Judul: Analisis dampak dan strategi pengembangan agropolitan basis jagung terhadap perekonomian wilayah serta analisis pendapatan masyarakat petani di Provinsi Gorontalo (Studi kasus kabupaten Pohuwato)
Abstrak: Provinsi Gorontalo merupakan salah satu provinsi yang mengembangkan konsep agropolitan sebagai salah satu pendekatan dalam memacu pembangunan dan pengembangan wilayahnya. Sebagai salah satu provinsi baru, Gorontalo berkembang pesat dan menjadi salah satu provinsi yang diperhitungkan di Kawasan Timur Indonesia. Namun demikian sebagai salah satu kabupaten di Provinsi Gorontalo yang menjadi kawasan rintisan pengembangan agropolitan, Kabupaten Pohuwato masih memiliki banyak permasalahan seperti tingginya tingkat kemiskinan, rendahnya tingkat pengetahuan petani dan masih terbatasnya sarana–prasarana penunjang menjadi faktor penting yang berpengaruh terhadap keberhasilan pengembangan agropolitan basis jagung. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk melihat dampak pengembangan program agropolitan dikaitkan dalam pembangunan wilayah Kabupaten Pohuwato. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah menganalisis dampak program agropolitan terhadap perekonomian wilayah dan pendapatan masyarakat petani, mengkaji tingkat partisipasi masyarakat dan merumuskan strategi pembangunan yang dapat mendorong pengembangan ekonomi kawasan agropolitan. Adapun alat analisis yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah analisis Location Quotient, Multiplier Short Run dan Multiplier Long Run, Analisis Shift Share, Analisis Uji Beda Pendapatan, Analisis Tingkat Partisipasi Masyarakat dalam Pembangunan dan Analisis Rapid Assessment for Local Economic Development (RALED). Pengumpulan data dilaksanakan pada bulan September – Oktober 2007.
Keyword: strategi pengembangan agropolitan, perekonomian wilayah, analisis pendapatan, masyarakat petani, Gorontalo, Pohuwato

Judul: Analisis ketimpangan pembangunan dan pertumbuhan ekonomi di Provinsi Gorontalo:
Abstrak: This study aims to analyze the change of economic structure; development imbalances resulting from the proportional imbalance in GDRP per capita, Human Development Index and Infrastructure Expenditure Ratio; form of relationship development and inequality of economic growth and to provide policy recommendations. The analysis is using Williamson Index, Gini Ratio, Shift-Share, Klassen Typhology and Regression of Unbalanced Panel. The results showed that although growth was lower than the non-agriculture but agriculture is still dominant in the economic structure. Potentially sector and the greatest economic growth occurs in regions of secondary and tertiary sector that have occurred indicate a shift in economic structure in the Province of Gorontalo during the period 2001-2008. Pohuwato and Boalemo Regency and Gorontalo Municipality has a competitive economic, including in Quadrant I on matrix typology Klassen (high growth and high income), while Gorontalo Regency and Bone Bolango in the Quadrant III (low growth and low income). Simultaneously and partial, the difference of all independent variable are significant as the main source of inequality.
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Judul: Pembuatan Film Tipis Cu2ZnSnS4 sebagai Lapisan Penyerap Cahaya pada Sel Surya Menggunakan Metode Elektrodeposisi
Abstrak: Thin film of Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is an alternative semiconductor used as light absorber layer on solar cell. CZTS can replace silicon that commonly used as commercial semiconductor. The advantage of using CZTS as absorber layer is due to the abundance of its chemical composer on earth, and its high value of absorption coefficient. The absorber layer was made by using electrodeposition method on ITO glass substrates. The films were deposited at room temperature using potentiostatic mode with a potential of –1.05 V for 30, 45, and 60 minutes. After that, the films were annealed at two different temperatures, 180 ºC and 500 °C, for 45 minutes in N2/H2S atmosphere. Based on X-ray diffraction analysis, the polycrystalline thin film obtained fall into kesterite crystal phase. This type of crystal was obtained when the CZTS was annealed at 500 °C in H2S/N2 atmosphere. The value of optical band gap energy for the CZTS thin film was 2.2 eV with the film thickness about 1.228–6.366 μm. The sample of CZTS with electrodeposition time of 45 minutes and annealing temperature of 500 °C showed the best result and in conformity with absorber layers criteria for solar cells.
Keyword: semiconductor, ITO glass, CZTS thin film, electrodeposition