This article aims at describing the use of religious symbols during the election of the head of the city of Batam in 2006. Using a qualitative approach, this study found several forms in which religious symbols were used by each pair of candidates to win the vote, such as the expression of religious greetings and idioms during public campaigns, the distribution of religious-nuanced pamphlets, a…
Batam strategically located ath the international shipping route;therefore it attracts investor and labor market.about 52 persen of citizen of Batam is female.The purpose of this research are to identify characteristic of female labor; to recognize social and demographic factors that influence female labor in selecting job in the city of Batam, and to recognize the probability and tendency of f…