Judul: E-Democracy: Evaluasi pemanfaatan web oleh KPU pada pemilu 2014 dan pengembangan prototipe web KPU
Abstrak: E-government development, especially webs can improve the public services of a government institution. However, according to some studies, the use of the web in Indonesia remains inadequate. Utilization of e-government in the electoral process is the basic of the e-democracy implementation. E-democracy is the utilization of information technology to improve the public participations in democracy. Election Commisions (KPU) is a government institution that holds elections and serves the public during the election process. The aim of this study is to determine the utilization of the web by the KPU in the 2014 election process. To this end, we evaluate the variables that exist in the KPU web in Indonesia. The analysis was performed on 264 webs of the 531 KPUs that consist of Central KPU, Provincies KPUs, Cities KPUs and Regencies KPUs . The analysis is based on the following variables: 1) categories of information, 2) transactions , 3) participation based on the definition of e-democracy and 4) ease of use. The results show that the KPU web is still in the stage of providing information to the public. The Central KPU web obtains the highest points of 15 out of 24 variables. The prototype of KPU web is developed according to the result of the analysis phase. The prototype of KPU web has some recomendations. These recomendations are: 1) user-based information classification, 2) information about parties and election candidates, 3) information about voting results, 4) online transactions and 5) an election forum.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), web, variable, election, e-government, e-democracy

Judul: e-Democracy: Pengembangan Aplikasi “PILKADAKITA” (Studi Kasus: Pilkada Serentak 2015).
Abstrak: Pemanfaatan information communication and technology (ICT) di Indonesia salah satunya dilakukan pada sektor e-democracy melalui pemilihan umum (pemilu). Akan tetapi, pemanfaatan web yang dilakukan oleh KPU belum maksimal terutama pada bagian transaksi, partisipasi, dan kemudahan penggunaan. Perlu dilakukan evaluasi web KPU dan memberikan rekomendasi agar terjadi perubahan yang lebih baik dalam pelayanan publik dan pembuatan aplikasi yang dapat mengajak masyarakat berpartisipasi aktif dalam proses pemilu. Analisis dilakukan dengan cara melakukan evaluasi website KPU dengan menggunakan variabel-variabel penelitian berdasarkan Center of Law Democracy (CLD) dan variabel e-democracy menurut Norris. Hasil evaluasi web berdasarkan kategori informasi, transaksi, partisipasi, dan kemudahan penggunaan didapat bahwa nilai tertinggi didominasi oleh kategori informasi. Hasil evaluasi web KPU dijadikan rekomendasi aplikasi “PILKADAKITA”. Pengembangan dilakukan menggunakan metode pengembangan scrum. Pengembangan dilakukan berdasarkan fungsi prioritas yang ditetapkan pada sprint backlog. Penelitian difokuskan untuk meningkatkan fungsi transaksi dan partisipasi.
Keyword: aplikasi “PILKADAKITA”, e-democracy, evaluasi web, KPU

Judul: Mitochondrial DNA Gene Organization and Phylogenetic Relationship of Naja siamensis
Abstrak: Naja siamensis is one of Asiatic cobra in the Family of Elapidae, known as a cryptic snake. It has many morphological variations that lead to misidentification. Misidentification can cause the wrong concept in developing antivenom types due to high snakebite cases occur in Thailand. Thus, an accurate species identification using a molecular approach is crucially required. Mitochondrial DNA has been used widely in snake molecular studies. These studies were aimed to determine the arrangement of the N. siamensis partial mitochondrial genes using reptile-oriented primers and to reveal the phylogenetic relationship among other species of Asian cobra. DNA extraction was carried out based on the standard DNA salting-out protocol and was conducted by bioinformatics analysis using BLASTn and MEGA 6 software. Gene annotation was performed against N. kaouthia complete genome. A total of 3121 bp of N. siamensis mtDNA genes were sequenced consisting of partial of six regions: 16S rRNA, ND1, tRNA-Ile, CRII region, tRNA-Leu, tRNA-Gln, and COI genes. The mtDNA gene organization of N. siamensis was predicted to has a similar pattern with the common Elapidae mtDNA gene organization. This study showed that there is a monophyletic form in Naja genus and N. kaouthia is the closest species with N. siamensis based on partial 16S rRNA and ND1 gene.
Keyword: 16S rRNA, Elapidae, ND1, phylogenetic relationship