Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences

This article discusses the ideal policies to be applied to the Papua Special Autonomy issues. The regional expansion policy prepared by the central government is a policy that has the aim of encouraging community participation in the implementation of regional government. The approval of the Papuan People's Council (MRP) and the Papuan House of Representatives (DPRP) in deciding on the expansion of the region to encourage community participation can be ruled out considering that the central government is the party that has the authority to determine the extent to which the expansion policy is implemented or not. Through the normative approach in this study, it was found that the central government's policy was not arbitrary in implementing the determination of the regional expansion policy. There are limitations to the orientation direction of regional expansion, including the readiness of human resources and economic capacity, which must still be considered so that the objectives to be achieved from regional expansion can be implemented properly.

Keywords: regional expansion, the Papua Region, the law.

The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between reading strategies and the Lexile score of the online reading comprehension program ‘Literacy Pro’. This would give a clear insight into the impact of the reading strategies on reading comprehension. It was hypothesized that the reading strategies adopted by students and the same recommended by the teachers have a positive intervening effect on student Lexile scores. The findings of the study were not completely supportive as hypothesized. The moderated mediation regression results are not reflecting any significant improvement in the Lexile score of students through the intervention of reading strategies adopted by the students, and training imparted to that effect by the teachers shows no major disparity. Reading comprehension is the product of multiple skills and knowledge sources, and the struggling readers often experience difficulty in multiple reading skills. ‘Literacy Pro’ is a multi-component online reading skill development program. Skills such as word identification, vocabulary knowledge, reading fluency, literal meaning, inferential meaning and expertise in grammar are necessary to construct the meaning of a text. Further research in these areas will provide clear insights into how reading comprehension may effectively be improved. This paper throws light on improving the sub skills of reading by focusing on reading strategies before, while and after a reading exercise. It further explores how the realm of technology may be effectively used to leverage reading comprehension skills. In the wake of advancement in the use of mobile technology in education, the same may be explored to enhance reading comprehension in a more interesting and entertaining manner for students.

Keywords: ESL, Literacy Pro, moderated mediation, online reading, reading comprehension.

Despite the growing concern about small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), a paucity of research explores the role of digitally-mediated partnerships between SMEs, creative industries, and tourism in the actual market. To fill such a void, the present study aims to reveal how SMEs, creative industries, and tourism partner with a digital-based economy to advance national income. Data for the study were garnered through surveys, focus group discussions, and participatory training. Findings suggest that local entrepreneurs were aware of their lack of a digital-based economy and the rapid advancement of such digitalization. Therefore, they gradually enacted the digital-based economy by cooperating with young entrepreneurs in promoting their products. The application of digital-based MSMEs will help market MSME products. Making a digital website for the MSME product market is necessary to advance its business.

Keywords: partnership, digital transformation, conservation tourism; micro-, small, and medium enterprises.

In the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Indonesian government is increasingly serious about dealing with health issues. This situation can be seen with the increasing number of government legal products in the form of laws and government regulations governing the health sector. However, the government's legal products are still not adequate. Among others, there is no special regulation on resolving health disputes between doctors as health care providers and patients as health care recipients (receivers). This paper aims to examine the provisions of Indonesian positive law that regulates the settlement of health disputes outside the court or known as alternative dispute resolution (ADR), although there is an honorary council of Indonesian medical discipline (MKDKI) in resolving health disputes that are not mediation institutions but as a form of supervision. Health disputes are different from other civil disputes. This is because health service disputes affect individuals as legal subjects, professions, and institutions. The character of the profession and institution will be greatly harmed if the health dispute resolution process is done openly through the litigation process. The open nature will provide opportunities for the character assassination of the profession. Mediation is a non-litigation approach in dispute resolution recognized by positive law in Indonesia. Deliberation to reach a consensus with the help of mediators can be taken through the approach of kinship, humanitarian principles, justice, and in order to maintain good relations to end existing disputes. The final settlement of disputes through mediation can be a memorandum of peace or a final and binding deed of peace. Based on the deed of peace, the judiciary can execute if there is a violation of the agreement's content. Based on the study results, it was concluded that alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with a health mediation mechanism is the right approach to resolving existing health disputes because it is beneficial for the parties, and the final form of resolution is recognized by positive law in Indonesia. Health mediation as a complement to the litigation process will greatly help the judiciary resolve existing disputes so that there is no accumulation of cases in the judiciary. In mediating this health dispute, if it has been agreed to be done by the mediator to strengthen peace, both parties are advised to file a lawsuit in court. When mediating in court, they make a mediation agreement in accordance with the previous mediation and register with the court to have binding legal force.

Keywords: mediation, resolution, health.

This study sheds light on the metafictional world as a new genre to be discovered. Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov invented a new way of writing. He documented his life and career through a fictional and real-world “metafictional realm.” In his novel Look at the Harlequins!, Nabokov uses the strategy of choosing an artist as a prototypical character, reflecting the duality between what is real and what is fictional. This paper demonstrates how Nabokov successfully unites these two vague worlds. Moreover, the study explores the illusive or hidden world that penetrates reality and fiction. In Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction, Patricia Waugh interprets an imaginative picture of the author’s mental world, revealing a mind capable of working in two different modes. According to Waugh, metafiction is the representation of the outside and inside intermingled realms of the novelist’s mind. She states that metafiction reveals the “self-consciousness” and “self-awareness” of the two creative worlds and introduces several strategies and structures in presenting the fictional and real “self-consciousness” of the author. She refers to Nabokov’s work as the “realm of a metafictional world” and asserts that the author evokes the “fictional and real” through Look at the Harlequins! This study shows how Nabokov sets his text within an additional context, using both outside and inside protagonists. In Look at the Harlequins!, he creates his own novel by creating a fictional novelist’s work, producing two mingled worlds. One of these is the fictional world of Vadim Vadimovich N., the narrator and protagonist. The other world is the real one, represented by Nabokov’s fictional career. This study, which serves as a guide for interpreting Nabokov’s postmodernist text and context, introduces a new genre of the novel—metafiction and its elements—and is intended to aid readers, particularly scholars, instructors, and critics, in their fields. Moreover, this study examines how postmodernists highlight reality through their novels. The scope of the study covers postmodern metafiction, particularly that of Vladimir Nabokov.

Keywords: self-consciousness, intermingled realms, metafiction, Vladimir Nabokov, mirrors.