Judul: Performance of Management and Development Strategy of Natural Recreation of Situ Gunung, Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park
Abstrak: Management of natural recreation usually not equal yet with evaluation activities. Carrying out of Natural Recreation of Situ Gunung need evaluation in order to know how far satisfaction of visitor can be reached and brought into line with tourism activities in conservation area. This research aim is analysing management performance of natural recreation for gaining strategic alternatives of Situ Gunung Natural Recreation. The operationally research were bound on visitors satisfaction and on impact of tourism activities on social economic of communities and environment around the recreation place. The aspect on social economic of communities was observed from tourism impact and communities motivation on participating of recreation activities. Environmental aspect was observed from naturalism and preservation of the recreation area. Data analysis method consist of management performance analysis (descriptive analysis), visitors satisfaction analysis (Important – Performance Analysis/IPA and Customer Satisfaction Index/CSI) and Analysis of development alternatives (SWOT Analysis). Situ Gunung managed by two prominent institutions, i.e. Perum Perhutani and Bureau of Gunung Gede National Park. Man resources which behave are 4 employees of Situ Gunung Resort of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park and 6 employees of Perum Perhutani. Access toward the location easily is reached by private vehicles or public transportation means. Situ Gunung Natural Recreation has 4 ultimate objects connected by roads that need repairing in some parts. The visitor backgrounds of dominant education are elementary school, occupations as student who came from inner side of Sukabumi itself, with recreation as arrival destination. The promotion of location is not effectively yet to these visitors. Visitor services form is recreation without tourist guide. There are in total 100 hectares area that intensively used as natural recreation activities, about 7 % area has been changed. Violation actions that probable can destroy resources are illegal logging/hunting although in small intensity. Visitors valuation of 16 attributes put into ‘SATISFACTORY’ category in CSI. It was identified 8 strengths and 8 weaknesses as internal factors and 8 opportunities and 5 threats as external environmental factors. Result of the SWOT analysis showed that Situ Gunung Nature Recreation lay in positive side of its internal and external factors with suggested development strategy is Strengths-Opportunities. The development programs that have been arranged are increasing level of promotion, spread out connection of cooperation, and using master plan of management. Performance of management of Situ Gunung Natural Recreation was counted into ‘GOOD’ category observed from visitor satisfactory aspect and from aspects of naturally, area preservation, and function rules of this region on social economic of communities. Development strategic alternative that has been arranged is Aggressive Growth Strategy (SO).
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Judul: Strategi Taman Nasional Gunung Gede Pangrango (TNGGP) dalam Pengembangan Promosi Kegiatan Ekowisata
Abstrak: Mount Gede Pangrango National Park has a high potential ecotourism site to be promoted. In this case, promotion of ecotourism in Mount Gede Pangrango aims to attract both tourists and partners to devote in ecotourism activities. The purposes of this research are to evaluate recent strategies of ecotourism promotion and to map new strategies of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park in promoting ecotourism. The mapping of these promotion strategies is based on SWOT analysis. Ecotourism promotion in Mount Gede Pangrango National Park has acquired four components of promotion mix which are advertising, personal selling, public relation, and promotion selling, but has not used all promotion media and has not done promotions gradually. Promotion has not been effectively accepted by public. Data shows 71% visitors get information word of mouth, 14% from printed media, 11% from school/work place, and 4% from internet. The result of this SWOT analysis puts promotion in second quadrant, namely stability strategy. Stability strategy is consolidation strategy for reducing weaknesses and maintaining recent market. Stability aims to maintain such condition by using opportunities and restore weaknesses. This strategy leads to a project opening opportunities for private sectors to work on ecotourism, doing cooperation with airports and airlines services, tourism bureaus, mass media, hotels, and also uses an appropriate promotion media for introducing Mount Gede Pangrango National Park. Based on the exposed analysis, strategic ecotourism promotions can be conducted are : using the website of TNGGP by preparing interesting information, cooperation with tourism bureaus by setting or planning tourism packages, cooperation with airport, cooperation with mass media, doing direct mailing promotions, maintaining infrastructures which provides information on ecotourism, raising ticket’s prize, giving courses to human resources, developing new potential tourism sites.
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Judul: Leukemia pada kucing
Abstrak: Leukemia pada kucing adalah suatu penyakit yang sangat patogen, disebabkan oleh sejenis virus. Virus ini dikenal sebagai Feline Leukemia Virus atau FeLV. FeLV ini oleh beberapa ahli dikatakan hanya bersifat ganas pada hewan kucing. Penularannya bisa secara horizontal maupun congenital. Kucing pada semua tingkat umur dapat terserang oleh FeLV ini. Khusus pada bentuk "thymic leukemia", virus ini hanya menyerang anak-anak kucing berumur diba- wah 1 tahun. Kucing-kucing liar atau yang tidak terpeli- hara jarang sekali terinfeksi FeLV. Selain dari serangan virus FeLV itu sendiri, maka penyakit leukemia ini bisa disebabkan oleh beberapa fak- tor yang sudah ada dalam tubuh hewan dan sangat menunjang perkembangan penyakit ini, yaitu antara lain tumor, agen toksik, cedera oleh kecelakaan dan gangguan hemopoiesis. FeLV menyerang sel-sel darah dalam tubuh hewan se- hingga pembentukan darah berjalan tidak normal. Terlihat sel-sel darah yang belum dewasa sudah beredar dalam sir- kulasi darah. Bentuk dan jumlahnya tidak lagi seimbang dalam tubuh hewan kucing tersebut. Gejala klinis antara lain kekurusan, ikterus, anemia, lemah, anoreksia, dyspnoe, sulit menelan, batuk, dan membran mukosa pucat. Selain itu kelenjar pertahanan tubuh juga membengkak, kemudian terjadi hepatomegali, spleenomegali dan pembengkakan pada ginjal. Terbentuk massa tumor pada beberapa tempat. Secara biopsy pada sumsum tulang akan terlihat be- berapa perubahan. Sumsum tulang berwarna merah tua atau abu-abu. Konsistensinya lunak dan terdapat banyak sekali memproduksi sel darah putih. Melalui gambaran darah leukemia ini lebih mudah didiagnosa. Jumlah retikulosit rendah sekali. PCV 8-15%, hemoglobin menurun, sel darah putih (WBC) meningkat, lim- fosit meningkat, Alfaglobulin juga ada peningkatan, dan banyak eosinofil yang belum dewasa beredar dalam darah…dst
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