Judul: Peningkatan Pendapatan Anggota Arisan Mekar Jaya Melalui Pengembangan Kredit Mikro, Income Improvement for the Members of Rotating Saving and Credit Associations Through Micro Credit Development (A Case Study in Kelurahan Cimahi Kecamatan Cimahi Tengah Kota Cimahi Provinsi Jawa Barat).
Abstrak: Suwarni, Peningkatan Pendapatan Anggota Arisan Mekar Jaya Melalui Pengembangan Kredit Mikro (Studi Kasus Di Kelurahan Cimahi Kecamatan Cimahi Tengah Kota Cimahi Provinsi Jawa Barat). Dibimbing oleh: Sutara Hendrakusumaatmadja sebagai ketua, Irawan Soehartono sebagai anggota komisi pembimbing. Permasalahan masyarakat miskin adalah permodalan. Saat ini keuangan mikro diyakini dapat digunakan sebagai alat untuk mengatasi masalah kemiskinan di Indonesia. Jika dapat dikelola secara baik, lembaga lokal seperti arisan dapat dijadikan sebagai upaya pengentasan kemiskinan. Adapun tujuan kajian ini adalah mengetahui perkembangan simpan pinjam dan arisan yang ada. Selain itu pengembangan kredit mikro melalui simpan pinjam Arisan Mekar Jaya menggunakan strategi SWOT. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam kajian pengembangan masyarakat ini adalah pendekatan kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan, yaitu: (1) Wawancara; (2) FGD; (3) Kuisioner.
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Judul: Pengembangan Keswadayaan Kelompok Usaha Simpan Pinjam Sebagai Strategi Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (Studi Kasus di RW IV Kwaluhan, Kelurahan Kertosari, Kabupaten Temanggung, Propinsi Jawa Tengah)
Abstrak: One of poverty caused is the limited accessing to financial resources. Empowerment strategy to overcome limitation access through group approach as Rotating Saving and Credit Assosiation (Kelompok Usaha Simpan Pinjam- KUSP). But that way, caused by management, participate of member and partner in effort factor, KUSP have experienced of resistance in developing capacity of self-help support to fulfill financial need of members. Objective of this study is to extend understanding self-help supporting of KUSP, resistance and support factors of self-help supporting, identify opportunity to develop self-help supporting and compile of strategy can be conducted to develop KUSP. As a result of research show that self-help supporting of KUSP, include administrative, managerial and financial autonomy still require to be developed in order to fulfill member`s need and aspiration. In administrative autonomy aspect: 1) Orientation of programs compiled at interest of leader to lessen risk and refraining from burden and difficulty work; 2) In substance, programs compiled do not cover effort of trouble-shooting and service development. In managerial autonomy aspect: 1) Job description not been done clearly. There are inappropriate between job and manager responsibility; 2) Capacity to repay and it`s interest is have been fluenting; 3) Audit is formality. In financial autonomy aspect show: 1) Sources of asset still limited of elementary and obligatory deposit; 2) Asset growth of KUSP ill assorted with credit requirement member; 3) KUSP have capital deficiency to fulfill credit requirement of members. The resistance factors of self-help supporting are: 1) Lack of motivation, knowledge and manegerial skill; 2) Lack of members participation in objectives and activity determination to develop services; 3) KUSP have any network with government and the financial institution. Opportunity to move forward KUSP can be conducted by: 1) Lingkage building with programs of community development from Badan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa (Badan PMD) and Kantor Pelayanan Koperasi dan UKM which conduct of management education and training for credit institution in community; 2) Carrying out saving outside of elementary and obligatory deposit; 3) Change deviden (Sisa Hasil Usaha) pattern from pursuant to amount of deposit become the level of service given by a members to increase of member participate; 4) Build networking with Bank Pasar Temanggung to fulfill the capital requirement. Goal of self-help supporting development program of KUSP is to realize self-reliance, so that can give service to member and community in fulfilling need of economic and social aspect sustainability. It`s reached by applying Verhagen self-help supporting development instrument partisipatively, include identification of participant, partisipatory research and planning, education and mutual training, resources mobilization, management consultation, build networking, movement and extension building, monitoring and self going evaluation.
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Judul: Evaluation of Influenza Antibody Titers in Serum and Egg Yolk of Layers Vaccinated with Influenza Vaccines.
Abstrak: Influenza belongs to the Orthomyxoviridae family which causes upper and lower respiratory tract infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate influenza-A specific antibody titers from serum and egg yolk of hens vaccinated with quadrivalent influenza vaccines. Three Hy-line Brown layers were vaccinated with quadrivalent influenza type A and B inactivated vaccines. Vaccination was carried out three times at a dose of 0.25 ml/chicken via the intramuscular route. The first vaccination was carried out at 24 weeks of age, then boosters were performed at 28 and 32 weeks of age. Serum and egg yolk were collected every week for 20 weeks since the first vaccination. Influenza A H3N2 and H1N1 antibody titers were determined using hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test and agar-gel-precipitation (AGP) test. Influenza-A H3N2 and H1N1 specific antibodies were detected in both serum and egg yolk from the first to twenty weeks after the initial vaccination. Highest HI geometric mean titer (GMT) of H1N1 antibody reached 26.67 HIU at nine weeks post first vaccination (p.f.v), while H3N2 antibody reached 26 HIU at six weeks p.f.v. Our result showed that influenza antibodies can be produced in layers using quadrivalent vaccines and layer chickens are able to produce equivalent antibody levels for each influenza subtype.
Keyword: antibody, egg yolk, influenza, layer chickens, serum