Judul: Persepsi mengenai Konservasi Hutan pada Siswa Sekolah Menengah Pertama di Kabupaten Pacitan Provinsi Jawa Timur.
Abstrak: Junior high school students have high potential to participate in forest conservation efforts at Pacitan Regency. However, their participation should be based on positive perception on forest conservation. Students’ perception of forest conservation could be developed through education about forest conservation at the school, which widely known as environmental education. However, there was not any junior high school in Pacitan Regency that implements environmental education yet. Therefore, research about perception of forest conservation on junior high school’s student was necessary to provide consideration for the schools and Department of Education of Pacitan Regency in the development and implementation of environmental education. This research was conducted at five sample schools at Pacitan Regency on July to September 2012. The collected data included students’ characteristic, students’ perception of forest conservation (knowledge, attitude, motivation, and hopes), learning process, school location, and policy of government. Data were collected through questionnaire, observation, literature, and interview. Students from sample schools had obtained knowledge score ranging from 1,30 – 1,80, which was categorized as sufficient. Factors that influenced students’ knowledge were their intensity in visiting forest, and the condition around their home. The students’ attitude of forest conservation was categorized as good attitude. However, the students’ still had low self-confidence toward their capability in conducting forest conservation efforts. Students’ attitude was influenced by their intensity in visiting forest. The students also had high motivation to participate in forest conservation efforts, mostly due to external motivation. Source of information and experience in learning about forest conservation were the factors that influenced students’ motivation. The students hoped that forest ecosystem would be preserved in order to ensure the sustainability of natural resources. The result also suggested that forest conservation subjects should be integrated into science lesson in order to improve students’ knowledge about forest conservation. Lesson should be taught not only in theory, but also in practice, to improve students’ capability in relation to forest conservation activities.
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Judul: Pengetahuan, Sikap dan Perilaku Konservasi Hutan pada Siswa Sekolah Dasar di Sekitar Hutan Kawasan Gunung Salak Endah, Taman Nasional Gunung Halimun Salak
Abstrak: Gunung Halimun Salak National Park (GHSNP) is a conservation area that is experiencing conflict with people who lived around the Park in the area of Gunung Salak Endah (GSE). Conflicts had arisen because the people did not have awareness and knowledge of the importance of national parks for their livelihood. Knowledge, positive attitude and behavior towards the forest should be instilled in the community to resolve conflict and prevent further problems. Elementary school students, as young generation that will preserve the forest in the future, had great potential for the development of knowledge, positive attitude and behavior about forest conservation. When students were taught about forest conservation and encouraged to apply positive behavior toward forest, then the students would likely participate actively in forest conservation efforts. The purpose of this research was to identify the characteristics of sample schools; to measure students’ knowledge, attitude, and behavior in relation to forest conservation , and; to evaluate forest conservation education for elementary school students in the area of GSE, GHSNP. Four sample schools, namely SDN Gunung Bunder 03, SDN Gunung Bunder 04, SDN Gunung Picung 06 and SDN Gunung Sari 01, were selected using purposive sampling method based on criteria of proximity to the forest. Data were collected through direct observation, the distribution of questionnaires to students through questionnaires and structured interviews with teachers and principals through structured interviews with an interview guide. Students’ respondents were selected from the 5th grade students who had obtained forest conservation subjects in grade 4. The number of respondents was determined using a Slovin formula. Closed-form questions and statements were used in the questionnaire to measure students’ knowledge, attitude and behavior. Knowledge was measured using Thurstone scale, while attitude and behavior using Likert scale. In general, students from all four sample schools had average score of 10 – 20 on knowledge, 14 – 16 on attitude, and 9 – 11 on behavior. SDN Gunung Sari 01 had the largest percentage of respondents who obtained score in high category both for knowledge (46.2%) and attitude (30.8%), however the largest percentage of good behavior category was obtained by SDN Gunung Bunder 03 (41.2%). Respondents from SDN Gunung Sari 01 had also obtained the highest mean score of knowledge, attitude and behavior, but the mean score of behavior was only 0.1 point above the mean score of respondents from SDN Gunung Bunder 03. Better learning process occurred in SDN Gunung Sari 01 was assumed to have produce students with better achievement than the other sample schools. There were more subjects related to forest conservation taught in the school, supported by better infrastructure, more varying media, and more time allocation on lecture and practice. However, the students of SDN Gunung Bunder 03 had the advantage from the extracurricular activities that encouraged the students to familiarize 6 themselves to forest conservation related activities, which stimulated positive behavior. Therefore, learning about forest conservation should not only be given through curricular learning, but also supported by non-curricular learning, which provided students with opportunities to habituate themselves to the related learning subjects, so that students with
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Judul: Infeksin virus rota pada anak babi
Abstrak: Virus Rota sudah lama diduga sebagai salah satu penyebab diare pada anak babi yang baru dilahirkan. Hal ini diperkuat dengan berhasilnya Mebus dan kawan-kawan mengidentifikasi virus Rota pada kejadian diare yang ter jadi pada anak sapi yang baru dilahirkan. Infeksi virus Rota merupakan hal yang serius, kejadian yang mewabah pernah dilaporkan di Amerika Serikat, Inggris, Kanada dan Australia. Sedangkan kejadian di Indonesia yang dihubungkan dengan infeksi virus Rota belum dilaporkan. Virus Rota termasuk keluarga Reo viridea. Sesuai dengan namanya, virus Rota menyerupai roda (Rota = Wheel), mengandung asam nukleat (nucleid acid) yang berupa asam nukleat ribo (ribo nucleid acid, RNA) dan berserabut ganda (double stranded), tidak mempunyai selubung (envelop atau peplos). Hewan rentan adalah hewan yang berumur sangat muda. Selain menyerang babi, dapat pula menyerang sapi, domba, rusa, anjing, kucing, tikus, kelinci, unggas dan manusia. ...
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