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Previous studies indicated that information and communication technology (ICT) positively impacts communities. However, rural areas are not uniform and territorial inequalities in digital infrastructure may affect the lives in rural areas differently. This study aims to investigate the effect of ICT adoption on rural communities. Data were collected through interviews and observations and were analyzed qualitatively. The finding shows limited access to ICT infrastructure and services limits the benefits of ICT to rural communities. The role of government is important in ensuring equal opportunity to access ICT infrastructure and services to improve their quality of life. Keywords: Information and communication technology (ICT); rural areas; quality of life eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under the responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians), and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v7i21.3743

The purpose of this research is to investigate the relationship between positive word-of-mouth, purchase intention, and post purchase Satisfaction. Primary data was collected from 240 respondents through questionnaire in which Likert and ranking scale was used. The reliability of the scale was checked through cronbach’s alpha which was found .847 which proves the constructed scale reliable. All the analysis of data was made through SPSS and different statistical techniques like descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis were applied to draw the results. The outcomes of our study are shows that positive word-of-mouth has significant impact on purchase intentions and post purchases satisfaction of clothing brand.

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of remuneration on work productivity, the effect of the work environment on work productivity, the effect of employee welfare programs on work productivity, the effect of the three factors mentioned above on work productivity and to find out which variables have the most influence on work productivity. The research approach used in this study is a quantitative approach. In this study, data and information were obtained from respondents using a questionnaire. Types of data sources used in this study, namely quantitative data. The data analysis technique in this study used basic statistics, namely descriptive analysis. Based on the results of the calculation of the t-test table (table 18) it can be seen that the confidence level is 0.05 and the t-table value is 2.05, the calculated remuneration value is 8.042 and the probability value of t-value is 0.000 means that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted, then this means that remuneration has a significant effect on employee productivity. From the results of the analysis, it is known that the remuneration variable consisting of elements of work standards, working time, number of products, product quality and increasing work ability, each has a significant effect on work productivity variables.

The Malaysian government had announced the Movement Control Order (MCO) to handle the Covid-19 crisis. During MCO, the government has used media channels to spread the information to the public. This research aims to identify the mediating part of both knowledge and awareness between students' attitude and media role during MCO. The findings from 338 respondents analysed using structural equation modelling found that knowledge and awareness mediate between media and students' attitude. This study could guide policymakers to promote a greater understanding of the coronavirus pandemic by using the mass media. Keywords: Knowledge, Awareness, Attitude, Role of Media eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21834/ebpj.v6i16.2712

Tujuh prinsip SROI adalah melibatkan pemangku kepentingan, memahami perubahan, menilai hal yang prioritas, hanya memberikan input yang penting, jangan klaim berlebihan, transparan dan selalu periksa ulang. SROI banyak berkaitan dengan pemangku kepentingan atau stakeholder. Penelitian yang dilakukan merupakan penelitian kuantitatif atau penelitian kausal, yaitu penelitian yang bertujuan untuk menguji hipotesis tentang pengaruh satu atau beberapa variabel bebas terhadap variabel terikat. Berdasarkan perhitungan rasio, dapat disimpulkan bahwa setiap Rp 1 yang diinvestasikan pada kegiatan Together Grow Stronger akan menghasilkan timbal balik social sebesar Rp 23,60. Angka rasio ini terbilang cukup tinggi dan menjanjikan return yang tinggi. Empat elemen utama yang diperlukan untuk mengukur SROI, yaitu input, output, hasil dan dampak. Tujuh prinsip SROI adalah melibatkan pemangku kepentingan, memahami perubahan, menilai hal yang prioritas, hanya memberikan input yang penting, jangan klaim berlebihan, transparan dan selalu periksa ulang.

The purpose of the research isto examine relationship between Green Marketing Tools (GMT), Environmental Attitudes (EA), Religiosity and Green Purchase Behavior (GPB) and test Religiosity moderates between Environmental Attitudes (EA) and Green Purchase Behavior (GPB). This study employs samples using a questionnaire instrument. The result of the collected 268 questionnaires of respondents were processed using descriptive and quantitative analysis data using SEM (Strutural Equation Model) analysis techniques with Stata 13. The results showed that millennial generation in shaping their engagement behavior on environmental issues is influenced by environmentally friendly advertisements, attributes or labels used on a product, then perceptions of environmentally friendly brands and trust in environmentally friendly advertisements, trust in compliance or environmentally friendly labels and brands that are on the products they know.The findings of this study suggest that individual factors in the form of religious and situational factors in the form of green marketing tools in the form of eco labels, eco brands, trusts or trust in eco labels and eco brands, and environmental advertising affect green behavioral.

Human welfare from an Islamic perspective pays attention to a balanced satisfaction between material needs and spiritual needs. Some policies have been implemented by the government to improve social security to humanity, but the lack of spiritual morale and lack of coordination between the related institutions resulted in policies that have not been implemented optimally. Consumer protection, which is one part of optimizing programs, has not yet run coordinatively. Therefore, the writer has an idea that can be implemented, which is Maqashid Sharia-based Consumer Education and Protection on Social Security for Muslims, the Poor, the Poor, and Non-Muslims to achieve falah with aspects that are the dharuriyat needs namely maintenance of faith (din), soul (nafs), reason (aql), descent (nasl), wealth (maal). The implementation of education and consumer protection based on maqashid sharia is a government apparatus, BAZ, LAZ, UPZ, and awareness for fellow human beings to bear the needy and poor alike in order to achieve the benefit of the people. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive approach. The concept of education and consumer protection based on maqashid sharia can be a creative and productive solution related to various moral and spiritual problems and the management of social security, justice for the poor in getting social security as mandated in the 1945 Constitution and the Koran. In addition, the implementation of this program is expected to achieve the independence of the people and the achievement of falah for all people.

The purpose of this study is to develop and test an integrated model of technology acceptance to determine the Intention of consumers to use e-wallet. The object used is the go-pay application wich is the relatively new technology products in Indonesia. Modeling in this study is integrating the Technology Acceotabce Model (TAM) model by involving affective factors namely Pleasure, Arousal, and Dominance (PAD) theory, and prior experience variables as a direct effect on perceiveid usefulness and Attitude toward usage, then its effect on adoption Intention. The sample in this study is millennial people age with a total sample of 270 respondents, analysis techniques using SmarPLS. The results of this study indicate that perceived usefulness, perceived easy of use, Pleasure, and Arousal have a positive effect on Attitude and Intention to use go-pay, while prior experience supports perceived usefulness, but does not support Attitude, and Dominance does not support the Attitude of using go-pay.

The potential of zakat which is large in the country up to now has not been utilized by the Indonesian government to improve people's welfare. A new strategy is needed so that the potential of zakat in Indonesia can be absorbed optimally and distributed according to sharia provisions and community needs. This study aims to try to offer an idea to make zakat as an instrument of fiscal policy in Indonesia, namely to enter zakat into the posture of the Indonesian state budget, the aim of which is to optimize the absorption of zakat in the country and on its distribution target. The strategy that the authors offer to realize this is through reforming the regulatory aspects, making the structure and position of a more strategic zakat institution, namely by forming a directorate general of zakat, and entering the state budget posture zakat, namely the zakat receipt post at the receipt of non-tax revenues, and zakat expenditure posts are in the state expenditure post for poverty alleviation. Therefore, political will is needed in order to realize zakat as an instrument of fiscal policy in Indonesia.

Background: The image of fishermen so far is a group of people classified as poor. One effort to reduce poverty is to revive the microenterprise economy through cooperatives and utilize waqf funds as an alternative source of financing for microbusinesses. The Mining and Cumpat Fishermen Group of Kenjeran District in Surabaya City has now received capital injections from productive endowments in their cooperatives. However, another problem arises from productive waqf there, the waqf that is collected is not as much as what is needed by the person. Purpose: This service program is expected to produce an outcome that is a blockchain based application that can facilitate endowments and willingness. Thus it is expected to help increase the capital of the Fishermen and Cumpat Fishermen Group, Kenjeran District, Surabaya City. Method: This service program used a participatory method whereby the companion was also involved in the application business process. In addition, the companion also asked for active participation from the mauquf alaih to provide detailed information about his business. Thus, the facilitators could promote to the prospective waqf to channel the endowment funds. Results: This assistance program produced a waqf application with blockchain technology that can be accessed on waqf.network. Conclusion: This program was considered effective in growing trust in the distribution of waqf funds. In addition, maukuf alaih also makes it easier to get investors in developing their businesses.

In this study, the researcher wanted to know more about what unethical things the marketer did, and also what consideration factors make marketers unethical, and how far the supervisor knows the unethical actions performed by insurance marketers. The research method used is qualitative approach with snowball sampling technique. Thematic analysis is used as the basis for qualitative research analysis with depth-interview. The findings based informants there are unethical actions conducted by marketers which is Misrepresentation, Premium Payment, Churning, Pooling, Discrediting competitors, Discount / Indocument, Premium Deposit Delivery, Account Opening and Policy Insurance without Customers Knowledge, Falsifying Customers Data Information, Misappropriation of Customers Fund, "Suicide", Faking Signature in Form that Forgot, and Forging Customers Signature. The unethical actions performed by these marketers can be categorized into several indicators, namely the applicable special regulatory indicators, legal indicators, cultural indicators and ethical indicators. In addition, the factors affecting marketers to perform such unethical actions are due to factors of need for money, obligations to meet sales targets and work environment culture.

The purpose of the research is to understand why Ludruk as a traditional cultural art is not in demand by young, millennial generations. And further can give suggestions how to make Ludruk become world show icon in Surabaya. The qualitative approach was conducted in this research. The results of the study was the inability of managers and artists to produce and features ludruk products art that meet consumers expectation caused by reluctance of ludruk artists itself to develop and improve existing art products. Paradoxes of creativity identified in this research. Showing that even Ludruk is part of creative industry and need higher improvisation, but the senior player feel reluctant to innovate the show.It need support of government and CSR from private company to helps them.

Information about the use of ebook or printed book that use by the digital natives could assist libraries and school professionals in selecting reading materials for their students. The purpose of this study is to understand the experience in using printed books rather than e-books. This study use qualitative and phenomenological study explored and compared the experiences of digital natives in regards to ebooks and printed books. Data collection was carried out through interviews with 26 digital natives in Indonesia with the criteria of reading book more than ebook and at least reading 2 printed books in one month. The result of tis study are printed books have their own uniqueness, such as experience of holding a book, the texture of the paper that can be touched directly (each publisher has a different type of paper), to the fragrance of the book that wafts out as each page is opened, none of these can be replaced with digital technology and when the digital natives use e-book they often distracted by social media. Moreover, due to emotional attachments, connections to identity, social rituals, and an ease of use related to printed books, the participants would not use ebooks exclusively. This study has limitations, namely the number of samples is small, so that future research can increase the sample so that the results can be generalized.

Acceptance of technology for consumers is still an interesting part to be investigated to date. Although the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been widely referred by researchers from various sciences, there are still weaknesses that can be investigated, including not fully answering the problems related to cognitive and affective factors in understanding consumer behavior. The purpose of this study is to develop and test an integrated model to determine the intention of consumers to use technology. The object used is the go-pay application as e-Wallet-based Electronic Money which is one of the relatively new technology products as an alternative means of payment or transaction and is part of the National Non-Cash Movement by the government of the Republic of Indonesia. Modeling in this study, integrating the TAM model by involving affective factors namely Pleasure, Arousal, and Dominance (PAD) theory, and prior experience variables as a direct effect on perceived usefulness and attitude toward usage, then its effect on adoption intention. The sample in this study is millennial age people who have known go-pay in areas of East Java with a total sample of 270 respondents. Collecting data through questionnaires using a Likert scale with analysis techniques using Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of this study indicate that Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Easy of Use, Pleasure, and Arousal have a positive effect on attitude and intention to use go-pay, while Prior Experience supports perceived usefulness, but does not support attitude, neither does Dominance support the attitude of using gopay.

The aim of this research is to test the effect of publication in media, which it can be good and bad news, toward consumer response in higher education. Using experimental design, the news had been manipulated. The good and bad news had been set for institutional and individual domain. Consumer responses measured by trust, brand image and attitude toward university. Using 150 students of Senior High School as participants, it found that news contents have different effects on trust, brand image and attitude toward brand. The higher education needs to create and share their positiveness to media, and intense to cope the negativeness.

Marketing activity is an element that attributed in a business. So it can be said that the success of a company can not be separated from marketing strategies applied. But in it’s development, marketing activities not only regarded as a creative process, but also has a negative side. Or that are specifically concerned about sales promotion that is sweepstakes. That the sweepstakes activities are currently considered can be manipulated or tends to deceive. So this raises the perceived deception for consumers. This means that can lead a person does not believe in the sweepstakes which in turn can affect the person's attitude and intentions in a sweepstakes organized by the company.This study aims to investigate the effect of perceived deception of sweepstakes and corporate credibility on attitude and intention consumer’s to participate sweepstakes. This research was conducted with the experimental design. The study also involved 183 adolescents who liked the snack as a participants, particular teenagers who come from students of s1 in Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Airlangga. Which further data in this study were tested using the Partial Least Square (PLS).The analysis showed that the perceived deception doesn’t have effect on corporate credibility as the organizer of sweepstakes activity. But perceived deception have negative effect on person’s attitude towards sweepstakes. Furthermore corporate credibility have positive effect on attitude towards sweepstakes. Then the attitude also effective in influencing person’s intention in participating in a sweepstakes held.

Sales of the BlackBerry (BB) in the global market continues to decline, but not so with the Indonesian market. The Indonesian market is unique. In this country, the madness of the BlackBerry is not like in other countries. In Indonesia, the BlackBerry dominates the smartphone market. Blackberry successful creating a trend, the BlackBerry boom in Indonesia due to the highly loaded BlackBerry messaging functions. This, along with the character of the people of Indonesia who love messaging, chat, and SMS. Consumers often compare their brand image with a picture of himself in making a purchase. The process of matching between the image of the brand with the consumer's self-concept is called the self-congruity. While consumers are trying to maximize the benefit (utility) in the purchase of products based on objective criteria such as price or performance of the product attributes influenced the functional congruity models. The purpose of this study to understand customer behavior Blackberry influence self congruity and functional congruity towards attitudes and customer loyalty. This study uses a quantitative approach to test the hypothesis. Using 110 respondents consumer Blackberry, generation X and generation Y. Data analysis technique used Partial Least Square (PLS). The results of this study are self congruity significantly influence the functional congruity, attitudes and brand loyalty. Furthermore, self congruity direct influence on brand loyalty. While the functional congruity the variables significantly influence attitudes, and attitudes affect brand loyalty. whereas age did not moderate the users self congruity and functional congruity toward customer attitudes