Strategi dan kebijakan pembangunan kepemudaan di Kabupaten Luwu Utara adalah mendorong dan mendukung pelaksanaan kegiatan-kegiatan kepemudaan yang bersifat positif, mengadakan sosialisasi untuk meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat terhadap permasalahan yang dihadapi oleh pemuda, menyediakan akses pendidikan yang lebih besar bagi pemuda yang hendak melanjutkan pendidikan, mendorong aktivitas-aktivitas di bidang olahraga dan keagamaan, dan mendorong kerjasama antara Pemerintah Daerah dengan organisasi-organisasi kepemudaan setempat. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran umum kepemudaan, faktor penyebab penghambat pembangunan kepemudaan, faktor yang mempengaruhi kurangnya prestasi pemuda, faktor pendukung pembangunan kepemudaan dan strategi kebijakan pembangunan kepemudaan di Kabupaten Luwu Utara. Kajian dilaksanakan di Kabupaten Luwu Utara Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan dari bulan April sampai bulan Juli 2017. Analisis data menggunakan Analisis SWOT. Faktor-faktor yang mendukung pelaksanaan pembangunan kepemudaan di Kabupaten Luwu Utara antara lain adalah penyediaan sarana kepemudaan oleh pemerintah daerah, tingkat populasi pemuda yang tinggi, tingkat keikutsertaan pendidikan yang tinggi, dan adanya dukungan dari pemerintah.

This study aims to describe and analyze the type of leadership that is applied and the factors that influence the leadership of Aras Tammauni in Central Mamuju District. This research was held in Central Mamuju District. The research method used is a qualitative method, with a descriptive type. Data collection techniques used were interviews, observation and documentation.The results of this study indicate that the leadership of Aras Tamauni succeeded with the type of leadership applied was a type of charismatic, democratic, militaristic and autocratic leadership. The most dominant type of leadership applied is the charismatic type, the dominant type is democratic and the non-dominant type is autocratic and militaristic. Factors that influence: aristocratic descendants, benefactors, community leaders and originators of transmigrants, and the most important figures in the process of forming Central Mamuju as an Autonomous Region.AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan dan menganalisis Tipe kepemimpinan yang diterapkan dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi kepemimpian Aras Tammauni di Kabuapten Mamuju Tengah. Penelitian ini diadakan di Kabupaten Mamuju Tengah. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif, dengan tipe deskriptif. Teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan adalah wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian ini  menunjukan bahwa kepemimpinan Aras Tamauni berhasil dengan tipe kepemimpinan yang diterapkan adalah tipe kepemimpinan kharismatis, demokratis, militeristik dan otokratis. Tipe kepemimpinan yang paling dominan diterapkan adalah tipe kharismatis, tipe yang cukup dominan adalah demokratis serta tipe yang tidak dominan adalah otokratis dan militeristik.  Faktor yang mempengaruhi  : keturunan bangsawan, dermawan,  tokoh masyarakat dan pencetus transmigran, dan  tokoh yang paling berperan dalam proses pembentukan Mamuju Tengah sebagai Daerah Otonom.

There is a probability between funding for BUMDes for various activities in the village in an effort to alleviate poverty but in fact, the poverty rate in the village has not shown significant changes so that researchers are interested in more in-depth assessments. This study looks at (1) describe the role of youth in developing village potential through BUMDes and (2) to analyze the factors that influence the role of youth in developing village potential through BUMDes. The study took place in Pitue village, Ma’rang Subdistrict, Pangkajene and Islands Regency. The research used qualitative methods with data collection techniques in the form of intensive interviews and direct observation. Interviews took place on several parties involved in BUMDes activities in the village. Among them, the village head of Pitue, Village Secretary, BUMDes Director and several village communities involved in empowerment activities. The results of the interview were then reduced to several pieces of information, then the writer explained the interview reduction process with a confrontation process with several data on secudenders, in the form of government official reports and reports, BPS official reports and documents as well as some field notes found by the author. The results of the study show that young people as a catalyst as well as the main driver of empowerment activities in the village. The forms of activities initiated by youth in encouraging the participation of village people are such as coastal cyclical activities, while empowerment activities are emphasized in processing and processing the production of potential villages. The factors that influence the role of youth in developing village potential through BUMDes are internal factors such as caring and initiative, knowledge and skills, ideas of innovative creativity and external factors namely access to an expansion of opportunities (Pitue village government support).