AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan melakukan evaluasi terhadap program PNPM dan menentukan exit strategy program dengan pengembangannya yaitu melalui Program Penguatan SIDa. Metodologi penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan penelitian ini melalui sebagai desain riset evaluasi yang dibangun berdasarkan model evaluasi CIPP (Context-Input-Process-Product). Kegagalan teori dan model pembangunan yang terlalu mengagungkan pertumbuhan, membuat banyak kalangan beralih kepada pembangunan yang memusatkan kepada rakyat, yang didalamnya mensyaratkan optimasi sumberdaya lokal, partisipasi, dan pemberdayaan masyarakat. Sejak saat itulah, "pemberdayaan" yang dikenalkan di Indonesia telah membius banyak kalangan dan dijadikan tumpuan harapan banyak pihak.

Balance Scorecard dapat menuntun manajemen dan anggota organisasi dalam menterjemahkan visi, misi serta strategi organisasi ke dalam tindakan yang nyata. Dalam Balanced Scorecard, pengukuran kinerja dilihat dari 4 perspektif yaitu Customer and Stakeholder Perspective, Financial Perspective, Employees and Organization Capacity Perspective, dan Internal Bussiness Process Perspective. Pengukuran kinerja dengan pendekatan Balanced Scorecard tidak terbatas digunakan pada organisasi swasta melainkan juga bisa diterapkan pada organisasi sektor publik. Tulisan ini menguraikan tentang perlunya Balanced Scorecard untuk organisasi pemerintah dan peluangnya apabila digunakan di Badan Penelitian dan Pengembangan (BPP) Kementerian Dalam Negeri (Kemendagri) berdasarkan beberapa analisis dan hasil penelitian yang pernah dilakukan. Kata kunci: penilaian kinerja, pemerintah, balanced scorecard,BPP Kemendagri.

Perkembangan dunia yang sangat cepat menuntut persaingan di semua sektor yang semakin ketat. Untuk dapat mengungguli pesaingnya, setiap organisasi harus memiliki keunggulan kompetitif tertentu. Keunggulan ini dapat dibentuk melalui penciptakan produk dengan desain yang unik, penggunaan teknologi modern, dan yang paling strategis adalah manajemen sumber daya manusia yang efektif. Tulisan ini bertujuan memberikan memaparkan hubungan erat antara perubahan pola manajemen sumber daya manusia dengan keunggulan kompetitif suatu organisasi. Dalam konteks perubahan pola manajemen sumber daya manusia ini, peran pimpinan sangat strategis guna meningkatkan potensi sumber daya manusia agar berdayaguna secara optimal untuk meningkatkan kinerja organisasi, sehingga organisasi mampu memiliki keuanggulan kompetitif. Kata Kunci: manajemen, sumber daya manusia, organisasi

This study was about the performance of researchers in the Ministry of Home Affairs' Research and Development Agency (R & D Unit of the MoHA). This research was motivated by the suboptimal performance of researchers in developing policies in the Ministry of Home Affairs. The purpose of this study was to describe the performance of the researchers and their various efforts on research and development in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Regional Government. This study used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results of this study showed that empowerment has a direct effect on innovation and improvement of the researcher's performance. This means that more empowerment will lead to an increase in the performance of MoHA and Regional Government researchers indicated by the increase in R & D innovations produced by the researchers. The Organization Commitment had a direct effect on innovation and improvement of the researcher's performance. This means that a high level of commitment in the organization will lead to an increase in the performance of MoHA and the Regional Government researchers, through the increase in innovations. Innovations had a direct effect on the researcher's performance. This means that a high degree of innovations will lead to an increase in the researchers' performance. Together, the increased empowerment and organizational commitment directly influence the performance of researchers. This means that increasing empowerment and organizational commitment at the same time will improve the researchers' performance. The novelty factor from this study was the theoretical implication that this study strengthens the previous studies, that empowerment directly influenced innovation and enhanced the researchers' performance, the organizational commitment had a direct effect on researcher innovation and improved the researchers' performance, innovations directly influenced the researchers' performance, and that empowerment and the organizational commitment together have a direct effect on the performance of researchers.

This study is about the development gap in eastern Indonesia. This research is motivated by the existence of big problems that still faced by Indonesia up to now is the happening of development gap. The purpose of this research is the policy strategy in overcoming the gap between eastern Indonesia and West Indonesia region. This research uses the qualitative approach with discourse analysis method. Data collection method is done by triangulation technique of data source. Meanwhile, the data processing conducted by the researcher is data reduction. The result of this study is to provide an alternative policy that can be used and somewhat different from the mainstream which usually overcomes the gap by directly implementing the infrastructure development policy which until now based on the evaluation did not directly solve the problem, as evidenced by the many results of the construction of the stagnant infrastructure. Through this study, it is found that there are major issues that are more fundamental and often overlooked by policy makers. The main issues are grouped into three major groups of major issues, namely: Comprehensive Planning and Budgeting, Data and Information Effectiveness, and Professionalism of Civil State Apparatus.