Judul: Kajian Tekno Ekonomi Industri Minyak Sawit Merah Karoten Tinggi
Abstrak: A serious problems often faced by developing countries such as Indonesia is deficiency vitamin A. The number of Indonesia’s blindness in 2008 is about 1.5% of the population. The efforts of Indonesia’s Government are through its cooking oil fortification vitamin. The weakness of the fortvication program is a vitamin used is still imported from abroad. One of alternatives that could be developed is by doing the development of palm oil as a source of carotene in the form of red palm oil. One of the plantations in Indonesia, which has palm oil plants with high levels of carotene is PTPN XIV XIII of West Kalimantan. Carotene content of the varieties range from 2000 to 4000 ppm. The purpose of this study is to analyze techno-economic aspect of high carotene red palm oil industry. Scope of research includes techno-economic on the market and marketing aspect, technical and technological, management and organization, environmental, legal, valuation and commercialization, as well as financial aspects. This Red Palm Oil Industry is planned to be located in Sanggau, West Kalimantan. The Industrial capacity is 5tons/hour. After a depth assessment of all aspects, it can be concluded that the industry of Red Palm Oil is feasible to be realized
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Judul: Policy Strategy for the Development of Red Palm Oilbased on Logical Framework Approach, Strategi Kebijakan Pengembangan Minyak Sawit Merah dengan Pendekatan Logical Framework Approach
Abstrak: Red palm oil (RPO) is a very potential product that needs to be developed, particularly to address nutritional problems in Indonesia. PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) XIII, possess unique palm trees which are products of backcrossing activity between Elaeis guineensis and E. Oleifera. The trees are indicated to contain β-carotene up to 2000 ppm. The purpose of this research is to explore the potential of thebackcross plants as the raw material of RPO and consequently use the information as the supporting element in the development the logframe matrix for the development of RPO in Indonesia This research was conducted through these following stages: (1) production of crude palm oil from backcross palm fruit samples utilizing fully optimized and integrated extraction techniques, (2) identification of the most potential plant; and (3) organizing a policy strategy to develop the RPO in Indonesia based on LFA approach. This reasearch showed that there is a potential palm trees that could be utilized as the raw material for RPO. The carotenoid content of the palm oilproduced from the chosen plant with the application of series of optimized and integrated technologyprocess would reached about ± 804.89 ppm. Furthermore, the logframe matrix produced through the LFA analysis elaborated that the ultimate goal of the development of RPO in Indonesia will be to enhance value-added and multiplier effects of the Indonesian palm oil, mainly for the welfare of the people.The ultimate goal will be reached through the implementation of government policy to enhance the quality of nurturing, maintenance and production of the potential backcross palm tree by PTPNXIII and the improvement of the plants’ seeds quality by PPKS.
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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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