Mitigasi Korupsi Berbasis PAR: Studi pada Bantuan Sosial Semeru Pemerintah Daerah Kabupaten Lumajang

This study was intended to understand the pattern of mitigating corruption of social assistance (bansos) for victims of the Semeru eruption based on public awareness to escort the distribution of social assistance to residents affected by the Semeru eruption. The research employed socio-legal with a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, a corruption escort approach based on community solidarity. Data was collected through interviews, focus group discussions and online and offline dissemination. The results showed that (1) supervision and legal protection of the role of the community in preventing and enforcing social assistance deviations was critical. The community was vital in ensuring the country's administration ran well and was clean of corruption. (2) The participation of the general public in the administration of the state guarantees the achievement of a better Indonesia, which was still wishful. (3) The opinion of poor and marginalized communities needs to be heard due to they have the same guarantees from the constitution

Peningkatan Produktivitas Kopi Arabika Gayo I dan II Berbasis Aplikasi Biourine dan Biokompos

Gayo Highlands region had a potential area for the development of Arabica coffee because of the topographical conditions of the land that support the cultivation of Gayo Arabica coffee, but production of plants ranges from 650–750 kg ha-1, lower than some existing varieties which reach 1,5–2 tons ha-1. One way to increase production is the application of biourine and biocompost. This study aimed to determine the effect of the application of biourine and biocompost technology packages on the growth and production of Gayo I and II Arabica coffee plants. This study used a factorial separate plot design (RPT) consisting of Arabica Gayo I (A1) and Gayo II (A2) with a dose of NPK 150 kg ha-1 (farmer/control treatment) (C1), 150 mL-1 (biourine) + 5 ton ha-1 (biocompost) + NPK 100 kg ha-1 (C2), 125 mL plant-1 (biourine) + 7.5 ton ha-1 (biocompost) + NPK 100 kg ha-1 (C3), and 100 mL plant-1 (biocompost) + 10 ton ha-1 (biocompost) + NPK 100 kg ha-1 (C4). The results of the observations were analyzed by ANOVA and 95% DMRT. The results showed that the doses of biourine and biocompost fertilizers did not have interaction with Gayo I and Gayo II Arabica coffee, but for independent treatment of biourine and bicompost fertilizers, the dosage significantly affected the production of Gayo Arabica coffee. Application of 100 mL ha-1(biourine) + 10 tons ha-1 (biocompost) + 100 kg ha-1 NPK (C4) was able to increase the Gayo Arabica Coffee production by 41% when compared with NPK fertilizers of 150 kg ha-1 without biourine and biocompost (C1). Regression analysis showed that the level of 80% of Gayo Arabica Coffee was affected by the different application of biocompost dosages. Keywords: Arabica Gayo, biourine, biocompost, productivit

Hubungan Karakter Agronomi Padi Varietas Ciherang Dan Inpari 32 Di Lahan Sawah Tadah Hujan

Setiap varietas tanaman padi mempunyai sifat atau karakter yang berbeda sehingga memberikan respon yang berbeda pada berbagai lingkungan tumbuh. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui sifat-sifat atau karakter agronomi varietas padi di lahan sawah tadah hujan. Penelitian telah dilaksanakan di lahan sawah tadah hujan milik petani di desa Luthu Lamweu, Suka Makmur, Aceh Besar pada bulan Juli sampai November 2021. Rancangan percobaan yang digunakan adalah Rancangan Acak Kelompok (RAK) dengan 2 varietas yang diulang sebanyak 3 kali, sehingga terdapat enam unit percobaan dengan 5 sampel tanaman pada setiap unit. Data penelitian dianalisis dengan menggunakan analisis korelasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa karakter agronomi varietas Ciherang memiliki tingkat keeratan sangat kuat antara jumlah anakan dengan jumlah malai per rumpun (0.85), jumlah gabah isi per malai dengan berat gabah isi per malai (0.84), dan berat gabah isi per malai dengan berat 1000 biji (0.84). Sedangkan Inpari 32 memiliki tingkat keeratan hubungan sangat kuat pada karakter jumlah anakan dengan jumlah malai per rumpun (0.92), jumlah gabah isi per malai dengan berat gabah isi per malai (0.83) dan berat 1000 biji (0.81), berat gabah isi per malai dengan berat 1000 biji (0.90). Kedua varietas padi tersebut menunjukkan keeratan hubungan yang berbeda antar karakter agronomi di lahan sawah tadah hujan

Lost years of a nomad: Exploring Indian experience in Nuruddin Farah’s oeuvre

To honor Nuruddin Farah’s fifty-year-long writing journey, this article explores his time in India (1966–69) and the influence it had on making him a leading postcolonial writer. My approach is largely biographical. I begin with his decision to turn down a scholarship at an American University, which some critics view as immature or even eccentric. I challenge this view of his choice instead to enroll for a degree in philosophy, literature and sociology at the Government College of Panjab University at Chandigarh in 1966 and to make what was then a country of poverty and even famine his first diasporic destination. I argue that this was a well-thought-out, politically correct and wise decision in the global context of international relationships in the 1960s. I also explore Farah’s brief association with Indian culture and the knowledge he acquired of Indian philosophy and literature to explain his decision to adopt a feminist perspective to write on injustice against women and the powerless and religious intolerance rather than focus on issues such as independence realpolitik like leading African writers at the time. His first manuscript, published in 1970 as From a Crooked Rib, was a Penguin modern classic by 2004. I argue that this novel was importantly shaped by his Indian experience. I also explore the influence of two novels on the young Farah on his personal life, ideology and writing even before he went to India: W. Somerset Maugham’s novel The Razor’s Edge (1944) and Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s classic Chemmeen (1956). This is the first substantial investigation of the effect of Farah’s Indian experience