Judul: Investor Preference Toward Sharia Financial Products.
Abstrak: Investor Preference Toward Sharia Financial Products is a research about investor behavior which explains factors influencing investment decision. In essential, how the behavior pattern of investor describes about what, why, and how to invest. This research is useful for financial institutions to help in analyzing investor need. Investor need can be learned through investment decision process. Furthermore, this research also useful as investors reference in determining investment decision. This research aims to describe the development of sharia financial investment in Indonesia and to compare between sharia financial products and conventional financial products, and to analyze factors influencing investor preference of sharia financial investment. This research was based on primary and secondary data. Primary data have been obtained through a structure questionaire. The sample size was 87 and the respondents were consisted of participant and non participant of sharia capital market school in Jakarta. The secondary data have been collected from various books, journals, and websites. The sampling technique followed in this research is purposive sampling. In order to analyze the collected data, the following tools were used. Descriptive analysis is used to describe the development of sharia financial investment in Indonesia and the comparison between sharia financial products and conventional financial product. Logit analysis is used to analyze factors influencing sharia financial investment compared to conventional financial investment. Afterward, multinomial logit is used to analyze factors influencing sharia mutual fund, sharia deposit, sharia insurance, and dinar compared to sharia stock. The result of the logit model shows that the factor influencing investor preference toward sharia financial investment is the level of knowledge. If the level of knowledge increases, then the investors will prefer to put their fund in sharia financial investment than conventional financial investment. This is because that to have a knowledge about sharia financial theory, is the initial process in determining investment decision. Therefore, the level of knowledge positively correlated with investor preference in sharia financial investment. Multinomial logit model indicates that the participation of sharia capital market school influences toward investment preference in sharia financial products. So it’s hoped to the institution related to sharia capital market and other sharia financial institutions to increase literacy program about sharia financial investment. Beside that, the level of saving shows significant influence toward sharia insurance preference, which the investors with a higher saving more prefer to put most of their funds in sharia stock than to put in sharia mutual fund and sharia insurance. Afterward, the level of education also shows a significant relation toward sharia insurance preference, which the investors with a higher education tend to take more risk and consequently they prefer to invest in sharia stock than sharia insurance. This result also suggest that age of respondent correlates with the investment preference of sharia mutual fund, which the young investor tend to have their money in sharia stock than sharia mutual fund.
Keyword: Investor Preference, Sharia Finance, Logit, Multinomial Logit

Judul: ANALYSIS OF FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE INVESTOR INTEREST IN INVESTING IN ISLAMIC MUTUAL FUNDS  (Case Study: Java Island Region)
Abstrak: . Investasi Reksa Dana Syariah di Indonesia terus mengalami perkembangan yang positif sebagai instrumen investasi. Namun, faktanya NAB Reksa Dana Syariah masih belum bisa memperkecil jarak dengan total NAB pasar modal konvensional secara keseluruhan. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menganalisis faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi keputusan investor dalam berinvestasi di Reksa Dana Syariah. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah SEM-PLS. Kriteria responden dalam penelitian ini yaitu investor Reksa Dana Syariah dan berdomisili di provinsi yang ada di Pulau Jawa. Pendekatan teori dalam penelitian ini adalah Theory of Planned Behaviour dengan variabel Motivasi, Pengetahuan, Persepsi Return, Kemajuan Teknologi, dan Informasi Produk. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan variabel Motivasi, Pengetahuan, Persepsi Return, Kemajuan Teknologi, dan Informasi Produk memiliki pengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap minat berinvestasi. Hasil penelitian ini dapat digunakan perusahaan sekuritas maupun regulator untuk meningkatkan jumlah investor ataupun perencanaan kebijakan mengenai Reksa Dana Syariah., Sharia mutual fund investment in Indonesia continued to experience positive developments as an investment instrument. However, the fact was that the nav of Islamic mutual funds was still unable to closed the gaped with the total nav of conventional capital markets as a whole. The purpose of this studied was to analyze the factors that influence investors' decisions in investing in Islamic mutual funds. The method used in this researched was sem-pls. Respondent criteria in this studied was sharia mutual fund investors and domiciled in a province on the island of java. The theoretical approached in this studied was the theory of planned behavior with variabels of motivation, knowledge, re-perception, technological advances, and product information. The results of this studied indicate that the variabels motivation, knowledge, perceived returned, advances in technology, and product information had a positive and significant influence on investment intentions. The results of this studied could been used by securities companies and regulators to increase the number of investors or planning policies regarding Islamic mutual funds.
Keyword: Investment, Investor Interest, Sharia Mutual Funds

Judul: Karakterisasi molekuler virus gemini asal tanaman tomat
Abstrak: Virus gemini merupakan salah satu kelompok patogen utama yang menyerang dan menimbulkan kerusakan yang besar pada tanaman sayuran di daerah tropik dan sub tropik. Pada umumnya kerugian yang ditimbulkan oleh adanya suatu epidemi berkisar antara 30%-100%. Gejala tanaman tomat yang terinfeksi oleh virus gemini kadangkala mirip dengan gejala yang disebabkan oleh infeksi virus yang lain khususnya Potyviridae dan Tobamoviridae. Dengan demikian, gejala penyakit saja tidak cukup untuk digunakan dalam mengidentifikasi virus gemini. Pengetahuan tentang karakter molekuler virus gemini pada tanaman tomat yang bergejala menjadi sangat penting dalam mengidentifikasi virus gemini tersebut. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengamati gejala luar, melakukan purifikasi dan mempelajari beberapa karakter molekuler virus gemini asal tanaman virus tomat. Karakter molekuler yang dipelajari meliputi ukuran dan jenis asam nukleat serta ukuran protein. Deteksi virus dengan metode polymerase chain reaction (PCR) dilakukan untuk memperkuat hasil analisis karakter molekuler. Isolat virus gemini asal tanaman tomat yang diperoleh dari Bandung, Jawa Barat ditularkan dengan serangga vektor B. tanaman tomat. daerah tabaci dari dan ke Gejala yang ditimbulkannya berupa penebalan tulang daun permukaan bawah, daun menggulung ke atas atau ke bawah, berkeriput dan tepi daun mengalami klorosis. Virus gemini isolat Bandung ini berhasil dimurnikan dari daun tomat yang bergejala dengan menggunakan metode yang digunakan ..dst
Keyword: virus gemini, tanaman tomat, purifikasi virus, isolasi tanaman