Judul: Strategi Pengembangan Usaha Kecil Menengah: Studi Kasus di Sentra Kerajinan Bambu (SKB) Putra Handicraft Kota Tasikmalaya
Abstrak: The City of Tasikmalaya has been known as a national handicraft center, one of them is bamboo handicraft. Bamboo handicraft produced by small medium scale enterprises, that need strategy due to many challanges recently. Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) analysis used to determine internal and external factors that affected enterprise. Then, its result used to choose stretegy as well as its priority which use to develop the enterprise using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). Six internal SKB’s factors for strengths are well known and qualified products, continous promotions, smooth circulation of credit acceptance and payment, well condition of workshop and tools, government supports and loyality of buyers. Whereas SKB weaknesses are unprofessional management system, lack of foreign language (English) ability, doesn’t has own bamboo plantation as its source of raw materials, inavailability of vision and mission and doesn’t has representative outlet outside Tasikmalaya. In the other hand, four external factors as opportunities are mechanization on production processes, demand of bamboo parquete product, the availability of govenrment contribution of bamboo waste processor machines and sertification of product and process. Whereas three external threats are the appearance of new competitiors, declining interest of youth craftsman and decreasing of bamboo potency. SKB Putra Handicraft is a weak enterprise and againts many threats, so it needs a startegy that minimize its weaknesses to avoid threats. Priorities of development strategy choosen are ability and skills improvement of staff and craftman and company identity making by creative worker.
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Judul: Strategi Pengembangan Usaha Kecil Menengah : Studi kasus di Sentra Kerajinan Ukir Kayu Balantrax Artshop Handycraft Jatinangor-Sumedang, Jawa Barat
Abstrak: Kabupaten Sumedang dikenal sebagai salah satu daerah kerajinan kayu tertua di Jawa Barat. Hampir sebagian besar kerajinan ukir di Sumedang dihasilkan oleh unit usaha kecil menengah (UKM). Salah satu diantaranya adalah UKM Kerajinan Ukir Kayu Balantrax Artshop Handycraft yang telah berorientasi ekspor serta menjadi pelopor kerajinan kayu di tanah sunda. Berbagai masalah yang sering dihadapi UKM ini perlu ditemukan solusinya. Oleh karena itu strategi pengembangan usaha ini perlu dilakukan. Analisis Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threat (SWOT) digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi lingkungan internal (kekuatan dan kelemahan) dan eksternal (peluang dan ancaman) perusahaan. Hasil analisis SWOT kemudian digunakan untuk menentukan strategi dan kebijakan yang akan dikembangkan oleh perusahaan beserta prioritasnya menggunakan metode proses hierarki analitis (AHP). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan SWOT UKM Balantrax Artshop Handycraft berada pada kuadran empat yang berarti UKM Kerajinan Ukir Kayu Balantrax Artshop Handycraft memiliki usaha dalam kondisi lemah dan menghadapi banyak tantangan besar. Strategi yang diperlukan adalah memperbaiki kelemahan agar dapat menghindari ancaman. Beberapa strategi pengembangan yang terpilih diantaranya meningkatkan keterampilan serta kesejahteraan pengrajin, inovasi produk kerajinan, memperbaiki sistem manajemen usaha dan meningkatkan kapasitas pegawai.
Keyword: usaha kecil menengah (UKM), kerajinan ukir kayu, analisis SWOT, proses hierarki analitis (AHP).

Judul: Pengujian Virus Newcastle Disease Gen VII Isolat Lapang Sebagai Virus Standar Pada Uji Tantang Vaksin
Abstrak: This study was conducted to determine the standard of Newcastle disease virus Gene VII field isolate as a virus challenge to vaccine test. A virus suspension that has previously been tested by HA test then titrated with EID50 using 30 Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) of 10 day old chicken embryonated eggs. In addition, chicken lethal dose50 (CLD50) test were used to determine the virus titer that could cause 50% death of the chicken population. The CLD50 test was used 25 day-old-chickens (DOC) divided into 5 groups. The virus was diluted from 10-1 to 10-8. The 104 to 10-8 dilution of NDV was infected to every group of chicken via eyedrop and intranasal with 0.1 ml/chicken dosage. Haemagglutination test showed that the allantoic fluid were contain high titers of NDV is 512 HAU. The infective NDV that had been titrated by EID50 test showed the virus titers is 109 EID50/0.1 ml or 1010 EID50/ml and the virus titers of CLD50 test e.i 106.48 CLD50/0.1 ml or 107.48 CLD50/ml. These results can be concluded that the NDV Gene VII field isolates were most appropriate to be used as a standard virus to vaccine test
Keyword: Newcastle Disease Virus Gene VII, HA tes, EID50 test, CLD50 test