Nur Laili

Effectiveness of Subsidies in Technology Adoption: A Case Study Involving Reverse Osmosis (RO) Membrane Technology

Adoption of new technologies is a process that involves technological learning and penetration of new products into the market. Within the process of new technologies adoption, government usually intervened by providing incentives, in order to support the technology adoption to be succeed. This paper examines the effectiveness of incentives for the sustainability of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology adoption. The study conducted through single case study on SWRO installation in Mandangin Island, East Java, Indonesia. Results of case study indentify the existence of government incentive in the form of direct subsidies to decrease the price of clean water. Although successful in reducing the price of water, but effectiveness of the subsidy on the sustainability of SWRO is still low, which is operates only 30% in a year. Further analysis shows that these subsidies actually be counter-productive to the sustainability of SWRO installation.

Inovasi Berbasis Pengguna: Survei Industri Teknologi Pengolahan Air Bersih di Indonesia

. Innovation has a role in improving firms performance, as well as to build the firms competitiveness. Firms whose continuously innovate will be more adaptive and competitive in changing market. The firms need to innovate is in almost all industrial sectors, including clean water technology industry. The diversity of water treatment technology emerged to meet various need of user. This study aims to examine how the different characteristics of users influence the degree of innovations novelty produced by water treatment technology manufacturers. The method used is a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodsthrough conducting surveys and in-depth interviews. The results showed that differences in the characteristics of users will influence the degree of novelty of innovation in water treatment technology industries. There are three characteristics that influence the degree of novelty of innovation, namely technology needs, innovation funding and user involvement in the development process of innovation. Efficiency based innovation, flexibility of innovation funding, and increasing user involvement in the development of innovation will increase the degree of novelty of innovation.

Green Technological Roadmappin : Studi Kasus di Perusahaan Fast Moving Consumer Good (FMCG) di Indonesia

Degradation of environmental quality has become a global issue in the last decade. Industrial activity is one of the majorcauses of climate change and global warming. Governments in several countries have developed policies to reduce carbon emissions from industrial activity. The development and the use of innovative green technology products can be an alternative to reduce the impact of global warming due to carbon emissions from the industry. Adoption of green technology in the FMCG industry has become an interesting issue since it deals with the optimization of production costs and reduction of product prices that characterize the FMCG industry. This paper presents an overview of the adoption of green technology in the FMCG industry in Indonesia. A case study was conducted in one of the largest FMCG companies in Indonesia. The application of green technology is presented in the form of a technology roadmap for ten-year period between 2010 and 2020. The results showed that the adoption of green technology is the companys response to government policies and international regulations related to the environmental issues. The whole supply chain units of the company both internal and external, are involved in the adoption of green technology, while the technology itself comes from external source. The adoption of green technology has given some benefits to the company in the form of a decrease of environmental impacts caused by carbon emissions and hazardous waste. Another benefit is the adoption process increases the efficiency of production cost from economizing water and electricity uses. The indirect benefit from the adoption of green technology is the increasing company competitiveness through technological mastery and strong position of product in national FMCG market.

Penapisan dan Identifikasi Bakteri Agens Biokontrol Penyakit Layu Fusarium Hasil Isolasi dari Rizosfer Pisang

Banana wilt disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense is considered as one of the most destructive diseases on banana plants in the tropical region. Biological control agents (BCA’s) have become a promising solution to overcome this disease. The objective of this study was to find potential BCA’s for wilt disease of banana plants. Bacteria and actinomycetes were isolated from banana’s rhizosphere in Lampung and Cianjur. As much as 64 actinomycetes and 142 bacteria isolates were obtained. Antagonistic test against F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense of those isolates showed that 21 bacteria and 10 actinomycete isolates have abilities to inhibit F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense . Actinomycetes showed relatively higher inhibition against F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense compared to bacteria. Isolates which have positive antagonistic activities against F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense were then tested for their protease, chitinase, and selulase activities qualitatively on specific medium. All actinomycetes which were tested had chitinase enzyme activities, while only 5 bacterial isolates had chitinase activities. On the other hand, 13 bacterial isolates showed protease activities and only 1 actinomycete showed protease activity. Two bacterial isolates (L.II.4.ND and L.A.I-5.DW) and 3 actinomycetes (L.A.I.DW, L.3.1.DW and Ci.I.A5.DW) which showed high inhibition against F. oxysporum f. sp. cubense and lyses enzymes activities were identified based on 16S rRNA genes. Analysis based on GenBank data, those isolates have 99% homology to Klebsiella pneumonia (L.II.4.ND), Burkholderia sp. (L.A.I-5.DW), Streptomyces sp. (L.A.I.DW), Streptomyces sp. (L.3.1.DW) and Streptomyces sp. (Ci.I.A5.DW).