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This research aims to discuss the development strategies of traditional minangkabau food which became pre-eminent in West Sumatra Province. Tours in the Minangkabau is known in three things namely culinary tour (traditional foods), nature tourism and cultural tourism.  The technique of data collection through interviews and questionnaires as well as FGD. Data analysis was done with the analysis tools SWOT, EFAS, IFAD da QSPM. The object of the traditional food flagship developed is the beef rendang. The results of the analysis of internal factors obtained score 3.1 while external factor analysis of the retrieved value score 2.8. This indicates that the product is able to maintain the same power factor-factor exists to be able to overcome his weakness factors. In addition to the main development strategy that is right based on the internal-external matrix is keep and preserve consisting of market penetration strategies and product development strategy. While based on analysis of the QSPM retrieved the most priority strategy is a strategy of improving and maintaining the image quality of the products and packaging as well as food quality control. While the next alternative strategies is to increase promotion and different types of products.

The Indonesian composite stock price index is an indicator of changes in stock prices as a guide for investors to invest in reducing risk. The regression model for Indonesian Composite Index (ICI) has the response variable as stock prices with fluctuation behavior and several financial predictor variables, the model tends to violate the assumptions of normality, homoscedasticity, autocorrelation and multicollinearity. This problem can be overcome by modeling the composite stock price index by using the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and nonparametric regression of Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline (MARS). In this study, the time series data from the composite stock price index starting from April 2003 to March 2018 with its predictor variables are crude-oil prices, interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, gold prices, Dow Jones price, and Nikkei 225 Index. The both methods give better goodness of fit, where the coefficient of determination ANN is 0.98925 and the MARS determination coefficient is 0.99427. While based on the Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE) of ANN was obtained 6.16383 and the MAPE value of MARS is 4.51372. This means that the ANN method and nonparametric MARS regression method have good performance to forecast the value of the Indonesian composite stock price index in the future, but in this case of data the nonparametric MARS regression method shows the accuracy of the model is slightly better than ANN.

This study aims to discuss the design strategy of traditional minangkabau food development in West Sumatra Province and to provide policy recommendation for traditional minangkabau food to be globally competitive. Tourism in the Minangkabau region is known in three things: culinary tourism (traditional food), nature tourism and cultural tourism. Ideally, whatever the destination in West Sumatra, each region always highlight the uniqueness of traditional food, but it is difficult to find traditional minangkabau food, especially in tourist areas. Culinary business that grow precisely fast food. The study was conducted on all regencies / cities in West Sumatra. Data collection techniques through interviews and questionnaires and FGDs. The data analysis was performed by IFAS analysis tool, EFAS.

In general, regional financial management goes through the following stages: budget preparation, activity implementation and financial accountability or financial report preparation. Based on the above, Permendagri No. 21 of 2011 concerning Guidelines for Regional Financial Management, states the need for Standard Expenditure Analysis (ASB) as a main research tool in conducting performance-based budgeting. Expenditure Standard Analysis (ASB) is an assessment of the fairness of the costs and workloads used to carry out an activity at each Regional Apparatus Organization (OPD). This study aims to determine the reasonableness of spending in carrying out an activity so as to minimize unclear expenses that cause budget inefficiency. This research was conducted at the Regional Government of Padang Pariaman Regency, West Sumatra. The stages of preparing this Standard Expenditure Analysis (ASB) are to input data and group similar data, determine the Cost Driver, create regression equations, determine the average, upper and lower limits, and analyze the fairness of costs and workloads of the ASB model. has been compiled. The preparation of a Standard Expenditure Analysis (ASB) at the District Government of Padang Pariaman which is discussed in this is for the types of training activities for personnel and training for the community.