Judul: Pengembangan Keswadayaan Kelompok Usaha Simpan Pinjam Sebagai Strategi Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (Studi Kasus di RW IV Kwaluhan, Kelurahan Kertosari, Kabupaten Temanggung, Propinsi Jawa Tengah)
Abstrak: One of poverty caused is the limited accessing to financial resources. Empowerment strategy to overcome limitation access through group approach as Rotating Saving and Credit Assosiation (Kelompok Usaha Simpan Pinjam- KUSP). But that way, caused by management, participate of member and partner in effort factor, KUSP have experienced of resistance in developing capacity of self-help support to fulfill financial need of members. Objective of this study is to extend understanding self-help supporting of KUSP, resistance and support factors of self-help supporting, identify opportunity to develop self-help supporting and compile of strategy can be conducted to develop KUSP. As a result of research show that self-help supporting of KUSP, include administrative, managerial and financial autonomy still require to be developed in order to fulfill member`s need and aspiration. In administrative autonomy aspect: 1) Orientation of programs compiled at interest of leader to lessen risk and refraining from burden and difficulty work; 2) In substance, programs compiled do not cover effort of trouble-shooting and service development. In managerial autonomy aspect: 1) Job description not been done clearly. There are inappropriate between job and manager responsibility; 2) Capacity to repay and it`s interest is have been fluenting; 3) Audit is formality. In financial autonomy aspect show: 1) Sources of asset still limited of elementary and obligatory deposit; 2) Asset growth of KUSP ill assorted with credit requirement member; 3) KUSP have capital deficiency to fulfill credit requirement of members. The resistance factors of self-help supporting are: 1) Lack of motivation, knowledge and manegerial skill; 2) Lack of members participation in objectives and activity determination to develop services; 3) KUSP have any network with government and the financial institution. Opportunity to move forward KUSP can be conducted by: 1) Lingkage building with programs of community development from Badan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Desa (Badan PMD) and Kantor Pelayanan Koperasi dan UKM which conduct of management education and training for credit institution in community; 2) Carrying out saving outside of elementary and obligatory deposit; 3) Change deviden (Sisa Hasil Usaha) pattern from pursuant to amount of deposit become the level of service given by a members to increase of member participate; 4) Build networking with Bank Pasar Temanggung to fulfill the capital requirement. Goal of self-help supporting development program of KUSP is to realize self-reliance, so that can give service to member and community in fulfilling need of economic and social aspect sustainability. It`s reached by applying Verhagen self-help supporting development instrument partisipatively, include identification of participant, partisipatory research and planning, education and mutual training, resources mobilization, management consultation, build networking, movement and extension building, monitoring and self going evaluation.
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Judul: The Study of Women’s Savings and Loan Activity (a Case Study of Project Management Unit in Semparuk Sub-Distric Sambas Regency)
Abstrak: Women's savings and loan (SPP) activity is Indonesian government effort to develop rural savings and loan’s potency, access facility to micro scale enterprise funding, needs fulfill for funding basic social, institutional strengthening of woman activity, support poor households alleviation and create the employment. The objectives of this study were, to identify existing problems, to analyze strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats (SWOT) in the savings and borrowing activities from SPP groups and to improve strategies in the Project Management Unit (UPK) of Semparuk sub-district Sambas regency. The primary data were collected to fund user by observation and interviewed techniques, and secondary data obtained from literature studied. Interviews were conducted to 50 respondents whose used credit for three consecutive years and four program actors. The data explained descriptively and assessment strategies analyzed using internal factor evaluation matrix, external factor evaluation matrix, internal-external matrix, SWOT matrix and quantitative strategic planning matrix. The results show that the were identified problems: poor households’ economic empowerment had not done yet, group members’ savings fail to grow, credit disbursement process was relatively slow, program actors’ role fail to facilitate the groups particularly in members’ businesses development. Several alternative strategies that can be implemented by UPK are: improve the services, expanse the credit markets and marketing networking, maximize the program actors’ role, maintain the commitment to developing the SPP, increase the programs promotion, increase the assistance to SPP groups and diversification of deposit and loan products.
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Judul: The Leukocyte Profile of Pregnant Friesian Holstein Cows vaccinated with Escherichia coli K99 polivalen vaccine.
Abstrak: The objective of this experiment was to study the leukocyte profile of pregnant cows vaccinated with E.coli K99 polivalen vaccine. Three pregnant Friesian Holsteins cows were used in this experiment. Before the administration of vaccine, the cows were given a series of immunomodulator injection for three days. The vaccinations were administered three times at 8, 6, and 4 weeks before calving. Blood were drawn through jugular vein, first before the administration of vaccines, then weekly until calving. Based on the observation, it can be concluded that the administration of E.coli K99 polivalen vaccine in pregnant cows not affected the leukocyte profile. Keywords : Escherichia coli vaccine, leukocyte profile, differential leukocyte
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