Religious Moderation and Information Communication Technology Dissemination: The Practice of Muhammadiyah Papua Through Online Campaign

This article contains the efforts made by Muhammadiyah universities in Papua and West Papua related to religious moderation campaigns through information technology. There are at least three things that form the basis for the birth of this study: 1) the speed of the radicalism movement over which religion exists in the digital world; 2) potential for conflict and SARA, especially in Papua and West Papua 3) the importance of strengthening religious moderation in Indonesia, especially through digital media. The method used is library research, namely by exploring various literatures, both primary and secondary, related to the concept of religious moderation in Indonesia. The results of the study show that Muhammadiyah Papua universities in campaigning for religious moderation function as a counterweight in the digital world. That is, the narrative of religious moderation from the Muhammadiyah Papua university gave birth to a substantive and essential religious framing that is moderate and tolerant.

ДРУШТВЕНИ КАПИТАЛ У ФУНКЦИЈИ УНАПРЕЂЕЊА РЕГИОНАЛНОГ РАЗВОЈА

Regional development strategies should be based on the sound assessment of regional resources, capabilities, competences and core competences, as well as on dynamic capabilities aiming to develop the resource configurations in order to form their regional competitive advantage. Therefore, new regionalism is basically a bottom-up process, because the prerequisites for its successful implementation are the leadership and vision of local actors and administrations, civic participation, the growth of social capital and administrative decentralization and devolution of power. In that sense, the paper deals with important issues regarding the intangible determinants of regional economic development. The research method that will be dominantly used in this paper is the case-study method which aims to fully and thoroughly reconstruct the presence and role of social capital (primarily its structural dimension - social network platforms) in the regional development of world-famous and successful regions such as Silicon Valley, Baden-Wurttemberg and Emilia-Romagna. The overall conclusion of the paper is that regional growth is a function of the social capital stocks of respective regions to a significant extent. Social capital is positively linked to regional development and economic prosperity by reducing transaction costs, articulating collective actions, encouraging innovation and technology dissemination, discouraging opportunism and increasing monetary and non-monetary cost of fraud.

Adoption of integration systems of rice and cattle in Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatra

The integrated rice and cattle system (SITT) is an innovative technology package to increase agricultural production and encourage zero waste fulfillment. The technology components introduced include new HYV, fertilization, young seedlings, organic fertilizers, Jajar Legowo, IPM, bio urine, and compost. Although it has been implemented at the farmer level, there are insufficient details of its adoption performance; therefore, it is necessary to measure the adoption to evaluate the technology dissemination. This research objective was to analyze the farmers’ adoption level, adoption period, and technology application frequency. The research was conducted in Serdang Bedagai, North Sumatra, in 2018. The respondents were 40 farmers (cooperator and noncooperator), and the respondents’ selection was made purposively. The data obtained were analyzed using qualitative and quantitative descriptive approaches. The results showed that the adoption of technology by cooperator farmers was higher than noncooperator farmers, both from the perspective of each technology component and the level of adoption. The average duration of technology adoption by farmers was 44,0% require more than one planting season, 28,4% require one planting season, and 27,6% require less than one planting season. The frequency of technology application showed that farmers who apply SITT technology more than two planting seasons were 66,0%, exactly two planting seasons were 24,5%, and one planting season was 9,5%. Thus, to increase farmers’ adoption of technology, the technology should be suited to farmers’ preferences and needs, increase profits and ensure that the technology is available in the field. Moreover, providing continuous assistance during the introduction of technology.

Technology dissemination on processing coconut coir waste into aesthetic sound absorbers

This Community Service is aimed at a group of women farmers in Bangun Rejo Village, Tenggarong Seberang District, Kutai Kartanegara Regency. The partners are plantation farmers such as corn, cassava, coconut, banana and rice, some of which are grown seasonally. From the garden, it produces coir waste such as coconut husks. The problem is that the farmers do not have the knowledge and experience in processing the coconut husks waste. This community service is carried out through three stages, namely preliminary design, design development, and final design and prototype. With this community service activity, there will be a transfer of knowledge on coconut coir processing with chopping machine technology so as to produce coco fiber and process it into fiberboard to then produce interior aesthetic element products. The final product is an aesthetic soundproofing absorber. In addition, the team also gave the machine in order to create a diversification of processed coconut husks products so as to create job opportunities and increase the income of the people.

Characteristics of Farmers in Suboptimal Land Agroecosystems and the Implications of the Application of Farm Technology

The area of West Tanjung Jabung District is dominated by tidal land agroecosystems so that the farming pattern that develops is based on tidal land. This research aimed to study the characteristics of farmers in tidal land agroecosystems and their implications for the application of farming technology. The research was conducted in Bunga Tanjung Village, Betara Subdistrict, West Tanjung Jabung District in 2019, involving 40 farmers who were randomly selected as respondents. The descriptive data analysis showed the first, farming on tidal land was characterized by the control of relatively unprocessed and cultivated farm land, low crop intensity of food commodities, and low levels of productivity resulting in unfulfillable farming results properly. The second, the biophysical conditions of farming land wereless conducive to influence the decisions of farmers to Apply farming technology. The third, the opportunity to increase farming productivity in tidal lands was still wide open by optimizing the potential utilization of farmland resources based on the strengths and weaknesses of farmers. The fourth, the strategies to increase productivity in tidal land agroecosystem areas were conducted by diversifying into multi- enterprises, implementing integration patterns between commodities, accelerating technology dissemination, and encouraging the growth of partnership networks. In order for these strategies to be implemented, it is necessary to have a soft credit scheme policy which in its implementation it is followed by assistance of extension agents and researchers.

KMAS as a Tool for Dissemination of Agricultural Technologies in Nagaon District of Assam

Development of Agricultural and allied activities can be achieved through various approaches of Information and communication (ICT) tools. Kisan Mobile Advisory system (KMAS) is one of ICT approaches for dissemination of agricultural technologies to the farming community through SMSs. KVK, Nagaon created a registered farmers group and information related to crop production, insect pest control, dairy and poultry farming, fishery and other marketing related information was sent to users in monthly basis for many years. A sample size of 100 registered farmers were selected for the study in order to examine the impact of KMAS for technology dissemination in Nagaon district. With the help of Pretested scheduled with Simple Random sampling data were collected and analyze in percent analysis. The survey showed that majority of the farmers found agricultural information as increase in knowledge (41.00%), partially applicable (73.00%). The overall impact of the KMAS was low About at 55 percent, medium at 38 per cent and high at 7 per cent. Further they suggested that messages on latest technologies should be served flowed by local language, voice messages.

Analisis Kepuasan Pengunjung Program Agroeduwisata Taman Teknologi Pertanian (TTP) Cigombong, Kabupaten Bogor

Along with the Indonesian government project to develop science technopark, the Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia has established Cigombong Agricultural Technopark (ATP). Agroeduwisata program is one of the Cigombong Agricultural Techno Park (ATP) programs as a tool for agricultural technology dissemination as well as become one of the business units for income-generating. To increase the number of visitors, the manager should explore the existing weaknesses and strengths to define the priorities of improvement to increase the visitor’s satisfaction. This study aims (1) to measure the satisfaction level of visitors on the Cigombong ATP agroeduwisata program, and (2) to identify the importance and performance level of the program. The research was conducted in September-October 2020 by a survey of 34 visitors to the Cigombong ATP agroeduwisata program. A descriptive analysis was developed by using the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) and Importance Performance Analysis (IPA). The results suggested that visitors were satisfied with a CSI value of 78.79 per cent. Furthermore, according to IPA, the improvement of the safety of location and accommodation facilities should be prioritized and further developed Meanwhile, the attributes including the benefits of agroeduwisata, the responsiveness of services, comfort of the location, politeness and friendliness. guides, ease of communication for carrying out activities, agroeduwisata activity packages offered, supporting facilities, consumption facilities and tidiness of guides were found to perform quite good and therefore should be consistently maintained. In addition, the attributes such as ticket prices, promotions, the response of complaints and access to the location were found to be less prioritized.

Visualizing the Invisible: Advanced Optical Microscopy as a Tool to Measure Biomechanical Forces

The importance of mechanical force in biology is evident across diverse length scales, ranging from tissue morphogenesis during embryo development to mechanotransduction across single adhesion proteins at the cell surface. Consequently, many force measurement techniques rely on optical microscopy to measure forces being applied by cells on their environment, to visualize specimen deformations due to external forces, or even to directly apply a physical perturbation to the sample via photoablation or optogenetic tools. Recent developments in advanced microscopy offer improved approaches to enhance spatiotemporal resolution, imaging depth, and sample viability. These advances can be coupled with already existing force measurement methods to improve sensitivity, duration and speed, amongst other parameters. However, gaining access to advanced microscopy instrumentation and the expertise necessary to extract meaningful insights from these techniques is an unavoidable hurdle. In this Live Cell Imaging special issue Review, we survey common microscopy-based force measurement techniques and examine how they can be bolstered by emerging microscopy methods. We further explore challenges related to the accompanying data analysis in biomechanical studies and discuss the various resources available to tackle the global issue of technology dissemination, an important avenue for biologists to gain access to pre-commercial instruments that can be leveraged for biomechanical studies.

Prospects of IoT technology

Introduction. Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the promising innovative technologies. Every year more and more people are involved in the use of smart things. At the same time, a relatively small number of papers are devoted to the study of the social value of technology and the experience of human interaction with this technology. It is important to study the features and prospects of the technology, to analyze the attitude and willingness of people to use it. Materials and Methods. We have conducted an Internet survey, in which special attention is paid to the place of IoT in the life of modern people, their attitude to the concept of devices. The obtained data is processed and systematized. Results. The analysis of the survey results allowed us to draw conclusions regarding the attitude and willingness of young people to apply this technology. In the course of the study, the IoT concept was defined, the conditions required for the existence and functioning of the technology were described, the advantages of IoT technology were generalized, information technologies interacting with this technology were specified, the tasks that require solutions for the successful and effective implementation of IoT into Russian reality were listed. Discussion and Conclusions. The Internet of Things is a technology that, with a consistent and systematic solution to a number of problems, can become a significant factor in the development of both individual spheres of life and activity, and the country as a whole. At the same time, it is important to study and consider the social impact of technology dissemination. This will increase trust in the IoT and eliminate negative impacts. The survey shows that young people tend to use smart things more widely. It is necessary to expand the range of smart things, to more confidently introduce the basics of practical application of IoT technology into educational programs, to discuss issues, ways to solve the tasks and pilot projects related to this technology widely in the media. This will enable to train not only people who are practically interested in IoT, but also qualified personnel who are able to solve problems in a new way.