Judul: Formulasi dan Kelayakan Strategi Aternatif Distribusi Gas Bumi PT ABC
Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk merumuskan strategi dan kelayakan strategi alternatif distribusi gas bumi bagi PT ABC dalam menjaga kontinyuitas pasokan gas bumi. Analisis kelayakan dan pohon keputusan digunakan untuk menentukan strategi terpilih dalam menjaga kontinyuitas pasokan gas bumi. Analisis internal dan eksternal digunakan untuk mengidentifikasi faktor-faktor kunci keberhasilan perusahaan dalam mengimplementasikan strategi terpilih kemudian dirangkum dan dievaluasi menggunakan matriks IFE dan EFE. Untuk merumuskan strategi implementasi dengan menyelaraskan faktor kunci internal dan eksternal, digunakan matriks IE dan SWOT. Matriks QSPM digunakan untuk menentukan prioritas strategi implementasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan skor IFE dan EFE masing-masing sebesar 2,55 dan 2,76, sehingga PT ABC memiliki sumber daya internal yang cukup untuk menjaga kontinyuitas pasokan gas bumi dan mampu merespon peluang dan ancaman dengan baik. Kondisi ini dapat dikelola dengan baik dengan strategi hold and maintain yaitu penetrasi pasar dan pengembangan produk. Analisis Matriks QSPM menunjukkan bahwa kelompok strategi pengembangan produk memiliki Total Attractiveness Score (TAS) tertinggi sehingga menjadi prioritas untuk diimplementasikan dilanjutkan strategi penetrasi pasar.
Keyword: Formulasi Strategi, LNG, Natural Gas, Pipa Distribusi

Judul: Strategy of PT GAS Facing Business Competition in the Downstream Natural Gas Industry Distribution of West Java and Banten Regions in Indonesia
Abstrak: Indonesia still has conventional natural gas reserves of 100.36 TSCF (Trillion Standard Cubic Feet), and 42.46 TSCF are potential reserves. Apart from conventional natural gas, Indonesia has the potential of non-conventional natural gas, namely coal methane gas known as CBM (Coal Bed Methane) or natural gas from coal and Shale Gas (Flake Gas) potential of 452 TSCF and 574 respectively TSCF. The amount of natural gas reserves illustrates the strategic value of natural gas to fulfill national energy. However, the enormous potential of gas commodities has not yet had a tremendous impact on PT GAS development. Over the past six years, the growth of PT GAS's performance has decreased. This study aims to analyze the internal and external factors that influence the business development of PT GAS, formulate various alternative business development strategies of PT GAS, and determine priority strategies that can apply to PT GAS business development. The research started from November 2018 to April 2019. Primary research data obtained from interviews and discussions with a focus group discussion (FGD) approach and the distribution of questionnaires to nine informants who were considered competent in this study were those directly involved in the preparation of the company's strategy during This was done by PT GAS. Samples took using a purposive sampling method. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively. The strategy formulation analysis consisted of the input stage using an internal and external factor evaluation matrix, the matching stage using IE Matrix and SWOT, and the decision stage using QSPM. The results showed that internal factors were affecting business development obtained from identifying the company's strengths and weaknesses and external factors obtained from opportunities and threats. Internal factor evaluation results got a value of 3.00 (strength of 2.20 and weakness of 0.80) and an external evaluation value of 3.02 (opportunity 2.33 and threats 0.69). Internal and external evaluation calculations determine the company's position in the quadrant grow and build or grow and build. The results of the IE and SWOT analysis results showed seven alternative strategies as well as the priority order of the plan after calculating using the QSPM calculation, namely a) Market Penetration b) Product Diversification c) Improving Pipe Networks d) Improving gas quality e) Improving service quality f) Company reputation g) Strengthening branding. After going through three strategic management planning stages, the next step was selecting the main strategic alternatives that use QSPM as a tool. The primary strategy that gets the highest attractiveness value (3.20) in QSPM is "Market Penetration on an ongoing basis by strengthening the marketing research base by maximizing the pipeline network that there and good gas quality as a value proposition. This strategy is the most attractive strategy for PT GAS today. PT GAS must create a strong marketing research base by strengthening marketing
Keyword: Development Strategy, IE Matrix, natural gas, QSPM

Judul: Categorization in Macaca fascicularis.
Abstrak: Categorization is an ability to group individuals or events into different classes mediated by conceptualized mental images. There are several levels of categorization and within a taxonomy the levels are nested. At the most concrete level of categorization, all or most members of the category shared common physical attributes that differ from other categories. The higher the level of category, the fewer common attributes between members of the group. In addition to humans, the ability to categorize has also been proposed in animals. One example of categorization in animal is species discrimination. Using matching-tosample task, present experiment tested ability of the long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in discriminating dichotomous-stimuli of different animals. The species has been shown to be able to see photos as representations of real object so I used facial photos of humans and animals for the stimuli. First, I tested their ability to classify humans and macaques into separate group. Second, I tested their ability to discriminate their conspecific from other macaques. And the last, I tested whether the subjects were able to discriminate non-human animals from humans. In all of these experiments I found that the subjects showed high performance in categorizing objects, even when I discarded details of visual informations, such as color and local shapes. The ability to identify objects with reduced representation of physical properties means the subjects were able to generalize attributes of members of the group. This would indicate that the subjects created a higher level abstraction. On the other hand, in discriminating intrageneric macaque species I found that they were able to extract uniqueness of each species. More over, I also found that the subjects were able to put photos of non-human animals that shared very few similarities in physical percepts into one group. I suggested that the subjects could create a more abstract concept based on non-percepts relations as a basis to put the objects into one category. Thus, I concluded that M. fascicularis were able to perform multiple levels of categorizations.
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