Blockchain Technology Meets Traceability in Fruit Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Review

Fruits are easily damaged, therefore, a tracing system is needed to ensure the commodity is well received by consumers. This study is a systematic review aims to identify areas where the fruits traceability provides the most value for supply chain management and to develop elements of a future research agenda for the fruits traceability in supply chain management. PRISMA or Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses is used to help the systematic literature review. The result showed thad there are several values ​​in applying traceability to the fruit supply chain, such as traceability guarantees the quality of fruit in the supply chain, traceability protects from fraud. Traceability will help increase consumer confidence in food safety, particularly on fruit. Blockchain technology is a promosing technology for a traceability system in industry and can be used successfully, by modifying the supply chain system and meeting the limitations first.

Cybercrime dan Cybersecurity pada Fintech: Sebuah Tinjauan Pustaka Sistematis

This study is intended to determine the cybercrime challenges faced by the fintech industry as well as anticipatory actions in the form of cybersecurity to overcome these challenges. This study employs a systematic literature review method from various articles discussing cybercrime and cybersecurity in fintech that were published in reputable online databases. The findings indicate that cybercrime problems in fintech consist of cybercrime regulations that are not strict, data and information theft, and intellectual property theft in which impacting on the reputation of fintech. Cybersecurity as an attempt to tackle cybercrime in fintech can be performed through proactive action, strengthening regulations, and establishing a reliable cybersecurity framework or procedure. The implications of this research are as an additional reference for academics, practitioners, regulators, and fintech actors related to the fast pace development of cybercrime and cybersecurity in fintech. The limitation of this study is that it only provides an overview and elaborate the results of prior studies instead of provide a further analysis of the relationship between the articles discussed. Recommendations for further research are to increase the scope of the articles studied or apply other literature review methods or conduct empirical research to confirm the results of this study.

Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Mses and Cooperatives and Strategic Recovery in New Normal Era

The purpose of this study is to examine the economic impact of Covid-19 on the performance of micro, and small enterprises (MSEs) and cooperative institutions; how the strategies and formulate a recovery strategy in the new normal era. The main data used are primary data collected through interviews to MSE and microfinance institutions. The analytical method used is descriptive statistics and econometric models. The before and after analysis shows the significantly different costs and benefits of MSEs before and after the pandemic. The analysis shows that in the pandemic Covid-19 period, all MSEs decreased performance, most experienced a decrease in business turnover (6 percent) and similarly with cooperative institutions, their turnover decreased to 55%. The strategy of the cooperatives to maintaining its performance is to provide relaxation, improve efficiency by reducing employees, and ask for a reduction in profit-sharing payments to creditors; while the MSE strategy if the cooperatives does not provide loans for a while is 60 percent of MSEs seeking loans from relatives, 25 percent borrowing from other microfinance despite high-interest rates and 15 percent selling their household assets.

The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Job Involvement on Project Team Member’s Performance

This study concentrated on job employee performance by using emotional intelligence, job involvement, leaders‘ trust, and job satisfaction. The researchers examined the job involvement and emotional inelegance factors on IT projects team member’s performance in China with the effect of moderator factor trust of leader and mediator impact job satisfaction. After reviewing many works of literature, the student explained and discussed the development of the hypothesis of emotional intelligence, Job involvement, the trust of a leader, and Job satisfaction with members‘ performance. This study has been conducted in Chinese projects, so the data was collected from IT projects members and workers who have been or still doing these kinds of projects using several ways to reach around 200 respondents as the online survey and social media. Using a different method and tests we could find that these relationships in the study were significant with positive impact except the moderation impact of trust leader. This study contributed to benefited IT, project leaders, and members, for better understanding especially for the importance of the emotional intelligence and job involvement for better performance of the team members which will also contribute to improving the IT project in China and will open new and different topics for researchers.

Peran Brand Trust dan Brand Reputation dalam Menguatkan Pengaruh Brand Awareness terhadap Brand Performance Kasus pada Langit Musik

This study aims to analyze the factors that affect the brand performance of Langit Musik service with brand awareness as an exogenous variable. Brand awareness is hypothesized to affect brand performance either directly or indirectly. The entire hypothesis proposed forms a research framework in the structural equations (SEM) model. Empirical data was obtained through an online survey of 238 respondents who answered 24 questionnaire questions in full. The selection of respondents was determined by a non-probability sampling approach from users who have used and are using Langit Musik service in Indonesia. The software used to perform a series of statistical tests informs that all indicators used meet the criteria of validity and reliability, the research model meets the match criteria, the seven hypotheses submitted, the whole is accepted based on the t-significance test, and produces strong factors. The three variables and their expansion have a positive and significant effect on brand performance. The biggest influence of variables on consecutive brand performance is brand awareness, brand reputation, brand trust. To improve performance, Langit Musik can increase its promotion so that people can get to know langit musik service. The next study is expected to expand the variables one of which is purchase decisions placed after the brand performance variable in order to improve the hypothesis of the model.

Peran Project Owner dalam Menjalankan Agile Project Management (Studi Kasus: PT. XYZ)

Agile project management methodologies provide the means to respond to highly dynamic customer needs. One of the agile project management frameworks is scrum. Scrum is shaped in 3 important roles by project owner, scrum master, and development team. The research objective was to determine the roles and responsibilities of the project owner when run several projects at PT. XYZ using the agile project management methodology scrum framework. The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with the investigative method adopted is a single case study, namely the company PT. XYZ which is engaged in IT with several application development projects. The results obtained from the interview are that the role of the project owner must understand the needs desired by customers by being sensitive to customer needs that highlight quality and uncertain changes, besides understanding the scrum team in delivering product services desired by customers in order to provide maximum quality and acceptance by the customer. In addition, the project owner must carry out the responsibilities such as explaining the SoW and the objectives to be achieved in the project, preparing a budget for the project, allocating of development teams who will work on the product, determining the priority of the product backlog and the sprint that will be executed, monitoring each stage sprints that are being worked on by the developer team, holding daily meetings for a maximum of 15 minutes with the scrum team, arranging and holding meetings with customers and the scrum team for each sprint that has been completed, and collaborating with the scrum team to discuss any changes desired by customers.

Analisis Tingkat Maturitas Implementasi Manajemen Risiko di IPB University

The implementation of risk management will not always achieve its goals. This problem can be caused by lack of consistency during the risk management implementation or it can not adapt to environmental changes. Therefore, an organization needs to measure the maturity level of the organization’s risk management implementation. This research aims to analyze the maturity level of risk management implementation at IPB University. The research was conducted at IPB University, and it was using primary and secondary data. Research shows that the characteristics that need to be measured, or the attributes that need to be measured, in measuring the maturity level of risk management implementation at IPB University are risk culture, risk management framework, risk management process and risk management documents. The attributes will have their indicators, parameters, and test factors. The result of the measuring of maturity level of risk management implementation at IPB University indicates that risk management at IPB University has been implemented systematically and the implementation has referred to the standard consistently and comprehensively. Risk management has begun to be integrated to organization governance and management. The risk management competence, leadership, and commitment are starting to expand through the organization but the positive attitudes in managing risk is still tend to be limited.

Understanding Oil Palm Smallholders’ Behavioral Intention on Sustainable Production Practices

While smallholders play a significant contribution on Indonesian oil palm production, they are confronted to sustainability challenges. This study aims to analyze determinants of their behaviour to apply sustainable practices. Theory of Planned Behavior was applied to examine the effect of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control and past behavior toward smallholders' intention to implement sustainable oil palm production practices. In this study the sustainable practices include applying organic fertilizer, integrated pest management, non-fire land clearing, certified seed and participating in a farmer group. A survey was carried out over 242 oil palm smallholders in Kampar, Riau. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Partial Least Square (PLS) program was employed to examine our hypothesis. The results show that attitudes, perceived behavioral control and past behavior have positive and significant effects on smallholders' intention to implement sustainable production practices, whereas subjective norms seems to be not significant. Smallholders tend to be individually independent in making a decision or taking action. Hence, improving attitude toward sustainability, for example, through extension service or training and providing incentives to overcome perceived behavioural control are expected to be an effective measure to encourage sustainability practices among oil palm smallholders.

Analisis Minat Penggunaan Dompet Digital LinkAja dengan Pendekatan Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) di Bandung

The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that influence the intention to use of digital wallets with an expanded approach of technology acceptance model by adding subjective norms and perceived security as exogenous variables. Subjective norms variable is hypothesized either directly or indirectly through the endogenous variables in TAM to influence intention to use, while perceived security variable is hypothesized to have a direct effect. The hypotheses that have been submitted forms a theoretical framework as structural equation model (SEM). Empirical data was collected through an online survey of 233 respondents who answered 23 questionnaire questions in full. The selection of respondents is determined by purposive—non-probability sampling approach from active users of LinkAja in Bandung whose population is not yet known. The software used to perform the statistical tests of informing that all indicators used meet the criteria of validity and reliability, the ten hypotheses submitted are all accepted based on the t-significance test and strong determining factor. The five TAM variables and their expansion have a positive and significant effect on the intention to use. The biggest influence of antecedent variables on the intention to use sequentially is subjective norms, perceived usefulness, attitude, perceived ease of use, and the smallest is perceived security. In increasing the intention to use, operators should prioritize on increasing subjective norms from prospective users, such as testimonials from role models about the ease of use, convenience, and attractiveness of the digital wallets.

Manajemen Stres pada Mahasiswa dalam Penyusunan Skripsi di Institut Pertanian Bogor

Final project is an independent task that must be completed by final year undergraduate students as a graduation requirement. The process includes the preparation stage (proposal), implementation, thesis writing, and thesis defense. The purpose of this study is determine the symptoms of stress experienced by final year students, knowing the stress factors, and determine alternative stress management in writing their thesis. The method that used is non-probability sampling with a quota sampling technique. Total sample is 419 respondents. Descriptive and factor analysis are used for analytical tools. The results stated that IPB students felt stressed during the preparation of the thesis with physical symptoms that were felt easily tired and heart palpitations. The most contributing factor in student stress is the data analysis method. Alternative stress management for students is taking a short break, doing activities according to hobbies, setting a schedule for meetings with the supervisor, making graduation targets, and thinking positively.