Judul: Competency Strategies Of Indonesian Domestic Workers In Malaysia
Abstrak: ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is an economic integration in free trade system between ASEAN Countries. The challenges for the Indonesian Governments are to create the stable region, prosperous, highly competitive and realize social welfare. But in fact, Indonesia is facing the problem of low competitiveness among ASEAN countries. This study aimed to (1) analyzing the problematic situation of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia; (2) formulating priority strategies to improve the competency of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia and (3) porposing a model for improving the competency of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia. This research was conducted in Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta from February to June 2016. Experts give the assumptions and analyze value based on certainty and importance. Furthermore, assuming that has a level of interest and high importance and certainty chosen to priority strategies. In this research, choosing the experts are used non-probability method and to collect data are used purposive sampling technique. Data analysis methods used in this research are descriptive analysis, Soft System Methodology based Rich Picture, AHP, and The House Model. The results of the analysis of the problematic situations show that the Indonesian Government is the less concerned with the protection and debriefing training also development to the placement of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia. This is caused domestic workers are not able to work in accordance with National work competency standards have been prepared by the Ministry of Manpower of the Republic of Indonesia. It is also reinforced by decision-making method, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) gives as same as results. Training and development in Indonesia have a higher analysis value than the other alternatives. The important factor is obtained from the AHP is Individual competencies. Therefore, Competency-Based Training is a priority strategy to competitiveness strategies of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia with analysis value is 0.361, that will have an impact on the development of individual competencies. The House Model method as the model for improving the competency strategies of Indonesian domestic workers results from the roof with a vision of improving the competitiveness of Indonesian domestic workers in Malaysia within five years (2016-2021). The four strategies factors are the quality of human resource, individual competencies, Government policy, and market demand. Supporting actions are Enhancing the relevant Governmental authorities, Establishing the individual reputation and Collaborating between Government and agencies involved.
Keyword: Analytic Hierarchy Process, Competency, Indonesian Domestic Workers, The House Model, Training and Development

Judul: “The Role of Digital Marketing in Improving SMEs’ Fashion Product Competitiveness in The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) (Comparative Study in Indonesia dan Malaysia)”.
Abstrak: Economic growth in Indonesia which is very inseparably significant from the role of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). SMEs contribute greatly to the economies of Indonesia, Malaysia and ASEAN. Currently it’s around 96% of the business forms in ASEAN are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with contributions to gross domestic product (GDP) about 33.1% to 57.6%, and absorbing 46.8% to 96.9 % employment. Perspektively Indonesia and Malaysia while technological developments and increasing internet users in the world including Indonesia, it has an impact on the economy and business activities including SME players. Business activities that were initially carried out by meeting directly between sellers and buyers are now starting to switch to using the internet. Indonesia is in the midst of a digital trend but not only in Indonesia but also in Malaysia as allied country, in ASEAN and in international level. Internet users in Indonesian, Malaysian and ASEAN communities increase every year. The e-commerce growth in ASEAN with a percentage of 10-15%, namely Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand that are the three countries with the highest growth. This has changed business activities from direct meeting between sellers and buyers to internet media with indirect interaction that make no boundaries each countries. Not all SMEs realize the importance of digital marketing role in running their businesses so that not all SMEs managed these opportunities optimally. This study will focused on how the influence of digital marketing on improving the competitiveness of SME products by analyzing promotion strategies in digital marketing. This study specialy aims (i) to identify the characteristics of Indonesian and Malaysian SMEs, (ii) analyze the influence of digital marketing on the SMEs’ competitiveness in Indonesian and Malaysian at the MEA level, dan (iii) analyze the effectiveness of digital marketing in Indonesian and Malaysian SMEs. This research was conducted in two countries, namely in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia and in Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor Malaysia as collaboration between IPB and University Putra Malaysia in April - June 2018. The population in this study is SMEs in Little Bandung and SMEs in Malaysia. The sampling method uses the accidental sampling method, which is 100 SMEs in Indonesia and 110 SMEs in Malaysia over a period of three months by distributing questionnaires to all SMEs in there. The data that have been collected will be analyzed quantitatively and the descriptive approach. Quantitative analysis is carried out using a different test model and structural equation model (SEM) approach. The results showed that the characteristics of SMEs in Indonesia and Malaysia were basically not much different but there were some differences, namely the majority of female Indonesian SMEs as much as 58% while Malaysian SMEs were dominated by men as much as 75%, the respondent age from the two countries dominated 26-35 years old with a percentage of 67% in Indonesia and 75% in Malaysia. The highest educational background is diploma and bachelor level about 50% in Indonesia and 62.7% in Malaysia, SMEs have been running their businesses online for 1-5 years with a percentage of 74% in Indonesia and 62% in Malaysia and the highest
Keyword: Digital Marketing, Competitiveness, SMEs, Indonesia, Malaysia

Judul: Approximation of the Median of Poisson Distribution Using the Relation of Poisson-Gamma Distribution
Abstrak: A major drawback of median is that median cannot usually be defined in closed form, even in the cases where their distribution functions are known. This study gives an approximation of the closed form for the median of the Poisson distribution by using the relation of Poisson-Gamma distribution. The approximation uses elementary techniques based on the monotonicity of certain sequences involving tail probabilities of the Poisson distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Furthermore, a closed form expression for the mean absolute deviation 􀜧|􀜰􀰒 􀵆 􀜯􀝁􀝀􁈺􀜰􀰒􁈻| is also studied. The median is relevant because of the fact that it minimizes the mean absolute deviation of a Poisson random variable (􀜰􀰒􁈻 by considering median as central tendency.
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