The study of the implementation of Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) program in Indonesia aims to find out the background and significance of the program taken by the government under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2009-2014 on the issue of eradication of extreme poverty and hunger. The problem of extreme poverty and hunger in Indonesia has not been solved comprehensively. Therefore, the government had to provide the right program to end poverty. The research based on the qualitative method, which uses official reports, literature review and news articles as the sources. The result showed that the programs of eradication extreme poverty and hunger in 2009-2014 had been revised became three clusters. The first cluster aims to help and protects the social family guarantee and to assure the basic needs. The second cluster is the eradication of poverty and hunger through the social assistance program. The third cluster was focusing on eradication of poverty and hunger in term of economic matter. The government used the indicators by UNDP, as the base of the decision-making process, but also used the real condition of poor people in Indonesia as the main consideration.

This article is a study of foreign policy that aims to understand the reasons for South Korea's refusal to join the trilateral military alliance with the U.S. and Japan in countering North Korea’s nuclear and missile provocation. Due to the crisis of the two Koreas and the North keeps doing any efforts that leads to escalate the conflict, the U.S. initiated trilateral military alliance with its allies, namely South Koarea and Japan. Surprisingly, South Korea stated that they do not want to join trilateral military alliance with U.S. and Japan.Using an extensive literature review method with an interpretive approach, it finds that South Korea’s domestic political condition and a high pressure from China regarding this issue were influential in South Korea’s decision to refuse to join the alliance. The domestic political condition refers not only to political leader, but also to historical burden, and the changing generational priorities. This study also shows that China has got a stronger bargaining position in international relations in the East Asia region.

Peningkatan produktivitas dan pemasaran keju artisan dari Rumah Keju Jogja (RKJ) dengan brand KEJUGJA meningkatkan pula volume whey sebagai cairan sisa produksi. Tanpa penanganan yang tepat, whey tersebut hanya menjadi limbah produksi. Menyadari hal itu, RKJ telah berinisiatif memberi nilai tambah pada limbah tersebut dengan kreasi produksi kerupuk dari whey. Permasalahan yang dihadapi RKJ adalah: 1) Terbatasnya jumlah sumber daya manusia untuk proses produksi, dan 2)  Ketergantungan pada faktor cuaca dalam proses pengeringan. Oleh karena itu, dalam masa pandemi COVID-19 kegiatan PPM UMY menawarkan solusi :1) Pelatihan pembuatan kerupuk whey bagi warga terdampak COVID-19, dan 2). Pembuatan alat pengering kerupuk. Metode yang digunakan dalam kegiatan ini meliputi Focus Group Discussion, workshop, dan pendampingan penerapan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi. Output kegiatan berupa adanya 13 (tiga belas) orang yang mampu membuat kerupuk whey dan tersedianya cetakan krupuk dan alat pengering kerupuk. Outcome kegiatan meliputi terserapnya limbah produksi keju yang bernilai ekonomis, meningkatnya peluang usaha bagi warga terdampak pandemi, serta meningkatnya kapasitas produksi kerupuk whey.

This paper tries to make a comparison of decentralization policy which done by Indonesia and China. For big countries, areas which is far from the central government often led to the legitimacy crisis. Decentralization is one of effort to reduce the weight of central government responsibility. With considering the institutions valuation, comparative study of Indonesian and China Government in running decentralization are valued as quite significant. Keywords:China, decentralization, Indonesia, structural adjustment program AbstrakTulisan ini mencoba melakukan perbandingan atas kebijakan desentralisasi yang dilakukan Indonesia dan China. Bagi negara-negara berukuran besar, wilayah-wilayah yang jauh dari pusat pemerintahan seringkali menimbulkan krisis legitimasi. Desentralisasi merupakan salah satu upaya mengurangi beban tanggung jawab pemerintah pusat. Dengan mempertimbangkan penilaian lembaga-lembaga internasional, studi banding atas pengalaman pemerintah Indonesia dan China menjalankan desentralisasi dinilai cukup signifikan.