[Bahasa]: Kondisi kehidupan nelayan tradisional di Desa Pulau Kayu identik dengan ekonomi yang rentan dan berpendapatan rendah sehingga memerlukan upaya penguatan ekonomi melalui pemberdayaan perempuan. Program pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini bertujuan memetakan kendala yang dihadapi kelompok usaha perempuan dalam memanfaatkan potensi lokal di Desa Pulau Kayu serta upaya untuk mengatasi kendala tersebut. Mitra utama pengabdian ini adalah 30 orang anggota Kelompok Usaha Perempuan “Sepakat” sebagai komunitas masyarakat pesisir.  Metode pengabdian yang digunakan berkonsep CBR (Community-Based Research). Hasil Program pengabdian ini berhasil memetakan kendala-kendala dalam pengembangan Kelompok Usaha Perempuan “Sepakat” di Desa Pulau Kayu mulai dari tidak stabilnya jumlah produksi, minimnya modal usaha, belum adanya kerjasama dan pendampingan dari pemerintah, kurangnya perhatian pemerintah dalam pemberdayaan perempuan yang berbasis potensi lokal, dan inovasi produk usaha yang terbatas. Program pengabdian mampu memecahkan kendala tersebut untuk mengoptimalkan pemanfaatan potensi lokal berbasis perempuan melalui program bantuan modal usaha, peningkatan keterlibatan pemerintah dalam kegiatan kelompok usaha perempuan dan pelaksanaan pelatihan pengolahan produk serta keuangan agar usaha kelompok perempuan “Sepakat” dapat berkembang lebih baik. Namun demikian program pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini memerlukan evaluasi dan monitoring pemerintah secara berkala agar hasil positif kegiatan ini dapat memberikan dampak yang berkelanjutan serta mampu menaikkan taraf hidup kelompok usaha perempuan “Sepakat” dan masyarakat di Desa Pulau Kayu. Kata Kunci: pemberdayaan perempuan, peningkatan ekonomi, kelompok usaha, masyarakat pesisir [English]: Traditional fishermen in Pulau Kayu Village experience vulnerable and low-income economic situations; therefore, initiatives to enhance the economy through women’s empowerment are required. This community service program aimed to identify and remove barriers preventing women's business groups from taking advantage of local resources in Pulau Kayu Village. The participants of this program were 30 members of the women's Business Group "Sepakat". The method used was CBR (Community-Based Research). The result shows that the program succeeds in identifying the challenges or impediments to the growth of women's business groups in Pulau Kayu Village, starting with the erratic production levels, the lack of business capital, the absence of government cooperation and support, the government's lack of focus on empowering women based on local potential, and the restricted innovation of business products. This community service program can solve these obstacles to optimize the utilization of women-based local potential by helping business capital, increasing government involvement in women's business group activities and conducting product processing and financial training so that the women's business group "Sepakat" can develop further. Regular evaluation and monitoring by the government are needed so that the positive results of this service program can have a sustainable impact and improve the standard of living of the "Sepakat" women's business group and the community in Pulau Kayu Village. Keywords: women's empowerment, economic  improvement, business groups, coastal society,

Learning outside of the study program is one of the programs offered by the Independent Campus Policy, which is a new policy in the field of education. The study will concentrate on student exchange programs, internships, and village development, all of which should be evaluated for their feasibility. This study employs a qualitative technique using a case study approach, and the research indicator is David C. Korten's theory of compliance. The findings suggest that not all PTNs in West Aceh have adopted the Merdeka Campus. Although the Merdeka Campus policy has been designed to meet the demands of students, students have complained about rising living costs and the lack of precise criteria for each activity. The implementing organization in charge of the program is ineffective because there are still activities without a competent agency. The target group, students, believe that the program's implementing organization is inconsistent in formulating and issuing policies, which has a detrimental influence on students. It can be concluded that PTN has attempted to implement the independent campus policy in West Aceh, and that this is viewed positively by students; however, improvements are required so that the results of the implementation of an independent campus can provide the best results for improving the quality of higher education in West Aceh.

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused chaos in the living order of the world community, including Indonesia. As a maritime country with a high population in coastal areas, the pandemic has caused the economic stability of fishermen to decrease drastically, so solutions are needed in the form of empowerment programs not to cause greater problems. This study aims to find the implementation of the coastal community empowerment program carried out by the government in the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, Johan Pahlawan District, West Aceh Regency, which is the centre of fisheries and marine management locations in the Regency. The research method that the author uses is descriptive qualitative. The results found through this research are that the government's empowerment during the pandemic is mostly only in the form of financial assistance. They even realize the aid funds provided to fishermen groups are still not on target. Therefore, this study concludes that implementing the coastal community empowerment program by the government remains inappropriate and unsuccessful in overcoming the problems faced by fishermen back from the past to the current Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, the government must prioritize the community's needs by improving the management of fishermen's businesses, such as forming cooperatives and increasing cooperation with partners, which are the main aspects of improvement to improve the fishermen's standard of living

In Aceh Barat Daya District, this essay examines the role of stakeholders as players in empowering the women's group "Agreed" through regional potential. This study employs a case study methodology and a qualitative research design. Data was gathered by observation, interviews, and documentation. Triangulation validity, reliability, and interactive analysis models were then used to analyze the data. The study's findings demonstrate that stakeholders have played a significant role as policy actors for empowerment programs since the implementation of the Participatory Missile Appraisal (PRA) and Participation Assessment Plan (MPA) processes, which prioritize community involvement. supported by the application of the ideas of corporate development, institutional development, and human development. However, it is clear from the existence of unresolved business issues like seasonal business, the lack of specialized training and enrichment of product innovation for groups, as well as the inability to organize businesses, that the needs of the "Agreed" women's group have not been met in practice as expected. So, solid cooperation between policy actors is needed in carrying out empowerment and more efforts to evaluate implementation to assess the level of success of the program being implemented

This study aims to analyze the application of e-government through the SIMDA application at the Transmigration and Manpower Office of West Aceh Regency. using qualitative methods with data collection techniques in the form of interviews and observations, where researchers used purposive techniques, data were analyzed by means of reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that if the implementation of financial SIMDA is well implemented, where the users understand and support the SIMDA use policy, but network resources and human resources are still lacking, financial SIMDA also does not exist, followed by structures that do not match the needs so that tasks overlap. The existence of financial SIMDA has supported the implementation of e-government, because it is a digital application that is easy to use, the information produced is reliable and data security is maintained, data content is accurate with a simple display, and users and beneficiaries strongly support the implementation of financial SIMDA, but there is no interaction forum. between the user and the user system. So it can be said, although there are some shortcomings in the description of the research results, it does not have a major impact on the effectiveness, accountability, auditability, transparency and efficiency of the use of financial SIMDA in the Aceh Barat Distranaker.