Judul: Kajian karakter lanskap berbasis lirik tembang tradisional sunda
Abstrak: ndonesia adalah negara yang memiliki keanekaragaman budaya, salah satunya yaitu kebudayaaan Sunda. Kebudayaan Sunda merupakan kebudayaan tertua di Nusantara. Salah satu yang paling menonjol dalam kebudayaan Sunda adalah tembang Sunda. Tembang Sunda memiliki karakter yang unik dan mewakili kebudayaan Sunda. Ditinjau dari aspek lanskap, tembang Sunda bisa menjadi acuan untuk mengkaji karakter lanskap Sunda. Pengkajian dilakukan berdasarkan informasi yang terdapat dalam lirik-lirik tembang tradisional Sunda. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk mengkaji karakter lanskap melalui elemen-elemen lanskap serta tata letaknya yang berbasis lirik tembang tradisional Sunda. Metode yang digunakan merupakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan teknik studi pustaka dan wawancara. Tahapan penelitian mencakup persiapan, pengumpulan data, pengolahan data, dan penyajian hasil. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya tiga lingkup lanskap yang terdapat dalam lirik tembang tradisional Sunda, yaitu lanskap skala regional, lanskap skala permukiman, dan lanskap skala halaman rumah. Lanskap skala regional digambarkan melalui karakter lanskap yang bergunung-gunung dan berbukit-bukit serta sungai-sungai yang mengalir. Karakter lanskap skala permukiman digambarkan dengan adanya rumah berserta pekarangannya, alun-alun, pasar, bangunan bale, makam dan sirkulasi jalan serta letaknya di antara bukit-bukit dan lahan pertanian. Selanjutnya, karakter lanskap skala halaman rumah digambarkan dengan adanya tanaman hias yang harum wanginya dan mencolok warnanya di halaman depan rumah, serta elemen lain seperti leuit, pagar bambu, pagar hidup, empang, tanaman obat, tanaman sayur, jamban, dan sumur.
Keyword: Sundanese culture, Sundanese traditional tembang lyrics, landscape characteristic.

Judul: Kajian Karakteritik Lanskap Sunda Parahiyangan sebagai Model Lanskap Pertanian Berkelanjutan
Abstrak: Agricultural landscape (agroecosystem) is a unified system of ecology and socio-economic and also spiritual-culture that involved in production of foods, shelters, clothes, fibers, biofuels, and other agricultural products. Sustainability of agroecosystem is needed to support the continuity of life, especially for rural communities that relied strongly on agricultural resources. Sundanese society as a rural and mountain society has its own traditional ecological knowledges (TEK). TEK of Sundanese society could be a filter for modernization that negatively affects socio-cultural life of the society itself, as well as damages the nature and environment. Regarding to the role of TEK, it is necessary to do an explorative and descriptive-qualitative study of the various forms of TEK in the context of sustainable agriculture. The qualitative method was used for collecting relevant data to the characteristic of Sunda Parahiyangan landscape. The Data were collected by using Rapid Participatory Rural Appraisal (rPRA) through semi-structured interview, Focus Group Discussion (FGD), and field survey. Data analysis used Landscape Characteristic Assessment (LCA) to analyze character of Sunda Parahiyangan landscape, Knowledge-Based System Methodology to analyze TEK, National Research Council (NRC) and Community Sustainability Assessment (CSA) to analyze sustainable agricultural landscape. The sustainability of agricultural landscape was proposed to achieve USDA’s sustainable agricultural landscape criteria. The study results indicate that the Sunda Parahiyangan agroecosystem has unique characteristics as a result of the adaptation of society to nature and environment through a learning process from generation to generation in a relatively long time period. The character at rural landscape that has been created is a mountainous agricultural landscape type with abundant water resource as a main element. Therefore, Sundanese society called as mountain people (urang gunung) and water people (urang cai). In general, this character is reflected in some Sundanese’s agroecosystems such as kebun-talun (forest garden), sawah (paddy field), and pekarangan (home garden) that located in the surrounding settlement area. Furthermore, kabuyutan concept is one of the TEKs related to understanding and utilization of nature and environment. Kabuyutan is focused on revitalizing the role of forest (mountain) as a buffer of agroecosystem balance by calculating and deciding protected area (leuweung larangan/protected forest and leuweung tutupan/conservation forest). To support the sustainability, integrated between traditional and modern concept by practicing agroforestry system with low external-input and sustainable agriculture (LEISA) system and also applying Islamic management could be applied in utilizing and managing agricultural resources.
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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