Bamboo has been part of the history and the socio-cultural and economic or livelihood aspects of Indonesia. Bamboo has been recommended as a potential species that could be utilized for community-based development in the rural part of the country as well as for utilization in various products, from traditional to modern and contemporary processes. However, there is a lack of integrated research on the community’s bamboo for industrial-scale products. This study aimed to determine and assess drivers-barriers to enable the formulation of strategic recommendations aimed at promoting the success of community-based supply of the commodity for the modern bamboo industry in Ngada Regency in Indonesia. The methods were applied by collecting quantitative and qualitative data using literature reviews, questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussions, and direct field observations. Collected data were analyzed by descriptive analysis and assessing both for internal and external factors of drivers-barriers. Research findings showed that the community proceeds from a traditional mindset with regard bamboo resources and utilization but that the community actually already owned social capital to strengthen and drive modern bamboo utilization. However, there is still a lack of capacity building for bamboo management. This study also provides policymakers with strategic recommendations to develop integrated programs and regulations, support community-based bamboo utilization, improve livelihood, and support rural inclusive economic growth.

The potentials of bamboo resources owned by the community in Ngada Regency has not been managed and appropriately utilized. There were no integrated programs between the on-farm and off-farm sectors and no clear roles and responsibilities among the stakeholders involved. Soft System Methodology (SSM) framework approach was carried out through stakeholder analysis, CATWOE analysis, and gap analysis. The root definition of the current situation was that the model of sustainable community bamboo management and utilization (W) is responsible to the local and central government as well as the bamboo manufacturing industry as off-taker (O) with integrated supporting programs and regulations, ensuring the potential of bamboo resources and the bamboo product market (E) which was carried out together with stakeholders (A) through active participation and synergy programs (T) to improve the welfare of the community of bamboo owners, craftsmen, and bamboo entrepreneurs (C). The study produces a suitable and appropriate strategy based on the corrective actions of existing problems and recommendations formulated from conceptual models and existing actual conditions on integrated sustainable bamboo management.

Merger organization may encounter contra and supportive conditions. Organizational changes due to merger often occur both process and knowledge intertia. Especially to a research and development agency which its core activity is innovation. Merger among R&D organizations is aimed to achieve legit images but also may delay innovation process. This study measure the effect of knowledge vacuum as a moderating variable between distinctive competencies and process of innovation. 36 targeted researchers and engineers from various former public research & development agencies were involves in a questionnaire survey. Data was analyzed using PLS-SEM. Results show that distinctive competencies significantly affect process of innovation, meanwhile knowledge vacuum is not a significant moderating variable between distinctive competencies and process of innovation. The most important aspects of distinctive competencies are to define detailed process of innovation from start to end and to be able to commercialize innovation output. These aspects will boost changing organization to achieve new goals and maintain innovation process. In this case of insignificant knowledge vacuum, the possibility of open innovation is adequate.

The trend of using wood biomass as a renewable energy source must be supported by a more extensive feedstock through the utilization of degraded land. However, not all regions have information on land potential in the provision of wood biomass. This study aims to develop a system dynamic model that can describe the potential of wood biomass production from degraded land rehabilitation. The main steps include problem identification, mapping causal loop diagrams, integrating mathematical models in a stock and flow diagram, evaluating the model, and simulating the conditions in the next 20 years based on existing conditions and three alternatives of policies scenarios. The result showed that all scenarios able to reduce the degraded land area by 16%. Energy wood plantations can reduce the number of unemployed by half of the simulated amount while applying a moderate, optimistic, or very optimistic scenario, the number of unemployed will only be a quarter left in 2040. The optimistic scenario was considered to be applied in the rehabilitation of degraded land. The expected goals must be supported by the use of superior seedlings and effective forestry extension by increasing the number of extension officers and extension assistants.

Background Sustainable supply chains are more competitive than conventional supply chains. Supply chain sustainability performance needs to be carried out to determine sustainability under current conditions and to design appropriate strategies to increase sustainability. This study aims to design a sustainability performance assessment model for the sago agro-industry supply chain and identify critical indicators for sustainability improvement. Methods The Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) evaluates sustainability on three levels: economic, social, and environmental. The Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) is then used to aggregate the overall sustainability performance. The cosine amplitude method (CAM) was used to analyze key indicators. This study assessed the sustainability performance on industrial- and small-medium-scale sago agro-industry. Results The results show that the supply chain sustainability performance on the industrial scale is 44.25, while it is 48.81 for the small-medium scale with the same status, almost sustainable. Key indicators for improving sago agro-industry supply chain sustainability performance include profit distribution among supply chain actors, institutional support for supply chains, waste utilization (reuse & recycle), and the availability of waste management facilities. The implication of this research for managers regards assessing the current status of sustainability performance and key indicators as a reference for formulating sustainability strategies and practices. Implication The sago agro-industry sustainability performance evaluation methodology uses industry-relevant metrics to assess supply chain sustainability, promoting collaboration among stakeholders and assisting in the creation of sustainable strategies. Conclusions The results of the study will enable supply chain actors to understand the key indicators for improving sustainability performance in the sago agro-industry supply chain, especially in Meranti Islands Regency, Riau Province. The proposed model can be applied to other agro-industries by adjusting the indicators used and assessing data availability and suitability for the research object.

Purpose: This study aims to reveal how strong the influence of human resource development and resource/infrastructure management on innovation process during the merger of public research institutions by shaping researchers’ skills. The proposed research model is intended to reveal how distinctive competency possessed by human resource and resource/infrastructure management encourages the innovation process during the merger.Design/methodology/approach: Using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and involving 204 respondents, it is revealed that human resource development influences researchers’ adaptive and absorptive skills slightly stronger than resource/infrastructure management to encourage the innovation process during the merger of public research institutions.Findings: It is revealed that knowledge vacuum, which was unintentionally generated through chaotic condition during the merger, brought a positively significant influence on innovators’ distinctive competency through both adaptive and absorptive skills. This also implies that chaotic events within a dynamic research environment might stimulate open innovation process. In this regard, human resource management is expected to organize more training and coaching practices to minimize knowledge vacuum and enhance innovators’ distinctive competency.Research limitations/implications: This study was conducted by selecting a merged public research institution in Indonesia as the model case, meaning that the approach is probably not suitable to be applied to the condition in other countries due to different governmental rules and organizational process. Thus, cross-countries examination utilizing merged researches on organizational cases will be a suitable approach and valuable compass for future studies.Practical implications: Firstly, from the insight of human resource development, it is important to give equal opportunity in terms of skill and knowledge development to each innovators. Moreover, giving proper incentives can boost innovation desire that eventually boost innovation process. Secondly, human resource development and resource/infrastructure managements have a balance effect to support adaptive and absorptive skills. Managers should pay attention to properly manage the innovation resources and infrastructures so that innovators can utilize them right away without having to wait in line for too long.Originality/value: This study was conducted by selecting a merged public research institution as the model case and focused on researchers’ innovation process. Merging public research institutions domestically was considered a first-time worldwide phenomenon. Previously, innovation process was only discussed in the context of commercial sectors and higher education institutions.