Indonesia is known as one of the nation's largest mebel exporter in the world. But, the development of Central Java mebel exports for four years fluctuated but tended to decline that was caused by economic crisis of the world. Industrial clusters are one of the strategic that was used to develop industry based on region. The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors affecting the competitiveness of the mebel industry in order to take policies that can be used to improve the competitiveness of Indonesian mebel industry of Central Java especially in overseas markets. This study use PLS (Partial Least Square) as tools that serve to test the diamond model porter plus social capital variables and analyze the factors that affect competitiveness, caused total population size used in this study is small. The results showed that competitiveness in the Mulyoharjo furniture cluster is influenced by condition factors, demand condition, related supporting industries. Whereas, Senenan furniture cluster is influenced by condition factors, the role of government, the opportunities, and social capital.
The purpose of this research is to explore the effectiveness in learning Japanese Kanji by mobile phone, compared with learning by books. The research is conducted on two groups given same learning materials on different instructional media. The research methodology is literature study, data analysis, system design, and implementation. The test result shos that there is no significant difference in learning performance between the group using mobile phone and the group using book.
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