Judul: Efektivitas Komunikasi Politik pada Program Saba Desa (Kasus di Desa Bojong Sempu dan Hambalang Kabupaten Bogor)
Abstrak: The objectives of this research were: 1) to describe the effectiveness of political communication on leader citizen dialog, 2) to analyze correlation between internal characteristics and message receptivity, 3) to analyze correlation between external factors and message receptivity, 4) to analyze correlation between communication factor and message receptivity, (5) to analize correlation between message receptivity and the effectiveness of political communication on leader-citizen dialog. This research used descriptive-correlational design, with accidental sampling as sampling method. This research was conducted in Bojong Sempu Village, Parung Sub-district and Hambalang Village, Citeureup Sub district. In this research, 71 peoples were taken as respondents. Rank Spearman and Coefficient Contingency were used as data analysis method. This research showed that: (1) Majority of Saba Desa participant saw communicator had a good image. Moreover Majority of Saba Desa Participants have a plan to follow up direction from the communicator, (2) there were significant correlation between revenue rate and motivation rate with message receptivity, (3) there were no significant correlation between social interaction and media exposure with message receptivity, (4) Authority dimension had significant correlation with message receptivity, (5) Message receptivity also had a significant correlation with the effectiveness of political communication. Attention and understanding dimension had a significant correlation with the effectiveness of political communication.
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Judul: Proses Komunikasi dan Partisipasi dalam Pembangunan Masyarakat Desa (Kasus Program Raksa Desa di Kecamatan Ciampea Kabupaten Bogor)
Abstrak: Partisipasi masyarakat dalam Program Raksa Desa di Kecamatan Ciampea sangat ditentukan oleh proses komunikasi yang terjadi dalam program tersebut. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjawab masalah penelitian berikut: (1) seberapa jauh telah terjadi partisipasi masyarakat dalam program Raksa Desa dan faktor mana yang cenderung menentukan tingkat partisipasi tersebut, (2) seberapa tepat/efektifkah pola intervensi program Raksa Desa dalam mengembangkan partisipasi melalui proses komunikasi, dan (3) bagaimana meningkatkan partisipasi masyarakat dalam program Raksa Desa melalui upaya komunikasi yang tepat. Penelitian ini dilaksanakan pada tiga desa di kecamatan Ciampea Bogor, yakni desa Bojong Jengkol, Cinangka, dan Cibanteng. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode survai eksplanasi. Penentuan desa dan kelompok dilakukan secara purposive dan pengambilan sampel secara acak sederhana. Jumlah sampel 74 responden yang memperoleh bantuan program Raksa Desa tahap pertama Tahun 2003. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa; pertama, karakteristik responden pada tiga desa memiliki pendidikan yang rendah, pengalaman usaha rendah, dan pendapatan yang rendah; kedua, pola intervensi pemerintah masih tinggi; ketiga, proses komunikasi yang terjadi masih top down ; prasyarat partisipasi yang terdiri atas kesempatan, kemampuan dan kemaua n masih rendah; dan kelima, partisipasi anggota dalam program Raksa Desa masih rendah. Pola intervensi yang cenderung melalui proses komunikasi linear (searah) cenderung tidak efektif mengembangkan prasyarat partisipasi (kesempatan, kemampuan dan kemauan) warga dalam program Raksa Desa. Akibatnya partisipasi masyarakat rendah, karena program tidak sesuai dengan kebutuhan masyarakat. Untuk meningkatkan partisipasi masyarakat dalam program Raksa Desa perlu ditempuh melalui proses komunikasi yang lebih interaktif dan konvergen. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disarankan, pemerintah perlu menetapkan pendekatan partisipatif yang bertumpu pada kelompok masyarakat, dan perlu merubah paradigma komunikasi top-down ke bottom-up
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Judul: Posisi Filogenetik Kura-Kura Carettochelys Insculpta  (Reptillia: Testudinata)
Abstrak: Carettochelys insculpta is an endemic freshwater turtle of southern Papua and northern Australia. Phylogenetic position of this turtle is remain unresolved until now. Most of the research conducted show close relationships of C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. However, some of the research show distance between C. insculpta and members of Trionychidae family. This research is conducted to analyze phylogenetic relationship between C. insculpta and other members of Testudinata using 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, and both gene as markers. DNA samples were obtained from three different organisms of C. insculpta. Two species used as outgroups were Alligator mississippiensis and Iguana iguana. Phylogenetic analysis was carried out using Neighbor-Joining method with Felsenstein 1981 (F81) modeltest. A polytomy tree of Testudinata was produced by using 12S rRNA gene. However, analysis using 16S rRNA and both genes as markers confirmed that C. insculpta was located between the Chelonidae and the Trionychidae family.
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