Judul: Motivation and Interest of Smallholder Farmers to Join Livestock Groups in Cisarua Village Nanggung District
Abstrak: Perubahan perilaku peternak dari individualis menjadi kolektif sebagai upaya pemberdayaan agar lebih berdaulat dan berdaya bersaing. Penelitian ini bertujuan menganalisis tingkat motivasi berkelompok dan tingkat ketertarikan berkelompok ternak, serta mengetahui hubungan antara karakteristik peternak, motivasi berkelompok, dan tingkat ketertarikan berkelompok di Desa Cisarua, Kecamatan Nanggung. Metode survei dan wawancara melibatkan 45 orang responden (40 peternak individu, 5 peternak kelompok). Data dianalisis deskriptif dan uji korelasi rank Spearman. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan tingkat motivasi berkelompok tergolong sedang (1,69) pada peternak individu, tetapi tergolong tinggi (2,48) pada peternak kelompok. Motivasi berkelompok berkorelasi dengan pendapatan dan skala kepemilikan ternak. Tingkat ketertarikan berkelompok peternak individu tahap awareness tergolong rendah (1,39), tetapi pada tahap interest tergolong sedang (1,77). Tahap awareness berkorelasi dengan pendidikan, pendapatan, skala kepemilikan ternak, dan motivasi berdasarkan kebutuhan hubungan. Tahap interest tidak berkorelasi dengan karakteristik peternak, tetapi berkorelasi dengan motivasi berdasarkan kebutuhan pertumbuhan., The transformation of farmer behavior from individual to collective as an empowerment effort to become more autonomous and competitive. This study aimed to analyze the level of group motivation and the level of interest in group farmer, as well as to understand the relationship between farmer characteristics, group motivation, and interest in group farmer in Cisarua Village, Nanggung Subdistrict. The survey and interview methods involved 45 respondents (40 individual farmers and 5 group farmers). The data were analyzed descriptively and using Spearman rank correlation tests. The research results showed that the level of group motivation was moderate (1,68) among individual farmers, but high (2,48) among group farmers. Group motivation correlated with income and livestock ownership scale. The level of interest in group farmer among individual farmers was low (1,39) at the awareness stage, but moderate (1,77) at the interest stage. Awareness correlated with education, income, livestock ownership scale, and group motivation based on relatedness needs. Interest did not correlate with farmer characteristics, but correlated with motivation based on growth needs.
Keyword: farmer characteristics, farmer groups, level of interest, motivation

Judul: Peran kepemimpinan kelompok tani dan efektivitas pemberdayaan petani
Abstrak: Ketidakberdayaan petani timbul akibat petani kurang mampu menggunakan sarana produksi secara maksimal. Ketidakberdayaan juga timbul akibat kurang mampunya petani dalam memasarkan hasil produksi pertanian. Melalui kelompok tani, pemerintah berpotensi dapat melakukan pemberdayaan dan proses pembelajaran untuk memperbaiki kualitas hidup mereka. Di dalam proses pemberdayaan kelompok tani dibutuhkan peran pemimpin untuk mendorong terjadinya aktivitas pemberdayaan. Pemimpin mempunyai peranan yang sangat penting untuk mempengaruhi dan memotivasi petani untuk mencapai tujuan bersama dalam kelompok tani. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis hubungan antara kepemimpinan dengan proses pemberdayaan kelompok tani dan hubungan antara proses pemberdayaan dengan tingkat keberdayaan, serta hubungan faktor personal dan faktor lingkungan dengan proses pemberdayaan petani. Metode yang digunakan adalah survei yang dilengkapi dengan pendekatan kualitatif dengan wawancara mendalam terhadap informan. Hasil penelitian diolah dengan menggunakan Rank Spearman dan Chi-square. Penelitian dilakukan pada kelompok tani Bina Sejahtera di Desa Situ Udik Kecamatan Cibungbulang Kabupaten Bogor dan pada kelompok tani Hurip di Desa Cikarawang Kecamatan Dramaga Kabupaten Bogor. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan hubungan nyata positif antara kepemimpinan dengan proses pemberdayaan, sedangkan proses pemberdayaan tidak menunjukkan hubungan yang nyata dengan tingkat keberdayaan. Sebagian faktor personal menunjukkan hubungan nyata yang positif dengan tingkat partisipasi antara lain usia dan tingkat pendidikan, sedangkan faktor lingkungan tidak menunjukkan hubungan nyata dengan proses pemberdayaan., The powerlessness of farmers is caused by the farmers are not able enough to use the equipment of production optimally. The powerlessness is also caused by the unqualified farmers in marketing their agricultural production. Through the farmer groups, the government has a potential to do the learning process and the empowerment to improve their quality of life. In this empowerment process of the farmers group, it needs the role of leader to push the activity of empowerment. The leader has a very important role to influence and motivate the farmers to achieve their goal together through the farmer groups. The aims of this research are to analysis the correlation between leadership with process of farmer groups empowerment, the correlation between the empowerment process with level of empowerment, and also the correlation between personal factor and environment factor with the empowerment process. The methods which is used in this research is survey which is supported by qualitative approach with in-depth interviews to the informants. The result of this research was processed by using Rank Spearman and Chi-Square. The research was conducted to the farmer groups Bina Sejahtera in Situ Udik Village, Cibungbulang Sub-District, Bogor and to the farmer groups Hurip in Cikarawang Village, Dramaga Sub-District, Bogor District. The result of the research shows a real positive correlation between the leadership with the empowerment process, while the empowerment process doesn’t show a real positive correlation with the level of empowerment. Some personal factors show a real positive correlation with the level of empowerment.
Keyword: kepemimpinan, pemberdayaan petani, kelompok tani

Judul: Electrophoretic Coating of Apatite Compouds on Stainless Steel 316L.
Abstrak: Stainless steel (SS) 316L is a metal which is used to bone plate. However, this metal still has low biocompatibility in a human body. The metal is coated by HAp in order to increase its biocompatibility. HAp on SS 316L is coated by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method. We used two variables in EPD process, such as voltage and coating time to obtain the best coating. The XRD difractogram showed that SS 316L has been coated by HAp. Physical observation used by microscope optics showed that the best coating is achieved on 120V during 2 minutes.
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