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On October 1 2022, 131 people died in a "riot" at the Kanjuruhan Stadium, Malang, East Java. The riot occurred after Persebaya silenced Arema, the host football group. Arema supporters, who did not accept the defeat, then rushed into the stadium, so that the police (Polri) who were on guard at the location, dispersed the crowd by spraying tear gas, leaving the exit doors tightly closed, thus triggering massive panic. What happened in Kanjuruhan was an example of a stampede or crowd crisis which created chaotic conditions to the point that many were found dead. The aftermath of the tragedy was the erosion of public trust in the National Police institution. This research outlines the image restoration strategy of the National Police in overcoming the Kanjuruhan stampede, using Bennoit's Image Restoration theory. This qualitative research uses descriptive analysis to explain this phenomenon. The research results show that strategies to improve the image of the National Police, including denial, evading responsibility, reducing effectiveness, corrective action, mortification, have in fact proven to be ineffective. Because, this strategy failed to boost the institution's positive image. Thus, public trust in this institution has collapsed to this day.

Political marriage is a practice that can be traced to its history since the era of the Javanese Hindu kingdom. This practice continues in the current period and is carried out by political elites from local to national levels, from the executive to the judiciary. In the latest case, a political marriage was carried out by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Anwar Usman and the younger brother of Indonesian President Jokowi, Idayati, on March 26, 2022. This research found that the political marriage showed similarities in patterns, motives, and goals with political marriages that had occurred before, namely to perpetuate the status quo, secure power, and seek allies. This descriptive qualitative research results align with the theory of power relations and knowledge presented by the philosopher Michel Foucault. That power in political marriages has an estuary to perpetuate these relations, strengthen, or isolate them from other power relations. However, in the discipline of Communication and Politics itself, research on political marriage is still rarely carried out in Indonesia. Therefore, this research is essential to fill this gap.