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“Boikot pariwisata Indonesia…!!!” “Pemerintah China harus tegas terhadap Indonesia…!!!” “Sebrutal apakah kau, Indonesia…?” “Hentikan bantuan asing ke Indonesia…!!!” “Masukkan kebrutalan Indonesia di buku sejaran kita…!!!” Itulah beberapa potongan protes keras blogger China sebagai reaksi atas film “The Act of Killing/Jagal”. Mengejutkan tentunya, di tengah peningkatan hubungan Indonesia dan China hingga melejit sebagai poros kekuatan baru dunia. Juga di tengah perayaan keberagaman di tanah air, pasca kepimpinan Abdurahman Wahid. Tiba-tiba terdengar reaksi mengejutkan, yang kontan menjadi sorotan dunia.   Saya yang benar-benar tidak pernah mendengar judul film ini, menjadi sangat penasaran (padahal film ini telah diputar sejak tahun 2012, namun kembali muncul di permukaan akhir-akhir ini). Sehebat itukah film “Jagal” sehingga berhasil membuat tegang rakyat China? Sebrutal itukah Pemuda Pancasila sehingga berhasil mencipta rasa curiga etnis Tionghoa? Dalam b...

 Dion Ginanto  A research methodology is the heart of the scientific study. It is the research methodology which makes a paper a “non-ordinary” paper. Myers (2009) defines the research method as a strategy of inquiry, which moves from the underlying assumptions to research design and data collection. There are two prominent methods in research: qualitative and quantitative. The basic difference between the two is that quantitative focuses on numbers and statistics; while qualitative generates words as data for analysis. Neither of these methods is better than the other. Both qualitative and quantitative can alternate each other; even these two can be combined. This paper, however, focuses on the qualitative method, and answers the following questions: 1) What is qualitative research? 2) Why qualitative research? And 3) What methods are used in collecting data in qualitative research?   What is Qualitative Research? The qualitative research is stressing...