Judul: Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan Lokal dengan Tingkat Pengelolaan Tanaman Obat Keluarga
Abstrak: Pengetahuan lokal merupakan pengetahuan yang diwariskan secara turun temurun dari satu generasi kapada generasi berikutnya. Masing-masing wilayah memiliki pengetahuan tersendiri dalam pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan berbagai tanaman termasuk tanaman obat. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis kondisi agroekosistem pekarangan masyarakat, menganalisis tingkat pengetahuan lokal masyarakat mengenai tanaman obat, menganalisis tingkat pengelolaan tanaman obat, menganalisis hubungan pengetahuan lokal dengan tingkat pengelolaan tanaman obat, dan menganalisis hubungan pengetahuan lokal dengan kondisi agroekosistem pekarangan. Metode yang digunakan adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dan didukung dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa agroekosistem pekarangan masyarakat sudah dimanfaatkan secara optimal. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari kondisi pekarangan masyarakat yang ditanam berbagai jenis tanaman termasuk tanaman obat. Hasil penelitian juga menunjukkan bahwa tingkat pengetahuan lokal masyarakat mengenai tanaman obat tergolong sedang, sedangkan tingkat pengelolaan tanaman obat tergolong dalam kategori tinggi. Berdasarkan uji statistik yang dilakukan, tidak terdapat hubungan antara pengetahuan lokal dengan tingkat pengelolaan tanaman obat.
Keyword: health, livelihood, medicinal plants, yard

Judul: Pengetahuan Lokal dalam Pengelolaan Hutan (Kasus di Desa Cijagang dan Desa Sukamulya Kabupaten Cianjur Provinsi Jawa Barat)
Abstrak: Villager, living around the forest, are depending their life on natural resources. This community exploit natural resources based on their local knowledge. Local knowledge is dinamically change over time, this issue makes this subject interesting for research that potentially enrich the local knowledge of the community. This reasearch is focused on farm forest management. It would concern issues about changes in local knowledge over time and also the role of local knowedge in economic life, environment sustainability, and social interaction among the community. Local knowledge have an important role for the community in their economy, ecology, and social life. Economically, local knowledge is important to help the community in making appropriate decision in investing an economically best valued plant and deciding the right farming technology to be used. Ecologically, local knowledge is important to guide the community to sustain the environment. Socially, local knowledge is important to help the community having a healthy social life by helping each other. Therefore the existance of local knowledge among the community have an important role in fulfilling the prosperity without ignoring the sustainable environment and social relationship among the community. This reaseach was held in March to April 2008 at Cijagang and Sukamulya villages, Sub district of Cikalongkulon. It took 60 respondents, 30 of them came from Cijagang and the other 30 came from Sukamulya. The data were collected by interviewing responden, observation and study of literature. The Data processed and analyzed by method of reduction, data presentation, and taking conclusion. Local knowledge in a form of cultural theme can be elaborated in many actions and ideas. Cultural theme in a farm forest management can be realized as land preparation, seed preparation, planting, cultivation and maintenance, and harvesting. This reasearch found some changes in local knowledge at Cijagang and Sukamulya community. In a land preparation, at ancient time people used to think that ritual is a must, but nowadays ritual is not abseloutely had to be done. In a seed preparation, at ancient time seed was collected from nature and prepared using traditional tools, but nowadays seed can be found in the nursery and prepared using modern tools . In a planting, at ancient time planting season begin by the traditional forecasting (direct stars observation by the farmer), but nowadays planting season begin by the modern weather forecasting. In a maintanance, at ancient time there are some custom rule that control the dislodgement of wild animal, but nowadays the rules are often ignored. In a harvesting, at ancient time incisions were done in a certain time with a certain consideration, but nowadays it does not have to through certain consideration. Local knowledge that exist among the Cijagang and Sukamulya community have important role in economy, ecology, and social life. 6 Economically, local knowledge in a land opening (observation of the direction and velocity of the wind during the land burning) has sustain the fertility of the land and increased harvest. Ecologically, local knowledge that encourage farmer to use natural substance instead of chemical substance help the community to sustain their environment. Socially, local knowledge help
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Judul: Bisnis Fotografi Snapcash : Platform Digital.
Abstrak: Fotografi merupakan bagian gaya hidup masyarakat saat ini. Namun hingga saat ini belum ada platform digital yang menawarkan jasa fotografi. Ide bisnis Snapcash diciptakan sebagai solusi berupa platform digital yang dapat digunakan oleh fotografer untuk mencari pekerjaan dan konsumen untuk mencari jasa fotografi. Penelitian dilakukan untuk mengetahui permasalahan konsumen, menciptakan solusi yang tepat, dan merumuskan model bisnis yang sesuai untuk Snapcash. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan customer discovery. Pengumpulan data dilakukan secara non probability purposive sampling. Hasil pengujian masalah menunjukkan kesulitan fotografer dalam mendapatkan pelanggan dan kesulitan konsumen dalam menemukan fotografer yang sesuai kriteria. Solusi yang ditawarkan adalah aplikasi dan fitur yang ada didalamnya. Berdasarkan uji solusi yang dilakukan, solusi yang ditawarkan diterima oleh responden sehingga menjadi solusi bagi responden penelitian. Model bisnis Snapcash terverifikasi berdasarkan tiga aspek yaitu kesesuaian produk dengan pasar, segmen pelanggan dan cara mencapainya, serta cara perusahaan menghasilkan uang.
Keyword: customer discovery, fotografi, model bisnis, platform digital