AN ENGLISH SPEAKING TRAINING FOR THE DRAGON FRUIT PLANTATION WORKERS IN REMPANG ISLAND, BATAM: AGRO-TOURISM BASE

Batam is the third most visited city of foreign tourists due to the strategic location that closes to Singapore and Malaysia. It becomes a distinct advantage with the number of tourists visiting. In addition to marine tourism and shopping tourism, Batam has agro-tourism in the islands around Batam Island. Cafe Zore in Rempang Island's dragon fruit plantation is often visited by domestic and foreign tourists. Foreign tourists often experience difficulties in communicating with English because the employees could not speak English. It is aimed to develop employees' English skills through methods of community education and training with lecturing, discussion and demonstration techniques. The result of this training was the improvement of the English spoken ability. To sum up this PkM activity is that English communication skills are very important to welcome foreign tourists visiting and support the government to develop tourism in Batam

Trends in Emission Inventory of Marine Traffic for Port of Haifa

Located in the Middle East, Haifa Port serves both local and international trade interests (from Asia, Europe, America, Africa, etc.). Due to its strategic location, the port is part of the Belt and Road initiative. This research investigates Haifa Port’s emissions contribution to the existing daily emission inventory level in the area. This research is based on a developed full bottom-up model framework that looks at the single vessel daily voyage through its port call stages. The main data sources for vessel movements used in this research are the Israel Navy’s movements log and the Israel Administration of Shipping and Ports’ (ASP) operational vessel movements and cargo log. The Fuel Consumption (FC) data and Sulfur Content (SC) levels are based on official Israel ASP survey data. The observation years in this research are 2010–2018, with a focus on the Ocean-Going Vessel (OGV) type only. The results show that the vessel fleet calling at Israel ports mainly comprises vessels that have a lower engine tier grade (i.e., Tier 0 and 1), which is considered a heavy contributor to nitrogen oxide (NOx) pollution. The study recommends an additional cost charged (selective tariff) to reflect the external social cost linked to the single vessel air pollution combined with supportive technological infrastructure and economic incentive tools (e.g., electric subsidy) to attract or influence vessel owners to assign vessels equipped with new engine tier grades for calls at Israeli ports.

Strategi Pemasaran Jasa Pendidikan dalam Meningkatkan Animo Masyarakat pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19

This research aims to find out the management of marketing of educational services in increasing public interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods. Data is collected through observations, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study showed that the marketing of ma Al-Azhar Muaro Bungo education services during the Covid-19 pandemic was carried out by applying the concept of educational services marketing mix including marketing quality graduate products and karimah; price (tuition fee) is determined by the adjustment of the average economy of the student's parents; the place or location of the madrassa is in a strategic location; madrassa promotion is carried out directly and indirectly; Professional human resources and adequate facilities and infrastructure; The process of delivering educational services includes the delivery of facilities and facilities, learning activities, and extracurricular activities.

Digital Marketplace as a New Frontier of Electronic Commerce

The digital marketplace is a major competitor now for the conventional marketplace especially in Southeast Asian countries (ASEAN) where digital marketplaces are booming and developing at an aggressive rate. The study also focuses on the challenges of eBay as a leading digital marketplace in battling their privacy and security threat, handling customer complaints about their services, or how government intervention provides an impact to their business, and competing with similar service provides. The other challenges are also associated with geographical distribution for marketing strategic location and why eBay should maintain their business like any other conventional business practices. Finally, the authors explore how concerned they are towards customer service as fundamental for any business.

Evaluasi Program Pemberdayaan Usaha Mikro Kecil dan Menengah (UMKM) LAZISMU Magetan dengan Pendekatan Diagram Kartesius

This study aimed to determine the effect of zakat empowerment with MSMEs on the economic people empowerment according to the mustahik perceptions. This research used descriptive analysis with Cartesian coordinate approach. The results showed that the quality of LAZISMU in the MSMEs empowerment program in each dimension of tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, and empathy was almost entirely good quality. The tangible dimension can be shown through the ease of procedures for submitting assistance and the period of its realization. The suitability between everything described by the officer with the reality on the reliable dimension is the main priority factor. The politeness, friendliness and communication skill of officers in the empathy dimension are factors that must be maintained. While transparency in providing information on survey results on the assurance dimension is a low priority factor. The monitoring on the impact of empowerment on the responsiveness dimension and the strategic location of the LAZISMU office on the tangible dimension was considered excessive. There is an effect of zakat empowerment with MSMEs on increasing the people's economic income in terms of service quality according to the perceptions of mustahik. This research suggests LAZISMU Magetan for accelerates the realization of assistance proposals and the ease in applying for assistance.

Egypt’s energy diplomacy strengthens position abroad

Significance Beirut and its Western backers have turned to Cairo for assistance in mitigating Lebanon’s energy crisis. President Abdel Fattah el Sisi seeks to leverage Egypt’s strategic location, infrastructure and natural gas reserves for political and financial gain amid global gas shortages and soaring prices. Impacts Egypt aims to use gas as a way to show its importance but faces supply constraints. The EU and the United States reluctantly accept the Egyptian government as a better ally than the available alternatives. Egypt becoming an energy hub could play a small, but significant, role in helping Europe to reduce its chronic dependence on Russian gas.

Metode Topsis Untuk Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Penilaian Mall Terbaik Di Kota Depok

Abstrak: Mall merupakan tempat berbelanja dan refreshing yang sangat disukai banyak kalangan. Selain untuk tempat berbelanja, di mall juga terdapat banyak kuliner, tempat bermain anak, bioskop, dan masih banyak fasilitas hiburan yang ada di mall. Ada banyak mall di Kota Depok seperti Detos, Margo City, CIPLAZ Depok (Ramayana), D’Mall, Pesona Square, ITC Depok, Cinere Bellevue Mall, dan Cimanggis Square. Banyaknya Mall yang ada kerap kali membuat pengunjung bingung untuk menentukan kemana harus pergi kemall yang membuat nyaman dan bisa semua dilakukan. Berangkat dari permasalahan ini maka tujuan penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menentukan Mall terbaik. Ada beberapa kriteria yang digunakan dalam menentukan Mall terbaik yaitu Kebersihan, Keamanan, Tempat parkir, Kelengkapan tenant, Lokasi strategis dan Fasilitas umum. Dalam penelitian ini penulis menggunakan Metode Topsis, metode ini pengambilan keputusan menggunakan multi kriteria dengan prinsip untuk alternaatif yang terpilih memiliki jarak terdekat untuk solusi terbaik positif. Hasil perhitungan didapat bahwa Mall Terbaik di Kota Depok yaitu Margo City dengan nilai 1, untuk rangking kedua yaitu Detos dengan nilai 0,9887, dan rangking ketiga yaitu ITC Depok dengan nilai 0,3246. Kata kunci: mall, metode Topsis, sistem pendukung keputusan Abstract: The mall is a place for shopping and refreshing that is very popular among many people. In addition to shopping, in the mall there are also many culinary delights, children's playgrounds, cinemas, and many entertainment facilities in the mall. There are many malls in Depok City such as Detos, Margo City, CIPLAZ Depok (Ramayana), D'Mall, Pesona Square, ITC Depok, Cinere Bellevue Mall, and Cimanggis Square. The number of existing malls often makes visitors confused about where to go to the mall which makes everything comfortable and can be done. Departing from this problem, the purpose of this study was to determine the best Mall. There are several criteria used in determining the best mall, namely Cleanliness, Security, Parking, Tenant Completeness, Strategic Location and Public Facilities. In this study, the author uses the Topsis method. This method uses multiple criteria for decision making with the principle that the chosen alternative has the closest distance to the best positive solution. The results of the calculation show that the Best Mall in Depok City is Margo City with a value of 1, for the second rank is Detos with a value of 0.9887, and the third rank is ITC Depok with a value of 0.3246. Keywords: decission support system, mall, Topsis methode

A preliminary survey of Chinese ceramics in Champa archaeological sites | Khảo sát sơ bộ về đồ gốm sứ Trung Quốc tại các địa điểm khảo cổ học Champa

The Champa Kingdom was recognized popularly as a typical maritime polity in premodern Southeast Asia. Thanks to its strategic location between the Chinese market and Southeast Asia and South Asia, the Champa coast became a frequent destination of foreign traders and merchant ships for centuries. Ceramics was among the essential commodities in trade between Champa and international traders. This article relies on archaeological records and field surveys at Champa sites in central Vietnam to provide an overview of the distribution of Chinese ceramics in central Vietnam from the 7th to 10th centuries. Based on this primary data set, the author will discuss the trade and diplomatic relations between Champa and China and their implication to Champa’s state development. Vương quốc Champa được ghi nhận như một vương quốc biển điển hình ở Đông Nam Á thời kỳ cổ trung đại. Nhờ vị trí chiến lược giữa thị trường Trung Quốc với các nước Đông Nam Á và Nam Á, bờ biển Champa trở thành điểm đến thường xuyên của các thương nhân và tàu buôn nước ngoài trong nhiều thế kỷ. Gốm sứ là một trong những mặt hàng thiết yếu trong giao thương giữa Champa và các thương nhân quốc tế. Bài viết này dựa trên các dữ liệu khảo cổ học và kết quả khảo sát thực địa tại các địa điểm khảo cổ học Champa ở miền Trung Việt Nam để cung cấp một cái nhìn mang tính tổng thể về sự phân bố của đồ gốm sứ Trung Quốc ở miền Trung Việt Nam từ thế kỷ thứ 7 đến thế kỷ thứ 10. Dựa trên bộ dữ liệu cơ bản này, tác giả sẽ thảo luận về quan hệ bang giao và thương mại giữa Champa với Trung Quốc thời Đường và ý nghĩa của mối quan hệ này đối với sự phát triển nhà nước của Champa.

Disturbance of Mangrove Forest Due To Climate Change: The Prospects of Sundarban

Mangrove forest has a significant importance in protecting natural disaster, environmental sustainability and in local economy. In Bangladesh, only mangrove forest Sundarban also servicing for environmental sustainability, protecting tropical cyclone, local employment generation and so on. Thus, its natural properties are being hampered through people involvement and natural calamities. Moreover, Rapid population growth and climate change stimulating these disturbances of natural properties of Sundarbans. This paper aim at how climate change is disturbing mangrove forest in Bangladesh and how this disturbance may be threatful for future environmental sustainability. Interrelation between climate change and disturbance of Sundarbans has been established through various exiting literature review and for quantifying the amount of disturbance remote sensing data has been applied and future threat of environmental sustainability has been assessed by comparing regeneration capacity of Sundarban after a tropical cyclone and amount of disturbance by a tropical cyclone. Result found that climate change increasing the frequency of natural calamities and affecting significantly on mangrove forest due to its complex bio-diversity and strategic location before regeneration of disturbance. On the other hand, threat of mangroves as well as environment is associated with temperature rising, ice melting and sea level rising are increasing because of frequent occurrence, magnitude as comparing with regeneration capacity.

Delineating Subjective Experiences in the Mardika Market: Self-Management of Beggars Identities in Moluccas, Indonesia

Mardika market is a strategic location for people engaging in begging activity in Moluccas, Indonesia. A beggar is a person who earns an income in public in various ways and hopes to expect mercy from others, and engages in activities by taking advantage of to make other people feel sorry for them. The research aims to explore the self management of people carrying out begging activities. This study uses a subjective interpretive method through a phenomenological approach based on the theory of symbolic interaction. The results demonstrate that beggars verbally self-management impressions. Nonverbally, beggars with dirty clothes, sad faces, and slow gestures remove their hands using bowls as a sign of asking. Their self-management front appearance takes advantage of physical backwardness, pretending to be disabled, and living a poor and wandering life so that they deserve pity. This differs from a figure who has a robust physical condition, carries out everyday activities, wears proper clothes, displays a cheerful face, and has good social relations with family and society in the self-management behind appearance.