Judul: The correlation of the agriculture extention agent characteristics and their job performance in the West Java Province
Abstrak: Kinerja penyuluh pertanian merupakan cerminan dari pelaksanaan tugas penyuluih dalam melaksanakan proses penyuluhan pada satu kurun waktu tertentu. Dalam melaksanakan tugas kerjanya penyuluh dihadapkan pada berbagai faktor yang berhubungan dengan kinerja yaitu faktor-faktor karakteristik yang melekat pada diri mereka maupun faktor-faktor yang merupakan pendorong serta faktor-faktor yang memelihara semangat kerja mereka. Perbedaan kelembagaan penyelenggara penyuluhan pada tingkat pemerintahan wilayah lokal serta perbedaan komoditas dominan di wilayah kerja penyuluh turut memberiakn kontribusi terhadap perwujudan kinerja penyuluh pertanian.
Keyword: informal leader, farmer group development, formulating action plan, insufficient motivating factors, West Java

Judul: Pengembangan Kompetensi Penyuluh Pertanian di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur
Abstrak: Pembangunan pertanian di Indonesia tidak bisa dipisahkan dari peranan penyuluh pertanian. Dalam pembangunan pertanian peranan penyuluh pertanian adalah memberdayakan petani agar bisa menolong dirinya sendiri. Penyuluh pertanian bekerja bersama petani agar mereka mampu mengembangkan potensi dirinya sehingga mampu bertani lebih baik, berusaha tani lebih baik, dan mencapai kehidupan yang lebih sejahtera. Untuk mencapai tujuan-tujuan itu, seorang penyuluh harus memiliki kemampuan dalam melaksanakan tugasnya yang disebut kompetensi. Ada empat tujuan utama dari penelitian ini, yakni: pertama, untuk menganalisis pengaruh faktor internal dan eksternal penyuluh terhadap kompetensi mereka dalam melaksanakan tugasnya; kedua, untuk menganalisis pengaruh kompetensi terhadap kinerja penyuluhan; ketiga, untuk menganalisis pengaruh karakteristik individu petani dengan penilaian kinerja penyuluhan; dan keempat untuk menyusun strategi pengembangan kompetensi penyuluh di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Timur ke depan. Faktor internal penyuluh dalam penelitian ini adalah karakteristik individu penyuluh seperti pendidikan formal, pendidikan non formal, umur, masa kerja, sifat kosmopolitan, motivasi, dan pendapatan; sedangkan faktor eksternal penyuluh di sini adalah diklat penyuluhan, lingkungan dan struktur organisasi penyuluhan. Sebagai seorang pemberdaya masyarakat, seorang penyuluh harus memiliki kompetensi dalam hal: (1) menyiapkan penyuluhan, (2) melaksanakan penyuluhan, (3) membuat evaluasi dan pelaporan pelaksanaan penyuluhan, (4) mengembangkan penyuluhan, (5) berkomunikasi, dan (6) berinteraksi sosial. Karakteristik individu petani terdiri dari pendidikan formal, pendidikan non formal, umur, sifat kosmopolitan, kategori adopter, dan pendapatan.
Keyword: Competence, Agricultural extension agent, The performance of agricultural extension, Farmer, Perception

Judul: Enhancement of photon absorbtion on BaxSr1-xTiO3 thin films semiconductor using photonic crystals.
Abstrak: In this research, has been conducted BaxSr1-xTiO3 (BST) thin films manufacturing for mole fraction x = 0.25, 0.35, 0.45, and 0.55; and concentration of 1 molar using chemical solution depositon (CSD) method. The materials, which are used in this research, are barium acetate [Ba(CH3COO)2, 99%], strontium acetate [Sr(CH3COO)2, 99%], titanium isopropoxide [Ti(C12O4H28), 97.999%], gallium trioxide [Ga2O3], 2-methoxyethanol [H3COOCH2CH2OH, 99%] and 1 x 1 cm of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) glass as substrate. Two BST thin films are made that for BST thin films which are doped by 10% galium (BGST) as p-type layer and pure BST solution as n-type. BST solution is made by reacting barium acetate [Ba(CH3COO)2, 99%], strontium acetate [Sr(CH3COO)2, 99%] and titanium isopropoxide [Ti(C12O4H28)] into 2-methoxyethanol solvent [H3COOCH2CH2OH, 99%] in accordance with mass gram for each x value. While, BGST solution is made in the same way as BST solution, plus adding gallium at 10% of the mass of BST. Once all materials are reacted, then vibrated using ultrasonic for 90 minutes, and followed by coating BGST / BST on the TCO substrate. Once the layer is formed, then annealed for 15 hours at temperature of 500 °C with increasing rate of 1.67 oC/minute. Characterizations of BST thin films with or without photonic crystals include the absorbance and transmittance in the visible light spectrum, as well as the electrical photoconductivity characterizations. From BST thin films without photonic crystals indicate that our thin films have light absorption area on almost the entire range of the visible light spectrum even to the infrared range with absorption value over than 67.6%, in addition, it can be seen that the maximum absorbance of BST thin films for all mole fractions lie in blue to green light spectrum region, 457 nm ≤ λ ≤ 570 nm and the minimum in yellow to red light spectrum region, 570 nm ≤ λ ≤ 678 nm. The largest absorbance is found at x = 0.25 with average absorbance value of 92.04% and maximum and minimum absorbance peaks at wavelength of 500.89 and 657.72 nm, respectively. At x = 0.35, average absorbance value decreased to 83.55% with maximum and minimum peaks at 505.73 and 613.68 nm, respectively. Then increased to 91.16% at x = 0.45 with maximum and minimum peaks at 506.04 and 618.56 nm, respectively. At x = 0.55, average absorbance value decreased to 80.12% with maximum and minimum peaks at 507.85 and 608.79 nm, respectively. Moreover, it can be seen that the addition of barium mole fraction leads to wider maximum absorbance or minimum transmittance peaks and narrower minimum absorbance or maximum transmittance peaks in the same range of the green and blue & red light spectrums, respectively. BST thin films with photonic crystals show increasing in absorption for all x values in the range of 3.04 into 13.33%. At x = 0.25, average absorbance percentage increased 3.96% from 92.4 into 95.68%, for x = 0.35 average percentage increased 7.07% into 89.45 from 83.55%. Furthermore, average absorbance of BST thin films at x = 0.45 increased 3.04% from 91.16 into 93.93% and x = 0.55 has
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