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The improvement of learning quality has been made through various efforts. The publication of textbooks is one of the efforts used to support the 2013 Curriculum implementation. The textbooks improvement efforts have been continually made by publishing the revised edition. However, the publication of the revised edition does not guarantee that the revision is better than the previously published edition. Some reviews found that the revised version contains several mistakes while it has not occurred to the previous edition. This finding is interesting to be critically scrutinized within a more in-depth analysis. Thus, the problems of the edition of the revised textbook underlie this research study. Based on the research objectives, this study is a library research or literature review. The primary resources of this study are the PAI and Budi Pekerti textbooks for grade 7th up to 9th. The analysis method used in this study is a content analysis that critically examines the substance of textbooks' content. In detail, this study also used the comparative method of analysis. This study found that still there are several shortcomings in the PAI and Budi Pekerti textbooks for all levels. In terms of making the research findings more understandable and readable, the elicited problems found in the textbooks are classified based on aspects of language and writing, conceptual, relevance and coherence, material repetition, and psychological sensitivity. These findings can be used by policymakers in developing the textbooks, for the process of improvement and refinement in the future.

Globalization and free trade supported by advances in telecommunications and information technology have expanded the space for the flow of transactions of goods and / or services across national borders, so that the goods and / or services offered vary both in foreign production and production domestic. Such conditions on the one hand have benefits for consumers because consumers' needs for the desired goods and / or services can be met as well as increasingly wide-open freedom to choose various types and quality of goods and / or services in accordance with the wishes and abilities of consumers. The conditions and phenomena can cause the position of businesses and consumers to become unbalanced and consumers are in a weak position. In our daily lives we hear, read and even witness various business practices that are detrimental to consumers. Business practices that are detrimental to consumers are not only carried out by large-scale business actors, but also by medium-sized businesses and small business actors. Violations of consumer rights committed by business actors constitute a potential threat to the welfare of society, due to increased activity of business actors in the production and trade of goods and / or services to meet consumer needs if not monitored and weak law enforcement, consumers will be severely disadvantaged. For this reason, we need to understand the subject of legal protection to consumers through the explanation of Law No. 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection (UUPK), including a study of criminal aspects.

This paper depicts the progress of a hospital management quality pilot project through the lens of institutional theory. Nine hospital departments were chosen to change their management control system from a strict top-down productivity focus to a locally developed performance measurement system based on a patient focus. Thus, the management control system was changed with the aim of enhancing the social impact of the provided hospital services by integrating a patient focus. The paper portrays a three-year evolution through management narratives. Findings evidence initial embracement of the project followed by gradual operational management discouragement due to external productivity pressures and internal data issues. Despite these challenges, the regional management highlighted the project as a success and expanded it to the remaining departments. Thus, we find that the project became decoupled rather than institutionalized due to a sustained productivity logic. Through the lens of institutional theory, we argue that a decoupling of the patient focused project happens because of a surprisingly strong institutionalized productivity logic. We suggest that in this context of strong coupling of previous systems, organizations may paradoxically engage in decoupling practices that are intended to support their professional core practices but instead protect the administrative logic of efficiency and productivity.

Revenue for the company is very important. The greater income earned, the greater company's ability to fund all costs incurred. In practice, the value of income can not stand alone from the environment. This study wants to reveal the secrets behind the rising of corporate income. The paradigm used in this research is qualitative. This paradigm considers that reality is subjective and has many dimensions. The research approach uses a critical study that aims to reveal the meaning behind income numbers. This critical study is a Neo Marxist line. The results showed that: (1) the increase of income value can not be separated from the interests of management. The company's revenue value so far is a reflection of the company's strategy by using tariff increase only. Furthermore, (2) the company's revenue also shows the obligation of the company to deposit the PAD to the local government. (3) Increase in revenues has a negative impact on consumers. Increasing tariffs to earn revenue was not followed by providing good service to customers. (4) In increasing revenue, companies should not ignore environmental awareness and sustainability.

DeLone and McLean's (1992) comprehensive review of different information system success measures concludes with a model of interrelationships between six IS Success constructs. This paper critically examines the meaning of four of these constructs and the evidence of relationships between them. It then provides results from empirical tests of these relationships. Tests are conducted using both conventional ordinary least squares regression path analysis and structural equation modeling - with substantially similar results. The empirical results provide substantial support for the "up stream" two thirds of DeLone and McLean's model. Three factors. System Quality, Information Quality, and Usefulness, are found to explain 75% of the variance in the overall User Satisfaction measure. The empirical results also provide substantial support for the use of usefulness as an IS success measure, and of the hitherto-unreported importance of "Importance of the task" in user perceptions of IS usefulness.