Purpose of the study: This study tried to examine the correlation between social capital and the poverty level of farmers in Aceh. It was linked to the uneven agricultural development of some rural areas in Aceh had caused the poverty rates in villages are higher than in the urban areas. Hence the social capital is important as other capitals in development and become the energies for the development and decreases the rate of poverty. Methodology: This research used a quantitative method by distributing the questionnaire to 300 respondents in Aceh Tamiang, Pidie Jaya and Aceh Tengah, Indonesia. The data analyzed by using the Spearman correlation with the assistance of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences to determining the relationship between two variables; social capital and poverty in farmers. Main Findings: This study found that there is a positive and significant correlation between social capital and the level of poverty. Famers who have a higher stock of social capital are found to be lower in the poverty rate. Applications of this study: The finding of this study is useful for the government of the Aceh government to explore and strengthen farmers' social capital to empowering their economies. It would be relevant to decreasing the poverty rate according to farmers in Aceh. Novelty/Originality of this study: The case of poverty in Aceh was widely explained by the numbers of the researcher. But there is no recent publication that has explained the relationship between poverty and social capital in Aceh. Therefore a strong level of social capital will be able to significantly reduce poverty in Aceh.

Peace education is crucially needed in formal schools throughout Aceh to build peace culture among young generations, but Aceh government has not supported the peace education by a policy to establish peace education standard at secondary school. This study aims to examine the peace education has been tough at a secondary school in East Aceh. The research used a qualitative approach, which data was collected by depth interview and study of the document. The results show that peace education has been implemented in different ways at senior high schools in East Aceh. Some schools have tough it in a particular way, separated from the other subjects, and some schools others have tough it incorporative.

Cocoa is one of the dominant plantation crops in North Aceh. Matangkuli District is a cocoa development area in North Aceh. The planting area is satisfactory, but the yield and quality are still below the national average. The general objective of this activity is to build and foster a farming community through the cocoa commodity business in order to produce reliable quality human resources. Reliable human resources will be able to manage all the potential of existing natural resources in order to produce quality cocoa bean production, both in terms of production and productivity, so as to create added value and competitiveness according to market needs. In addition, in the long term it is hoped that through this activity it will be able to increase people's income and create jobs and be able to increase the competitiveness of the cocoa value chain by providing more business opportunities in the cocoa plantation sub-sector within the North Aceh Regency area, especially Gampong Ceubrek District. Matangkuli. The focus of the implementation of this service is increasing the capacity of knowledge and skills in managing cocoa gardens and plants, rejuvenating old plants, and improving the quality of crops. During extension activities and field practice, cocoa farmers have been able to practice cocoa maintenance, plant rejuvenation and post-harvest fruit treatment practices. At least the farmer groups will make a pilot demonstration plot to apply maintenance, rejuvenation and post-harvest treatment which will then be compared with the results achieved conventionally. In addition, cocoa farmers are also trained in managing farmer groups. Where the harvest will be concentrated to be given fermentation and drying treatment simultaneously. Marketing will be done collectively, not individually. Collective sales will save on transportation costs, so the sales value received will be higher.

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This study examines the influence of government pricing policies in determining the selling price of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) on the income of oil palm farmers. The research was conducted on oil palm smallholders in East Aceh who were determined based on convenience sampling. There are 100 oil palm smallholder respondents appointed to represent all oil palm smallholders in East Aceh. Data was collected using a questionnaire by taking samples of oil palm farmers in 10 districts in East Aceh. The question items are formed based on the indicators of each variable. This study was tested using multiple linear regression. The results of the study prove that the price policy issued by the government in determining cooking oil has a negative effect on the income of oil palm farmers. Palm oil farmers hope that the government's role will be more equitable in formulating price policies, so that prices tend to be stable and based on developments in world CPO prices. At present the role of the government tends to be perceived by farmers as none exist, the purchase price of FFB is mostly determined by the PKS factories in accordance with the wishes of large capital owners. There needs to be strong sanctions given to palm oil mill owners (PKS) when they tend to prioritize processing their own plantation products during large harvests compared to buying produce from community-owned oil palm planters. The results of this study provide theoretical implications about the importance of the government's role in increasing the income of oil palm farmers. Palm oil farmers need to always be accompanied by the government with regulations that not only benefit farmers but can also increase the economic growth of a region in the long term.