Judul: Model komunikasi Baitul Maal Wat Tamwil (BMT) dengan petani (studi kasus dua tipe desa berbeda di Ciamis dan di Bantul
Abstrak: This research aims to (1) describe how the farmers in Ciamis and Bantul construct their social reality including the processes, motives, and their self-concepts owned by their own views (2) to synthesize behavioral change of farmers in Ciamis and Bantul in managing their communications and analyze the major components of communications on the farmers that make up communication events that are effective in developing social capital of BMT. (3) to devise strategies of developing efective communication patterns in developing the social capital of farmers and BMT. This study uses qualitative research, which emphasizes understanding the phenomenon of what is experienced by research subjects such as behavior, perception, motivation, action, etc., holistically, and by way of description in the form of words and language. The results of the result show that (1) the process of social contraction in rural areas (Bantul) and sub urban area (Ciamis) begins when the farmer has motivation to interact with BMT. Three motives arise: economic incentives (capital), religious (Islamic) and social motives. Farmers self-concept is a reflection of the human capital as sharia farmers, namely: openness, trustful and tawadhu (humble), Tabliq, helpful, afraid of Riba, keep his word and healthy spirit and body. (2). The process of communication that occurs between BMT and the farmers are dialogical communication, listening, understanding and occurs through face to face communication, group communication (discussion, training, mentoring, teaching), organizational communication (annual members' meeting) and even, in BMT Miftahussalam, through the internet. They use not only verbal communication but also non verbal symbols. Non-verbal communication can be seen from the gesture, expression or facial expression which is friendly and always smiling so farmers feel comfortable communicating with BMT. (3). Interaction between BMT and the farmers uses trust communication. When the farmers as members of farmer groups based on social motives , the farmer will get support and solidarity from fellow members of farmer groups. Farmer as a religious being based on religious motives, so that it would give priority to the implementation of the BMT farmers to comply with the provisions of sharia compliance. Farmers as clients of the BMT is based on economic motives. When farmers are getting into Islamic financing, then BMT should provide guidance and training to customers who obtain the finance method. Training and assistance can be in the form of mental, technical and management. If all of these are implemented there will be any changes in the self as an individual farmer. This change will happen if he undertake communication acts. Communication action is mainly in the form of interpersonal communication through verbal and nonverbal communication that prioritizes communication competence. Competent communication actions will affect social change. Social changes that increase will affect the welfare of society. This is done by BMT in the suburban area that reach a maximum well-being. This is different from BMT in the rural areas, which do not conduct training and guidance so that the maximum welfare is obtained
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Judul: Pola komunikasi pada pengembangan kapasitas kewirausahaan petani sayuran (kasus pendampingan misi teknik taiwan di Kabupaten Boyolali dan Bogor)
Abstrak: The objectives of this research were: (1) to analyze effect of characteristic factors such as social dynamic, physical environment, farmers’ characteristics and socio-economic environment of entrepreneurship communication patterns; (2) to ensure important factors that will strongly influence the increasing of entrepreneurship capacity; (3) to formulate effective communication pattern for entrepreneurship capacity development efforts of vegetable farmer in the Taiwan’s technical mission in two districts in Indonesia. This research resulted several outputs, namely: (1) communication pattern of farmers’ entrepreneurship in Taiwan’s technical mission was categorized good enough and significantly influenced by group dimensions i.e membership and group climate on social dynamics; (2) the development of farmers’ entrepreneurship capacity in Taiwan’s technical mission was categorized good and it was directly influenced by education level characteristics and farmers’ business experiences, it was also influenced by physical environment on dimensions of communication infrastructure and technology characteristics, it was significantly influenced by socio-economic environment on dimension of support social system and mass media information, and also significantly affected by family support dimension, institutional support and local knowledge functioning of socio-economic environment and significantly influenced by dialogic dimension on farmers’ communication entrepreneurship pattern; (3) effective communication patterns regarding development of entrepreneurship capacity of farmers was dialogic communication patterns, and communication pattern itself were strengthened by these factors: social dynamic on group climate and group dimension of membership dimensions. (4) some of the forms of technical skill, social skill, and managerial skill that potentially can improve and compete towards farmers were entrepreneur technical skill, social skill, and managerial skill. By improving their technical skill, social skill, and managerial skill, it was expected farmers were able to improve their productivity, income, autonomy which at the end can develop farmers’ welfare in Indonesia.
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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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