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The purpose of this activity is to improve the productivity of the farmers in the success of cocoa fruit through the use of appropriate technology for the separation of coco seeds / squeezer machine, with the application of this technology is expected to assist farmers in the production process so that the quality results of cocoa produced will be more optimal. Cocoa bean separator machine serves to accelerate the process of separation of salut which during this process is still manually and takes a long time. This salute separator machine as much as possible the process is easy and the results are really on target. The main objective of making cocoa depulper is to assist cocoa farmers in the process of harvesting and improving the quality of crops so that the needs of cocoa farmers can be fulfilled. Keywords: cocoa, salute, depulper, rotary system

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of the company’s external factors with proxies: inflation and interest rates, and the company’s internal factors with proxies: Return on Equity, and Debt to Equity Ratio partially and simultaneously to firm value in insurance sector companies listed on the Stock Exchange Indonesia. The research method used in this study is quantitative research methods, with the object of research of insurance companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange, amounting to 14 companies. This study used a purposive sampling technique that produced 8 companies as the research sample. The research data source uses secondary data in the form of documents including data about the company’s general description and financial statements of insurance companies on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) for 5 years. The results of this study indicate inflation, interest rates, Return on Equity, and Debt to Equity Ratio simultaneously have a positive but not significant effect on company value, then partially the other 3 variables, namely inflation, interest rates, and Debt to Equity Ratio have a positive effect but not significant to firm value, while variable Return on Equity has a positive and significant effect on firm value. Based on the coefficient of determination of 0.138 this shows the influence of 4 variables, namely inflation, interest rates, return on equity, debt to equity ratio of 13.8% while the remaining 86.2% is influenced by other factors, for example: the level of competition, policy company, developments in macroeconomic conditions.