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The Accelerating Public Service Policy: A Study of the Preconditions of Integrated Administrative Service of Subdistrict (PATEN) in Indonesia

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The Accelerating Public Service Policy: A Study of the Preconditions of Integrated Administrative Service of Subdistrict (PATEN) in Indonesia

Author(s): K. Kusworo / Language(s): English / Issue: 48/2020

Keywords: policy; service; acceleration; integrated administrative service;

The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the preconditions, as well as to provide an overview, of the acceleration of integrated administrative service of subdistrict in Karangpawitan Subdistrict, Garut District, West Java, Indonesia. This study is a descriptive study using qualitative approach. The data are collected using interview and document study. The respondents are determined using purposive sampling technique as informants and key persons. The data are then analyzed using qualitative data analysis through reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The findings show that the preconditions of PATEN in Karangpawitan Subdistrict, Garut District, are not fully prepared. If observed from the substantive and technical requirements, the acceleration of PATEN is prepared, but from administrative requirements, it is unprepared because there is no Regulation of Regent, stipulating the service standards and job descriptions of the subdistrict personnel for the implementation of PATEN. The efforts to be carried out by the government of Karangpawitan Subdistrict in order to accelerate PATEN in Karangpawitan Subdistrict, Garut District are: (1) Implementing PATEN with full commitment in accordance with the authority delegated by the Regent to the Head of Subdistrict; (2) Developing and utilizing information technology with computerized system to facilitate access to public service; (3) Maximizing the performance of the Technical Team of PATEN in establishing cooperation and coordination with related Regional Working Unit (SKPD) to complete the implementation requirements of PATEN; (4) Providing information and socialization about PATEN to the public in order to increase public awareness to manage licensing and non-licensing services in Subdistrict; (5) Changing the mindset of subdistrict officials by promoting public demand for the quality of public services provided; (6) Applying reward and punishment to support bureaucratic reform in public service; (7) Capacity building of human resources (SDM) of subdistrict apparatus in conducting qualified public service.

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A BLUEPRINT OF THE FUTURE OF THE STATE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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A BLUEPRINT OF THE FUTURE OF THE STATE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Author(s): Lada Sadiković / Language(s): English / Issue: 98/2022

Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1990s; future of European states; democracy; peace and unity; Western Balkans; EU integration; constitutional and legal system;

The blueprint for the future of European states was created in 1990 in Paris. It was a period of great changes and even greater expectations in which European countries tried to free themselves from the legacy of the past. At that point in time it was determined that “the era of European conflicts and divisions is over (...) and that a new era of democracy, peace and unity is beginning”. Less than a year after this ambitious plan was made, wars and conflicts began on European soil. We therefore ask ourselves today, thirtytwo years later, whether the future thus imagined should have illuminated the way towards better relations among all European states, including Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter referred to as BiH)? Has the time finally come for a blueprint for the future of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina?

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Changing the Importance of Poland in the Security Policy of the United States in the Context of the war in Ukraine

Author(s): Łukasz Jureńczyk / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: United States; Poland; security policy; war in Ukraine

The aim of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the changes in the importance of Poland in the security policy of the United States after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022. The paper consists of two parts. The first one covers the importance of Poland in the US security policy after the Cold War, and the second the change of this importance after the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine. The main research problem is the question of whether Poland’s importance in the US security policy has increased in connection with the Russian aggression on Ukraine? The thesis assumes that the war in Ukraine increased the importance of Poland in American security policy. This is due to three basic premises: Poland has become the main hub for American weapons supplied to Ukraine; Poland plays a key role in humanitarian support for Ukrainian refugees; and the dynamic development of the Polish army increases its importance in the defense of NATO’s eastern flank. Paradoxically, in the context of Polish-American relations, the outbreak of the war turned out to be beneficial for Poland, as earlier it was in danger of cooling down its relations with the USA in connection with the problems with adhering to the principles of the democratic state of law. Currently, this issue is overshadowed by the intensified US-Polish cooperation to help Ukraine and secure NATO’s eastern flank. The research involved interviews with scientists and analysts from scientific centers in Washington and New York.

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Impact of the Pandemic on Damaging the Democratic Process in a Hybrid Regime in Georgia

Author(s): Beka Chedia / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Georgia; hybrid regime; COVID-19; elections; crisis; populism; democratic standards

In hybrid political system of Georgia, in condition of COVID-19, the population obeyed control and strict regulations. Concepts such as the Iron Curtain, curfew, etc., have returned to the country’s political vocabulary. How can these symbols of a totalitarian (Soviet) past fit into the process of democratization? What is the reaction of society, other political actors? Why and how pandemic damaged democracy in Georgia? Does this threaten to revise the concept of a democratic political system, which will be especially difficult for post-totalitarian society?This research paper examines case of Georgia: how political institutions, political elite, society, Media, the country’s legislative base was ready for new reality and what political consequences this crisis would have in the process of democratization and nation-building. Unfair political competition during the elections, the growth of populism, the partial abandonment of certain rights, the deepening of polarization, etc. – are these challenges related only to the pandemic or have they also threatened Georgian democracy in “normal” times?

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Yugoslav diplomat in Albania Velimir Stojnić

Author(s): Božica Slavković Mirić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Albania; diplomats; USSR; Velimir Stojnić; Yugoslavia

After the end of the Second World War, Yugoslavia and Albania established political and diplomatic relations. Colonel Velimir Stojnić was the first Yugoslav envoy to Albania and he remained in that position until November 1945. In my paper, I will first give a brief overview of the relations between Yugoslavia and Albania 1945–1948. Then in the main chapter, I will deal with the role and significance of Velimir Stojnić in Yugoslav–Albanian cooperation and his impact on Albanian leader Enver Hoxha and Albanian politicians. My research could be part of a broader study of Yugoslav–Albanian relations, especially as an example of good practice in bilateral cooperation.

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Yugoslav Catholic émigré clergy in the 1960s

Author(s): Petar Dragišić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: émigré clergy; Yugoslavia; Vatican; Draganović; Cecelja

The paper deals with the Yugoslav Catholic émigré clergy in the 1960s. The research focuses on its institutions, the modus operandi of their anti-Yugoslav practice as well as on their impact on Croatian and Slovenian émigré milieu. The topic was examined in the broader context of the relations between Yugoslavia and the Holy See in the 1960s.

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Case study: A few letters on a corn stalk leaf led to a rapist and murderer

Author(s): Miroslav Busarčević,Branislav Simonović / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: traceological expertise; damaged relief letters of the car tire; reflection of letters on a corn stalk leaf;

The article shows a case study of the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl. The perpetrator sexually assaulted the victim in his car, which he parked in a cornfield, and then set her on fire. One of the most important pieces of evidence in that case was a reflection of damaged relief letters from the sidewall of a car tire, near the tread, pressed against a corn stalk leaf – the size of the imprint was 1 × 0.5 cm. The article describes the procedure of traceological expertise and concludes that analyzing the imprint in the discussed case was based on the same principles as the procedure of identifying a trace of an imprint made by a stamp on a piece of paper.

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Competence aspects in forensic expertise of documents

Author(s): Olga Cataraga,Sorin Alămoreanu,Petr Petkovich / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: technical expertise of documents; limits of competences; expert examiners; training experts; examination of materials; documents; and writings; integrated conclusions;

The technical expertise of documents, although it already seems to be a well-developed field, in the current stage faces many problems which need to be investigated. This especially concerns the limits of expert-examiners’ competences. Apart from the “classic” means of falsifying and counterfeiting documents, new ones constantly appear as the offenders gain new skills and equipment, which makes expertise much more complex.In the present article, the authors attempt to discuss the limits of competences in the specialties of judicial expertise – code 6.01 (technical expertise of documents) and code 10.11 (examination of materials, documents, and writings). Exceeding one’s competence in carrying out the expertise cancels the evidence accumulated through scientific effort as well as entails disciplinary and often criminal liability of the expert-executor. The authors also propose an exemplary curriculum for training experts in forensic expertise of materials and documents and writings.

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1914 Revisited: Evidence vs. Sophistry

Author(s): John Zametica / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2023

Keywords: Sarajevo 1914; Danilo Šarenac; Mark Cornwall; Andrej Rahten; John Zametica

The response by Danilo Šarenac to a critical review of his own and two of his colleagues’ reflections on the 1914 Sarajevo assassination is subjected to close analysis of the specific details emphasized in that response.

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Rubber stamp impressions: A study of defects and their significance in questioned document examination

Author(s): Om Prakash Jasuja,Jatin Kumar Sharma,Jassy Anand / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: forensic examination; rubber stamps; stamp impressions; defects; manufacturing techniques;

The sole objective of a forensic document examiner is to assist in discovering and proving the facts in any investigation or legal inquiry involving genuineness of a document or any part thereof. A document is usually questioned because its origin, content, or the circumstances and story of its production arouse serious suspicion as to its genuineness. It may also be adversely scrutinized simply because it displeases someone with its unexpected provisions, and a careful examination may show conclusively that the document is indeed genuine. The increasing use of many kinds of documents is among the characteristics of civilization. Taking into account the opportunities for fraud this offers and the imperfection of human nature, it is not strange that now and then a document appears which does not belong in the genuine class.As it relates to document examination, rubber stamp identification is closely akin to handwriting and typewriting analysis. Identifying a particular stamp, type-, or handwriting and determining when it was performed, its possible source, and circumstances of production – these are the chief aims of any initial examination. Rubber stamps may be individualized at any stage of the manufacturing process, even back-tracking to imperfections in the metal typefaces, but more commonly, unique characteristics are the effect of use, misuse, wear, and even age of the stamp. The present study discusses the steps in manufacturing a rubber stamp and the causes of defects leading to its identification, as well as attempts to examine the stamp impressions on the basis of the defects induced by these factors.

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Shaping the Digital Identity in Slovak Academic Environment: From Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) to Effective Online Teaching

Author(s): Ivana Pondelíková,Tatiana Tökölyová / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: digital identity; innovative teaching methods; internship; online teaching; emergency remote teaching; ERT; x-learning

The year 2020 was challenging in terms of improving or developing a digital identity. Flexibility and adaptability have become crucial skills in all sectors. The success of any information technology or its application depends on its usage. Regarding education system, there is a need to adapt to Generation Z, making the students the centre of their training, leaving the teacher as a tutor or coach of their learning. This is possible to achieve via x-learning, which is based on learning by experience. However, the whole university education has moved to the online world and we have experienced so-called emergency remote teaching (ERT). During the course of time, we have moved from ERT to an effective online teaching-learning process. Well-planned online teaching-learning process is meaningfully different from courses offered online in response to an emergency situation. Differences between these two systems together with applied innovative teaching methods are provided in the text. We would like to share the best practices in online teaching as well as hybrid or online form of internship that have shaped the digital identity. Innovative methods together with modern technologies offer a wide range of the current teaching-learning process.

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Selection of comparative material as objective basis of expertise in forensic document examination

Author(s): Pàvlos Kipouràs / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: comparative material; signature; forgery; authenticity; public documents; private documents; handwriting; expert’s conclusion; methodological criteria;

The comparative method is universally accepted and applied in forensic document examination. Comparing the questioned handwriting or signature against the comparative material reveals graphic elements which allow the expert to arrive at a technically and methodologically structured conclusion regarding authenticity. The opposing parties in a case provide comparative material for the expert to assess. Specimens deriving from public documents are initially considered to be of safe origin – these usually consist of signatures. However, handwriting samples are mainly found in private documents. Such circumstances make it easier for each party to contest the material provided by the opposite party while asserting the authenticity of their own. This, in turn, may lead to a debate between experts regarding the selection of appropriate comparative specimens. After all, the validity of their conclusions depends on whether the choice they make in this matter is correct. The present article provides some methodological guidelines, suggestions regarding the way of expressing the final expert opinion, as well as illustrates them through a specific case study.

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Evaluation of the sailent features in Indian currency notes

Author(s): Sanya Sharma,Shipra Rohatgi,Saleh Mansour / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: currency notes; micro-printing; fluorescence; transmitted light; counterfeit currency;

Security features are topographies invisible to the naked eye, such as micro-printing or features visible in ultraviolet, transmitted, and oblique light. The present paper focuses on the examination of Indian currency notes such as 2000, 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, and10 in different light sources and with the help of a compound microscope. This kind of examination is very useful when it comes to distinguishing counterfeit currency from genuine one. Crime is increasing day by day, and so is the making of false currency – this study discusses the numerous security or hidden features which are invisible to the naked eye, and therefore may very well be missed by the potential perpetrator. It is the responsibility of the government along with the issuing authority to incorporate these structures into all travel and security documents, including passports, voter-id cards, and many others. These features are implemented either during the manufacturing of the paper itself (e.g., fluorescent fibres) or at the time of printing (e.g., microprinting, watermarks, and other fluorescent features).

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Is a forged signature an “apple” or a “fruit salad”?

Author(s): Terry Elmaleh / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: forensic handwriting examination; reliability and validity; signature comparison specimens; signature and handwriting verification; signature and handwriting forgeries;

This article is penned as a result of the continuous significant findings in my daily forensic handwriting examination practice and experience.The methodology and process followed in any forensic handwriting examination are central to its interpretation and reliability – the repeatability and reproducibility of the same tests giving the same results; its validity concerning the appropriateness of the chosen methodology and process; and the resulting accuracy or discriminative reliability of the expert opinion in reflecting the true state of the evidence.In this regard, the present article poses the question firstly as to whether a forged signature is fundamentally a signature or handwriting? Once the implication of that question is understood and answered, the ensuing one is: in the interests of reliability, validity, accuracy, and best practice, what categories of comparison samples of the forger’s writing should be used as evidence to analyse, compare, and evaluate a questioned signature, the forger’s signatures, initials, or handwriting?In short: in the pursuit of identifying authorship of any forged writing, and specifically a forged signature, whether disguised, free-hand simulated, traced, or even spuriously created, should the so-called apple be compared to apples (which would imply comparison to the signatures of the forger in the case of a forged signature), or is the forged signature a fruit salad that should be compared to the full potentiality and reper-toire of the entire writing skill range and master pattern of the suspected forger?forensic handwriting examination; reliability and validity; signaturecomparison specimens; signature and handwriting verification; signature and handwriting forgeries;

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“Variation” vs “individuality”: Redefinition in handwriting examination

Author(s): Yun Chih Chang / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: variation; individuality; handwriting examination; redefined theory; critical characteristics; results verification; reconstruction of document examination;

The present article attempts to discuss the practical problems which have appeared in several recent cases, leading to converse conclusions and affecting the court trial as well as the rights and interests of the parties. The reinterpretation of “individuality” and “variation” can allow document examiners to use and interpret all the theoretical bases and methods of analysis, comparison, and judgment without any hesitation or uncertainty. It can also highlight the “basic theory” which must be applied differently depending on individual cases and in order to avoid analysis errors when non-professional document examiners reevaluate the same case.

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Forensic study on the effect of atypical surfaces and writing instruments on handwriting characteristics

Author(s): Amanpreet Kaur / Language(s): English / Issue: 64/2022

Keywords: handwriting examination; unusual surface; lipstick; handwriting features;

Handwriting examination is becoming a captivating field nowadays, as there are numerous cases where handwriting is not written on a usual surface – i.e., paper, with a conventional writing instrument – i.e., pen. However, while it is interesting to analyze these types of handwriting samples, most forensic document examiners find it difficult due to the effect atypical surface and writing instrument have on handwriting characteristics. Thus, a systematized study has been carried out on documents prepared on unconventional surfaces such as cardboard, cloth piece, and blackboard, with uncommon writing instruments such as lipstick, kajal, and chalk. Correspondingly, studies were carried out on writing samples provided by 40 individuals using the conventional pen/paper as well as unconventional cardboard/kajal, cardboard/pen, cloth/pen, cloth/lipstick, cloth/kajal, and board/chalk combinations. Various handwriting features were examined and compared among aforementioned combinations, and changes in handwriting characteristics were reported. Those could be due to the atypical writing instruments and surfaces which conjointly impact the overall identity of the handwriting and expert’s conclusions thereon.

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"Tańcowała igła z nitką" ["The Needle Danced with the Thread"] and "Kaczka Dziwaczka" ["Dotty Duck"] in the Past and the Present. On the Process of These Works Permeating the Polish Culture and Language

Utwory dla dzieci Jana Brzechwy z tomów „Tańcowała igła z nitką” i „Kaczka Dziwaczka” dawniej i współcześnie. O procesie wrastania utworów w polską kulturę i język

Author(s): Kinga Kuszak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: children’s literature; history of children’s literature; preschool children; literature as an element of culture; literature as an element of linguistic heritage

The article tackles Jan Brzechwa’s first works addressed to children. The author presents the moment the collections Tańcowała igła z nitką and Kaczka Dziwaczka were created. The primary aim of the article is to show how Brzechwa’s first works of children’s literature collected in the above mentioned books were received by educators and literary critics. Another objective of the study is to depict how these books became a part of the national literary culture, using selected examples. The author achieved this goal by examining selected poems and showing how they gained popularity through reeditions issued by popular publishing houses, publication in anthologies of children’s literature, audiobooks read by popular actors, songs, on the Internet. The final aim of the article is to show to what extent quotes from Brzechwa’s selected works permeated the Polish language and became an essential part of the linguistic experience of contemporary Poles.

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Selected Contexts of the History of the Progress of Knowledge about the Educational Potential of a Child in the Prenatal Period

Wybrane konteksty historii kształtowania się wiedzy na temat potencjału edukacyjnego dziecka w okresie prenatalnym

Author(s): Katarzyna Sadowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: prenatal child; prenatal psychology; prenatal pedagogy; human development and educational resources

The aim of the study is to show the progress of knowledge regarding the developmental and educational potential of a child in the prenatal period. The educational potential in this study is defined as human development and educational resources. The author analyzes the ways of defining a child and childhood, signals the progress of social sciences that took place at the end of the 19th and in the 20th centuries, which was of great importance for the transformation of the concept of a child and childhood with its pre-birth period. The author also reviews the assumptions of contemporary psychology and prenatal pedagogy, and encourages a discourse on human potential from the moment of conception.

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The Contemporary Teacher in the Lenses of Influences of the Educational Traditions

Współczesny nauczyciel w soczewce oświatowych tradycji

Author(s): Małgorzata Kabat / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: teacher; tradition; Prussian Model; Gestalt’s; emancipation; transgression; Freire’s model; contemporary times

he aim of the text is, on the one hand, to realize the existence of a contemporary model of functioning of the teacher inherent in the resources of traditional pedagogy, and on the other hand, the possibility of introducing changes in it and adapting to new social conditions. In the undertaken explorations there were indicated the roots of the educational present perpetuating the old Prussian Model developed in the 19th century. Its evaluation and criticism contributed to the emergence of currents of new education, which are reformist pedagogical movement. It left its mark on the teaching profession, selected elements and ideas of which appeared in Paulo Freire’s model combining past and present solutions. It illustrates the persistence of a hierarchical school structure that requires the school and the teacher to undertake modernization. Therefore, an authorial diagram showing selected components of the discussed models coming from the stream of new education, which enables transforming the teacher’s work and thinking favoring leaving the conservative approach, was developed.

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Political Taking Over of Tradition and Modernity Reflected in Books for Children and Youth in Post-War Poland (1945–1960)

Polityczne zawłaszczanie tradycji i nowoczesności aktualizujące się w książkach dla dzieci i młodzieży w powojennej Polsce (1945–1960)

Author(s): Małgorzata Janina Cackowska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Keywords: children’s and youth’s literature; socialist realism; ideologisation; Matołek the Billy-Goat

This article is aimed at an analysis of a review of discourses of tradition and modernity in literature for children and youth in the situation of political entanglement in the communist system in post-war Poland (1945–1960). The analysis is based on a review of widely represented research described in texts focusing on history and literary criticism, in particular by scholars, who are concentrated on socialist realism – the period that was most painful to the Polish children’s literature and education. Three unique and clearly distinct sub-periods identified during this time are used to describe the political tackling of tradition and modernity in books for children and youth in the period and sub-periods in question. These are: “hard beginnings” (1944–1949), “centrally-controlled books” (1950–1955), and “following the Thaw” (1956–1960). Simultaneously with this issue, a self-telling example of the convoluted fate of one of the best- known protagonists of Polish classical book for the youngest children, an icon – Matołek the Billy Goat – is depicted.

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