Judul: E-Democracy: Evaluasi pemanfaatan web oleh KPU pada pemilu 2014 dan pengembangan prototipe web KPU
Abstrak: E-government development, especially webs can improve the public services of a government institution. However, according to some studies, the use of the web in Indonesia remains inadequate. Utilization of e-government in the electoral process is the basic of the e-democracy implementation. E-democracy is the utilization of information technology to improve the public participations in democracy. Election Commisions (KPU) is a government institution that holds elections and serves the public during the election process. The aim of this study is to determine the utilization of the web by the KPU in the 2014 election process. To this end, we evaluate the variables that exist in the KPU web in Indonesia. The analysis was performed on 264 webs of the 531 KPUs that consist of Central KPU, Provincies KPUs, Cities KPUs and Regencies KPUs . The analysis is based on the following variables: 1) categories of information, 2) transactions , 3) participation based on the definition of e-democracy and 4) ease of use. The results show that the KPU web is still in the stage of providing information to the public. The Central KPU web obtains the highest points of 15 out of 24 variables. The prototype of KPU web is developed according to the result of the analysis phase. The prototype of KPU web has some recomendations. These recomendations are: 1) user-based information classification, 2) information about parties and election candidates, 3) information about voting results, 4) online transactions and 5) an election forum.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), web, variable, election, e-government, e-democracy

Judul: Assessment of e-government in Cambodia and Indonesia by web measure index and web usability
Abstrak: Electronic-government (e-government) is the way by which the government can communicate and transfer their information and services to citizens and other stakeholders by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), particularly in the usage of the Internet. E-government is a long term project initiated by the government as the main goal in providing informations and services in regard to transparency and accountability. Therefore, the new technology of web based applications would facilitate the success of e-government. In this research, to evaluate e-government in Cambodia and Indonesia, we accessed the government websites to find specific informations and services which are provided by the government of both countries. The analysis of the research concentrated in four stages such as web presence, interaction, transaction, and participation, of which 20 features/variables were reviewed. In additional, we also evaluate web usability to make sure that the contents and web design are usable. The result shows that 27% of 20 features on the web are provided by the central government of Cambodia, while local government only provided 5%. The central and local government of Indonesia provided 39% and 34%, respectively. The result futher shows that web usability of Indonesian central government reached 70% of 24 web usability components which are usable while its local government reached 68%. In comparision, Cambodian central government had 45% while its local government had 65%. Generally, both Cambodian and Indonesian government are still in the process of successful completion of e-government. There are still many issues that had to be solved to achieve a successful e-government in government services and web usability.
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Judul: Mitochondrial DNA Gene Organization and Phylogenetic Relationship of Naja siamensis
Abstrak: Naja siamensis is one of Asiatic cobra in the Family of Elapidae, known as a cryptic snake. It has many morphological variations that lead to misidentification. Misidentification can cause the wrong concept in developing antivenom types due to high snakebite cases occur in Thailand. Thus, an accurate species identification using a molecular approach is crucially required. Mitochondrial DNA has been used widely in snake molecular studies. These studies were aimed to determine the arrangement of the N. siamensis partial mitochondrial genes using reptile-oriented primers and to reveal the phylogenetic relationship among other species of Asian cobra. DNA extraction was carried out based on the standard DNA salting-out protocol and was conducted by bioinformatics analysis using BLASTn and MEGA 6 software. Gene annotation was performed against N. kaouthia complete genome. A total of 3121 bp of N. siamensis mtDNA genes were sequenced consisting of partial of six regions: 16S rRNA, ND1, tRNA-Ile, CRII region, tRNA-Leu, tRNA-Gln, and COI genes. The mtDNA gene organization of N. siamensis was predicted to has a similar pattern with the common Elapidae mtDNA gene organization. This study showed that there is a monophyletic form in Naja genus and N. kaouthia is the closest species with N. siamensis based on partial 16S rRNA and ND1 gene.
Keyword: 16S rRNA, Elapidae, ND1, phylogenetic relationship