ETHNOSCIENCE STUDY OF SHRIMP PASTE AT THE MERANTI ISLANDS AS A REPRESENTATION OF CHEMISTRY LEARNING

In general, MSMEs in the Indonesian economy have a crucial role in economic activities such as the largest contributor to employment, the main role in local economic development and citizen empowerment, forming new markets and sources of innovation, and contributing to the balance of payments. The scientific methodology utilized in this study is quantitative. Area This exploration was directed in Teluk Sama Town, Rangsang Locale, Meranti Islands Rule, Riau Region. The justification for picking this area is on the grounds that it has never been investigated. The Likert scale was used as the method of measurement in this study. The populace in this study is all MSME entertainers in Teluk Samak Town, Meranti Islands Rule upwards of 35 MSMEs. The information assortment methods utilized in this study utilized surveys and meetings. In the variable level of education, the results were shown that the level of education in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency as a whole was in the very good category. This is because the level of education possessed by MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency as a whole is very good. In the financial knowledge variable, results were obtained which showed that financial knowledge in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the good category. In the financial planning variable, results were obtained which showed that financial knowledge in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the good category. In the financial behavior variable, results were obtained which showed that financial behavior in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the Very Good category. Persial should be visible that the variable degree of instruction impacts monetary way of behaving. Persial should be visible that monetary information factors impact monetary way of behaving. Persial can be realized that monetary arranging factors impact monetary way of behaving. At the same time, it very well may be seen that the factors of instruction level, monetary information, and monetary arranging impact monetary way of behaving.

In general, MSMEs in the Indonesian economy have a crucial role in economic activities such as the largest contributor to employment, the main role in local economic development and citizen empowerment, forming new markets and sources of innovation, and contributing to the balance of payments. The scientific methodology utilized in this study is quantitative. Area This exploration was directed in Teluk Sama Town, Rangsang Locale, Meranti Islands Rule, Riau Region. The justification for picking this area is on the grounds that it has never been investigated. The Likert scale was used as the method of measurement in this study. The populace in this study is all MSME entertainers in Teluk Samak Town, Meranti Islands Rule upwards of 35 MSMEs. The information assortment methods utilized in this study utilized surveys and meetings. In the variable level of education, the results were shown that the level of education in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency as a whole was in the very good category. This is because the level of education possessed by MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency as a whole is very good. In the financial knowledge variable, results were obtained which showed that financial knowledge in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the good category. In the financial planning variable, results were obtained which showed that financial knowledge in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the good category. In the financial behavior variable, results were obtained which showed that financial behavior in MSME actors in Teluk Samak Village, Meranti Islands Regency was in the Very Good category. Persial should be visible that the variable degree of instruction impacts monetary way of behaving. Persial should be visible that monetary information factors impact monetary way of behaving. Persial can be realized that monetary arranging factors impact monetary way of behaving. At the same time, it very well may be seen that the factors of instruction level, monetary information, and monetary arranging impact monetary way of behaving.

This research aims to analyze the influence of business capital and land area on the income of sago farmers in the Meranti Islands from an Islamic economic perspective. The analysis in this research uses independent variables, namely Business Capital (X1) and Land Area (X2). Meanwhile, the dependent variable in this research is Sago Farmer Income (Y). The samples for this research were taken from sago farmers in the Sungai Tohor area, Tebing Tinggi Timur District, Meranti Islands Regency, located on the Tohor River using the Quantitative Correlational method. Data collection techniques were carried out using qualitative descriptive methods. The population of this study were sago farmers with 82 respondents in Sungai Tohor, Tebing Tinggi Timur District, Meranti Islands Regency who had a dry sago starch production capacity of 400 tons per month, involving 18 sago refinery IKMs. The result is that business capital and land area have a positive and significant influence on the income of sago farmers in the Tohor River area, Tebing Timur District, Meranti Islands Regency. This is proven by showing that the business capital variable has a significance value of 0.045, which is smaller than 0.050 (0.045 < 0.050), and is supported by the results of statistical calculations which show that t count > t table. And the land area results of the multiple linear test show that the land area variable has a significance value of 0.023. Business capital and land area have an influence on the income of sago farmers in the Sungai Tohor area, Tebing Timur District, Meranti Islands Regency. This is shown by the results of the F statistical test on all independent variables in the model which have an influence on the dependent variable simultaneously, supported by the results of statistical calculations which show that calculated f > f table f is obtained at 5.741 with a significance of 0.005, this shows that this regression model is feasible to use. Because the significance level is smaller than 0.050, it can be said that working capital and land area have a simultaneous and significant effect on the income of sago farmers. It can be concluded that business capital and land area play an important role in determining farmer income.

Implementation of accountability at the national zakat amil agency (BAZNAS) Meranti Islands district in the management of productive zakat funds. The aim of implementing accountability in the management of zakat funds is to create trust in the parties involved in the management and as a form of responsibility for the trust given. The type of data in this research is descriptive qualitative using primary data, namely data obtained directly from the research object. The data collection technique is using interview and documentation techniques. The research results illustrate that BAZNAS Meranti Islands district has not fully implemented accountability in the management of zakat funds. In implementing BAZNAS accountability for the Meranti Islands district, is done by making financial reports and conducting audits. In preparing the financial reports, BAZNAS, Meranti Islands Regency has implemented the guidelines based on PSAK No. 109, however, it is still not fully implemented. This is because, in the management of BAZNAS zakat funds in Meranti Island Regency, there is a lack of human resources as managers appropriate to their field, a lack of financial

In the ethnically diverse nation of Indonesia, conflicts rooted in issues of Ethnicity, Religion, Race, and Inter-Group (SARA) have long been a persistent problem, particularly affecting ethnic Chinese who have faced marginalization and sociocultural challenges, including name changes and stereotypes. The Meranti Islands have been in the spotlight of the national media several times because of the various conflicts that occurred, both political conflicts and conflicts between ethnicities, tribes and even religions such as the burning of Chinese Ethnic Shophouses. These conflicts, driven by differences in interests and interference among groups, have sometimes led to tensions, discrimination, and even riots. The research aims to analyze Abdurrahman Wahid's political da'wah from the perspective of non-Muslim minority groups in the Meranti Islands Regency. This research is field research type. The research method uses qualitative methods. Data was collected through questionnaires and interviews and strengthened by a literature review. The research results show two thoughts regarding Islamic politics; first, 85% of the non-Muslim community in Meranty Island strongly supports Abdurrahman Wahid's Islamic political da'wah to be realized in public policies. The non-Muslim minority groups support Abdurrahman Wahid's political da'wah to maintain the Islamic taught about the rights and obligations of citizens and protect minority groups. With a percentage of 93%, they considered Abdurrahman Wahid to have carried out the function of Islamic teachings to do good deeds in a moderate and tolerant humanitarian and political life.

Implementation is the implementation of laws in which various actors, organizations, procedures, and techniques work together to carry out policies in an effort to achieve policy objectives or policy programs. Exclusive breastfeeding coverage The Meranti Islands District Health Office experienced the lowest exclusive breastfeeding coverage in 2019, namely Alai Community Health Center, which is 25% where the achievement of the exclusive Breastfeeding Program (ASI) in Meranti Islands Regency in 2019 is 50% and still far from the national target of 80%. This study aims to determine the implementation of the exclusive breastfeeding program at Alai Public Health Center, Tebing Tinggi Barat District, Meranti Islands Regency in 2020. This type of qualitative research uses observational research. When the research was conducted in June-August at the Alai Public Health Center, Tebing Tinggi Barat District, Meranti Islands Regency. The research subjects were the head of the puskesmas (IK1), pregnant women (IU1), PJ KIA (IP1), and posyandu cadres (IP2). Data analysis is used by systematically arranging the interview guidelines, then processing the data, data from observations are identified to describe each variable, a summary will be presented in narrative form. The results of this study indicate that the policies in the exclusive breastfeeding program have been implemented but the coverage of exclusive breastfeeding is still low because many pregnant women do not follow the recommendations that have been given by health workers in counseling such as the benefits of breastfeeding. It can be concluded that health workers in the policy of the exclusive breastfeeding program provide counseling to pregnant women and approach pregnant women in order to achieve an exclusive breastfeeding program. It is recommended that the head of the Alai Community

With individual morality serving as a moderating variable, the main of this research is to discover empiric evidence of the Effect of Competence, Appropriateness of Compensation, and Pressure on Fraud of Village Funds in the Meranti Islands Regency. The villages in Meranti Island district were the locations of this study. The method of sampling was a survey by sending out a questionnaire. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences was used to process 206 of the 384 questionnaires that were distributed. Competence, appropriate compensation, and pressure all have an impact on village fund fraud in the Meranti Islands Regency, as shown by the study's findings. In the Meranti Islands Regency, individual morality can moderate the relationship between competence, appropriateness of compensation, and pressure associated with village fund fraud. The results of theoretical research suggest that competence plays a significant role in preventing fraud, as does the appropriateness of compensation. Specifically for village governments and other local governments in terms of reducing fraud.

The research objectives were to see (1) determine which sub-districts that have potential for sago development in Meranti Islands Regency, and (2) develop a sago crop development strategy to improve community welfare in Meranti Islands Regency. The research method used in this study is a mix method, which uses a quantitative approach with the Location Quotient (LQ) method to see which sub-districts are based on sago commodities in Meranti Islands Regency. In addition, using a qualitative approach with the SWOT analysis method to see the strengths, weakness, opportunities and threats in the development of sago plants in the region so that alternative strategies for the development of sago in the Meranti Islands Regency are prepared.The results of the LQ calculation show that the sago plantation commodity is the most superior commodity from other commodities, with an LQ value of 2.7294, meaning that this commodity is a regional superior commodity that can be developed and has great export potential outside the region. The results of the SWOT analysis show that sago development has internal strengths, but is faced with external threats that weaken competitiveness. The results of the space matrix model for sago development in Meranti Islands Regency are in the 5th quadrant For this reason, the sago development model in Meranti Islands Regency is focused on market penetration strategy or through identifying market absorption of the products produced. Market penetration is intended to prevent increasingly fierce business competition from sago products and their derivatives, namely by carrying out an aggressive marketing strategy. In addition, the product development strategy, namely the development of products that have a value proposition and increasing the uniqueness of the product can help the development of sago in Meranti Islands Regency in improving market performance and market expansion.

The Meranti Islands is one of the liberoid coffee production centers in Indonesian of which 94% of its total land area consists of peatland. The objective of this study was to disclose the potential of liberoid coffee cultivation in the peatlands of the Meranti Islands, Riau Province. The study was conducted from July to December 2015 in the Meranti Islands Regency. This study was conducted by means of survey method. The data used were the primary and the secondary data. The results of the study showed that liberoid coffee was adaptive on peatlands of the Meranti Islands and had a high economic value, therefore it can be used as an alternative usage of peatlands in Indonesia. The superior varieties of coffee recommended for the development of liberoid coffee are Liberoid Meranti 1 and Liberoid Meranti 2. These varieties are classified as open-pollinated composite types with respective yield potential of 1.69 and 1.98 tons ha−1 of coffee, good seed quality, “excellent” flavor, and caffeine content of 1.02 and 1.11%. This variety is adaptive on peatlands with a climate A type or other areas that have the same agroecosystem as that of the Meranti Islands Regency.

Effects of fermentation time on chemical, microbiological, antioxidant, and organoleptic properties of Indonesian traditional shrimp paste, terasi

Sago plant (Metoxylon SP) for the community in the Regency of the Meranti Islands has an important role in the life and economy of its people. The prospect of developing the sago business in Meranti is still promising because The land used has only reached 43% of the available land, and management can still be optimized. Sago processing that is currently operated is still running conventionally. That is, it only produces sago starch products. Its by-products in the form of waste from the pulp (repu) and skin (uyung) have not been optimally utilized. This study aims to optimize the processing of by-products into high-value products through improving sago management towards the concept of a zero waste industry in the Meranti Islands Regency, Riau Province. The results of the research that has been carried out show that it is necessary to add a process flow to the processing so that the resulting sago repu is not wet. The resulting dried sago repu will expand its utilization. From supporting studies, the results of studies that have been carried out show that fermentation using Trichoderma can increase protein by 18-22%. Using this Trichoderma mushroom, sago pulp can be used as animal feed or as raw material for biomass

Meranti Islands Regency is a coastal area located in the cluster of Sumatra, Indonesia, right on the outskirts of the Malak Strait. The coastal area is known as a very good, fertile mangrove habitat, has a high carrying capacity as a living area for various aquatic organisms. The existence of mangrove ecosystems on the coast has a very large and beneficial effect on the life of fisheries resources, as well as beneficial for fishing fisheries due to the high productivity in the region. This study aims to obtain information and a clear picture of the development of fishing, and the correlation between the existence of mangrove ecosystems and productivity of fishing. This research uses the descriptive method based on regression and correlation analysis. Each type of data used in this study is primary data on observation and interviews, as well as secondary data on fishing and mangrove areas from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Forestry, and the Environmental Management Agency, Meranti Islands Regency. The Meranti Islands over a 15-year period experienced a completely increase or almost completely. Then, the mangrove ecosystem area has no significance that can influence and are closely related to the productivity of shrimp and shellfish in the area.

In the village of Banglas, Meranti Islands, there are poultry farmers, namely broiler chickens, who supply the chickens to markets in the Meranti Islands area. However, the problem faced by farmers is that the number of chicken seeds with chickens ready to sell is far lower than the number of initial seeds. Based on the importance of this, counseling on the maintenance of low-cholesterol broiler chickens by providing supplements in Banglas Village, Meranti Islands Regency. In this outreach activity, the instructor provides information on the importance of giving probiotics to farm chickens so that the risk of dead seeds before being sold can decrease the number, then the extension worker provides supplements and provides supplements to farmers. After giving supplements and being monitored for three months, it was found a decrease in the mortality rate of the broiler chickens.

This study intends to find out how the government collaborates in managing peat ecosystems in the Meranti Islands Regency. This study uses a qualitative methodology and data analysis approach using Nvivo 12 Plus software. The findings of this study indicate that collaboration between the government and stakeholders has resulted in progress on peat restoration in the Meranti Islands Regency because the number of forests and land fires in the Meranti Islands Regency tends to decrease due to this collaboration. Nevertheless, there are still some obstacles to the cooperation, especially the cooperation between actors which is still inadequate because it has not fully involved the private sector. This research contributes in the form of recommendations for improving peat ecosystem governance by increasing the participation of private entities. This study also proposes that further research can comprehensively map the involvement of each stakeholder in the management of peat ecosystems in the Meranti Islands Regency.

Abstract: Meranti Islands Regency is one of the biggest sago producers in Indonesia. In addition, it also has much potency in tourism sector. However, the potency it has is not been explored well. The main purpose of this study was to make a profile book about tourism objects in Meranti Islands Regency as a media of promotion to promote tourism objects in Meranti Islands Regency. This profile book discusses about water war festival, shell seeking with a plank, Beting Beras beach, the Darul Ulum grand mosque, Sejahtera Bakti Buddhist monastery, Kue Bulan festival, “Imlek” Chinese new year celebration, and Bokor cultural tourism village. Hopefully, this profile book can give more information for local people, tourists, and also help Department of Tourism, Youth, and Sport of Meranti Islands Regency in promoting tourism objects in Meranti Islands Regency. Keywords: Meranti Islands Regency, Profile Book, Promotion