Judul: Dampak Korupsi Terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi Regional di Indonesia (Studi Kasus: Mekanisme Dugaan Korupsi APBD di Pemerintah Provinsi Banten Tahun 2011).
Abstrak: Decentralization is marked with the announcement of Regulation Number 22 in 1999 about the Region Government, and Regulation Number 25 in 1999 about the Financial Proportion between Central and Region Government. But apparently there are lots of problems in the implementations, one of them is a lot of corruption cases are revealed, with lots of corruption suspects are the authorities in that region and the resource of corruption is the local budget. Finally, that may bring a negative impact for the region economic growth. The aims of this study are: (1) To analyze local budget corruption in the mechanism of rent seeking at Banten Province, (2) To analyze the impact of corruption for the regional economic growth in Indonesia. Result showed that there is a local budget corruption assumptions have been done by the executive and legislative persons with the cooperation with the third person in the local budget managing, that behavior is triggered by the high cost political system. Then the result of the data processing showed that the impact of corruption for the regional economic growth is negative and significant, which means the region economic growth should have been more higher than now. In that case, an effort should be done to increase the region economic growth by eliminating the corruption in Region/national level by starting to create a low budget political system.
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Judul: Pengaruh Kemandirian Keuangan Daerah terhadap Pertumbuhan Ekonomi dan Kemiskinan Kabupaten/Kota Provinsi Banten
Abstrak: Desentralisasi fiskal bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kemandirian keuangan daerah dan mengurangi ketergantungan fiskal terhadap pemerintah pusat, namun pada pelaksanaannya masih banyak daerah yang bergantung pada bantuan dana pusat untuk pembangunan daerah. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk membahas perkembangan kemandirian keuangan daerah kabupaten dan kota di Provinsi Banten dan menganalisis pengaruh kemandirian keuangan daerah terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi dan kemiskinan di Provinsi Banten. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif dan data panel pada 6 (enam) kabupaten dan kota di Provinsi Banten tahun 2001-2011. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kemandirian keuangan daerah berpengaruh positif secara signifikan terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi sedangkan rasio Dana Perimbangan berpengaruh negatif secara signifikan terhadap pertumbuhan ekonomi. Pada model kemiskinan, kemandirian keuangan daerah berpengaruh positif secara signifikan terhadap peningkatan persentase penduduk miskin, sedangkan rasio Dana Perimbangan berpengaruh negatif secara signifikan terhadap persentase penduduk miskin, indeks ketimpangan pendapatan dan tingkat pengangguran terbuka berpengaruh positif secara signifikan terhadap persentase penduduk miskin.
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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