This study aims to determine the impacts of fiscal decentralization, institutional transformation, and regional revenue to the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia. This study uses panel data with the number of runs 528 pieces of data that includes 33 provinces in Indonesia period 2000-2015. The data were taken from the Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS) and Bank Indonesia. They were analyzed using a multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that tax revenue sharing fund and natural resources revenue sharing fund impact positive and significant on the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia, while the general allocation fund, special allocation fund, institutional transformation, and the local revenue do not significantly affect the income disparity among the provinces in Indonesia. Tax and natural resources revenue sharing fund are actually exacerbating the gap of income distribution among regions in Indonesia. The implication of this study is that the government needs to review the allocation mechanism of General Allocation Fund, Special Allocation Fund, Tax Revenue Sharing Fund and Natural Resources Revenue Sharing Fund in order to serve as an instrument of fiscal capacity equalization of each region as well income distribution equalization among regions in Indonesia. The local government needs to continue improving the local revenue through the optimization of local tax revenue, regional retribution, profits of Regional Owned Enterprises, and other legitimate acceptances.

Sekolah merupakan lembaga pendidikan yang berorientasi pada siswa sebagai pusat layanan. Segala sumber daya diarahkan untuk memberikan layanan yang optimal pada siswa dalam proses pembelajaran. Oleh karena itu, kinerja karyawan (guru dan tenaga kependidikan) di sekolah perlu ditingkatkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh employee engagement, spiritualitas kerja, dan budaya organisasi terhadap kinerja karyawan dengan kepemimpinan kepala sekolah sebagai variabel moderasi. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh karyawan   SMA Kolese de Britto.  Sampel dalam penelitian ini sebanyak 73 karyawan yang pengambilannya dengan proportinied clustered random sampling. Selanjutnya data dianalisis dengan metode SEM-PLS dengan bantuan software SMARTPLS v.3.0. Hasil analisis penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa employee engagement dan spiritualitas kerja berpengaruh positif dan signifikan terhadap variabel kinerja karyawan, budaya organisasi tidak berpengaruh terhadap kinerja karyawan, variabel kepemimpinan kepala sekolah tidak memoderasi pengaruh employee engagement, budaya organisasi, dan spiritualitas kerja terhadap kinerja karyawan

Strada Association is an educational community belonging to the Archdiocese of Jakarta which was founded by three Jesuits. The establishment and management of the Strada Association has until now been entrusted to the Society of Jesus. Strada's long history indicates that there are characteristics of Jesuit education to be found there. However, since its inception, the characteristics of Jesuit education have not been clearly revealed in the manual on how to act for teachers and leadership elements within the Strada Association. The purpose of this research is to find out the important elements, and the ways in which Branch Head, Supervisor, Principals, and teachers to experience fully, live, and implement the characteristics of Jesuit education in the Strada Association. Through qualitative research methods, researcher seeks to find the characteristics of Jesuit education through in-depth interviews, with key persons (informants), namely people who the author believes know about the situation of the Strada Association. Data analysis was carried out by observing the appreciation, livelihood, and implementation of the characteristics of Jesuit education. The results of the study indicate that the characteristics of Jesuit education in general have been, and are being lived, lived, and implemented by the interviewed informants. The conclusion that can be drawn is that the characteristics of Jesuit education can be found in the Strada Association community.

This research aims to determine: 1) the influence of vanity seeking on repurchase intention with attitude toward laneige as a mediating variable, 2) the influence of purchasing experience on repurchase intention with attitude towards laneige as a mediating variable, 3) the influence of celebrity endorser on repurchase intention with attitude toward laneige as a mediating variable. The population in this research is Laneige consumers who have already bought Laneige with a total sample of 96 respondents. The sampling technique used is convenience sampling. The sampling technique used is convenience sampling. The validity test uses the construct validity test of convergent and discriminant constructs, and reliability test uses the formula of composite reliability and Cronchbach’s alpha. The data analysis technique used in this research is SEM using Partial Least Squares (SEM-PLS). The results showed that: 1) Vanity seeking did not have a positive influence on repurchase intention with attitudes toward Laneige as a mediating variable, 2) Purchase experience had a positive influence on repurchase intention with partial mediation by attitudes towards Laneige, 3) Celebrity endorser had positive influence on repurchase intention with full mediation by the attitude towards Laneige.

This study aims to determine whether there is a significant difference in productivity between organic and inorganic rice farming, whether there is a significant difference in technical efficiency between organic nd inorganic rice farming, and whether fertilizer costs, labor costs, arable land area, and the length of the use of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) have a significant effect on the organic rice production. The target of this research is the improvement of economic efficiency and organic rice farming productivity in Purworejo District, Central Java. To achieve this target, this study used SRI method. The population was all farmers of inorganic and organic rice farming in Purworejo District. The samples consist of 45 people from organic rice farmers and 45 people from inorganic rice farmers in Ringgit Village, Purworejo. They were collected by random sampling and the data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and quantitative analysis. Descriptive analysis was done by comparing all necesary activities in both organic and inorganic rice farming. The descriptive analysis concludes that there is a difference in terms of the selection of seeds, seedlings, seed treatment before sowing, planting and watering, fertilizing, weeding and pest control. Quantitative analysis is done using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and multiple linear regeresi. The quantitative analysis concludes that there is a significant difference in productivity between organic rice farming and inorganic rice farming. There is a significant difference in technical efficiency between organic rice farming and inorganic rice farming. Fertilizer costs, labor costs, arable land area, and the length of the use of SRI method have a significant effect on the organic rice production.