Misread Signals: Perception, Emotion, and Nonverbal Conflicts on Bandung Streets

The role of yielding cameras in pedestrian-vehicle interactions at un-signalized crosswalks: An application of game theoretical model

Nonverbal communication is the primary channel for the communication of emotion. The abilities to express, control, and decode emotions are important social skills. In this study, we investigated the effects of hemispheric brain dominance and sex on emotional social skills, specifically emotional expressivity, sensitivity, and control. Using the measurements of handedness, we classified participants as being standard, mixed, or anomalous dominant. We presumed that hemispheric brain dominance and sex would interact to influence emotional expressivity, sensitivity, and control. Analysis revealed that brain dominance and sex interacted to influence negative emotional expressivity and emotional control. Specifically, mixed dominant (MD) males scored highest in negative emotional expressivity and lowest in emotional control, whereas MD females scored lowest on negative emotional expressivity and second highest on emotional control. In general, MD men and women reported behaviors opposite of traditional sex differences in emotional expression.

The service of organizing the pilgrimage is actually every year always strived to be better. The Government through the Indonesian Ministry of Religion in Bandung, should be able to implement the Implementation of Hajj Implementation Policy optimally and effectively, without ignoring the formal legal rules that have been established so far. This study aims to analyze the factors of success and failure of implementing the implementation of the pilgrimage policy in the city of Bandung. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach, where researchers are directly involved in the study site through observation and participant observation. The type of data from this study are primary data and secondary data. Primary data in the form of information and data from interviews with interested parties and the main actors in the implementation of the pilgrimage in the city of Bandung. Secondary data sourced from articles, literature studies, documents and photos, statistical data, archives both from the government and the public as well as mass media publications. The results of this study indicate that in the process of implementing the implementation of the pilgrimage policy in the city of Bandung faces a number of challenges that are not easy so that several factors emerge that led to the success or failure of the implementation process. This study can be concluded that the implementation of the Hajj policy in the city of Bandung in 2016 has not been carried out properly, due to a paradoxical reality towards the ideal policy that has been determined.

Review and assessment of different perspectives of vehicle-pedestrian conflicts and crashes: Passive and active analysis approaches

Good municipal waste management is very important for a sustainable urban order. Good municipal waste management can reduce negative impacts on the environment, public health and natural resources. The application of a Garbage Bank is one of the solutions for good municipal waste management. This is due to the concept of a Garbage Bank which is aligned with sustainable city management. One of the principles that is effective in helping the performance of waste management at the Garbage Bank is a circular economy based on 3R (reduce, reuse, and recycle). The application of this concept needs to be supported by campaigns involving various activities such as outreach, education, training and promotion which aim to increase public awareness about the importance of sustainable waste management. This study aims to examine the Garbage Bank campaign strategy as an effort to support the achievement of Target 11.6 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), namely “Urban Waste Management”, by implementing a 3R-based circular economy approach in Cipaganti Village, Bandung City. This study uses a qualitative approach with a case study method of a Garbage Bank in Cipaganti Village, Bandung City. Data was collected through in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and analysis of related documents. The key informants in this study were community members, related stakeholders, and the management of the Waste Bank in Cipaganti Village. The results of this study are expected to provide a better understanding of the effectiveness of the Garbage Bank campaign strategy in realizing SDG Target 11.6 in Cipaganti Village, Bandung City, as well as provide guidance for the government and related organizations in planning and implementing sustainable waste management activitiesgovernment and related organizations in planning and implementing sustainable waste management activities.

This research analyzes the role of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in dealing with poverty in Bandung City by applying the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) approach. The research was conducted using a qualitative research approach, involving in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. The focus of this research is to understand the concrete contributions and impacts produced by various programs and initiatives carried out by NGOs in the city of Bandung. The results of the research show that NGOs play a crucial role in poverty alleviation efforts. Community economic empowerment, inclusive education, access to health, and improving urban infrastructure are at the core of NGO contributions. Economic empowerment programs have proven effective in increasing the economic capacity of low-income communities. Inclusive education programs provide better access and improve the quality of education, while public health efforts have succeeded in increasing the level of health and welfare of the community. This research concludes that through the SDGs approach, NGOs in Bandung City not only function as development actors but also as catalysts for social change. Research findings provide concrete evidence that various programs and initiatives carried out by NGOs have a measurable positive impact in overcoming poverty at the local level. NGOs' active involvement with local communities, regional governments and the private sector also proves the importance of cross-sector collaboration to achieve sustainable development goals. The success of NGOs in helping overcome poverty in Bandung City highlights their potential role in continuing the sustainable development agenda. This research contributes to our understanding of how implementing the SDGs through concrete NGO actions can have a positive and sustainable impact at the local level. The policy and practical implications of these findings are the importance of supporting and strengthening the role of NGOs as strategic partners in achieving sustainable development goals, especially in the context of overcoming poverty in developing cities such as Bandung City.

According to Grime (1987), among several factors, the human error factor contributed 95 percent to traffic accidents, and denoted the sole factor that led approximately 65 percent to the accidents. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Status Report in 2013 revealed that among the road users' categories, motorcyclists noted the highest number of 36 percent that were most likely to cause a death during the traffic accident, especially in Indonesia. This paper therefore aimed to analyze the extent to which human behavior, as the major factor, has affected the traffic accident by considering the accident history that occurred over the last five years in Bandung based on gender and age categories. The motorcyclist driving behavior was examined based on DBQ's (Driver Behavior Questionnaire) theory, which represents three factors, namely, lapses, errors and violations. In addition, the study also conducted a statistical analysis through SEM's (Structural Equation Modeling) method in order to investigate the extent to which the cause of accident has been correlated with the riders' behavior on the road. The result of the study then showed that there are differences between male and female motorcyclists' accident in Bandung, whereby the male riders' accident due to lapses gained 0.232 of the positive correlation, while most of female riders who got accident due to violation noted 0.227 of the positive correlation.

This article discusses the failure of persuasive communication performed by social workers in the event of mentoring street children in an Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The existence of the street children in the city remains to be an unweavering issue despite the presence of social welfare provided by governmental agencies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). A number of shelters takes place to house, mentor and educate these underprivileged kids but has little to no effect in stopping the kids from returning to living on the streets. Failure in communication during the mentoring process between social workers and the kids seems to be one of the determinants of the shorthcomings. Hence, this particular study sought to evaluate the factors that produce such failures. Using a qualitative approach, this study interviewed some social workers in Rumah Singgah Anak Mandiri , one of the famous shelters for street children in Yogyakarta. The results show that the social workers’ lack of persuasive communication skills becomes the main cause of the shortcomings. Precisely, most of them do not possess the capacity, powerful communication, control of emotion, message appeals, organization of the messages, and cultural knowledge in serving counselling sessions with the underprivileged kids. Keywords: Persuasive communication, communication failure, street children, social workers, Indonesia.

As one of the largest cities in Indonesia after Jakarta and Surabaya, Bandung is a major tourist destination in West Java because of its strategic location. Besides having heritage tourism, nature tourism, and culinary tours, Bandung is also known as a shopping town with malls and factory outlets spread throughout the city. Nevertheless, the uncontrolled development of shopping centers and culinary may potentially impact negatively especially congestion in Bandung City. Currently, traffic congestion seems to be a difficult thing to be avoided in Bandung City. Congestion happens apart due to the increased volume of vehicles and due to construction in some areas which are formerly housing that becomes factory outlets and cafes. The impacts are reducing time efficiency of road users because of time spent on the road, air pollution, as well as inconvenience for road users. If it is viewed from legal framework, license issuance for factory outlets and cafes must refer to RUTR Bandung which means that changes in urban planning that is not in accordance with the urban planning will lead to a negative impact; that is more congestion in regions. Therefore, obedience to law, especially law license can certainly solve this problem.

Key challenges in tram/streetcar driving from the tram driver’s perspective – A qualitative study

A human driver determines his/her driving action by predicting future behavior of other road users based on the consideration of relative relationships and reactions between all players. To get as close as possible to human driving behavior, it is important to predict the early and long-term behavior of other road users. For this sake, many motion-based methods has been proposed, although only for short-term prediction. On the other hand, reasoning-based methods for long-term prediction have been proposed recently. However, they can only predict the latest behavior to the observation and do not consider uncertainty, which is necessary to realize smooth autonomous driving behavior. Therefore, we propose a method that predicts long-term behavior of other road users with estimated probabilities based on semantic reasoning that considers interactions among various players. For this purpose, we define an ontology that provides a conceptual description of all road users with their interactions, and infer the likely behaviors with their associated probabilities using Markov Logic Network (MLN). This framework is used with a actual vehicle as it approaches intersections, to demonstrate its applicability. Results from the real-time implementation on the vehicle, operating under controlled conditions, indicate that the proposed approach predicts a sequence of behavioral possibilities with their associated probabilities as expected.

This paper mainly studies about the road user's behavior when crossing urban intersection, including the confliction patterns among motors, non-motors and pedestrians, the influence on motor vehicles of non-motors' and pedestrians' violating behavior, and departure headways with and without disturbance on the urban signalized intersection. Most researchers pay much attention to the work of planning method or control strategy, and bring forward various simulating models, but no deeper researches about confliction among motor vehicles, non-motor vehicles and pedestrians are presented. Distinguished from traditional simulation models, this paper seeks to statistic models of road user's confliction behavior based on traffic data collected from urban intersections, and validate these models using different traffic data. It is shown that these established statistic models can apply to mixed traffic flow condition appropriately, which means these models can be used in traffic engineering, micro traffic simulation and traffic signal control strategy.

As a major public health problem, road traffic injuries (RTIs) affect all social groups of the society.1 Every year, around 1.3 million people die and 20-50 million people get injured or disabled as a result of the RTIs worldwide.2 The figure of RTIs is more alarming in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).1-2 RTIs in Iran are very important public health problems in the whole country. 3-6 When World Health Organization launched its call to action, it invited members of the public to be a part of the solution.1 The initiative focused on five important courses of action for the general public of which included: no speeding; wearing a seat-belt; wearing a helmet; never drink and drive; and being visible on the road. Being seen on the road is a fundamental requirement for safety of all road users, particularly vulnerable road users.2 Inadequate visibility plays a key role in RTIs during both day and night for pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists as well as car drivers.1 Being visible on the road seems to be a neglected action and hence it is still a major challenge, particularly in low and middle- income countries like Iran. Accordingly, it was decided to explore barriers related to pedestrians’ visibility on the road and to find suggestions for improvement based on road users’ experiences in Iran. Seventeen face-to-face interviews were conducted with road users including: pedestrian, motorcyclist, cyclist and car drivers between February-June 2013. A qualitative approach by means of content analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings indicated that barriers related to pedestrians’ visibility included a lack of knowledge of the importance of being seen, negative attitude towards using reflectors, a sense of being unusual when using reflectors, the significance of dark clothes as well as cultural support on wearing dark clothes and a lack of production of reflectors in the country. Suggestions for improvement included a public education campaign, effective law legislation, more rigorous law enforcements in terms of being visible on the road, more facilities for production of reflective materials and a more importantly further availability of reflectors in the country. In sum, the major barriers in terms of being visible of pedestrians on the road were identified as a lack of knowledge of importance of visibility and negative attitude in using reflective materials in both public and stakeholders. Suggestion for improvement of being visible on the roads covered educational campaigns and stricter law enforcements as well as more availability of reflectors in the society.

Swadaya is one of the magazine is in the city of Bandung especially channels institutions charity DPU DT (Dompet Peduli for Umat Daarut Tauhid) who manage it. Swadaya magazine not undistributed many voterâ s. With the hope that the magazine of non-governmental organizations can provide information and insights impress required by the donors, good around the zakat infaq, charity and fund raising as well as Islamic horizons in general. But the presence of the internet today who almost dominated the entire human activity. However, the internet is not completely shifted the existence of other mass media, both the electronic media such as television and radio or printed media such as magazines, newspapers, tabloid newspaper and etc. Especially the magazine which still get attention in the hearts of its readers. Based on the phenomena and problems in this research is formulated as follows: (1) How magazine planning of swadaya magazine in conveying the message of dakwah to donors remain DPU DT in the city of Bandung? (2) How organising the swadaya magazine in conveying the message of dawah to donors remain DPU DT in the city of Bandung? (3) How implementation of/ activity Magazine work of swadaya magazine in conveying the message dakwah to donors remain DPU DT in the city of Bandung? (4) How process/ controlling the Swadaya magazine that are submitted to the donors remain DPU DT in the city of Bandung? Researchers using analysis techniques description method using qualitative approach. The subject is taken is communication media dakwah dompet peduli umat the daarut tauhid is the swadaya magazine. The data collection techniques used in this research is the interview, observation and documentation. Now the data analysis techniques used in this research is a descriptive analysis technical. The results of this research are: (1) In planning the swadaya magazine started with a meeting of the determination of the theme, workmanship, script editing process and the layout, printing and distribution. (2) In organising there team editor in chief, marketing and distribution (3) In the activities of swadaya magazine there are activity editor in chief, editing activity and the layout, activities printing , derived and distribution activity. (4) In controlling/surveillance by the managers of open communication media with the reader to express critism or suggesting and do the questionnaire is incidental.

The implementation of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) principles which includes: transparency, accountability, independence, responsibility and fairness are expected to improve company performance. Various problems that are related to the weak implementation of GCG principles have led to a decline in company performance.The purpose of this study is to analyze how far the implementation of GCG principles and how the company performance is measured by using Balanced Scorecard (BSC) method at Sharia Commercial Banks in Bandung City and then to analyze how the implementation of GCG principles is able to improve the company performance which is measured by using BSC method. In this study,the research method is descriptive with a qualitative approach. This study was conducted on nine Sharia Commercial Banks in Bandung City. Data collection techniques were carried out by distributing questionnaires to 45 operational managers at Sharia Commercial Bank in Bandung City and by interviews.The sampling technique is non probability sampling with the type of convenience sampling.The study results indicate that the implementation of GCG principles in Sharia Commercial Banks in Bandung City is very good. The company performance in Sharia Commercial Banks in Bandung City which are measured using BSC method is in very good category.Furthermore, the implementation of GCG principles in Sharia Commercial Banks in Bandung City is able to improve the company performance which is measured by using BSC method, as it is evidenced by one of them when Sharia Commercial Banks apply the responsibility principle in their operational activities, the level of customer trust will increase. With the increasing of customer trust, it will result in a higher level of financial return as an indicator in the increasing of company performance as it is measured by BSC method. Keywords : good corporate governance principles, company performance and balanced scorecard. DOI : 10.7176/EJBM/11-6-10