Judul: Uji Lapang Lacak Balak Kayu Meranti Balau Shorea laevis Ridl.) dengan Penanda Mikrosatelit
Abstrak: Kejahatan kehutanan (forestry crimes) merupakan salah satu isu panas (burning issue) yang terjadi di banyak negara berkembang dan dapat bersifat trans-nasional. Kegiatan kehutanan mulai dari pengadaan benih hingga penebangan tidak terlepas dari tindakan kriminal demi mendapatkan keuntungan yang besar dalam waktu singkat. Contoh yang sangat jelas terjadi di wilayah Kalimantan Barat dan Kalimantan Tengah dimana praktek penebangan liar (illegal logging) dan perdagangan liar (illegal trading) terjadi dengan mudahnya, dimana kayu meranti (Shorea spp.) mengalir dengan mudahnya ke negara tetangga yang dalam prosesnya bahkan dilengkapi dengan surat-surat keterangan yang sah.
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Judul: Tinjauan Kritis Kebijakan Legalitas Kayu di Hutan Rakyat: Kasus di Kabupaten Lampung Tengah, Konawe Selatan, Buleleng, dan Kulonprogo
Abstrak: Timber Legality Assurance System (TLAS) issued by the Ministry of Indonesian Forestry is aimed (1) to achieve sustainable forest management, (2) implement good forest governance, and (3) to combat illegal logging and its trade. This policy is enforced by mandatory, either for the harvested timber from the state forests or from private forest. Since its formulation to implementation, this policy reap the pros and cons. Parties are "pro" argued that in order to achieve the above three objectives, the policy must be enforced by mandatory for all timber businesses, while those who "cons" of this policy looked too much intervention of the private sphere. The objective of this study was to describe the process of policy-making timber legality in private forest, which is achieved by analyzing: 1) the determinants of performance, 2) discursive base for the establishment of regulation and determining influences, and 3) policy space as well as the prospective of policies. Observations on policy implementation was made on the private forest that had been certified with TLAS scheme. This study applied a descriptive analysis method synthesis, analytical hierarcy procces, and analysis of IDS. The study concluded the following: (1) the most dominant determinant factors for development of private forest are market price formation and organizational capacity, (2) Strong goverment, counterpart’s country, and donor institution may cause legality narrative dominate the process of policy making, and marginalize the economy incentives narrative, and (3) the strong actors, networks, interest, and narrative may cause limited policy space for policy change.
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Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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