Issue 21.2 of the ISIP Journal presents five articles with varied topics, namely one on visual communication, one on public policy, one on social welfare and two on international relations. The article on the visual communication is the result of research that describes the theme of fantasy of youth groups in post-conflict areas through photography. A novelty in methodology, the fantasy theme which is usually researched in the process of direct personal communication or narrative text, is exchanged. This article analyzes it through the visual text with the method of Photo Elicitation Interviews (PEI) and Fantasy Theme Analysis (FTA).  The article on public policy discusses the discretion in the process of drafting public policy, in addition to analyzing the flow of the policy-making process, it also analyzes the meaning transactions from a cultural study perspective. The result of the study reveals the existence of a tug of power and the occurrence of hegemonic practices. The article on social welfare presents an evaluative analysis of the role of social assistants in empowering people in the social forestry. Communities that are licensed to manage social forests can successfully improve their quality of life through a mentoring process with the authentic partnerships, namely collaborative partnerships with a foundation of mutual respect, synergistic relationships, and a focus on processes, not just on the results. Two international relations articles, one is the result of a case study analyzing the role of non-state actors in rescuing victims of human trafficking and cyber crime. The non-state actor, Serikat Buruh Migram Indonesia (SBMI), has acted as a Transnational Advocacy Network (TAN) actor using simultaneously the strategies of information politics, symbolic politics, leverage politics, and accountability politics. In practice,the  non-state actor cannot fight alone, but has the support of other non-state  and state actors. The second article is a literature review article that examines the assumption that the ASEAN community is an imagined community. The result of the study shows that most citizens of ASEAN member countries, especially young people, have  not yet had a sense of attachment to the ASEAN community, the cognition of we feeling towards ASEAN has not been built, so that people still assume the  argument of imagined community embedded in ASEAN

The findings of the research and literature review are one node of the scientific knowledge network that needs to be interacted with other nodes to construct knowledge that can be recognized by the scientific community and has strong legitimacy. Therefore, we invite you to discuss it through scientific articles in this Journal. We would like to thank the authors, who have contributed to the knowledge nodes in JISIP.

This edition of JISIP presents articles related to international relations and communication science.

The COVID-19 vaccine has raised international relations issues, notably competition between China and the United States regarding its production and distribution. One article reports the results of a study on policy differences between Indonesia and Vietnam regarding this competition.

Four other articles are related to communication science. One article explains the location of advocacy within the structure of journalistic products. The research findings highlight the inclusion of non-objective elements in journalistic products, favoring victims in casual interpretation and treatment recommendation frames.

The next two articles focus on social media. The first examines hate speech through Instagram comments as a form of political violence against presidential candidate Anis Baswedan in the 2024 Indonesian general election. The research findings reveal that netizen comments produce political violence through insults and defamation through perlocutionary speech acts. The second article reports research on using social media as a medium with a low-risk character (slack) for its users for important purposes, such as increasing political participation. The findings corroborate the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) proposed by Ajzen and Fishbein, showing that behavioral intention is a strong moderator variable of behavior, such as slacktivism engagement on social media.

Another article focuses on the influence of directing leadership style, work motivation, and communication climate on job satisfaction in broadcast media organizations. The research findings explain that work motivation mediates the effect of directing leadership style on job satisfaction. Additionally, the quality of the communication climate is influenced by the directing leadership style, but the communication climate does not affect job satisfaction.

We hope these research findings will significantly contribute to the knowledge discourse and engage the audience in these important discussions.

The Edition 2, Volume 20 of the ISIP Journal presents five articles spanning various disciplines: one delves into the realm of politics, another into business administration, and three focus on communications and media, all grounded in robust research findings. The political articles scrutinize the participation of individuals with disabilities, revealing that political engagement is not shaped by the availability of public facilities but rather by personal factors and the broader political environment. The business administration section challenges e-customer loyalty to e-banking services, underscoring the pivotal role of e-quality service in influencing customer allegiance. In the domain of communications and media, three articles explore social media dynamics, with two concentrating on the tourism industry. While social media effectively promotes tourist attractions by vividly showcasing their potential and aiding persuasion, it falls short of realizing its full potential in supporting broader business processes within the tourism industry. Another noteworthy sociocultural phenomenon explored is Mukbang, where the research uncovers that viewers' feelings of loneliness significantly impact their interest in watching the Session of Mukbang or consuming large quantities of food while interacting with their audience through live-streaming or recorded videos.