Ngadisih, Bhandary, N.P., Yatabe, R., Dahal, R.K.

West Java Province is the most landslide risky area in Indonesia owing to extreme geo-morphological conditions, climatic conditions and densely populated settlements with immense completed and ongoing development activities. So, a landslide susceptibility map at regional scale in this province is a fundamental tool for risk management and land-use planning. Logistic regression and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models are the most frequently used tools for landslide susceptibility assessment, mainly because they are capable of handling the nature of landslide data. The main objective of this study is to apply logistic regression and ANN models and compare their performance for landslide susceptibility mapping in volcanic mountains of West Java Province. In addition, the model application is proposed to identify the most contributing factors to landslide events in the study area. The spatial database built in GIS platform consists of landslide inventory, four topographical parameters (slope, aspect, relief, distance to river), three geological parameters (distance to volcano crater, distance to thrust and fault, geological formation), and two anthropogenic parameters (distance to road, land use). The logistic regression model in this study revealed that slope, geological formations, distance to road and distance to volcano are the most influential factors of landslide events while, the ANN model revealed that distance to volcano crater, geological formation, distance to road, and land-use are the most important causal factors of landslides in the study area. Moreover, an evaluation of the model showed that the ANN model has a higher accuracy than the logistic regression model. read more

Purwantana, B., Horio, H., Kawamura, T., Shoji, K.

The mechanization of swampy land is required for developing a cultivation area for rice production. However, existing cultivating machines available cannot be effectively used in swampy and land conditions. A prototype of a rotary cultivator having a flail knife was developed. The possibility of its introduction is discussed after some preliminary experiments. The flail-type rotary cultivator was capable of cutting up to 95% of the grass in short lengths with little stubbles left on the ground. The critical cutting speed was about 19 m/s peripheral speed of the flail knife. An up-cut configuration produced shorter chopped grass and proper trajectories of the cut material for effective windrowing. read more

Nugroho, A.P., Okayasu, T., Hoshi, T., Inoue, E., Hirai, Y., Mitsuoka, M., Sutiarso, L.

This study focuses on the development and evaluation of a remote field environmental monitoring and control framework, implementing a local-global management strategy to overcome the unstable network connection in the rural area. The framework consists of environmental monitoring and control node as the local management subsystem (LMS), and the web data providing and system management as the global management subsystem (GMS) to establish a simple and flexible remote environmental monitoring and control based on a cloud platform. The supporting features are online and offline environmental monitoring, synchronization of system configuration, actuation, and offline management. Two field tests were conducted to verify its performances and functionalities, (1) environmental monitoring on tropical horticulture cultivation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and (2) implementation of the monitoring and control for automatic drip irrigation control based on soil moisture content for tomato. As the result of the first test, the developed framework could help to maintain the sustainability of environmental monitoring under unstable network connection over 80% availability of the data with local offline measurement up to 24% of the total entries. From the second test result, the framework could support the real-time monitoring and control of soil moisture content as well as increase the system flexibility in the adjustment of the system configuration remotely. The control system has 0.78% error (E) and 99.2% in-range soil moisture content (L < xt < U) measurement during the 10-days observation. We concluded that the proposed framework might become a useful tool for a simple remote environmental monitoring and control under unstable network connection in the rural area. The framework has the potential to be adopted in cloud-based tropical horticulture supporting system, aimed for long-term environmental monitoring and controlling local facilities. read more

Salokhe, V.M., Gee-Clough, D., Tamtomo, P.

Accelerated wear testing of enamel coated mild steel rings was conducted to investigate wear characteristics relative to those of uncoated mild steel rings. The tests were conducted in sandy soil and on sand papers of silicone carbide. Results of the studies were expressed in terms of weight loss and wear rate in relation to the test duration. It was observed that over a period of 120 h of testing in sandy soil, the amounts of wear of enamel coated rings and the uncoated mild steel rings were almost the same. The tests on sand papers showed that enamel coated rings wore faster than the mild steel rings. The rate of wear of the enamel coated rings, however, was not so high as to render the process impractical for use in improving the performance of soil-engaging devices used in agriculture. read more

Palm / coconut sugar is highly produced and patronized in Indonesia and also in South East Asia.

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Department of Agricultural Engineering
Faculty of Agricultural Technology
Universitas Gadjah Mada
Jl. Flora No.1 Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta 55281
INDONESIA

Dr. Priyanto Triwitono memberikan pembekalan mengenai Pemasaran Produk Pangan kepada Kelompok Tani dan IKM Sari Mulyo Gambiran, Kecamatan Patuk, Kabupaten Gunung Kidul.

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Dr. Chusnul Hidayat memberikan pembekalan mengenai Peraturan Pemerintah tentang Keamanan Pangan kepada Kelompok Tani dan IKM Sari Mulyo Gambiran, Kecamatan Patuk, Kabupaten Gunung Kidul.

Universitas Gadjah Mada, bekerja sama dengan Badan Ekonomi Kreatif Indonesia mempromosikan kopi dan soto dalam ajang BEKRAF Creative Labs “Indonesia Culinary Conference & Creative Expo 2017“, yang berlangsung di Gedung Pusat Kebudayaan Koesnadi Hardjosoemantri (PKKH) Universitas Gadjah Mada, Rabu (4/10) dalam upaya lebih memperkenalkan ikon kuliner khas Indonesia.

Pembicara yang hadir antara lain :

1. Andreas Maryoto (Jurnalis dan Penulis Sejarah Kuliner)
2. Prof. Dr. Umar Santoso (Kepala Pusat Studi Pangan dan Gizi, UGM)
3. Eko Purnomowidi (Pendiri Klasik Beans)

Materi seminar masing-masing pembicara bisa diakses lewat laman berikut :

Andreas Maryoto : Gaya Hidup Minum Kopi Indonesia (klik di sini) Prof. Dr. Umar Santoso : Pengolahan dan Khasiat Kopi Bagi Kesehatan (klik di sini) Eko Purnomowidi : Prospek Pasar Mancanegara Kopi Indonesia (klik

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