The lady born in Yogyakarta, 25 February 1960, observed that the reading problem in the first and second year of Elementary School often goes undetected by their teacher. The teacher tends to consider it normal. Meanwhile, in her opinion, this is actually the initial point of the problem. “Most often this problem is felt whe ...

On the result of university admission test, the consequence of failure in the decision making due to inaccurate test score information will have bad impacts on the person in concern. It can affect their self-esteem or they even lose their future. This is what the experts say as "high stake exams" whose measurement results are ...

Transportation problems have increasingly become bigger. Not only in big cities, the problem also occur in smaller cities such as Yogyakarta. The problem requires serious and professional handling, so the possible negative consequences can be solved well. Prof. Ir. Sigit Priyanto, M.Sc., Ph.D., in the Senate Hall said ...

The application of the concept of Technical Geology that is supported by psychology and sociology proved effective in developing mapping methods of landslide hazard through people’s participation. “Through landslide hazard mapping, people can identify safe and dangerous zones in their village, so they can sustain the environment to prev ...

Experience in several developing countries showed that tourism can improve people’s prosperity if it is managed well by applying pro-poor tourism strategy. This strategy tries to sharpen orientation of tourism development by shortening the distribution chain of tourism. One of these is facilitating direct interaction between ...

The source of hazardous and poisonous waste can be the industry, mining, transportation, hospitals, chemical laboratories, household and natural process. Each is not always the result of the process or the main activity but can also come from  the maintenance or cleaning of equipment, outdated chemicals, spilt waste and waste of off-specified prod ...

Besides the failure factors of conservation in the water pool, another cause is the inaccurate prediction of sediment to the fact owing to the inadequate data, eitherwater pool area will work well if the human activities interfering on the upstream region can be reduced or suppressed as low as possible. However, apparently what happened was minin ...

Almost all superblocks in Indonesia have the connotation of luxury and only a few of them allocate space for the middle to lower classes. The fact is that these people are the biggest part of urban society that will do the informal and semi-informal jobs around the area. Meanwhile, attention to the building of flats i ...

In hydraulic structures, hydraulics has become an integral part. The development of hydraulics has enabled the construction of hydraulic structures, for example weirs, dams, irrigation channels, flood and volcano mud mitigation, river and coastal erosion barriers, harbours, and coastal structures. The science is progressing rap ...

He said that in mapping the metal chemical structures in natural resources, chemical analysis is aimed at knowing the potential of the region. The region in concern is usually an area that is attractive in terms of mining, and the resources to be analysed can be rocks, sands, soil or water depending on the purpose. His research on ir ...