Abstract. Indonesia has abundant natural resources, Gross Domestic Product Indonesia has entered 20 largest in the world, volume of national budget and expenditures and budget allocation for poverty eradication tend to rise, and even debt to development financial also rose sharply, but the number of poor difficult down. The purpose of study is to analyze the role of the agricultural sector on the poverty reduction in urban and urban areas in Indonesia. This study using two approaches analysis, which is descriptive and quantitative analysis. These study found that agricultural sector has important to reduce poverty in the rural than urban area. While in urban areas, industry sector has important to reduce poverty. Agricultural sector to remain a key and can as leading sector in reducing poverty, in the aggregate considering poverty largest located in urban areas. Government policy is expected to direct to a center where poverty are.Key words: Poverty, Rural area, Urban area, Agriculture.Abstrak. Sumber daya alam di Indonesia berlimpah, Produk Domestik Brutonya telah masuk 20 terbesar di dunia, volume Anggaran Pendapatan dan Belanja Negara dan alokasi anggaran penanggulangan kemiskinan cenderung terus meningkat, dan bahkan utang untuk pembiayaan pembangunan juga meningkat tajam, tetapi jumlah orang miskin sulit turun. Tujuan studi ini untuk menganalisis peran sektor pertanian terhadap pengurangan kemiskinan di perdesaan dan perkotaan. Pendekatan analisis deskriptif dan kuantitatif digunakan untuk menjawabnya. Hasil temuan menunjukkan bahwa sektor pertanian berperan penting terhadap pengurangan kemiskinan di perdesaan dibandingkan perkotaan. Sedangkan di wilayah perkotaan, sektor industri berperan penting dalam mengurangi kemiskinan. Sektor pertanian tetap menjadi kunci dan sebagai leading sector dalam mengurangi kemiskinan secara agregat, mengingat kemiskinan terbesar terdapat di perdesaan. Kebijakan pemerintah diharapkan mampu langsung menuju pada pusat di mana kemiskinan tersebut berada.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat daya saing ekspor rempah Indonesia di pasar ASEAN dan tingkat intensitas persaingan ekspor rempah dari negara-negara ASEAN. Metode analisis yang digunakan adalah Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Intra-Industry Trade (IIT), Index of Export Overlap (IEO), dan Index of Export Similarity (IES). Sedangkan data yang digunakan adalah data tahunan periode tahun 2005-2013. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa daya saing rempah Indonesia di pasar ASEAN mengalami perubahan antar periode pengamatan. Pada periode sebelum dan saat krisis ekonomi banyak komoditas rempah Indonesia berdaya saing rendah. Sedangkan pada saat pasca krisis ekonomi kondisi daya saing rempah tersebut mengalami peningkatan, khususnya vanili, kayu manis, jahe, kunyit, safron, timi, daun salam, daun kari, dan lada. Apabila dilihat dari sisi persaingan komoditas rempah negara-negara ASEAN di pasar Indonesia maka intensitasnya cenderung menurun. Lada dari Filipina, vanili dari Thailand, dan cengkeh dari Malaysia dapat menjadi kompetitor yang potensial di pasar rempah Indonesia karena daya saingnya meningkat di saat negara-negara lain menurun. Pemerintah Indonesia dapat melakukan upaya-upaya untuk mempertahankan dan meningkatkan potensi daya saing rempah melalui (a) teknik budidaya yang baik, (b) pengembangan industri hilir, (c) pemanfaatan bursa komoditas, dan (e) perbaikan fasilitasi perdagangan. The study aims at analyzing the level of export competitiveness of Indonesian spices and the intensity level of spices export competitiveness among ASEAN countries. This study used Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Intra-Industry Trade (IIT), Index of Export Overlap (IEO), and Index of Export Similarity (IES) approaches. The data used were time series during 2005-2013. The results showed that in the period before and during economic crises, most of Indonesian spice commodities are considered in the low level of competitiveness. However, that level has improved after the Indonesian economic crises, particularly for some spice commodities such as: vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, saffron, turmeric, thyme, bay leaves, and curry. Seen from the ASEAN countries’ spice commodities in Indonesian market, the level of competitiveness tends to decline in the intensity. Philippines pepper, Thai vanilla, and Malaysian clove may become the potential competitors in Indonesian market showing that those countries have increased the level of competitiveness whereas other ASEAN countries have decreased. Indonesian government should maintain and stimulate the potential spice competitiveness through: (a) an application of good cultivation technique, (b) a development of downstream industry, (c) a utilization of commodity exchange, and (e) an improvement of trade facilitation.

No abstract

The development of online business in Indonesia caused the growing popularity of startup business in Indonesia. Many startups appear mainly in terms of buying and selling or often called a marketplace. The purpose of this research is to know the influence of trust, technology anxiety, customer service support, and e-Marketplace features to customer satisfaction to make the online purchase by a college student in Tembalang Subdistrict, Semarang. This study is a quantitative research by approaching data collection through observation with the number of samples of 80 respondents from student's college in Tembalang Sub-district Semarang City. By using multiple linear regression analysis tools with regression equation produced Y = 0.117-0.144X1 + 0.119X2 + 0.52X3 + 0.313X4. With T-test results obtained trust significance (X1) Sig = 0.261, technology anxiety (X2) Sig = 0.394, customer service support (X3) Sig = 0.000. and e-Marketplace features (X4) Sig = 0.002. It shows partially variable trust and technology anxiety have no significant effect on customer satisfaction, but customer service support and e-Marketplace features variable significantly influence customer satisfaction in making online purchasing. The result of F test obtained by Sig = 0.000 which shows simultaneously variable of trust, technology anxiety, customer service support and feature significantly influence to customer satisfaction in making purchasing through the online system. Of the four variables studied variable customer service support (X3) is the dominant variable in affecting customer satisfaction.

The creative economy paradigm emphasizes the importance of ideas and intellectual property as an entrepreneurial prerequisite for being able to survive in fierce global competition. Today, an entrepreneur is required to create products with unique differences in power over competitors to stay alive in the industry. Organizational external and internal resources such as Information Technology (IT) and local culture are strategic asset sources that have an important role in building business performance. This study departs from the gap of research that is still inconclusive about the effect of IT on Organizational Performance (OP). The research direction offers novelty concepts from the perspective of resourcebased entrepreneurship theory. This paper offers the concept of Inimitable-based Innovative Entrepreneurship (IBIE),which in its ontology IBIE is the application of innovation distribution of product attributes sourced from the local nuances of design so that it becomes an iconic product that is difficult to emulate. The direction of this study will examine the concept of IBIE at the organizational level. The sample is 138 creative entrepreneurs who are SME owners who base their needs on design images that are always renewable. Hypothesis testing carried out shows empirically the IBIE variable has been able to act as a full mediation variable to bridge the gap between IT (Beta (β) = 0.747) and OP (β = 3.341). IBIE becomes a concept that fills the space of the influence of IT on OP in the body of knowledge in the entrepreneurship domain.