Poverty is a crucial problem which always burdens the government of the developing countries. In Indonesia attention is particularly to be focused inrural areas due to the fact that a high number of poor people live in the area. Emphasis of the development which placed in the rural development will give rise in hope of decreasing number of rural poverty. An appropriate strategy should be formulated to code with the rural poverty problem. This is the prominent role of system analysis approach in the undertaking that covers several steps of work phase structured systematically with priorities and appropriate decision to reach the goal.

This paper uses input-output elasticities to identify important economic sectors Output, income and employment elasticities are used to identify key sectors of the Indonesian economy A comparison of the rankings of economic sectors based on input-output elasticities with those based on net backward linkages indicates significant divergence in sectoral rankings obtained from the two approaches The elasticity approach yields more consistent estimates of sectoral output, income and employment potentials than the net backward linkage approach

Laju perkembangan penduduk yang sangat pesat merupakan salah satu penyebab utama timbulnya tekanan yang sangat berat terhadap kualitas tanah. Pengamatan terhadap kerusakan tanah di kecamatan Cisarua Kabupaten Bogor, yang merupakan salah satu daerah yang termasuk Kawasan Puncak, dilakukan untuk mengidentifikasi tingkat kerusakan tanah dan factor-faktor penyebabnya, yang sepenuhnya didasarkan pada analisis “overlay” dari peta-peta yang diperoleh dari Direktorat Tata Guna Tanah Departemen Dalam Negeri. Kemudian juga disajikan alternative program untuk menanggulanginya

Although the participating farmers of transmigration program are provided with enough land to fulfill their basic needs, their ability to cultivate the land is very limited. From a case study of Tulang Bawang Transmigration Area, Lampung, it is indicated that the farmer's ability to cultivate their land is influenced not only by the technical aspects itself but also by the socio economic aspects such as their previous occupations levels of education and capital ownership.

Pedagang asongan yang muncul sebagai bagian dari sektor informal di kota-kota besar sebenarnya merupakan konsekuensi logis dari gagalnya sektor industri modern menampung limpahan tenaga kerja yang terlempar dari sektor pertanian, yang dianggap tradisional itu. Bagi kaum migran yang tidak berhasil menembus sektor modern, kembali ke sektor pertanian hampir tidak mungkin. Jalan yang paling mudah adalah masuk ke sektor informal. Dengan sedikit modal dan keberanian melintas di tengah hiruk pikuknya arus lalu lintas, mereka boleh menyandang "profesi" sebagai pedagang asongan.

Hampir setiap tahun selalu muncul gagasan untuk menangkal arus membanjirnya masyarakat yang berbondong-bondong ke Jakarta. Kalau tahun lalu Fraksi Karya Pembangunan (FKP) DPRD DKI Jakarta mengusulkan agar jakarta di canangkan kembali sebagai kota tertutup bagi pendatang baru, seperti pernah dicanangkan pada tahun 1970-an. Setelah lebaran tahun ini, beberapa orang anggota DPRD DKI Jakarta, yaitu Wakil Ketua Komisi D.H.Abu Bakar, dan Sekretaris FPDI, Romulus Sihombing, mengusulkan agar segera dibentuk forum konsultasi antar Pemda seluruh Indonesia

Munculnya perkampungan kumuh di kota-kota besar Jakarta misalnya, sebenarnya berawal dari pesatnya pertumbuhan penduduk terutama akibat derasnya laju arus urbanisasi. Ini merupakan konsekuensi logis dari sangat timpangnya laju pertumbuhan ekonomi antara daerah pedesaan dan daerah perkotaan.

This paper analysis relation andimpacts of Islamicity on happiness, with human development and global competitiveness as moderating variables.Cross-nations data on Islamicity, human development, global competitiveness and happiness were collected from 123 countries and employed in a path analysis model. The result showed that there were positive and very strong correlations between Islamicity and happiness (r14= 0.81), between global competitiveness and happiness (r34= 0.76), and between human development and happiness (r24= 0.82). Path coefficients indicated that direct impact of Islamicity on happiness was positive and significant (P41= 0.36), direct impact of global competitiveness on happiness was positive and significant (P43= 0.06), direct impact of human development on happiness was positive and significant (P42= 0.46). Indirectly, the impact of Islamicity on happiness, through global competitiveness was positive, but statistically not significant (P43-P31= 0.04), the impact of Islamicity on happiness through global competitiveness and human development was positive, but statistically not significant (P43-P32-P21= 0.01) and the impact of Islamicity on happiness through human development was positive and significant (P42-P21=0.39). Implication of this finding was that applying Islamic teaching and implementing the practice of human development would be very important to make people happy and to maintain happiness.

This paper examined the impact of technological progress on poverty reduction, with unemployment rate and economic growth as moderating variables, in Indonesia during the period of 2004-2013. It was coincided with two perods of Yudhoyono administration.Technological progress was measured by total factor productivity (TFP) growth, unemployment was measuredby open unemployment rate, economic growth was measured by the growth of Gross Domestic Product based on the year of 2000 constant price, and poverty reduction was measured by the percentage of poor people. Impact analysis was conducted using SEM-Path Analysis techniques. Most data were directly gathered from the National Statistics Agency, except data on TFP growth. The results showed that first, technological progress,directly, had a not significant positive impact on poverty reduction (Path-1). Second, technological progress, indirectly, had a positive significant impact on poverty reduction (Path-2). Third, technological progress, indirectly, had a positive significant impact on poverty reduction (Path-3). Fourth, technological progress, indirectly, had positive significant impact on poverty reduction (Path-4). Technological progress was important factor for poverty reduction but it was not sufficient conditions.

Bahwa pembangunan bertujuan untuk menciptakan hari esok yang lebih baik, kiranya tak perlu lagi dipersoalkan. Be3gitu juga bahwa keberhasilan pembangunan menuntut adanya peran serta masyarakat sudah sejak lama disadari. Makanya dalam setiap bab penutup GBHN pentingnya partisipasi masyarakat demi keberhasilan pembangunan selalu dinyatakan secara tegas.