The purpose of this study to analyze and describe the empowerment ofsmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as reduction of poverty in Waru Rejovillage, Gempol Subdistrict, Pasuruan Regency as well as describe its supporting and inhibiting factors. This study used descriptive qualitative method. Data was collected through observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this study indicated the process of empowerment has been done by the government was limited to the provision of capital to develop Small and Medium Enterprises. In this empowerment, there are supporting factors included sufficient of labor,raw materials were cheap and easy to find, law of capital, the support fromapparatus village, supply raw materials were easy, agreement of selling price between group members. Meanwhile, inhibiting factor in this empowerment were inadequate or damaged on infrastructure, minimum assistance from the government, lack of waste disposal sites, and nothing of marketing products.

The purpose of this study was to describe the process of relocating street vendors, socio-economic impacts of the relocation of street vendors, enabling and inhibiting factors in the relocation of street vendors Buduran Sidoarjo District flyover. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The key informants in this study is a cooperative trade field staff, SMEs, Trade and Industry Sidoarjo. With the technique of collecting data through interviews, observation and documentation and then analyzed through the stages of data collection, data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that the process of relocating street vendors are not in accordance with the stages of the relocation as stipulated in the Regulation of Home Affairs Number 41 Year 2012 which begins from the stage of data collection by the two surveys and registration of street vendors, determining the location of street vendors, transfer and removal of the location of street vendors, for the rejuvenation of the location of street vendors. Relocation was finally done by the Department of Hygiene and Sidoarjo Regency which take discretionary acts such policies. The social impact of the relocation of street vendors in the area overpass Buduran district, in terms of comfort PKL more comfortable. But in terms of security is still not fully awake. PKL majority income declined due to the lack of empowerment of government. The government also has obstacles in the relocation of street vendors because of the limited land available as well as street vendors mindset still comfortable selling on the shoulder of the road because there is no money to rent a place.

ABSTRAKPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan peran pemerintahmasyarakat dalam pembangunan Desa Sedatigede Kecamatan Sedati Kabupaten Sidoarjo serta bagaimana faktor pendukung dan penghambatnya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif. Informan dalam penelitian ini mulai Kepala Desa (sebagai key informan), Perangkat Desa, Kepala Dusun, BPD, Karang Taruna, hingga masyarakat umum. Teknik pengumpulan datanya dilakukan dengan cara triangulasi (gabungan), analisis data bersifat induktif, dan hasil penelitian kualitatif lebih menekankan makna daripada generalisasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran pemerintah-masyarakat dalam pembangunan Desa Sedatigede cukup baik dan seimbang. Kerjasama yang terjadi bersifat mutualistik dimana pihak yang terlibat saling memahami posisi dan perannya dalam pembangunan desa. Pemerintah desa berperan dalam memfasilitasi masyarakat dan memberikan arahan yang baik kepada masyarakat tentang tujuan pembangunan yang akan dilaksanakan. Masyarakat berperan dalam menyumbangkan pemikiran, tenaga, hingga harta benda untuk demi keberhasilan pembangunan. Sedangkan, faktor pendukung kerjasama pemerintah-masyarakat adalah pendekatan yang dilakukan pemerintah desa terhadap masyarakat manusiawi, dan masyarakat sendiri telah memahami dengan baik posisi dan perannya dalam pembangunan. Selain itu, faktor penghambatnya adalah minimnya kesadaran masyarakat pada kebersihan lingkungan serta masih adanya anggapan pemerintah bahwa masyarakat adalah bawahan dan objek dalam pengawasan pembangunan.Kata Kunci: peran, kemitraan, pembangunan

Abstract.This article aims to analyze and to describe the characteristics of poverty as well as reduction policies/programs in Sidoarjo Regency. The location of this exploratory study is conducted in Sidoarjo Regency. Basic argument is caused Sidoarjo Regency Regency has the lowest poverty rate in East Java as well as get pro poor award from Indonesian government in 2011 and 2012. The subjects of this study as many as thirty people with the key informants Vice Regent of Sidoarjo. Data is collected through interviews to all informants. Then its data is coded and analyzed through grounded analyzing techniques from Strauss and Corbin. The results show that poverty characteristic in Sidoarjo Regency is caused cultural in both rural and urban area. Implementation of existing poverty reduction programs are still not optimal and targeted.Keywords: cultural poverty, structural poverty, poverty reduction, monitoring and evaluation Abstrak. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis dan menjabarkan karakteristik kemiskinan serta kebijakan dan program penanggulangannya di Kabupaten Sidoarjo. Lokasi penelitian eksploratif ini dilaksanakan di Kabupaten Sidoarjo. Argumentasi dasar yang digunakan karena Kabupaten Sidoarjo memiliki angka kemiskinan paling rendah di Jawa Timur serta pernah mendapatkan penghargaan pro poor award dari pemerintah RI pada tahun 2011 dan 2012. Subjek penelitian ini sebanyak tiga puluh orang dengan key informan Wakil Bupati Sidoarjo.Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui interview kepada seluruh informant. Data yang terkumpul kemudian dikoding dan dianalisis dengan teknik penganalisisan grounded dari Strauss dan Corbin. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kemiskinan di Kabupaten Sidoarjo lebih bersifat kultural baik di wilayah rural maupun urban (perkotaan).Pelaksanaan program penanggulangan kemiskinan yang ada selama ini masih belum optimal dan tepat sasaran.Kata kunci: kemiskinan kultural, kemiskinan struktural, penanggulangan kemiskinan, monitoring dan evaluasi

Opportunities, opportunities and challenges for women to develop their potential today are increasingly open. Supported by the motivation of women to work, study and entrepreneurship like men without forgetting their nature as a woman is getting stronger. The opportunities that are already available need to be supported by the improvement of human resources itself. To be able to compete in the world of work, education and skills are needed. The higher a person's education, the value of time becomes more valuable so it tends to replace his spare time for work. The low participation of women in the field of education results in the low participation of women in the economy. This can be shown by the low opportunity for women to work in the industrial sector, as well as the low access to economic empowerment, including capabilities in technology, information, working capital markets. : between opportunities and challenges in business in the 4.0 industrial revolution era. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation. Data processing is done through editing, coding and interpretive. The data analysis technique used is through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of the research, the role of women is an opportunity to play a strategic role, namely as domestic and public. The role of women as well as opportunities in business in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 is not enough to take part only as housewives, but is also required to be able to take part in family businesses and in the career world. Constraints faced by women are lack of understanding of technology, lack of digital literacy, due to low educational background.