Judul: Kajian penerapan good governance pada pusat penelitian dan pengembangan tanaman pangan kementrian pertanian
Abstrak: Good governance merupakan proses dan struktur yang digunakan untuk mengarahkan dan mengelola pemerintahan dalam rangka meningkatkan akuntabilitas kinerja. Penerapan prinsip-prinsip Good Governance akan meningkatkan kinerja dengan cara penerapan keterbukaan, profesional dan memegang nilai moral yang tinggi dalam pengambilan keputusan untuk penyelenggaraan pemerintahan berdasarkan keterbukaan, akuntabilitas, dapat dipercaya, bertanggung jawab, dan adil, transparansi dan efisien, serta memberdayakan fungsi manajemen. Puslitbangtan sebagai lembaga penelitian yang berfungsi sebagai penghasil inovasi teknologi tanaman pangan berupaya keras menerapkan good governance sebagai bagian dari tuntutan masyarakan akan tata pemerintahan yang baik, melalui berbagai pendekatan struktural dan prosedural. Namun dalam pelaksanaannya didapati fakta bahwa penerapan good governance di Puslitbang Tanaman Pangan belum dilaksanakan secara menyeluruh. Sehingga penyelenggaraan pelaksanaan kegiatan yang dilaksanakan belum sepenuhnya dilandaskan pada prinsip good governance. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah (1) Untuk mengidentifikasi upaya penerapan good governance di Puslitbang Tanaman Pangan dan (2) Untuk mendeskripsikan seberapa besar faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi penerapan good governance di Puslitbang Tanaman Pangan Pengolahan data untuk penelitian ini menggunakan MS Excel 2003 yang compatible pada fitur MS Excel 2007 dan aplikasi program SPSS versi 15 untuk melakukan analisis statistik, data yang diolah meliputi data primer dan data sekunder dengan teknik pengumpulan data berupa studi kepustakaan dan studi lapangan (kuesioner). Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah terdapat lima unsur yang mempengaruhi penerapan good governance yaitu: kepemimpinan, sumber daya manusia, sarana dan prasarana, anggaran serta metode dan kebijakan pengendalian. Dari kelima unsur tersebut unsur kepemimpinan, sarana dan prasarana serta anggaran ternyata memberikan pengaruh yang lebih besar dibandingkan dengan unsur sumber daya manusia serta metode dan kebijakan pengendalian manajemen.
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Judul: Faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi kinerja aparatur pemerintah daerah Kabupaten Kepulauan talaud dalam mewujudkan tata pemerintahan yang baik (Good Governance)
Abstrak: The local government employees’ performance illustrates certain attainments in the local government goals, both in terms of quality as well as quantity of works accomplished in performing their duties. The objectives of this study were: (1) to identify factors affecting those officials’ performances, (2) to investigate such factors’ effects on those officials’ performances in realizing the good governance, (3) to disclose the extent of relationships amongst such factors in implementing the good governance, and (4) to formulate a strategy for enhancing those officials’ performances in governing the district of Talaud Islands. This research was conducted in Talaud Islands as an ex post facto study. A stratified random sample was selected from a population of government employee sized 234. Data were collected through interviews using structured questionnaires and observations from December 2011 through January 2012. The data obtained were analyzed using the Structural Equation Model (SEM) procedure with LISREL program. The findings pointed out that: (1) the government employees’ characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate affected their performances, (2) improvements of their certain characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate enhanced their performances, (3) their characteristics, competencies, motivations and work climate were mutually correlated, and (4) their performances affected their perceptions on implementing good governance in the district of Talaud Islands
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Judul: Hamiltonian formulation for linear waves motion in two layers fluid
Abstrak: The surface wave could be considered as a wave that separates two fluids, namely water and air. Based on this assumption, it is introduced the interfacial wave, a wave between two layers of fluid with different density. The formulation of interfacial waves motion begins with deriving the base equation of irrotational ideal fluid. Furthermore, according to irrotational fluid assumption, the base equation can be stated in velocity potential. In this derivation, the fluids domain is assumed to be restricted by rigid lid boundary conditions, both at the upper and lower limit. Therefore, the interfacial waves motion can be explained in a hamiltonian formulation. In the hamiltonian formulation, total energy is defined as the sum of kinetic and potential energy. The hamiltonian system is obtained from reduction of kinetic energy by using the Dirichlet Neumann Operator. The resulted kinetic energy equation is nonlinear. Therefore, this form is linearized by first part of the Taylor expansion. This linearization gives a dispersion relation of linear wave. Based on this dispersion relation, the phase speed of the linear wave depends on the density ratio of the two layers fluid.
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