Judul: Competitiveness Analysis of Indonesian Pineapple Exports to the United Arab Emirates
Abstrak: Nanas Indonesia mempunyai jumlah produksi yang terus meningkat setiap tahunnya. Sebagian besar nanas Indonesia diekspor ke Uni Emirat Arab. Namun, jumlah nanas yang diekspor ke Uni Emirat Arab masih jauh lebih rendah dibandingkan negara pesaingnya, yaitu Filipina. Penelitian ini bertujuan (1) menganalisis keunggulan komparatif nanas Indonesia di Uni Emirat Arab dan (2) menganalisis keunggulan kompetitif nanas Indonesia di Uni Emirat Arab. Metode analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Revealed Comparative Advantage untuk menganalisis keunggulan komparatif nanas di Uni Emirat Arab, metode Export Product Dynamic dan Diamond’s Porter untuk menganalisis keunggulan kompetitif nanas di Uni Emirat Arab. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Indonesia memiliki keunggulan komparatif di Uni Emirat Arab dengan nilai rata-rata RCA > 1. Nanas Indonesia memiliki keunggulan kompetitif. Nanas Indonesia berada pada posisi pasar Rising Star. Analisis Diamond’s Porter menunjukkan bahwa banyak faktor kelemahan dalam ekspor nanas Indonesia, namun terdapat dua faktor pendukung yang memiliki keunggulan kompetitif, yaitu peran pemerintah dan peran kesempatan, Indonesia’s pineapples have a production that continues to increase every year. Most of Indonesia's pineapples are exported to the United Arab Emirates. However, the amount of pineapple exported to the United Arab Emirates is still much lower than its competitor, the Philippines. This study aims to (1) analyze the comparative advantages of Indonesian pineapples in the United Arab Emirates and (2) analyze the competitive advantages of Indonesian pineapples in the United Arab Emirates. The analytical method used in this study is Revealed Comparative Advantage to analyze the comparative advantage of pineapples in the United Arab Emirates, the Export Product Dynamics, and Diamond's Porter to analyze the competitive advantages of pineapples in the United Arab Emirates. The results showed that Indonesia has a comparative advantage in the United Arab Emirates with an average value of RCA > 1. Indonesian pineapple has a competitive advantage. Indonesian pineapple is in the Rising Star market position. Diamond’s Porter analysis shows that there are many factors of weakness in Indonesia's pineapple exports, but there are two supporting factors that have a competitive advantage, namely the role of government and the role of opportunity.
Keyword: Diamond’s porter, RCA, EPD, Export

Judul: The  position  of  competitiveness  and  the  factors  which  affect the Indonesian fruits export  in the world and the destination countries
Abstrak: Keberhasilan dayasaing ekspor buah Indonesia di negara tujuan ditentukan oleh keunggulan komparatif dan kompetitif serta faktor lainnya. Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) dan Export Product Dynamic (EPD) digunakan untuk menganalisis posisi dayasaing ekspor buah-buahan Indonesia. Pada penelitian ini digunakan analisis data panel gravity model untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi aliran volume ekspor buah-buahan Indonesia (mangga, manggis, rambutan, pisang, dan melon). Pada metode Export Product Dynamic (EPD) dan Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) menunjukkan bahwa buah yang memiliki keunggulan komparatif dan kompetitif tertinggi di negara tujuan dan dunia adalah buah manggis, mangga, dan jambu. Ekspor buah Indonesia yang kehilangan kesempatan dalam bersaing di negara tujuan adalah stroberi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa faktor yang memengaruhi aliran ekspor buah Indonesia ke negara tujuan meliputi harga ekspor, populasi, jarak ekonomi, GDP riil dan per kapita, nilai tukar riil, indeks harga konsumen Indonesia, dan variabel dummy krisis yang terjadi di Eropa., The success of competitiveness of Indonesian fruits export in the destination countries is determined by comparative and competitive advantage and other factors. Revealed Comparative Advatege (RCA) and Export Product Dynamic (EPD) are used in this research to analyze the position of competitiveness of Indonesian fruits export. This research also uses panel gravity model to analyze the factors which affect the export volume of Indonesia fruits (mango, mangosteen, rambutan, banana, and melon). The results from EPD and RCA method show that fruits which have the highest comparative and competitive advantage in destination countries and the world are mangoesteen, mango, and guava. Indonesian fruits which its export experiences a lost opportunity for competing in the destination countries is strawberry. The results of this research shows that the factors which influence the export of Indonesian fruits the destination conutries are export price, population, economic distance, real GDP and GDP per capita, real exchange rate, Indonesian consumer price index, and dummy variable of crisis which happened in Europe.
Keyword: Dayasaing, EPD, gravity model, RCA

Judul: Penyelesaian Masalah Rotasi Aliran Fluida Kental Von Karman Menggunakan Metode Homotopi
Abstrak: Von Karman equation is an equation that describes fluid viscous flow induced by infinite disk rotation. By assuming steady flow and laminar, viscous incompressible fluid flow is represented in Von Karman equation by an angular velocity and the vertical direction velocity as the independent variables. Von Karman equation is a nonlinear problem that is solved using the homotopy method. The use of homotopy method is done by defining an homotopy function that requires auxiliary parameters to control the convergent region of the solution. The solution is a recursive formula with given initial conditions. Using software based-functional shows that velocity components converge to a value.
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