Judul: Analisis Pengaruh Tingkat Konsumsi Karet Alam dalam Negeri terhadap Harga Karet Alam Indonesia
Abstrak: Penurunan harga karet dalam beberapa tahun terakhir berdampak langsung terhadap pasar karet di Indonesia. Menanggapi fenomena tersebut pemerintah berencana meningkatkan konsumsi dalam negeri karet alam untuk meningkatkan harga karet di Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh peningkatan konsumsi dalam negeri karet alam terhadap harga karet alam Indonesia dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya. Metode yang digunakan adalah Error Correction Model untuk mengetahui variabel-variabel yang berpengaruh nyata terhadap harga karet alam Indonesia. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yakni data bulanan sejak Januari 2012 sampai Desember 2017. Hasil penelitian ini yakni dalam jangka panjang harga karet alam Indonesia dipengaruhi oleh harga karet alam periode sebelumnya, harga karet alam dunia, harga minyak dunia, dan nilai tukar rupiah terhadap dolar. Pada jangka pendek harga karet alam Indonesia dipengaruhi oleh harga karet alam periode sebelumnya, harga karet alam dunia, dan nilai tukar rupiah terhadap dolar Amerika.
Keyword: Error correction model, harga karet alam, konsumsi dalam negeri

Judul: Faktor-Faktor Yang Memengaruhi Harga Ekspor Karet Alam Indonesia
Abstrak: Karet alam telah menjadi primadona komoditas ekspor Indonesia. Hingga tahun 2012, Indonesia merupakan pengekspor terbesar setelah Thailand. Harga karet berperan penting terhadap keragaan karet itu sendiri. Harga berfluktuatif akan mempengaruhi pendapatan yang diterima petani. Tidak stabilnya pendapatan petani karena harga karet akan membuat hasil produksi Indonesia terganggu. Hal ini disebabkan 80% produksinya di perkebunan rakyat yang dikelola oleh petani. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menggambarkan kondisi harga ekspor karet alam Indonesia serta menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi harga karet alam Indonesia. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode regresi data panel dari tahun 2002 sampai 2012. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa harga dunia, tarif ekspor, nilai tukar rupiah terhadap negara tujuan, konsumsi domestik, volume ekspor, dan krisis global berpengaruh signifikan terhadap harga ekspor karet alam Indonesia.
Keyword: data panel, harga ekspor, karet alam

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