Judul: Dinamika Komunikasi dalam Pengambilan Kebijakan Pengembangan Pemuda (Studi Kasus pada Kebijakan Pelatihan Kepemimpinan dan Manajemen Organisasian di KNPI Provinsi Banten)
Abstrak: National Committee for Indonesian Youth in Banten Province (KNPI Banten) is a potential organization in developing and empowering local youth. Supports from 50 Local Youth Organization and 8 KNPI regencies enabling KNPI to contribute positively to the local youth. Communication Organization aspect very determines the policy making process and the dynamics of internal organization, therefore the main issue from this research was to explain the communication process in KNPI in Banten Province, especially in organizing the desire from the organization members in the policy making process. This research aimed to describe and constructivis the scientific facts that related with the communication dynamics that happened in KNPI in Banten Province, and the final outputs from this research were expected to contribute scientifically for the communication science development especially in the field of communication organization. Contructism paradigm was used to reveal the policy making process and used to analyze barrier, pressure, and contradiction that occurred. This research was designed qualitatively with case study method, was conducted over three months and had taken place in KNPI in Banten Province. The informants were selected by using snowball method. The result described that the most frequent communication pattern used were Informal Participative Communication Pattern, interpersonal, transactional and circular. Whereas the communication climate that affected the policy making were the system and adopted organizational norm. The most dominant internal factor that affected the policy is the leadership factor and ideology, meanwhile the external factor that affected the policy is local political factor, where the government needs an institutional support and in the other hand KNPI had to keep their independency in political discourse.
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Judul: Model Komunikasi Organisasi dalam Pengembangan Kinerja Balai Penyuluhan Keluarga Berencana (Kasus di Kabupaten Cianjur dan Indramayu Provinsi Jawa Barat)
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan: (1) mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis efektivitas komunikasi organisasi di balai penyuluhan KB; (2) mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis kinerja balai penyuluhan KB dalam melaksanakan Program Bangga Kencana; (3) mendeskripsikan dan menganalisis pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi, karakteristik individu, iklim komunikasi organisasi, dan kepuasan komunikasi di balai penyuluhan KB; (4) menganalisis pengaruh pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi, karakteristik individu, iklim komunikasi organisasi, kepuasan komunikasi terhadap efektivitas komunikasi organisasi di balai penyuluhan KB; (5) menganalisis pengaruh pemanfaatan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi, karakteristik individu, iklim komunikasi organisasi, kepuasan komunikasi dan efektivitas komunikasi organisasi di balai penyuluhan KB terhadap kinerja balai penyuluhan KB dalam melaksanakan Program Bangga Kencana; dan (6) merumuskan model komunikasi organisasi yang dapat mendukung kinerja balai penyuluhan KB. Penelitian ini bersifat descriptive explanatory, penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif didukung dengan data sekunder yang tersedia. Penelitian ini menggunakan analisis statistik dan desain survei, dengan horison waktu satu kali dalam satu periode (cross sectional studies) yang dilakukan berdasarkan data primer dengan menggunakan instrumen dan didukung dengan data sekunder yang tersedia. Populasi tenaga lini lapangan di Kabupaten Cianjur yang tersebar di 5 balai v penyuluhan KB adalah 525 orang dan di Kabupaten Indramayu yang tersebar di 5 balai penyuluhan adalah 405 orang, sehingga total populasi tenaga lini lapangan adalah 930 orang. Teknik penentuan sampel tenaga lini lapangan menggunakan teknik stratified random sampling atau pengambilan sampel acak bertingkat. Total sampel pada penelitian ini adalah 430 sampel, dengan rincian sebanyak 228 sampel tenaga lini lapangan di Kabupaten Cianjur dan 202 sampel dari tenaga lini lapangan di Kabupaten Indramayu.
Keyword: communication effectiveness, FP extension center, human relations, organizational communication, organizational performance

Judul: Macroalgae development as feeding stimulants for the adult sea urchin (Tripneustes gratilla Linnaeus 1758)
Abstrak: Development of artificial feed for somatic growth and gonad quality is one of the focus of research on sea urchin aquaculture activities. Palatability is important factor when developing artificial feed for aquaculture diets. This study investigated the effects of macroalgae (Sargassum polycystum, Gracilaria lichenoides, and Ulva reticulata) as feeding stimulants to artificial diets consumption and gonad profile for the adult sea urchin Tripneustes gratilla, by three feeding trials. Previously starved T. gratilla were held in replicated (3X) 50 L aquaria with recirculation water system (in the first feeding trial) and flow through water system (in the second and third feeding trial). In the first feeding trial, preference of T. gratilla for dried macroalgae was assessed in choice feeding experiment. T. gratilla displayed significant preference for the agar containing dried U. reticulata at 20% agar weight over nine other diets treatment when they were offered simultaneously. Total protein, energy and the ratio of protein to energy in the dried macroalgae had no correlation on agar consumption by T. gratilla. Three artificial diets were made by incorporating one of each of these dried macroalgae at 5% feed weight used in the second feeding trial. Although no significant difference in artificial diets containing dried macroalgae, urchins fed diets containing dried macroalgae consumed more than basal diet when they were offered as single diet. These results indicate that dried macroalgae added to the artificial diets act as feeding stimulants and increasing the acceptability of artificial sea urchin diets. The third feeding trial used dried U. reticulata as feeding stimulant to artificial diet. Data suggest that artificial diet containing 10% dried U. reticulata boosting feed consumption and significantly increasing nutrient accumulation, gonad index, egg diameter and fix gonad color.
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