The study examined rice farming in Indonesia on the welfare of farmers using Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 2014 as data source. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) is employed to see further differences in farmer welfare impacts to programme beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of the new seed varieties programmes. The reveal that the new seed varieties programme is positively and significantly impactful on the welfare of farmers. Thus, innovative programmes in the agricultural sector must continue to be encouraged because of the implications of being able to improve the welfare of farmers. Then at the macro level it will help poverty alleviation programmes in Indonesia

World markets tend to be more free and open. This phenomenon is unavoidable because every country wants a world market that is open to its export products. Every obstacle, both tariff and non-tariff, is attempted to be reduced or eliminated through bilateral, regional and multilateral agreements. While countries expect an increasingly free world market, the United S tates (US) withdraws and becomes protectionist. In April 2018, the US officially decided on the implementation of antidumping import tariffs for Argentine and In donesian biodiesel products. The US raised antidumping import tariffs, after accusing the two countries of dumping practices. The tariff policy for imports of antidumping us seeks to protect domestic industries. This study aims to analyze the impact of US antidumping import tariffs on the economies of Indonesia and Argentina. This study uses the Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to observe the impact of rising US antidumping import tariffs on the economies of Indonesia and Argentina and other regions. The results of this study found that US antidumping import tariff policies have a negative impact on the economy of Indonesia and Argentina. In addition, the policy also has a negative impact on countries in the Asia-Pacific region and the EU. This shows that the implementation of US antidumping import tariffs for Indonesian and Argentinian biodiesel products has a global impact.

Despite the growing studies of Baitul Maal wa Tamwil (BMT) in Indonesia, few have empirically analyzed how BMT increases household welfare, primarily through credit for productive activities. This study aimed to analyze the impact of BMT availability in the community on household welfare. Considering that credit is targeted for productive activities, the researchers limited the respondents to farmer households and households with non-farming business activities, amounting to 4642 and 2250, respectively. Utilizing longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS), the analysis was conducted employing the difference-in-difference (DiD) method. The results showed that BMT's existence in the community improved farmer households' mean welfare by 1.65%. After controlling for household and community characteristics, consistent results were obtained with a small decrease in the coefficient of 1.58%. Meanwhile, households with non-farming business activities were not affected by the existence of BMT in their community. Nevertheless, a positive coefficient of diff-in-diff indicated that BMT and welfare had a positive relationship even though it was not strong enough to be a contributor to the outcome.

Indonesia experiences demographic change because of basically the result of successful policies in the past. Especially in the health sector where in the era of Orde Baru[1] the family planning program was successfully implemented. Productive age over non productive age are the two main variables in addition to some other variables that are also shaping demographic change. This study highlighted the demographic changes, particularly with the increasing burden of government dependents in the allocation of education, health, and social security. This study attempted to see the effect of demographic change on government fiscal using the Error Correction Model. The choice of this model was because ECM could be used to see the short-run dynamic relationship of variables that have cointegration relationship. The results showed that there are cointegration so that it could be continued by estimating using ECM and the results show that demographic change have an influence on government fiscal where proxies used such as mortality, birth rate, life expectancy have significant effect while productive and non-productive age have no significant effects. [1] Orde Baru is Period when Soeharto occupied as The 2nd President of Indonesia