The industry is the current engine of the Indonesian economy over the past three decades; the economic structure in Indonesia has the transformation from the agriculture sector to the industry sector. The objective of this study is to examine the causality between agricultural, industry, and economic growth in Indonesia. By using the vector error correction model (VECM), this research finds that in the long-term, there is directional causality from the industry added value, economic growth on the agricultural added value. Meanwhile, in the short-term, the variable of industry added value and economic growth has the two-way causality. Besides, the agricultural added value can only affect the industrial added value and economic growth in the short-term. These findings support the idea that the agricultural sector plays a vital role in the economy, such as increasing economic growth and growth in other sectors, especially the industrial sector in this case.JEL Classification: F40, L60, O13, O47

This study is to investigate the effect of human capital, labor domicile, gender, and working hours on the productivity of MSME workers in South Sumatra. The data used are primary data, data collection with a purposive sample approach as many as 196 samples as workers in SMEs. This study applies a logistic regression approach. The findings of this study indicate that independent tests, human capital, labor domicile, gender, and working hours have a significant relationship to labor productivity. Likewise, jointly the predictor variables such as junior high school, Local  workers, male, and working hours of more than seven hours have the opportunity to get higher productivity than other categories in SMEs.

Koperasi Syariah merupakan bagian dari Lembaga keuangan syariah (LKS) yang berlandaskan prinsip syariah dan bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan masyarakat dengan berorientasikan keuntungan dan juga falah. Sehingga bukan hanya satu pihak saja yang mendapatkan keuntungan, akan tetapi kedua belah pihak yang bisa merasakan keuntungan, terutama daerah pedesaan yang masih sangat membutuhkan keberadaan koperasi syariah dalam menunjang kehidupan masyarakat. Dalam kenyataannya masyarakat desa Kerinjing Kecamatan Tanjung Raja Selatan Kabupaten Ogan Ilir Provinsi Sumatera Selatan masih mengalami kesulitan dalam mencari pinjaman yang berlandaskan syariah, sehingga masyarakat terpaksa meminjam ke rentenir yang menerapkan sistem bunga. Maka itu perlu dilakukan pemahaman kepada masyarakat desa kerinjing terkait karakteristik, prinsip, dan tujuan ekonomi Islam melalui pelaksanaan koperasi syariah.  Hasil pengabdian menunjukkan bahwa terjadi peningkatan pengetahuan dan pemahaman aparat desa dan masyarakat tentang koperasi syariah dengan melibatkan partisipasi dan kerjasama seluruh aspek masyarakat. Masyarakat desa kerinjing ingin menerapkan dan segera mendirikan koperasi syariah. Melalui peran serta aktif masyarakat desa maupun koperasi syariah yang ada di desa kerinjing maka diharapkan hasilnya bisa berkontribusi terhadap pembangunan perdesaaan itu sendiri.

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The Covid-19 outbreak that spreads to almost all countries in the world is predicted to have a huge impact on world economic growth. In early 2020, there were many disasters ranging from floods, natural disasters such as tornadoes, landslides, mountain eruptions, tidal waves or abrasion, forest and land fires and also earthquakes.  This study used a simple linear regression analysis method.  Simple regression analysis is used to find out the relationships and influences that exist on variables bound to free variables carried out with time series data. The results of the study that the Open Unemployment Rate (TPT) and Economic Growth. dependent var 2.394632. If the economic growth variable is fixed or 0 then the open displacement rate variable is 7.50 percent. The remainder (91.52 percent) is explained by other variables that do not participate in the regression model. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic or coronavirus is felt by all sectors including the economic sector which results in workers and business people losing income. The weakening economy has an impact on the employment situation in Indonesia. The decline in the rate of economic growth affects the economic performance of all provinces, regencies/cities.