Judul: Performance of Management and Development Strategy of Natural Recreation of Situ Gunung, Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park
Abstrak: Management of natural recreation usually not equal yet with evaluation activities. Carrying out of Natural Recreation of Situ Gunung need evaluation in order to know how far satisfaction of visitor can be reached and brought into line with tourism activities in conservation area. This research aim is analysing management performance of natural recreation for gaining strategic alternatives of Situ Gunung Natural Recreation. The operationally research were bound on visitors satisfaction and on impact of tourism activities on social economic of communities and environment around the recreation place. The aspect on social economic of communities was observed from tourism impact and communities motivation on participating of recreation activities. Environmental aspect was observed from naturalism and preservation of the recreation area. Data analysis method consist of management performance analysis (descriptive analysis), visitors satisfaction analysis (Important – Performance Analysis/IPA and Customer Satisfaction Index/CSI) and Analysis of development alternatives (SWOT Analysis). Situ Gunung managed by two prominent institutions, i.e. Perum Perhutani and Bureau of Gunung Gede National Park. Man resources which behave are 4 employees of Situ Gunung Resort of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park and 6 employees of Perum Perhutani. Access toward the location easily is reached by private vehicles or public transportation means. Situ Gunung Natural Recreation has 4 ultimate objects connected by roads that need repairing in some parts. The visitor backgrounds of dominant education are elementary school, occupations as student who came from inner side of Sukabumi itself, with recreation as arrival destination. The promotion of location is not effectively yet to these visitors. Visitor services form is recreation without tourist guide. There are in total 100 hectares area that intensively used as natural recreation activities, about 7 % area has been changed. Violation actions that probable can destroy resources are illegal logging/hunting although in small intensity. Visitors valuation of 16 attributes put into ‘SATISFACTORY’ category in CSI. It was identified 8 strengths and 8 weaknesses as internal factors and 8 opportunities and 5 threats as external environmental factors. Result of the SWOT analysis showed that Situ Gunung Nature Recreation lay in positive side of its internal and external factors with suggested development strategy is Strengths-Opportunities. The development programs that have been arranged are increasing level of promotion, spread out connection of cooperation, and using master plan of management. Performance of management of Situ Gunung Natural Recreation was counted into ‘GOOD’ category observed from visitor satisfactory aspect and from aspects of naturally, area preservation, and function rules of this region on social economic of communities. Development strategic alternative that has been arranged is Aggressive Growth Strategy (SO).
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Judul: Visitor satisfaction analysis in Situ Gunung Park, Mount Gede-Pangrango National Park
Abstrak: Permintaan pariwisata yang meningkat setiap tahun menyebabkan sektor pariwisata di Indonesia menempati urutan kelima penyumbang devisa negara terbesar. Situ Gunung Park merupakan salah satu tempat wisata alam di Jawa Barat yang berlokasi di dalam kawasan Taman Nasional Gunung Gede-Pangrango, Sukabumi. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengevaluasi kepuasan pengunjung dengan analisis kepentingan-kinerja dan indeks kepuasan konsumen untuk meningkatkan fasilitas dan pelayanan bagi pengunjung. Selain itu, analisis model persamaan struktural dilakukan untuk melihat hubungan antar peubah laten dan antara peubah laten dengan peubah indikatornya. Pengunjung yang datang ke tempat wisata didominasi oleh pelajar atau mahasiswa yang berusia 15-23 tahun. Pengunjung berasal dari Sukabumi dan datang bersama teman atau keluarga. Berdasarkan diagram analisis kepentingan-kinerja, indikator kondisi jalan di tempat wisata, kelengkapan sarana dan prasarana, fasilitas toilet, dan pusat informasi masuk ke dalam kuadran I sedangkan indikator kebersihan, kenyamanan, dan keamanan masuk ke dalam kuadran II. Secara keseluruhan, pengunjung cukup puas terhadap fasilitas dan pelayanan yang diberikan oleh pengelola Situ Gunung Park. Uji kebaikan suai untuk model persamaan struktural sudah memenuhi nilai yang disarankan sehingga menunjukkan model sudah fit. Hubungan antar peubah yang signifikan adalah hubungan antara peubah reliability, yaitu kenyamanan dan kemudahan mencapai Situ Gunung Park, dengan kepuasan dan peubah laten kepuasan dengan loyalitas., The increasing of tourism demand in Indonesia has placed its sector become the fifth of the highest sectors that contribute for national income of the government. One of the most popular tourism objects is ecotourism which one of those sites is managed by Situ Gunung Park. Situ Gunung Park is one of the natural tourism in West Java located in Mount Gede-Pangrango National Park, Sukabumi, which provides outdoor tourism. To develop its facilities and services for visitors, visitor satisfaction evaluation using the Importance-Performance Analysis and Customer Satisfaction Index is used. Structural equation models was performed to see the relations between every latent variables and between latent variables and indicators variables. The visitors who come to Situ Gunung Park are dominated by student and collegers aged 15-23 years old. Mostly visitors came from Sukabumi and they came with their friends or families. Based on The Importance-Performance Analysis, the indicators of toilet and information center are in the first quadran while the indicators of cleanness, comfort, and security are in the second quadran. Overall, the visitors feel quite satisfied with the facilities and services given by Situ Gunung Park. Goodness-of-fit test for structural equation models is fit and can be used for the minimum requirements of this model. The relationships of significant variables are relations between reliability variables, which is comfort and easiness to Situ Gunung Park, with satisfaction variable and satisfaction variable with loyalty variables. Keywords: importance-performance analysis, customer satisfaction index, structural equation models, tourism.
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Judul: Leukemia pada kucing
Abstrak: Leukemia pada kucing adalah suatu penyakit yang sangat patogen, disebabkan oleh sejenis virus. Virus ini dikenal sebagai Feline Leukemia Virus atau FeLV. FeLV ini oleh beberapa ahli dikatakan hanya bersifat ganas pada hewan kucing. Penularannya bisa secara horizontal maupun congenital. Kucing pada semua tingkat umur dapat terserang oleh FeLV ini. Khusus pada bentuk "thymic leukemia", virus ini hanya menyerang anak-anak kucing berumur diba- wah 1 tahun. Kucing-kucing liar atau yang tidak terpeli- hara jarang sekali terinfeksi FeLV. Selain dari serangan virus FeLV itu sendiri, maka penyakit leukemia ini bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa fak- tor yang sudah ada dalam tubuh hewan dan sangat menunjang perkembangan penyakit ini, yaitu antara lain tumor, agen toksik, cedera oleh kecelakaan dan gangguan hemopoiesis. FeLV menyerang sel-sel darah dalam tubuh hewan se- hingga pembentukan darah berjalan tidak normal. Terlihat sel-sel darah yang belum dewasa sudah beredar dalam sir- kulasi darah. Bentuk dan jumlahnya tidak lagi seimbang dalam tubuh hewan kucing tersebut. Gejala klinis antara lain kekurusan, ikterus, anemia, lemah, anoreksia, dyspnoe, sulit menelan, batuk, dan membran mukosa pucat. Selain itu kelenjar pertahanan tubuh juga membengkak, kemudian terjadi hepatomegali, spleenomegali dan pembengkakan pada ginjal. Terbentuk massa tumor pada beberapa tempat. Secara biopsy pada sumsum tulang akan terlihat be- berapa perubahan. Sumsum tulang berwarna merah tua atau abu-abu. Konsistensinya lunak dan terdapat banyak sekali memproduksi sel darah putih. Melalui gambaran darah leukemia ini lebih mudah didiagnosa. Jumlah retikulosit rendah sekali. PCV 8-15%, hemoglobin menurun, sel darah putih (WBC) meningkat, lim- fosit meningkat, Alfaglobulin juga ada peningkatan, dan banyak eosinofil yang belum dewasa beredar dalam darah…dst
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