PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between tourism authenticity and tourism experience and its implications for tourists' intention to make repeat visits in the context of cultural festivals.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses descriptive quantitative and partial least square analysis by discussing six direct and five indirect relationships in the model. This study used a purposive sampling technique, with a total sample of 189 respondents who were collected through a survey of tourists who had visited the Reog Ponorogo National Festival. This study uses SmartPLS SEM to analyze the data.FindingsThe results show that this study extends its practical, policy and theoretical implications to cultural festival stakeholders. In addition, the findings of this study indicate that objective and constructive authenticity have a positive and significant effect on tourist experience. Meanwhile, tourist experience has a positive and significant effect on revisit intention. The mediating role of tourist experience also has a positive and significant effect.Originality/valueEvent tourism that favors the culture of local wisdom shows originality and becomes an attraction for tourists to visit which affects experience and revisit intention. This study focuses on the attributes of authenticity to tourist experience and revisit intention, in which tourist experience acts as a mediation.

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Background: Hepatitis is one of the health problems in Indonesia that require special treatment, in line with the increase of morbidity and mortality rate of this disease. Complications of hepatitis include liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Indonesia, as a tropical country, has many medicinal plants that act as hepatoprotector, a substance that can protect liver from toxic agent. Use of medicinal plants is still considered as controversial treatment because there is still lack of studies. Medicinal plants with mix composition of phytopharmacy, such as: Curcuma xanthorrhiza, Arcangelesia flava, Nigella sativa, and Kleinhovia hospita show potency as hepatoprotector. The objective of this study is to analyse the function of phytopharmacy as hepatoprotector in chronic hepatitis.Method: This study is a clinical trial performed in the Gastroenterology Department and Outpatient Clinic in Saiful Anwar Hospital in May-June 2013. Chronic hepatitis B or C patients who have received antiviral therapy with 3 fold increase of the threshold value of transaminase level, were included in this study. In this study, patients consumed phytopharmacy tablet 3 times per day. After 7 days of treatment, patients’ serum transaminase levels (ALT and AST) were re-assessed. Statistical analysis of before and after treatment data was performed using Wilcoxon test and the result was significant with p 0.05.Results: From 10 patients, the average age was 50.3 years old. Sixty percent (60%) of them were male, with 50% suffered from chronic hepatitis B and the other 50% suffered from chronic hepatitis C. From this study, decrement of alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) after seven days of treatment were 45.06%, with p = 0.007 and 48.63%, with p = 0.007, respectivelyConclusion: Phytopharmacy supplementation in chronic hepatitis can decrease serum transaminase, however further study is needed. Keywords: chronic hepatitis, phytopharmacy, ALT, AST, hepatoprotector

Penggunaan peralatan listrik rumah tangga bagi masyarakat secara umum memiliki beberapa permasalahan yaitu sebagian masyarakat belum memahami penggunaan peralatan listrik rumah tangga secara aman dan hemat.  Permasalahan di atas juga dialami oleh warga masyarakat yang berada di Lingkungan RT. III Perumahan Kodya Asri Mataram. Untuk mengatasi masalah yang dihadapi oleh masyarakat di ingkungan tersebut, maka solusi yang ditawarkan adalah dengan dilakukannya penyuluhan. Pada jadwal yang telah ditentukan tim pelaksana yang beranggotakan staf pengajar Jurusan Teknik Elektro Fakultas Teknik Universitas Mataram telah melaksanakan kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat di Lingkungan RT III Perumahan Kodya Asri Mataram berupa penyuluhan mengenai mengenai teknik pemakaian peralatan listrik rumah tangga secara aman dan hemat. Berdasarkan hasil wawancara beberapa waktu setelah penyuluhan diketahui bahwa kegiatan penyuluhan ini telah memberikan pengetahuan kepada masyarakat di Lingkungan RT III Perumahan Kodya Asri Mataram mengenai teknik pemakaian peralatan listrik rumah tangga secara aman dan hemat. Hal ini akan dapat menunjang keselamatan masyarakat di lingkungan tersebut dalam menggunakan peralatan listrik serta dapat menghemat pengeluaran rumah tangga terkait dengan penggunaan tenaga listrik secara keberlanjutan

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Stock buyback is a share repurchase by the company (issuer) which is one of the ways the company does to generate profits for shareholders. Stock buyback is part of investment strategy in order to increase company value. This study tries to observe the information content of the buyback policy that uses a variable of Return (R), Abnormal Return (AR), and Cumulative Abnormal Return (CAR). This was a descriptive research with a quantitative approach. The form of this research was an event study. The research result reveals that there is a significant difference in return before and after the stock buyback. The Abnormal Return shows that there is no significant difference in Abnormal Return before and after the stock buyback. The Cumulative Abnormal Return shows that there is a significant difference of Cumulative Abnormal Return before and after the stock buyback. KEY WORDS Stock buyback, return, abnormal return, cumulative abnormal return.

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