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Inventory of the Langkat Regency Regional Museum Collection Siti Aisyah; Nur Sonia Sitompul; Annisa; Anita Syamsinar; Ridho Akbar Fadilah; Hotmatua Paralihan
al-Afkar, Journal For Islamic Studies Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025)
Publisher : Perkumpulan Dosen Fakultas Agama Islam Indramayu

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A museum is a permanent institution established for the benefit of the public and society, as an institution capable of caring for, preserving, researching and providing a place to broaden one's knowledge. The Langkat Regency Regional Museum is one of the legacies of the Langkat Sultanate which can still be visited today. A museum with many changes in function from a justice building to a Regional Museum. As for the problems raised in this research, the researcher took the case of inventorying existing collections in regional museum buildings using qualitative methods as a way to describe the collections in museums. There are several stages carried out to obtain the results achieved through observation, interviews and collection data collection. The aim of this research is to be able to analyze the collections in each room in the Langkat area museum building which has 6 rooms with the main room having a replica of a Malay throne or altar.
Farmers' Economic Dynamics: Challenges, Dependency, and the Role of Middlemen in the Agricultural System of Serdang Bedagai Faiz Afza Ihsan; Anita Syamsinar; Ismail Ismail
Proceeding International Conference on Islamic Economics Community Services (ICIECS) Vol 1 (2023): Proceeding International Conference on Islamic Economics Community Services
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara

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This study investigates the economic dynamics of farmers and the role of middlemen within the agricultural system of Serdang Bedagai, Indonesia. Using a qualitative case study approach, data were collected through unstructured in-depth interviews, field observations, and document analysis to explore the structural, economic, and institutional conditions shaping farmer livelihoods. The findings reveal that farmers experience multidimensional constraints, including dependency on middlemen for credit and market access, significant price asymmetry along the value chain, rising production costs due to limited access to subsidized inputs, unequal adoption of modern agricultural technologies, and persistent challenges in irrigation and local governance. These interconnected factors reinforce a cycle of vulnerability that limits farmers' bargaining power and economic mobility. The study highlights that farmers' dependency is not merely relational but structurally embedded within an environment of market failures and weak institutional support. The results contribute to agrarian political economy studies by demonstrating how market structure, infrastructure, and credit systems jointly reproduce dependency. Practically, the study offers insights for policymakers to strengthen agricultural infrastructure, expand access to formal credit, improve subsidy distribution, and promote inclusive technological transformation. The research concludes that comprehensive, multi-sectoral interventions are required to enhance farmer welfare and reduce structural dependency within rural agricultural systems