Judul: Tingkat Keberhasilan PNPM dalam Memfasilitasi Rumah Tangga Peserta Program di Desa dan Kota Bogor
Abstrak: The research objective was to analyse the role of PNPM Mandiri Perkotaan dan Perdesaan in increasing income and housing facilities of the beneficiary. The research method used survey technique to 60 respondents representing household in Ciherang and Kelurahan Kebon Pedes. The variables observed include beneficiary’s profile, participation perrequisite, facilitators’s competency, incomes, and housing improvement. The research results show that PNPM provide facilitation and have able to improve household condition in terms of increasing income, housing conditions have better improved. There is a difference community participation to the program, between village in the distict and the city, BSP2S are better compared to SPP program. The most obvious was shown by the associated competitiveness program with its success of BSP2S program.
Keyword: household’s income, participation, facilitation, role of PNPM

Judul: Faktor yang memepengaruhi partisipasi masyarakat dalam kegiatan perbaikan prasarana jalan (Kasus: Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM) Mandiri Perdesaan di Desa Megamendung, Bogor)
Abstrak: The objective of this study are to describe the stage of activities in the PNPM Mandiri project of infrastructure improvement, to analyze level of participation, and to determine factors affecting community participation in road infrastructure improvement in Megamendung village. The road infrastructure improvement is expected to provide short-term and long term economic benefit for the poor households. This study using qualitative and quantitative approach with primary and secondary data and a total respondents of 42 men of Paseban hamlet who were involved in road infrastructure improvement activity.The study shows that the internal factors affecting level of community participation are age and level of education, whereas the external factor that is most influencial on community participation is the activity of assistance team. The team’s frequent visit to the site of project greatly affect people’s participation.
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Judul: Karakteristik Anatomi Skelet Tubuh Buaya Senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii)
Abstrak: Buaya senyulong (Tomistoma schlegelii) merupakan buaya besar yang rentan punah dan hanya dapat ditemukan di rawa dataran rendah, danau dan sungai di Sumatera bagian timur, Kalimantan dan Jawa Barat (Indonesia), Serawak, Semenanjung Malaysia (Malaysia) serta Brunei Darussalam. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mempelajari karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong yang dikaitkan dengan fungsi dan perilakunya. Penelitian ini menggunakan satu set preparat skelet tubuh buaya senyulong. Parameter penelitian meliputi pengamatan bentuk bagian skelet yang khas, mengukur panjang dan lebar tulang, serta dibandingkan dengan skelet tubuh jenis buaya lain, biawak air (Varanus salvator) maupun literatur yang terkait dengan sistem skelet tubuh hewan. Karakteristik anatomi skelet tubuh buaya senyulong relatif mirip pada jenis buaya lain. Beberapa karakteristik yang ditemukan yaitu, proatlas pada os atlas, os axis hanya memiliki zygapophysis caudalis, bagian lateral dari ossa vertebrae cervicales yang dilengkapi dengan cervical ribs, memiliki jumlah costae sternalis yang banyak, rangkaian ossa gastralia pada abdomen, ossa vertebrae lumbales memiliki zygapophysis cranialis dengan sudut >90o dari sumbu tubuh. Selain itu, os vertebrae caudalis I memiliki caput cranial dan caudal, ossa vertebrae caudales memiliki processus transversus yang semakin memendek ke arah caudal. Di medioventral tulang ini ditemukan ossa chevron dengan hemal arch sampai menjelang akhir ossa vertebrae caudalis. Skelet tubuh buaya senyulong memiliki hubungan yang kokoh dan kompak untuk menunjang fleksibilitas tubuh untuk berjalan, berenang dan berburu mangsa
Keyword: anatomi, buaya senyulong, skelet tubuh