create the dialogues, they often look for ready-made dialogues on the internet that they present as their dialogues in classroom activities or even exams.  These activities are not good  to help them building their self-confidence in using the language; neither does improving  their fluency in speaking. This research attempts to prove the creative teaching methods  can improve the students confidence and motivation  in the conversation class and these methods, which have been proven to improve student self-confidence and motivation use a student-centred approach which provides opportunities for students to build their confidence and be more creative when practicing their speaking skills. This quasi-experimental research in which one conversation class was taught creative whereas another class, the comparison class, was taught using the conventional teacher-centered methods. The qualitative data collected from questionnaires, an observations and teacher’s notes and quantitative data obtained from questionnaires an pre- and post-tests showed that the self-confidence and motivation of the experimental group increased significantly. This in turn improved their speaking skills as reflected  their grades
    Published January 31, 2023
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  • Damian Mellifont
    Recognising discrimination against the legally insane has a long and ugly history, the mistreatment of neurodivergent citizens is alive and well today. Following on, this rapid review addresses the question of: in what ways is discrimination against neurodivergent defendants experienced? Content analysis was applied to 30 relevant papers identified obtained from purposive searches of Legal Source, Google Scholar and Google (grey literature) databases. Content analysis informed three themes of: a) judge or jury member bias; b) loss of freedoms; and c) outdated or narrowly defined laws. The study concludes by warning about a loss of human rights with neurodivergence itself potentially placed on trial through alarmist, inaccurate and demeaning personal judgements. Crucially, a socially just term is promoted to help to depict the discrimination that can be experienced by neurodivergent persons in the contemporary legal system. This term is that of neurodivergism.
    Published January 30, 2023
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Book Review

  • Andi Alfian
    One of the issues that caught my attention in the discussion on Religion and Human Rights, which is also an issue that has recently started to be hotly discussed in Indonesia, is the issue of LGBTQ+ minority rights (gay rights). This issue becomes interesting, the issue of gay rights, especially when this issue deals with the Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB). As we saw in the discussion of human rights at International, tensions between gay rights and FoRB in several countries have their own characteristics. For example, in Indonesia, recently, the movement for defenders of the FoRB has begun to bloom, and, I observe, there is a tendency to include minority groups such as indigenous people, including LGBTQ+ people (gay rights), into their circle of struggle. The question is, how do religious freedom rights (FoRB) deal with gay rights? Or conversely, how do gay rights deal with religious freedom? In that context, this book becomes relevant to discuss. This book provides each author’s many different moral arguments and philosophical commitments.
    Published January 30, 2023
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