Judul: Dukungan sosial dan konsep diri pekerja anak (Studi pada Pekerja Anak di desa Bojong Rangkas, kecamatan Ciampea, kabupaten Bogor)
Abstrak: Masalah kemiskinan masih menjadi masalah nasional di Indonesia. Hidup dalam kemiskinan atau Status Sosial Ekonomi (SSE) rendah menyebabkan berbagai cara dilakukan oleh keluarga untuk mempertahankan hidup, salah satunya dengan mempekerjakan anak. Dalam beberapa penelitian terdahulu, anak-anak yang lahir dari keluarga dengan SSE rendah ditemukan memiliki konsep diri yang rendah (negatif). Penelitian lain mengenai konsep diri anak jalanan menemukan konsep diri positif pada sebagian besar anak jalanan, meskipun berasal dari keluarga dengan SSE rendah. Penulis menduga dukungan sosial dapat menjadi variabel yang membuat anak dari keluarga dengan SSE rendah memiliki konsep diri positif, sehingga dapat memandang masa depan dengan optimis.
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Judul: Nilai Ekonomi, Motivasi, dan Self Esteem pada Pekerja Anak
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pengaruh nilai ekonomi anak dan motivasi terhadap self esteem pekerja anak di Desa Mekar Jaya, Kecamatan Ciomas, Kabupaten Bogor. Lokasi penelitian dipilih secara purposif berdasarkan jumlah pekerja anak terbanyak. Penelitian dilakukan mulai bulan April hingga Mei 2011, melibatkan 40 pekerja anak yang dipilih dengan cara snow ball sampling. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa persepsi orang tua pekerja anak terkait nilai ekonomi anak masa depan dan nilai ekonomi anak saat ini berada pada kategori sedang. Pekerja anak memiliki motivasi (intrinsik dan ekstrinsik) dan self esteem juga pada kategori sedang. Hasil uji regresi menunjukkan bahwa self esteem pekerja anak diberpengaruhi secara negatif oleh motivasi ekstrinsik (p<0,05), sementara hal tersebut tidak dipengaruhi secara signifikan oleh nilai ekonomi anak.
Keyword: Child labor, Economic values of child, Motivation, Self esteem

Judul: Extracellular Expression of thermostable Geobacillus stearothermophilus T1.2RQ Lipase for Biodiesel Production
Abstrak: The extracellular expression of enzymes in an excellent secretion host such as Bacillus subtilis is a useful strategy for making enzymes of industrial significance more affordable by lowering the cost of its downstream processing. Lipases are a category of hydrolases that catalyze the hydrolysis of triglycerides to glycerol and free fatty acids. Also, lipases catalyze the hydrolysis and transesterification of other esters as well as the synthesis of esters. They can perform very specific biotransformation reactions and are widely used in food, organic synthesis, detergents, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical industries. Geobacillus stearothermophilus T1.2RQ lipase is an industrially-desired thermostable lipolytic enzyme with an excellent hydrolytic and transesterification activity. This study aimed to express T1.2RQ lipase, in B. subtilis WB800 and ensure its secretion into the extracellular medium. Three signal peptides (AmyQ, Epr, LipA) and two promoters (Pgrac01 and Pgrac100) were used in the secretory-expression of T1.2RQ lipase, based on five constructed expression vectors constructed by restriction cloning and PCR mutagenesis. Sangers sequencing was used to verify constructs to ensure they are in the correct reading frame. Recombinants vectors, pHT43 (plasmid control), pHT43-T1.2RQ, pHT43- T1.2RQ_AmyQ, pHT43-T1.2RQ_Epr, and pHT43-T1.2RQ_LipA, were transformed by electroporation into Bacillus subtilis WB800. The electroporation was successful with the optimum condition of 2500V, 200 ohms, 25µF, and 5milliseconds. Recombinant B. subtilis pHT43 (negative control) and pHT43-T1.2RQlip + signal peptides were streaked on the lipidic agar, LA+TBN. All four recombinants, including the negative control (B. subtilis WB800-pHT43), produced clear zones on the TBN agar plate after overnight incubation (fig 2), indicating the presence of a lipolytic enzyme in all of the recombinant B. subtilis cells. pHT43-T1.2RQlip + signal peptides (AmyQ, Epr, and LipA) have clear zones with significantly higher diameters than B. subtilis WB800-pHT43 (negative control). This phenomenon suggests that the recombinant thermostable lipase T1.2RQ introduced into these cells was successfully expressed, thereby increasing the lipolytic capability of its host cells T1.2RQ lipase was expressed in 50ml terrific broth medium (TB) and the expression induced with 1mM IPTG. Lipase activity assay using p-nitrophenyl esters showed that all three signal peptides directed the secretion of T1.2RQ lipase into the extracellular medium. Signal peptide, LipA, resulted in the highest extracellular activity of 5.6 U/mL, which corresponds to a 6-fold increase over the parent B. subtilis WB800 strain. Meanwhile, signal peptides, AmyQ and Epr produced 4.2 U/mL and 3.4 U/mL activity respectively. SDS-Zymogram analysis confirmed that T1.2RQ lipase was correctly processed and secreted in its original size of 44 kDa. An attempt to further increase lipase expression level by promoter optimization showed that, contrary to expectation, promoter Pgrac100 exhibited similar expression levels as the original Pgrac01. Nevertheless, the demonstration of the successful secretion of T1.2RQ lipase in this work confirms the latter as a promising approach for the industrial production of the enzyme
Keyword: Bacillus subtilis, Expression, Extracellular, Heterologous, Lipase, Thermostable