Judul: Information system and decision making for management of farmers’ group union the beneficiaries of the direct community assistence-rural agribusiness development
Abstrak: Regarding to the evaluation of The Direct Community Assistence-Rural Agribusiness Development (PUAP) conducted by General Inspectorate of Ministry of Agriculture, only 19 or 9,31% of 204 farmers’ group union (the union) which submitting report regularly. This condition due to the lack of human resource capability in composing report including the lack of the union’s agribusiness management (Itjen Kementan, 2012) and also the lack of requirement for the union to receive the grant. This weakness is very influential on the performance and the success rate of the union’s agribusiness and the success rate of the program itself. Given these problems, it is necessary to create an information system and decision-making that can be used by the union or its extension companion in its business operations. The objective of this study is to develop an information system and decision-making that can be easily and practically used by the companion extension and/or the union’s administrators to do the recording and reporting of the union’s agribusiness growth. The result of this study can be used as a tool to manage the administration of the union’s agribusiness growth, monitoring and evaluation, and auditing conducted by internal or external auditor. Primary data consists of the union’s common data and the AHP questionnaire collected on March 16, 2013 through April 29, 2013. The union’s data collected from the unions which receive the grant (PUAP) in the year of 2009 in Sleman District, Province of DI. Yogyakarta, whereas experts for the AHP questionnaire consisted of the Director of Finance Directorate of Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure, Head of Yogyakarta Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology, and Head of Sub Directorate Agribusiness Finance of Finance Directorate of Directorate General of Agricultural Infrastructure Ministry of Agriculture. Meanwhile the system specification detail developed in Bogor and Jakarta from November 2012 through June 2013. The study stages starting from requirement analysis, problem formulation, system identification, and so on until the users evaluation. The aspects of concern in this study consists of database management system (DBMS), model base management system (MBMS), and the dialogue system. The DBMB regarding the adequacy of PUAP data stored in the system, the MBMS regarding the suitability of the model to the union’s needs (eligibility criteria, as well as the format and type of report), while the dialogue system regarding ease of use of the system by the union. Information Systems and Decision Making for Gapoktan Pengembangan Usaha Agribisnis Perdesaan (PUAP) named as SIPK-GP 1.13 is the information system for performance management of the union and decision support in selecting the business focus of farmers’ group members. The user interface as the major part of SIPK-GP 1.13 which serves as medium of communication between the users with the model. The SIPK-GP 1.13 is a package of windows based information systems and decision-making with Indonesian as the default language. This makes the operation of SIPK-GP 1.13 becomes easy. Media interaction with the system is done by using a keyboard and mouse. The system can be operated on a computer with at least has a Pentium 4 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB)

Judul: Performance Communication of Farmers’ Association Recipients of Rural Agribusiness Development Program (Case at Siak Kecil Subdistrict Bengkalis District Riau).
Abstrak: focuses in reducing poverty and also creating a huge accupation in rural area by providing venture capital to support on farm and off farm activities. Farmers’ association (Gapoktan) as an implementer of PUAP has a pivotal function to distribute incentives, venture capital, and also as the managers of all the programs given. From that perspective Gapoktan holds an important role for the success full of this program. Communication process among group members in Gapoktan and interpersonal communication between change agents and the Gapoktan needs to be inquired because it was estimated as one of the important factor that influencing PUAP program. The objectives of this research were: (1) to describe the performance communication of Gapoktan, (2) to describe the characteristic, role and ability of Gapoktan, (3) to analysis the correlation between all variables. This research resulted several important usults, namely: The communication of Gapoktan was good and the communication change agents were not enough until less than not enough. The characteristics were categorized good, role and the ability were not enough, there were a significant correlation between the characteristics with the communication of Gapoktan, between the communication of change agents with the role of Gapoktan and between role with ability of farmers’ association (Gapoktan).
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Judul: Synthesis of CaTiO3 by Using Eggshell as Source of CaO.
Abstrak: Selama ini, cangkang telur hanya menjadi limbah yang berpotensi mencemari lingkungan tanpa dimanfaatkan lebih lanjut. Tingginya kandungan CaCO3 menjadikan cangkang telur sebagai komoditas yang berpotensi sebagai prekursor dalam sintesis material, seperti kalsium titanat (CaTiO3). CaTiO3 sering digunakan sebagai bahan dielektrik untuk kapasitor, selain itu juga berfungsi sebagai katalis pada proses fotokatalis dan fotoluminesens. CaTiO3 dapat disintesis dengan mereaksikan CaO dari kalsinasi cangkang telur dan TiCl4 melalui metode hidrotermal. Sintesis dilakukan pada 3 kondisi pH, yaitu pH 1, 4, dan 14, dengan suhu 150 oC selama 8 jam. Berdasarkan hasil analisis difraksi sinar-X, sintesis pada pH 1 dan pH 4 hanya menghasilkan kristal TiO2. Kristal CaTiO3 berhasil disintesis pada kondisi pH 14. Hasil uji penganalisis ukuran partikel menunjukkan bahwa kristal CaTiO3 yang terbentuk masih belum homogen dengan ukuran kristal 400–1400 nm.
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