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: 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: Sintesis 3-Benzoil-7-hidroksiflavon dari Resorsinol
Abstrak: Flavonoid is the most abundant naturally-occuring polyphenolic compound with C6-C3-C6 carbon skeleton. Flavones is a group of flavonoid having a broad bioactivity spectrum. In this experiment, 3-benzoyl-7-hydoxyflavone was successfully synthesized via 2-steps from resorcinol. In the first step, resorcinol was acetylated with AcOH/ZnCl2 producing resacetophenone with 89% yield. Subsequently, benzoylation and rearrangement of resacetophenone using 2 equivalent of benzoyl chloride and 7 equivalent of K2CO3 in acetone produced 3-benzoyl-7-hydroxyflavone with 62% yield. Synthesis of 3-benzoyl-7-hydroxyflavone from resorcinol provided evidence for new reaction mechanism of flavon formation without Baker-Venkataraman rearrangement proposed by several previous researchers. All products in this study has been characterized spectroscopically.
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