Judul: The Strategy of Development Communication by Al Munawar Bani Amin Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School.
Abstrak: Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School was the oldest educational institutions, native to Indonesia and identical to Banten. However, this boarding typology had marginalized. This discrimination occurs in closely with the development of islamic culture and muslim people majority in 90 % (9,608,439 of 11,005,518 people) ( BPS Provinsi Banten, 2011) as well as a strong informal leadership of religious figures. The goals if this research were to: a) Analysis the communication pattern of Bani Amin Al - Munawar Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School, b) Analysis the role of Al - Munawar Bani Amin Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School in the development people of Banten province, c) Formulate a communication strategy of Al - Munawar Bani Amin Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School in supporting the Banten province development. The study was designed as qualitative with Pentad Analysis method, i.e. a method that was examined the design of terminology and paths of relationship interest, humanistic motives and the function of terms used. And then was analyzed the individual in a particular context within the framework of selecting a communication strategy to the situation. Each concept of Pentad Analysis element contributed in its implementation that can be narrowed or broadened. The relationship of each Pentad Analysis element contributed a new and incisive analysis in the motives and actions symbolic that can be explained the causality relation. Cultures and Islamic values that growed since the golden age of Banten in the past have been laid as the foundation of development in the present as well as the ideals of development in the future, which was poured into the Banten province development vision : Building the prosperous people of Banten based on faith and god-fearing . The faith words spreaded in some letters that its amount about six hundreds in the Quran, while god-fearing in thousands. Implementation of this vision directed the Banten development could be faith and god-fearing in government service delivery, implementation and foster community development in order to ensure the development and future progress in exploiting the potential of the region in the platorm of regional autonomy. Vision becomes important for a country's development foundation, not just formal and normative foundation. Because vision is the belief of ownership by a nation in the future (what do they want to have ) and an inspiration to the development that will be and were being implemented. Therefore, the struggle in building character education in Banten can not be separated from the presence Salafiyah Boarding. The results showed that Bani Amin Al - Munawar Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School had the characteristics that needed in education in Banten, both as social capital and educational capital. The islamic boarding school also had became a cultural force that played an important role in shaping the religious mentality of the people. It recognized for hundreds years that created the graduates become self-sufficient, sincere, faithful and god-fearing, society in social and cultural praxis of all time, clean in corruption, free in imagery that rooted in systemic efforts maked the value of students in certain targets in order to pass and well impressed so difficult to distinguish
Keyword: Banten, development communication, Islamic boarding School, Salafiyah, strategy

Judul: Analysis of Marketing Communication Strategy for Islamic Private Education Institutions: Case Study of SDIT Mauritaniyyah Bogor
Abstrak: Perkembangan bisnis sekolah swasta Islam yang meningkat di Kecamatan Bojonggede, Kabupaten Bogor, menimbulkan persaingan antar sekolah. SDIT Mauritaniyyah merupakan salah satu lembaga pendidikan di lingkungan tersebut. Selain itu masalah penurunan jumlah siswa perlu disikapi dengan meningkatkan minat customer melalui strategi komunikasi pemasaran. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengidentifikasi strategi pemasaran saat ini, menganalisis kinerja komunikasi pemasaran dalam memenuhi kepentingan customer, dan merumuskan pengembangan strategi komunikasi pemasaran. Teknik pengolahan data menggunakan analisis deskriptif, uji validitas dan reliabilitas, serta Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, terdapat tiga atribut konsentrasi utama untuk perbaikan kinerja, sebelas atribut dengan kinerja yang perlu dipertahankan, sembilan atribut dengan prioritas rendah sehingga perlu dipertimbangkan, serta tiga atribut dengan kinerja berlebih. Penelitian ini merekomendasikan referral marketing, website optimization, dan optimalisasi desain bangunan sekolah sebagai strategi komunikasi pemasaran yang diprioritaskan., The growing business development of Islamic private schools in Bojonggede District, Bogor Regency, has made competition between schools. SDIT Mauritaniyyah is one of the educational institutions in the area. In addition, the problem of decreasing the number of students needs to be addressed by increasing customer interest through marketing communication strategies. The purpose of this study is to identify current marketing strategies, analyze the performance of marketing communications in meeting customer interests, and formulate the development of marketing communications strategies. The data processing technique uses descriptive analysis, validity and reliability tests, and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The results of the study, there are three main concentration attributes for performance improvement, eleven attributes with performance that need to be maintained, nine attributes with low priority that need to be considered, and three attributes with excess performance. This study recommends referral marketing, website optimization, and optimizing school building design as prioritized marketing communication strategies.
Keyword: IPA, marketing communication, schools, SDIT Mauritaniyyah

Judul: Berat Badan Dan Morfometrik Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis Macularius) Pada Berbagai Umur
Abstrak: Leopard gecko (Eublepharis macularius) adalah jenis tokek yang hidup di permukaan tanah dan aktif saat fajar dan senja. Studi morfometrik dalam leopard gecko masih terbatas. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengukur dan membandingkan berat badan dan morfometrik leopard gecko dari berbagai umur. Sebanyak 14 ekor leopard gecko (3 ekor jantan dan 11 ekor betina) dikelompokkan menjadi empat kelompok: 0-6 bulan, 7-12 bulan, 13-18 bulan, dan 19-24 bulan. Pengukuran dilakukan setiap bulan selama tiga bulan sehingga hewan dapat ditimbang dan diukur lebih dari sekali. Selama 90 hari pascatetas, pengukuran berat dan panjang dilakukan setiap hari, dua hari, atau setiap minggu tergantung dengan tingkat pertumbuhan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kelompok umur 0-6 bulan memiliki berat badan 10.69±5.68 g dan total panjang 12.79±3.68 cm; 7-12 bulan memiliki berat badan 16.57±4.52 g dan total panjang 16.7±1.23 cm; 13-18 bulan memiliki berat badan 21.12±3.13 g dan total panjang 19.4±1.15 cm; dan 19-24 bulan memiliki berat badan 27.9±1.53 g dan total panjang 20.8±1.51 cm. Dapat disimpulkan pada leopard gecko kelompok umur 0- 6 bulan memiliki pertumbuhan yang lebih bervariasi pada berat badan, panjang kepala, panjang kaki belakang, dan panjang ekor dibandingkan dengan yang lain.
Keyword: berat badan, Eublepharis macularius, morfometrik, tokek