Merantau is a unique form of outmigration in Minangkabau communities. The Minangkabau's strong tendency to migration as a rite de passages especially for young men. They migrate from rural areas to looking for experience, prosperity and education. Its also places a heavier burden on household left behind to make up for lost local labor. The impact of outmigration on agriculture, especially on household left behind has long been debated. Thus identifiying the impact of migration on household in rural origin is an open empirical questio. The main purpose of this paper is to analyse impact of merantau to household left-behind labor allocation in on-farm, off-farm and non-farm activity. The paper uses treatment regression techniques to asses impact merantau on household labor allocation. The result provide that merantau contributes to increase hired labor on paddy farming. Paddy farming operations used 89% hired labor. Merantau reduce labor force participation for household members left behind and increase non-farm activity. Base on the findings, this study contributions to the literature by providing a wider understanding of labor supply decisions in rural household that have migrant and receive financial transfers.

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The development of the local economy through the concept of a tourism village based on agricultural commodities is a manifestation of a sustainable economy, which is not only creating business opportunities based on the development of agricultural products but also related to community empowerment and sustainability so that they are ready to be competitive in the global market. This study aims to determine the advantages of Kumpai Batu Atas village, South Arut sub-district, West Kotawaringan Regency in developing KBA liberika coffee, using descriptive qualitative method with SWOT approach. Based on the determination of internal and external factors which are then combined so that it can be formulated 1) Increasing land productivity for liberika coffee cultivation through the support of groups and local governments by creating a tourism village concept based on agricultural products to encourage local economic improvement 2) Optimizing cultivation activities by creating added value through strengthening capital 3) Increasing knowledge of technology-minded coffee farmers and local governments as providers of appropriate technology, so that KBA liberika coffee is able to be competitive. 4) Development of sustainable technology in eradicating plant-disturbing organisms and local governments to create regional clusters based on land suitability.