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The present study deals with the nature of the New Order Government policies toward the Indonesian Chinese ethnic group and the role of Bakom PKB in assisting the New Order Government to formulate and implement the pembauran policy. This study will consider the policy communication framework toward the Indonesian Chinese ethnic group in Indonesia, and discuss the New Order Government policies, and the role of the Bakom PKB within this framework. Two case studies are used to iluminate the role of Bakom PKB in channeling the pembauran policy from the government to the society vice versa. In the case of settling the citizenship status of Chinese descent, the role of Bakom PKB in assisting the New Order Government in formulating and implementing the pembauran policy is obvious right from its establishment. While in the case of the development and implementation of kemitraan (partnership) policy, the Bakom PKB only has a public relation function. The development and implementation of kemitraan policy is carried out by the organisation/association/institutions which are included in the pembauran policy communication networks. There are also discussions on the New Order Government policies concerning the Indonesian Chinese in the period 1966 - 1996, and the communication networks that existed amongst the Bakom PKB, Pokja Inlerdep and private institutions in disseminating the idea of pembauran in the frame of national integration.

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As adulthood looms in an Amish adolescent’s life, he must make a crucial decision that will affect the rest of his life: To be or not to be Amish. Amish teens undergo a ‘coming of age’ rite of passage known as Rumspringa. This experience allows the Amish teen to be cast out in the Non-Amish world of electricity and other vanities. This rite varies among the different orders of the Amish church. Popular television shows and books often sensationalize Amish Rumpringa, but my research among the Amish in 2011 revealed some of the different variations within the Amish church and within families. Although Amish families handle the practices that lead to adulthood differently, often 80-90% of Amish youth join the Amish church. In a world of enticing accessibility, why do Amish youths generally choose a life of simplicity? In this paper, I explore the question concerning this high retention rate within the Amish church based on interviews and participant observation in the community.

As adulthood looms in an Amish adolescent’s life, he must make a crucial decision that will affect the rest of his life: To be or not to be Amish. Amish teens undergo a ‘coming of age’ rite of passage known as Rumspringa. This experience allows the Amish teen to be cast out in the Non-Amish world of electricity and other vanities. This rite varies among the different orders of the Amish church. Popular television shows and books often sensationalize Amish Rumpringa, but my research among the Amish in 2011 revealed some of the different variations within the Amish church and within families. Although Amish families handle the practices that lead to adulthood differently, often 80-90% of Amish youth join the Amish church. In a world of enticing accessibility, why do Amish youths generally choose a life of simplicity? In this paper, I explore the question concerning this high retention rate within the Amish church based on interviews and participant observation in the community.

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By 1942, the Japanese occupied nearly all of East and Southeast Asia and their influence even spread as far as British controlled India. This occupation, known as The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, was an ideological unity of Asia under the facade of mutual benefit and welfare of Japan and the other nations within the Sphere. However, The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere failed because of the inability of the Japanese to form this mutual benefit between the nations within the Sphere. This work evaluates the events that led to The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, life within the Sphere, and the reasons for its failure.

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