Judul: Kajian Tekno Ekonomi Industri Minyak Sawit Merah Karoten Tinggi
Abstrak: A serious problems often faced by developing countries such as Indonesia is deficiency vitamin A. The number of Indonesia’s blindness in 2008 is about 1.5% of the population. The efforts of Indonesia’s Government are through its cooking oil fortification vitamin. The weakness of the fortvication program is a vitamin used is still imported from abroad. One of alternatives that could be developed is by doing the development of palm oil as a source of carotene in the form of red palm oil. One of the plantations in Indonesia, which has palm oil plants with high levels of carotene is PTPN XIV XIII of West Kalimantan. Carotene content of the varieties range from 2000 to 4000 ppm. The purpose of this study is to analyze techno-economic aspect of high carotene red palm oil industry. Scope of research includes techno-economic on the market and marketing aspect, technical and technological, management and organization, environmental, legal, valuation and commercialization, as well as financial aspects. This Red Palm Oil Industry is planned to be located in Sanggau, West Kalimantan. The Industrial capacity is 5tons/hour. After a depth assessment of all aspects, it can be concluded that the industry of Red Palm Oil is feasible to be realized
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Judul: Feasibility Analysis of Small Scale Red Palm Oil Business on KSU Sari Bumi in South Sumatera
Abstrak: Indonesia sebagai negara produsen minyak kelapa sawit terbesar ditunjang oleh luasnya area perkebunan sawit. Program pemerintah terus mendukung perkembangan perkebunan kelapa sawit di Indonesia, khususnya perkebunan sawit rakyat. KSU Sari Bumi sebagai koperasi kelapa sawit berencana memproduksi produk baru yaitu minyak sawit merah (RPO) sebagai suplemen kaya provitamin A. Oleh karena perlu dilakukan studi kelayakan usaha minyak sawit merah (RPO) di KSU Sari Bumi. Metode penelitian yang digunakan pada penelitian ini meliputi analisis kelayakan aspek finansial, aspek non finansial dan analisis nilai pengganti. Hasil analisis aspek non financial menunjukan skenario pertama KSU Sari Bumi layak dijalankan. Hasil analisis financial menunjukan Nilai NPV diperoleh sebesar Rp1.930.369.603,54 sedangkan perhitungan Net B/C menghasilkan nilai 1,44. Perhitungan IRR menghasilkan nilai 20,52% serta Payback Period 5 Tahun 3 bulan 13 hari. Hasil analisis nilai pengganti menunjukan penurunan harga jual dapat ditoleransi hingga batas perubahan mencapai 19,2%, penurunan produksi RPO dapat ditoleransi hingga batas perubahan mencapai 19,2% sedangkan perubahan biaya operasional dapat ditoleransi kenaikannya hingga 37,1%. Hal tersebut menunjukan bahwa usaha KSU Sari Bumi dapat menghadapi kondisi tersebut dan dapat dikatakan layak, Indonesia as the largest producer of palm oil supported by the largest palm plantation. Government programs also supported the development of palm plantations, especially smallholder palm plantations. KSU Sari Bumi is a palm oil cooperative that plans to produce red palm oil (RPO) as provitamin A supplement. There fore it is necessary to do business feasibility study of RPO in KSU Sari Bumi. The research methods used feasibility analysis of non-financial aspects, financial aspect and switching value analysis. The result of nonfinancial aspect showed that first scenario of KSU Sari Bumi is worth to do. The result of financial aspects showed NPV value is Rp1.930.369.603,54, Net B / C value is 1,44; IRR value is 20,52%, Payback period is 5 Years 3 Month. The results of the switching value analysis showed a decrease in selling price by 19,2%, a decrease in production capacity by 19,2%, and an increase in production costs by 37,1%. When KSU Sari Bumi faced with that conditions, KSU Sari Bumi still said it feasible.
Keyword: Business Feasibility, KSU Sari Bumi, Palm Oil, Red Palm Oil

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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