Judul: Pemanfaatan Reptil Sebagai Obat dan Makanan di Daerah Khusus Ibu Kota (DKI) Jakarta
Abstrak: Economic crisis in Indonesia urge people to utilize natural resources including reptile. Reptile used to be regarded as adverse thing, now becoming profitable comodity for medicine and food. Nowadays, demand for reptile is increasing so that creates more risk for sustainability of reptile because most of reptile hunted from wild. The aim of this research was to know the characteristic of reptile traders and consumers, to know the utilization of reptile as medicine and food products and to investigate reptile trafficking in DKI Jakarta. This research was carried out from November until Desember 2008 in DKI Jakarta. The direct observation and interview to the traders and consumers were be used to collect data. There were ten traders selected by purposive sampling method. Whereas 30 consumers were selected based on the average of daily visitors. Most of traders were Indonesian male with average age of 43 years old and having selling experience for 2-43 years. Most of consumer were Indonesian male with the average of age 34 years old. Their education background were senior high school. There were 13 species (southern Indonesian spitting cobra, king cobra, reticulated python, copperhead racer, mangrove snake, banded krait, Malayan krait, ground pit viper, Indian rat snake, asian water monitor, tockay, skink and southest asian softshell turtle) of reptiles that be used as medicine product (fresh blood, salve, capsule, cream, oil, dried gall bladder, dried male genital and powder). There were 7 species (southern indonesian spitting cobra, reticulated python, crocodile, asian water monitor, tockay, skink and southest asian softshell turtle) were used for food products (roasted meat, soup, frieds meat and fried meat powder). Reptile trafficking in DKI Jakarta was divided into 2 networking system, which are: 1) small scale trader (wild reptiles- hunters - primary collectors - secondary collectors - small scale traders - consumer) and 2) large scale trader (wild reptiles - hunters - primary collectors – small scale productions - large scale traders - consumers). People usually utilize reptile for treating skin diseases. It is necessary to control reptile hunting in order to prevent those species from extinction. Breeding in captivity is on off alternatives to reduce hunting of reptile from the wild. Formal monitoring and regulation in reptile utilization by BKSDA DKI Jakarta, monitoring and contolling by BPOM DKI Jakarta as well as research on bioactive content in reptile meat
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Judul: Pemanfaatan Reptil dan Amfibi di Kota Jakarta dan Bandung
Abstrak: Penelitian mengenai pemanfaatan satwa liar khususnya herpetofauna (amfibi dan reptil) sebagai obat masih sedikit dilakukan. Pulau Jawa yang mencakup 7% dari luasan Indonesia merupakan wilayah dengan total penduduk 150.4 juta jiwa atau 56.34% dari total pendududuk Indonesia. Oleh karena itu penelitian mengenai pemanfaatan herpetofauna sebagai obat di kota besar di Jawa dan aplikasi konservasi perlu dilakukan secara mendalam. tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui karakteristik pedagang dan konsumen obat yang berasal dari herpetofauna serta menelaah persepsi pedagang dan konsumen obat yang berasal dari herpetofauna dan pemanfaatannya sebagai obat.
Keyword: Herpetofauna, Obat tradisional, Perdagangan Amfibi

Judul: Formulasi Hamiltonian untuk Menggambarkan Gerak Gelombang Soliter Dimensi Tiga di Permukaan Laut
Abstrak: Gelombang permukaan adalah gelombang yang terjadi perbedaan rapat massa antara air dan udara. Salah satu gelombang permukaan yang ditinjau adalah gelombang soliter. Formulasi gelombang soliter dilakukan dengan menggunakan formulasi Hamiltonian.
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