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The interpersonal communication of beggars involves the beggars' interaction with their donors, and interaction among beggars. This communication incorporates symbols that have been given meaning, both verbal and non-verbal. This study aims to determine the motives that encourage someone to become a beggar in Banda Aceh, the effectiveness of the city government's policy in handling the begging activities and to find out the process of interpersonal communication of the beggars. This study applies the descriptive qualitative method with phenomenology approach, to describe the meaning of some people's lives. The research subjects are the beggars who are willing and able to provide the required information in-depth. The result shows that the interpersonal communication process among the beggars and the beggars with the donors are conducted through symbolic interaction by using language and symbols, and role-play performance creating condition and atmosphere which gave certain meanings. The communities performing such interactions had the ability to utilise symbols to create an impression that attracted the attention of donors. The actions raised people's sympathy who will give charities to them in any expected feedback. The understanding of this issue is important for the realization of the implementation of the regulation but still maintaining the aspirations of the citizens who uphold Islamic values, the concept of giving to the people in need.

Currently Indonesian government is working eagerly to improve the nation tourism industry, the focus is given especially to the local area of the country. Aceh province as one of the tourism destinations in Indonesia is also supporting the central government to achieve the goal which is improving the country`s tourism. In doing so, Aceh local government has undertaken several actions to manage, beautify and promote the industry in order to improve the local tourism sector. Besides the availability of tourism attractive activities, beautiful places and excellent services provided in the tourism destinations, the available of local products as tourist attraction is also a must- have in a tourist destination. Tourism industry is incomplete without the availability of local tourism products which has its own value to the visitor. Therefore, Aceh should produce and promotes a product that in-line with Islamic law (halal) because Aceh has been assigned as one province in Indonesia that offers Islamic tourism. This paper is studying the ability of the post- graduate students from Communication and Broadcasting Department (KPI) of UIN Ar- Raniry to conceptualize a branding strategy of Acehnese local products so that the products are attractive enough for tourists to buy it. The data is collected by doing field observation and interview with the producers of local tourism products. FGD has been arranged to gain the students 'thoughts on branding strategy concepts. The study shows that most of local tourism producers do not actively promote their products and FGD result offers several concepts of strategy branding that can be a reference for local producer in the future, they are: market survey, create a product, name a brand, packaging, promoting, marketing/ distributing and evaluating.

Singapore is a pluralistic nation consisting of various ethnicities. The majority of ethnic groups are Chinese, Malay, Indian. As a city-state that was only independent in 1965, it has various potentials, including the potential for reliable human resources. The state of Singapore was originally a Malay territory, the Sultanate of Johor. However, the area was in dispute with England. After Japan occupied Tamasek or Singapore, Singapore's sovereignty became irregular. After Japan lost to the Allies, power in Singapore became vacant. However, after independence, Singapore became a country ruled by the Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew. The Singapore government is of global concern because the Malay mainland is held by ethnic Chinese. This fame was coupled with the cleverness of Lee Kuan Yew's thinking in running a political system that accentuated various modern thoughts. This article uses the Agenda Setting Theory and Content Analysis methods. This paper shows that Singapore's Political Communication adapted to Chinese, Western and Malay thinking.