The rapid advancement of digital technologies has transformed governance practices across higher education institutions, encouraging university libraries to adopt smart government principles to improve service quality, operational efficiency, and user engagement. As academic libraries evolve beyond their traditional role as repositories of printed collections, they are increasingly expected to provide integrated digital services that support teaching, research, and knowledge dissemination. This study investigates the implementation of smart government within the library of Universitas Riau and explores the institutional factors that facilitate or constrain this digital transformation. A qualitative descriptive approach was employed, using semi-structured interviews, direct observations, and institutional document analysis to obtain comprehensive insights into library governance and digital service delivery. The collected data were analyzed using the interactive model of Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña, consisting of data condensation, data display, and conclusion drawing, while data credibility was strengthened through methodological and source triangulation. The findings reveal that smart government implementation has substantially transformed library services through the digitalization of information resources, improved accessibility, integrated information systems, strengthened technological infrastructure, and enhanced staff competencies. These developments have enabled users to access academic resources more efficiently and have contributed to more responsive and user-centered library services. Nevertheless, several challenges remain, including incomplete system integration, infrastructure limitations, disparities in users’ digital literacy, and the need for continuous professional development among library personnel. The study concludes that smart government provides an effective governance framework for accelerating the development of smart academic libraries while simultaneously improving institutional service quality. The findings also highlight the importance of integrating technological innovation, organizational readiness, and human resource development to ensure the long-term sustainability of digital transformation initiatives in higher education libraries.

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Recurring floods on the island of Sumatra highlight the complex interaction between deforestation, climate change, and environmental governance; however, this relationship is often inadequately represented in media discourse. This study aims to analyze how national and international media frame deforestation and flooding issues from a sustainable development perspective.This research employs a qualitative case study approach, drawing on Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which conceptualizes discourse as a social practice that reflects power relations and ideology. Data were collected from 30 national and international news articles published in 2025 using the NCapture feature and analyzed with NVivo 12 Plus. The analysis focuses on lexical patterns, actor representation, and the construction of relationships between deforestation, climate change, and responsibility distribution. The findings reveal significant differences in media framing. National media tend to emphasize extreme weather and disaster impacts, while international media consistently link flooding to deforestation and ecosystem degradation. These patterns indicate that media discourse can either naturalize environmental disasters or expose their structural causes. This study contributes theoretically by integrating Critical Discourse Analysis with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 13: Climate Action and SDG 15: Life on Land), offering a novel analytical framework to understand how media discourse shapes environmental accountability and sustainable development narratives in Indonesia.

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Forest and land fires remain a persistent sustainability challenge in Indonesia’s palm oil landscapes, particularly within enclave areas, community-managed lands located inside large-scale corporate concessions that are highly fire-prone during the dry season due to slash-and-burn practices. This study examines how collaborative governance among palm oil companies, local communities, village authorities, and government agencies contributes to sustainable fire mitigation in these complex socio-ecological systems. Drawing on qualitative case studies from two villages surrounding a major oil palm concession in Ketapang, West Kalimantan, the research integrates in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, field observations, document analysis, and GIS mapping. The findings show that collaborative arrangements, implemented through fire awareness campaigns, preparedness activities, joint monitoring, and coordinated firefighting, have reduced high-risk burning and limited fire spread across community lands and adjacent plantations. These processes were enabled by structured coordination, knowledge exchange, and resource sharing, while shaped by tensions between customary land-use practices and evolving environmental and regulatory conditions. Collaboration was further driven by interdependence in funding, equipment, legitimacy, and personnel, alongside external pressures such as market-based sustainability certification and state enforcement. The study highlights how collaborative governance can strengthen fire resilience and support more sustainable palm oil governance in the Global South.

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The flood disaster that hit West Sumatra in November-December 2025 not only caused physical damage, but also psychological impacts in the form of trauma in children. Symptoms such as anxiety, sleep disorders, difficulty concentrating, and withdrawal from the social environment. Conventional trauma healing approaches often lack creative elements that are appropriate to the world of children. This study aims to design and test the effectiveness of geometric puzzle games as a trauma healing medium that integrates the principles of Visual Communication Design for child flood victims. Using a qualitative approach with an applied experimental method, this study involved 15 elementary school-aged children divided into three groups. Each group competed to arrange geometric puzzles into three meaningful shapes: butterflies, ships and rockets, with the mechanism of one representative looking at the target shape for 10 seconds and then communicating it to the team. Data were collected through participant observation, interviews, focus group discussions, visual documentation, and reflective journals, then analyzed using thematic analysis. The results of the study showed three main findings: (1) the process of visual creation through arranging puzzles became an effective means of non-verbal emotional expression; (2) successful puzzle completion rebuilds self-efficacy and self-confidence; (3) visual communication mechanisms within groups strengthen social cohesion and peer support post-disaster. This research provides theoretical benefits for the development of design science in the context of psychosocial interventions, as well as practical benefits for trauma healing practitioners and designers of visual design-based therapeutic media for children.

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In the past decade, social transformations such as pandemics, inequality, migration, and digitalization have significantly influenced the growth of social research. Research on the dynamics of public life in international databases is still lacking. The purpose of this study is to analyze trends in social work publications from 2015 to 2024 based on 43 journal articles specifically indexed using Scopus data. used with the help of Biblioshiny and VOSviewer software to analyze national productivity growth, scientific publications, collaboration networks, and key co-occurrence patterns. The study findings show that there has been an increase in the number of publications since 2020, with an initial focus on COVID-19 and mental health issues before shifting to social safety, social intervention, child safety, and policy issues.

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Solid waste management remains a persistent urban challenge in rapidly developing regions, particularly in archipelagic cities like Batam, Indonesia. This study investigates the role and effectiveness of local government in addressing solid waste issues within Batam City. Using a qualitative approach that integrates policy analysis, stakeholder interviews, and field observations, the research examines the governance structure, institutional capacity, public engagement, and inter-agency coordination involved in waste management. Findings reveal significant gaps between policy formulation and implementation, exacerbated by limited resources, lack of community participation, and insufficient infrastructure. However, innovative local initiatives and public-private partnerships have shown promise in improving service delivery. This study contributes to the discourse on urban environmental governance by highlighting the critical need for integrated, community-based, and technologically supported solutions. The results offer practical insights for policymakers seeking to enhance sustainable waste management practices in coastal and rapidly urbanizing areas.

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The ECCR 2025 course was held from August 11–15, 2025, at Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This practiceoriented course focused on the application of collaborative approaches to natural resource management and conflict resolution. The course was structured around a comprehensive framework of environmental collaboration and conflict resolution, covering topics such as collaborative governance, interest-based negotiation, consensus-building models, and community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). A field excursion was conducted at a community forestry site in Gunungkidul, a rural area in central Java. The course was attended by 30 participants and teachers from Indonesia, Finland, Germany, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Philippines, the US, and Australia. Participants were master’s and PhD students, representatives of research institutions, and representatives from non-governmental organisations.

Mempertahankan kontribusi biologis, melindungi ekosistem guna mendukung ketahanan lingkungan merupakan salah satu konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan (sustainable development goals, SDG’s). Tujuan tulisan ini adalah untuk mempelajari keanekaragaman hayati di Kabupatun Bantul, serta menganalisis kebijakan serta pengelolaannya dalam menjaga keanekaragaman hayati dan melindungi fungsi ekosistem untuk mendukung ketahanan lingkungan Kabupaten Bantul. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif. Data diperoleh berdasarkan hasil wawancara secara online kepada pejabat dinas lingkungan, pencarian situs web resmi Dinas Lingkungan Hidup Kabupaten Bantul, yang kemudian data pendukung diperoleh dari jurnal hasil penelitian, media online dan lain-lain.

This study examines the role of youth engagement in environmental governance and climate action initiatives in Uganda. It explores how young people are becoming central actors in promoting sustainability through digital activism, community mobilization, environmental education, and green entrepreneurship. The research is informed by the Collaborative Environmental Governance Theory, which highlights the involvement of multiple stakeholders government, civil society, youth organizations, and local communities in co-managing environmental resources and shaping policy outcomes. A qualitative research design was used through document analysis of policy reports and academic literature. This approach enabled a critical assessment of youth participation in decision-making spaces and the practical contributions they make to environmental governance. The study identifies several opportunities and challenges influencing youth involvement. These include limited policy integration, inadequate funding, institutional weaknesses, and socio-political constraints. Despite these barriers, Ugandan youth continue to demonstrate innovation and resilience, leveraging digital platforms and community engagement to advocate for climate justice and sustainable development. The findings emphasize the need for gender inclusion, capacity building, and knowledge sharing as key enablers of meaningful.

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The purpose of this article is to examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic mobility occurring in Indonesia. The research illustrates that the effects of the pandemic are strongly felt in mobility in the socio-economic sectors.

This research will focus on analyzing the effectiveness of the waste bank as an alternative to waste management in achieving the concept of smart city in Kulon Progo Regency. The research was conducted to describe how the existence of a garbage bank in Kulon Progo Regency and to analyze how the effectiveness of the waste bank in managing waste in achieving the concept of smart city. This research uses a qualitative method with a descriptive analysis approach. The researcher uses descriptive analysis method, which is an analysis that is intended to explain data from one variable under study. From the research results obtained information that the existence of a garbage bank is experiencing good development because up to 2019 there have been 116 garbage banks. While the effectiveness of the garbage bank has so far been seen to be less effective because it has only been able to manage 10% of the waste generated. Indeed, waste banks make sprouts of economic value and provide benefits to waste producers but have not overcome the problem of waste. So that the concept of smart city on environmental indicators is still not well achieved by the existence of a garbage bank.

Pelayanan publik menjadi salah satu kebutuhan masyarakat yang harus dipenuhi oleh Pemerintah daerah atau pusat, seperti. Pemerintah Desa Dlingo yang memiliki inovasi dalam melakukan pelayanan publik yaitu dengan Sistem Informasi Desa (SID) yang dapat memberikan informasi yang cepat dan tepat terkait Informasi tentang pelayanan publik, selain itu informasi tentang Desa Dlingo. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui Sistem Informasi Desa dalam pelayanan publik di Desa Dlingo Kecamatan Dlingo Kabupaten Bantul. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian deskriptif dan metode kualitatif. Hasil dari penelitian ini diperoleh dari Pemerintah Desa Dlingo sebagai pelaksana pelayanan publik dan masyarakat Desa Dlingo sebagai penerima pelayanan publik., terbukti pelayanan yang diberikan oleh pemerintah Desa Dlingo sudah efektif cepat dan tepat.

Forest fires in Indonesia continue to pose as an alarming governmental, environmental, and societal concern. This study examines the context of land ownership transformation mainly before and after forest fires in palm oil plantation activities. The data were gathered through in-depth interviews, observation, and Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping. The majority of land transformations occurred from community property ownership to ownership by local elites, while the transformation from company to community and local elites was also found. Due to the injustice of land distribution, local communities occupy open access lands of companies’ concessions. The deliberate use of fire is a common method among smallholder to clear land for oil palm and for sold for profit as planted land. Local elites benefit from these land transformations; however, smallholders are at an economic disadvantage. We argue that forest devolution and a clear definition of community land boundaries are critical in dealing with this issue.

CSR merupakan kegiatan perusahaan dalam mengelola proses bisnis untuk menghasilkan dampak positif pada masyarakat, ekonomi dan lingkungan. Keterlibatan perusahaan dalam melakukan kegiatan CSR merupakan tuntutan dalam tanggung jawab atas dampak kerugian yang dialami masyarakat khususnya pada kerusakan lingkungan. Tulisan ini menempatkan bagaimana suatu kegiatan CSR yang dilakukan suatu perusahaan dapat mengurangi dampak kerusakan lingkungan, metodologi dalam penelitian ini menggunakan deskriftif kualitatif. Dalam penelitian  ini melibatkan  tiga desa antara lain Desa Padang Loang, Seppang dan  Desa Bijawang dan  sebanyak 45 informan antara pemerintah, tokoh masyarakat dan massyarakat. Dari hasil penelitian secara umum bahwa perusahaan PT. Agung Perdana tidak pernah melakukan kegiatan CSR, yang mereka lakukan hanya memikirkan keuntungan pada perusahaan serta banyak impack negatif yang mereka berikan kepada masyarakat terutama pada kerusakan lingkungan, hanya ada satu indikator yang memberikan nilai positif pada perusahaan  yaitu dalam  peningkatan ekonomi, sebagian masyarakat setempat diberikan lapangan pekerjaan sebagai buruh lepas. Faktor yang menjadi tidak adanya suatu kegiatan CSR yang dilakukan oleh perusahaan adalah kurangnya pemahaman perusahaan tenatang  CSR, serta tidak adanya pengawasan dan langkah kebijakan yang diambil oleh pemerintah untuk memberikan tuntutan pada perusahaan agar mau melakukan kegiatan CSR,  terhadap dampak yang ditimbulkan oleh perusahaan. Dari pemaknaan hasil penelitian, apakah perusahaan mampu menanggulangi dan mengurangi kerusakan lingkungan yang telah terjadi pada wilayah tersebut, ini menjadi suatu tantangan bagi pemerintah dan stacholder dalam permasalahan CSR.

Heavy metal contamination, particularly by copper (Cu) and lead (Pb), in aquatic ecosystems poses a significant threat to ecological balance, aquatic organisms, microbial diversity and human health. The Kali Baru Estuary in Semarang, Indonesia, has been reported as a heavily polluted area with Cu and Pb concentrations far exceeding environmental safety thresholds, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable remediation strategies. This study aimed to isolate and characterise bacterial strains resistant to Cu and Pb from sediment samples collected from the Kali Baru Estuary in Semarang as potential bioremediation agents. Bacterial isolation was performed using a serial dilution technique up to 10?², in triplicate, spread onto Marine Agar medium, and incubated at 37°C for 24 h. The obtained isolates were purified and characterised based on their macroscopic and microscopic morphological features. Resistance profiling of the isolates was assessed by exposing them to Cu and Pb at concentrations of 100, 200, and 300 mg/L. A total of 32 bacterial isolates were successfully obtained. Among these, two isolates demonstrated resistance to Cu, and 14 isolates exhibited resistance to Pb at the highest concentration tested (300 mg/L). These metal-resistant bacterial isolates exhibit substantial promise for bioremediation applications aimed at remediating Cu and Pb-contaminated aquatic environments.