Judul: Tingkat Keberhasilan PNPM dalam Memfasilitasi Rumah Tangga Peserta Program di Desa dan Kota Bogor
Abstrak: The research objective was to analyse the role of PNPM Mandiri Perkotaan dan Perdesaan in increasing income and housing facilities of the beneficiary. The research method used survey technique to 60 respondents representing household in Ciherang and Kelurahan Kebon Pedes. The variables observed include beneficiary’s profile, participation perrequisite, facilitators’s competency, incomes, and housing improvement. The research results show that PNPM provide facilitation and have able to improve household condition in terms of increasing income, housing conditions have better improved. There is a difference community participation to the program, between village in the distict and the city, BSP2S are better compared to SPP program. The most obvious was shown by the associated competitiveness program with its success of BSP2S program.
Keyword: household’s income, participation, facilitation, role of PNPM

Judul: Partisipasi masyarakat miskin terhadap penanggulangan kemiskinan dalam program nasional pemberdayaan masyarakat mandiri (PNPM-M) perkotaan di Desa Cadasngampar, Kecamatan Sukaraja, Kabupaten Bogor, Provinsi Jawa Barat
Abstrak: The research was conducted to see the participation of the poor to overcome poverty in Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Mandiri (PNPM-M) Perkotaan in Village of Cadasngampar, Sub-district of Sukaraja, Distric of Bogor, West Java Province. Specific objectives are (1) Assessing influence of poverty level of community participation in PNPM-M Perkotaan in Village of Cadasngampar, (2) Assessing influence of the level of participation to level of community empowerment in benefitting PNPM-M Perkotaan in Village of Cadasngampar. Poverty is divided into two categories: absolute poverty and relative poverty. There were 1,1 percent of total respondents who experienced absolute poverty and there are no respondents who experienced relative poverty. The highest level of participation achieved at level of consultation, while level of empowerment had be seen from change of consumption expenditure and non-consumption before and after implementation of PNPM-M Perkotaan. Statistical analysis showed that there was no relationship between level of poverty to level of participation, and there is no relationship between level of participation to level of community empowerment.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Tubuh Buaya Senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii)
Abstrak: Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan buaya besar yang rentan punah dan hanya dapat ditemukan di rawa dataran rendah, danau dan sungai di Sumatera bagian timur, Kalimantan dan Jawa Barat (Indonesia), Serawak, Semenanjung Malaysia (Malaysia) serta Brunei Darussalam. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong yang dikaitkan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu set preparat skelet tubuh buaya senyulong. Parameter penelitian meliputi pengamatan bentuk bagian skelet yang khas, mengukur panjang dan lebar tulang, serta dibandingkan dengan skelet tubuh jenis buaya lain, biawak air (Varanus salvator) maupun literatur yang terkait dengan sistem skelet tubuh hewan. Karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong relatif mirip pada jenis buaya lain. Beberapa karakteristik yang ditemukan yaitu, proatlas pada os atlas, os axis hanya memiliki zygapophysis caudalis, bagian lateral dari ossa vertebrae cervicales yang dilengkapi dengan cervical ribs, memiliki jumlah costae sternalis yang banyak, rangkaian ossa gastralia pada abdomen, ossa vertebrae lumbales memiliki zygapophysis cranialis dengan sudut >90o dari sumbu tubuh. Selain itu, os vertebrae caudalis I memiliki caput cranial dan caudal, ossa vertebrae caudales memiliki processus transversus yang semakin memendek ke arah caudal. Di medioventral tulang ini ditemukan ossa chevron dengan hemal arch sampai menjelang akhir ossa vertebrae caudalis. Skelet tubuh buaya senyulong memiliki hubungan yang kokoh dan kompak untuk menunjang fleksibilitas tubuh untuk berjalan, berenang dan berburu mangsa
Keyword: anatomi, buaya senyulong, skelet tubuh