Judul: Relasi Praktik Politik Etnik dengan Kesejahteraan Kelompok Etnik
Abstrak: Etnisitas sebagai simbol identitas kerap dimanfaatkan sebagai alat untuk memperebutkan kekuasaan politik dan menarik dukungan kelompok etnik. Fenomena ini seharusnya dapat menyumbang peningkatan kesejahteraan bagi kelompok etnik, namun hal ini malah berdampak sebaliknya. Untuk itu penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pembentukan identitas kelompok etnik dan keberlangsungan praktik politik etnik, menganalisis relasi praktik politik dengan kesejahteraan kelompok etniknya beserta ketimpangannya. Penelitian dilakukan di Desa Way Huwi, Kecamatan Jati Agung, Kabupaten Lampung Selatan, Provinsi Lampung dengan metode kuantitatif serta dukungan metode kualitatif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara umum hanya terdapat hubungan antara praktik politik etnik bidang ekonomi dengan kesejahteraan kelompok etnik, pada bidang seperti: infrastruktur, pendidikan, dan kesehatan. Selain itu, secara umum tingkat kesejahteraan kedua kelompok etnik berada pada taraf agak timpang. Dengan demikian analisis ini dapat dijadikan sebagai bahan pertimbangan pembuat kebijakan khususnya dalam implementasi program pembangunan serta mampu mengkaji tentang implementasi praktik politik etnik dengan kesejahteraan kelompok etnik
Keyword: ethnic politic, welfare

Judul: Pembentukan identitas etnik dalam arena ekonomi politik lokal di era desentralisasi (pergulatan politik identitas etnik di Kendari, Sulawesi Tenggara)
Abstrak: Despite of various previous researches on local political economy have been done in Indonesia, however, there still few studies which analyze the relation between local political economy as an arena and political realities of ethnic identity. Therefore, this study is aimed to analyze the formation of ethnic identity, ethnic domination practices, forms of strategy, struggle and ethnic identity formation in the arena of local political economy. By applying qualitative research which was supported by quantitative data, research which was conducted in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi showed that the formation of ethnic identity in the arena of local political economy is individual or ethnic groups habitus, on the line of objectivication and subjectivication continuum of actors who’re interacted each other. Afterwards, liberative democration as choice of democatic system in desentralization era, open opportunity for ethnic mobilization (identity) of actors (elite) on local political economy arena. Therefore, it’s not an astonishment when practises on local political economy arena are always ethnic bias, as shown in practises of symbolic power domination, political power domination practises, and economical power domination practises. In order to sustain the power domination, actors perform a series of strategies, such as: symbolic reproduction, symbolic investment, economical invansion, discourse support, power invansion, symbolic support, symbolic penetration, resistance, discourse reproduction, strategic alliances. Thereafter perpetuating the formation formed on local political economy arena, consisting of domination formation and dominated formation. []
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Judul: Mud Crab’s (Scylla serrata Forskal 1775) Response to Different Decaying Level of Gold Snail (Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck 1822) Bait.
Abstrak: Mud crab is well known as omnivorous-vigorous-voracious-opportunistic-scavenger. These intertidal animals applies mainly chemoreception in their predatory behaviour. It has been commonly assumed that non fresh gold snail bait is better than fresh bait in stimulating the mud crab. This research's aim is to analyze mud crab response to different decaying level of gold snail bait. Their response were observed as time required to touch the bait and pattern and direction of the mud crab in approaching the baits. The different decaying level of gold snail baits were shown on Total Volatile Base Nitrogen (TVBN) as 16.3 mg/100g (0 day); 534.1 mg/100g (3 days); and 887.4 mg/100g (6 days). The research was conducted from July 2009 until February 2011. The TVBN test for gold snail baits were conducted at Laboratory of BBPPHP Jakarta. The experiment was conducted in Pemalang. The result showed that the average period of mud crabs to touch the baits were 52.14 minutes; 61.57 minutes and 52.57 minutes. Anova test concluded no sufficient evidence of significant effect of TVBN content of gold snail bait on mud crab’s feeding behaviour. Movement pattern B, i.e. left and right deviation followed by straight forward movement to the bait, was commonly exhibited by the crabs. Consequences of time period required by the mud crab to approach the bait on fishing operation is discussed.
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