Judul: The Dimensions of Javanese villages
Abstrak: The purpose of this study was to develop a method, based on avail- Java and Madura, and to explore the significant relationships between able statistics, of describing basic dimensions of the 76 regencies in the dimensions thus measured. Previous work of the Government and some reports pertinent to villages were examined and on the basis of a part of these sources it was possible to derive a list of community dimensions through the procedure of factor analysis. Correlations among the 33 variables were calculated. The resulting correlation matrix was factor analyzed using the principal component method and rotated by the Varimax procedure. Nine factors were extracted which account for about three-quarters of the variance in the variables. The nine successively emerging factors are interpreted as designating certain basic dimensions and labelled as follows: Factor I Institutional complexity, Factor II Traditional pattern of village government, Factor III Rural-urban continuum, Factor IV Size of regency, Factor V Socio-economic condition, Factor VI Communalism, Factor VII Sosial density, Factor VIII Social organizational stability, Factor IX, Occupational differentiation. The relative magnitude of the factors was also examined. Factor VII, social density, seemed to be the most general factor in terms of the proportion of the variance it explained. Factor IV, size of regency was the strongest in terms of internal stability. Two devices were developed to describe and compare the regencies. The West-Javanese regencies have been shown to be more heterogeneous compared with those in Central and East-Java. Village governments in West-Java were less traditional than those in Central and East-Java. The degree of institutional complexity of Central-Javanese village government has been proved to be higher than those in East-Java. Although the scale was shown to be useful in describing the regencies comparatively, the profile was better in describing individual regencies. Some implications of the findings were illustrated.
Keyword: Sosiologists, Ethnologists, Socio-economic, Communalism, Social organization

Judul: Klasifikasi Spasial Pulau Jawa Berbasis Karakter Geografis dan Tingkat Perkembangan Wilayah
Abstrak: The Indonesian academicians and technocrats understand that some Java’s regions with typical physical conditions tend to be underdeveloped. Unfortunately, such an understanding has not been quantitatively proven, so that it is still rarely considered in the formulation of regional policies. Regional physical conditions, also known as “first nature”, limit human activities. The spatial patterns of man-made factors, or “second nature”, are also influenced by the first nature. The areas with minor physical obstacles tend to be the concentration of the manufacturing industry, while others remain as agricultural hinterlands. This phenomenon leads to the disparity of regional development. The objectives of this research were 1) to give quantitative proof of the role of first-nature geography in the regional disparity and 2) to develop regional typologies jointly incorporating first nature, second nature, and development level. The study executed correlation analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, and one-way ANOVA. The data employed were terrain ruggedness, soil parent materials, elevation, precipitation, coastal proximity, sea depth, distance to market centers, land covers, sectoral contribution, GRDP growth, per-capita GRDP, sector ratio, and HDI of 119 regencies/municipalities of Java Island. We found that regional development level was related to terrain ruggedness, soil parent materials, sea depth, elevation, and precipitation. The more developed areas are generally located on land with mild terrain, alluvial parent material, low elevation, the shallow surrounding sea, and relatively low precipitation. Physical attributes appear in nature with typical associations. It allows the simplification of the Java regions into certain regional typologies, i.e., into lowland, volcanic, old volcanic, and calcareous dry regions. The resulting groups have significant differences in HDI, per-capita GRDP, sector ratio, and poverty rate. Lowland regions experienced the most satisfactory regional performance, followed by volcanic regions. Old volcanic and calcareous dry regions performed poorly in the development level. No municipality was formed in old volcanic and calcareous dry regions, implying their low regional carrying capacity to support regional performance and city formation. By involving first nature, second nature, and development level together to build the more comprehensive regional typologies, Java’s regions could be grouped under seven typologies: 1) least developed calcareous dry regencies, 2) least developed old volcanic regencies, 3) less developed volcanic regencies, 4) less developed lowland regencies, 5) mildly developed volcanic regencies, 6) developed lowland regencies, 7) developed lowland municipalities, 8) developed basin municipalities, and 9) most developed alluvial-plain municipalities. Group 1 and 2 were at the lowest development level. Group 5 and 6 were relatively developed due to their proximity to the metropolitan. Group 7, 8, and 9 had higher development level than others., Dalam diskursus pembangunan di Pulau Jawa, Indonesia, para akademisi dan teknokrat faham bahwa beberapa wilayah dengan kondisi fisik tertentu cenderung tertinggal dalam pembangunan. Namun pemahaman ini belum dibuktikan secara kuantitatif sehingga masih jarang dipertimbangkan dalam penyusunan kebijakan wilayah. Aktivitas-aktivitas manusia sesungguhnya turut dibatasi oleh kondisi fisik wilayah, atau dikenal pula sebagai alam pertama. Sebaran konsentrasi aktivitas manusia, atau bisa disebut alam kedua, pada dasarnya turut dipengaruhi oleh kondisi fisik wilayah yang kemudian ada wilayah yang menjadi konsentrasi industri manufakatur, sedangkan lainnya tetap menjadi hinterland. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk
Keyword: disparity, inequality, java island, natural resource, physical geography, disparitas, geografi fisik, ketimpangan, pulau jawa, sumberdaya alam

Judul: Penambahan α-Tocopherol sebagai Antioksidan dalam Pengencer Tris Kuning Telur Spermatozoa Kucing pada Suhu 4 ⁰C
Abstrak: Stres oksidatif pada sperma terjadi selama pengolahan semen dan berdampak pada kerusakan sperma. Antioksidan α-Tocopherol merupakan salah satu antioksidan yang termasuk ke dalam kelompok antioksigen. Antioksidan ini dapat mengurangi aksi radikal bebas dan menurunkan stress oksidatif pada sperma. Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji efektivitas penambahan α-tocopherol pada pengencer tris-kuning telur terhadap kualitas semen cair yang berasal dari kauda epididimis kucing. Kauda epipidimis kucing didapatkan dengan metode kastrasi. Kauda epididimis kemudian dipisah dan dicacah untuk mendapatkan spermatozoa kucing. Semen dengan motilitas >70% diencerkan pada kelompok pengencer tris kuning telur (TKT), tris kuning telur dengan α-tocopherol 0.1% (TKT+T-0.1%), tris kuning telur dengan α-tocopherol 0.2% (TKT+T-0.2%), dan tris kuning telur dengan α-tocopherol 0.3% (TKT+T-0.3%). Semen cair disimpan selama 4 hari (H0-H4) pada suhu 4 °C, kemudian dilakukan evaluasi kualitasnya (motilitas, viabilitas, abnormalitas dan membran plasma utuh sperma) setiap 24 jam. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan kualitas semen cair tidak berbeda signifikan pada H0 (P>0.05), tetapi penambahan α-tocopherol secara umum meningkatkan kualitas semen pada H4 pascapreservasi. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, kelompok pengencer TKT+T-0.1% adalah perlakuan terbaik.
Keyword: antioksidan, kucing, tris kuning telur, α-tocopherol, radikal bebas