Judul: Institutional development for people’s plantation forest management in agroforestry system (Case Study of Lamban Sigatal, Sarolangun Jambi)
Abstrak: Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya kebijakan Hutan Tanaman Rakyat (HTR) yang diberlakukan pemerintah untuk dapat memenuhi kebutuhan masyarakat terhadap pemanfaatan hutan. Tujuan utama penelitian ini adalah untuk merumuskan (mendesain) pengembangan institusi pengelolaan HTR pola agroforestri yang mampu memperbaiki kesejahteraan masyarakat khususnya masyarakat pengelola tanaman rotan jernang. Tujuan utama dicapai melalui tujuan antara sebagai berikut: (1) Mengetahui karakteristik sumber daya hutan, kelompok masyarakat pemanfaat sumber daya hutan dan aturan-aturan yang digunakan dalam pemanfaatan sumber daya hutan serta interaksi antar kelompok masyarakat dan dengan sumber daya. (2) Mengetahui respon pemerintah dan inisiasi masyarakat terkait kebijakan Hutan Tanaman Rakyat (3) Menemukan permasalahan dalam institusi pembangunan HTR dari sisi kepastian hak pemilikan masyarakat, kapasitas masyarakat dan efisiensi pasar.
Keyword: Institutional Analysis Development (IAD)

Judul: Perception and Participation of Local People in Community Based Forest Plantation Program in Sarolangun Regency, Jambi
Abstrak: The failure of supply timbers to keep pace with industrial demand and conflicts over land property rights in community level have increased the number of forest and land degradation especially in production forest. In an effort to address this problem, the Indonesian Government introduced a new community-based forest plantation program in 2007 called Hutan Tanaman Rakyat (HTR), which allows local communities to have rights and incentives for developing timber plantations on state forest lands. The objectives of this study are to understand local perceptions on HTR regulations, to identify their participation in HTR program, to identify factors influencing their decisions to join the program, and to analyze the correlation between their social economic characteristics and perceptions with their participations in HTR activities. Data and information was gathered from a survey of 81 households from Taman Bandung, Seko Besar and Lamban Sigatal villages in Sarolangun Regency, Jambi. The results of this study showed that the perception level on HTR regulations of local community is in middle level except for regulation about inheritance, rights and obligations which are still in the lower level. Due to relatively new program which started in 2009, the participation level of local community in HTR is still low. This study also showed that ownership of land in HTR area, distance to the area, local perceptions of land allocation, HTR schemes, time period and concession area, inheritance law, rights and obligations, local institution, and socialization activities have significantly influencing people decision in joining HTR. Based on logistic regression models, the perception variables are better in explaining someone’s opportunity to join HTR than social economic variables, but both variables have high correlation with participation level.
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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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