Usulan Strategi Untuk Meningkatkan Daya Saing Produk Mebel Rotan Single Chair Dengan Analisis Rantai Nilai (Studi Kasus : Klaster Mebel Rotan Kab. Cirebon)

Rattan furniture industry become one of the leading sector in Indonesia where the biggest rattan processing center palced in Cirebon,West Java. However, there are some constraints in rattan furniture industry in Cirebon which include the increasing of competition among global manufacturers and the government policy that allowed rattan export lead to profits in the competing countries.Therefore, we need a strategy to enhance the competitiveness of rattan products in world markets. This strategy can be obtained by analyzing the value chain. The purposes of this study are to analyze the value chain of rattan furniture products and get the appropriate competitive strategy to be implemented by each actor within value chain. The method is carried out financial analysis, SWOT analysis, Diamond Competitiveness analysis, and analysis of Critical Success Factor (CSF). Object of research are companies which are members of the Association of Indonesian Furniture (ASMINDO) Cirebon that produced single chair rattan. From the results of data processing and analysis, the strategies that can be applied in suppliers are to establish a subsidiary in the available raw materials and merged with the company. The strategies that can be applied in the company are applying its labor costs per unit of product produced, the allocation of funds for promotion, buyers prioritize subscriptions, sharing information and innovation with the buyer, has a high flexibility in terms of quality and price, collaborate with associations and government in exhibitions, and merged with another company or with suppliers. While strategies that can be applied in buyer in this case wholeseller are to lower the price of the product, maximize promotion and maintaining good relationships with companies that already truste

Flood mitigation considering the perception of stakeholders: case study at Samarinda City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Flood is natural phenomena. For certain rural area, there is a local wisdom that people hadadjusted their live with the flood. On the other side, especially at dense urban area, most of people consider flood as a disaster. Therefore Flood Mitigation Program (FMP) had been conducted to anticipate flood, such as hydraulic structure and flood policy implementation. However in general, FMP was designed without take into account the stake holder perceptions about flood. It caused ineffective and unsustain program due to minimum support from several important stake holder. Since huge samples and interviews are necessary to understand the main perception of the stake holder, Q Method was introduced into this research to understand the stake holder perceptions. And then as well as FMP, flood adaptation will be developed. The advantages of QMethod are subjectivityidentification and small samples. Q Method starts with collecting the flood opinion among the stake holder, and thenarrangesthe statement according to its frequency. The questioners were designed based on frequent statements to quantity the opinion according to relevancy and importance among the statement to the flood. The questioners were distributed again to the stake holder, and then statistical analysis was conducted based on respondents, not based on statements as normal questioner analysis. Samarinda City has long story about FMP. Since flood still occurs, Samarinda City was selected as good case study for these flood new countermeasures. A better effective and sustainable flood programs are expected as outcome of this research

Improving Contextual Suggestions using Open Web Domain Knowledge

Also published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073)Contextual suggestion aims at recommending items to users given their current context, such as location-based tourist recommendations. Our contextual suggestion ranking model consists of two main components: selecting candidate suggestions and providing a ranked list of personalized suggestions. We focus on selecting appropriate suggestions from the ClueWeb12 collection using tourist domain knowledge inferred from social sites and resources available on the public Web (Open Web). Specifically, we generate two candidate subsets retrieved from the ClueWeb12 collection, one by filtering the content on mentions of the location context, and one by integrating domain knowledge derived from the OpenWeb. The impact of these candidate selection methods on contextual suggestion effectiveness is analyzed using the test collection constructed for the TREC Contextual Suggestion Track in 2014. Our main findings are that contextual suggestion performance on the subset created using OpenWeb domain knowledge is significantly better than using only geographical information. Second, using a prior probability estimated from domain knowledge leads to better suggestions and improves the performance

Assessment of natural radionuclides at Kinta River, Malaysia: relationship between the turbidity to uranium and thorium concentrations

This study aims to investigate the relationship between the turbidity to uranium and thorium concentrations. Since the radionuclides analysis is complex and time consuming, turbidity monitoring on river is proposed to be an indirect indicator for uranium and thorium concentration. Eighteen water samples were collected and turbidity measurements were conducted at several locations from Kinta River. The concentration of uranium and thorium were analyzed using inducted coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS). The concentrations of thorium were varied from 44 ng L?1 to 787 ng L?1 while the concentration of uranium varied from 45 ng L?1 to 371 ng L?1. Statistical analyses were applied to determine the relation between turbidity and concentrations of uranium and thorium at Kinta River. The correlation coefficients (R) show a strongly correlation, with R values of 0.915 and 0.881 for turbidity with concentrations of uranium and thorium, respectively

Significance of the Easy-to-use Water Quality Checker for Participative Environmental Monitoring and Experience Based Learning

Pack Test is a series of products of Kyoritsu Chemical-Check Laboratory Cooperation, Japan. It is easy-to-use, anybody can use at anywhere, low cost, nontoxic, safe, and professional-use, onetime use ion-selective color metric water quality checker. The aim of this research is to assess, then next, discuss the significance of applications of this tool. In this order, NH4-Pack Test was selected as an example for the discussions; although there are more than 60 parameters can be detected by pack test such as, COD, Cl-, NO3-, phosphate, hardness, pH, heavy metals, etc.. As for field survey, Ion chromatography was used to measure ammonium concentration of river water in Jakarta. Then detection range of the NH4-Pack Test was compared to the data, and Indonesian and Malaysian national water quality standard. River water quality of Jakarta was weekly degraded at upstream area, but it was seriously degraded at downstream area (up to 5-10 NH4-N mg/L). As for ammonium concentration, obviously the detection range and step of Pack Test was sufficient to assess the ammonium concentrations of rive water in Jakarta. Of course Pack Test is very simplified tool, environmental water quality standard of ammonia for class I in Indonesia and Class I and II in Malaysia were difficult to evaluate. However, it was obviously applicable to check treated effluent and Class III to V water quality of Malaysian environmental standard. Consequently, it is suggested to adopt a double standard policy of water quality monitoring, such as combination of "easy-to-use simplified" and "conventional-accurate". Because of low cost, and professional-convenient design, implementation of Pack Test will significant to empower on-site water quality monitoring in developing country, participative environmental awareness public programs, experience base environmental learning in schools, and other grass-rooted environmental activities

Influencing Public Opinion: Activist Public Relations and the Arrest of Susan B. Anthony

The Suffrage movement stands out as an early progressive cause that utilized an integrated approach to public relations in support of a clear objective. The arrest of Susan B. Anthony provided the movement with a huge opportunity to influence public opinion in order to win the right to vote