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Community empowerment activities were carried out in Alor Regency - East Nusa Tenggara through the application of fish-based food processing technology in 2018 & 2019, aiming to: (1) improve the economy of the people in the coastal areas of Alor Island; and (2) develop the concept of sustainable empowerment. The intervention stage was approached with the Community Capacity Building method. Community empowerment carried out through the transfer of science and technology with continuous assistance had implications for improving the skills of coastal communities and increasing the use of technology, so that the added value of products (processed fish) increased to get better income. In order for community empowerment to be sustainable, LIPI and the local government of Alor Regency developed a community empowerment concept that can be applied to develop the region and its people in a better and more competitive direction. With the cooperation among R & D institutions, Local Governments, and business actors (triple helix) and the market, it was expected that the economy of the people on the coast of Alor Island will improve, and can be a leverage of regional development, based on the use of technology in the community.

A Local Innovation Systems (LIS) was establish in Bakustulama Village of Esat Nusa Tenggara Province in Indonesia in 2013 and has serve the local people in their productive activity since. This paper was an evaluation of how this LIS play the role on empowering the local peole. The study involved 2 farmer groups to be involved in developing LIS then applied it in their productive activities. Since the implementation LIS has served the two farmer groups in increasing their economic life (income received). LIS was attached to the local agricultural extension office as an institution that consists of farmer groups, local extension workers, staffs from Local Government Offices (Agricultural-Fisheries and Plantation Offices, Local Animal Husbandry Offices, Local Forestry Offices, Sub-District & Village Offices)and supported by local researchers. The LIS as institutions running well to served the need of the people by establishing networks with other institutions and reserchers from several intitutions available in the area. A chnge in policy from Central Government in 2016 had change the existency of LIS as institution, however the network still function and the people still can benefitted from it, which was shown from the evaluation conducte in 2019. An index number was applied here to measure the change occurs in the two farmer groups before and after the implementation of LIS. Significant changes were occurs in the two farmer groups, they economic life were changes in better way, which is why they still maintaining the network from LIS although the institution was not exist anymore. Here, the LIS was transform into a systems that was run by farmer groups which still maintain the network that was already established.

The strategy of implementing innovation and technology in the Belu Regency community is very important to be stated as best practice for other regions in Eastern Indonesia. This paper discusses a number of strategies that can be implemented as best practices for increasing community capability in using technology for managing and processing local resources by: technical training and continues coaching; providing equipment to target house-hold scale enterprises; and encourage Regional Governments to actively assist communities continually. Some strategies that fail in implementing technology in the regions are important lessons for us, that technology implementation requires adequate initial information, starting from location conditions, socio-economic of community, supporting infrastructure, human resource readiness, involvement and full support from the Regional Government. From long experience in Belu Regency, it can be a lesson for the technology implementation in Eastern Indonesia or in other regions that have similarities in community characteristics and natural conditions.

Corn cobs are agricultural wastes that are often found in Indonesia, which so far are still not widely used as products that have added value. Corn cob contains 41% cellulose, 36% hemicellulose, and 6% lignin, so it can be used for making liquid smoke. Liquid smoke is one of the results of condensation or condensation from the steam produced by combustion directly or indirectly from materials that contain a lot of lignin, cellulose, hemicellulose, and other carbon compounds. The method used for making liquid smoke is the pyrolysis method that is using pyrolizer, by burning and heating above the furnace, which will produce smoke and will then be condensed into liquid smoke. In this study, the performance of liquid smoke equipmwnt testing. The liquid smoke produced was carried out chemical and physical characterization and tested for seed germination and tomato growth (Solanum lycopersicum). The results of the research on making liquid smoke from corn cobs showed that the yield of liquid smoke was 28.37%, pH value 3.506. The results of the analysis of the chemical characterization of third-grade liquid smoke using GCMS detected approximately 32 chemical components. The results of the physical characterization analysis of liquid smoke showed a very strong odor, brownish red, and there were black sediments in the form of tar. The test results showed that the concentration of liquid smoke (0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 2.5%, 3%, 3.5%, 4%, 4.5% and 5% ) significant effect on seed germination and tomato growth (Solanum lycopersicum)

The aim of this study was to identify population growth during 1960-2002, and also its projection until 2050. The study also analyzed its impact and look for alternative policies in overcoming the problem to fulfill food security. The model used in the study was dynamic system approach which analyzes previous events to predict the upcoming condition. The study result indicated that the population increased rapidly, and was predicted would continue growing fast. Population growth and food requirement per capita determined the level of requirement of total food. To reach food security, the requirement would be better fulfilling by domestic production and did not depend on import. The policy alternative, which consisted of farm harvest enlargement and technological adoptions, were proposed to meet domestic production exceeding the requirement.

Institutional is one factor that must be considered in the process of technology transfer. The Local Innovation System (in this case SIDa-Belu) was trying to look at those problems in agriculture to empowering poor farmers in the area. This paper analyzed transformation intitution, which occurs during and after the proccess of SIDa-Belu Implementation. The methods used in this research is descriptive analysis with structure, conduct, performance (SCP) approach. Institutional change is a transformation proccess that is part of development. Therefore, the main objective of any institutional change is to internalize the potential for greater productivity which comes from improved resource utilization, and creating a new balance simultaneously. On SIDa-Belu implementation, institutional change encourage the change for farming groups. Before SIDa-Belu they did subsistent farming, and after implementation they make a new adjustment by external factors (permanent feedback proccess) into modern farming groups with market oriented.