The emergence of sustainable tourism has led to a new tourism concept called ecotourism. Ecotourism has the principle of environmental preservation and the local communities’ welfare produces a significant impact on indigenous people in the area. This is because the local community is involved in managing sustainable tourism. Women who are part of the community have the same opportunities as men in accessing opportunities from ecotourism activities. Based on empirical research results, tourism activities create alternative jobs for women to be more independent economically, including the fact that the participation of women in tourism activities has a positive impact on them socially. Empowering women is an important part of community welfare efforts in the scope of tourism, so that women’s empowerment is important in the tourism development process. This study aims to analyze the ongoing empowerment of women and what factors are the drivers and barriers to empowerment in Indrayanti Beach as one of the leading destinations in Gunungkidul Regency as seen from four dimensions (economic, social, political, and psychological). The mixed-method approach has been used in research. It was found that the level of women’s empowerment in Indrayanti Beach had shown a good enough score with the highest average score in the economic dimension, namely 7.64, where women economically have received a positive impact from Indrayanti Beach. The lowest average score is on the political dimension, with a value of 5.82. Women politically still do not have awareness if their role is important for the sustainability of Indrayanti Beach tourism. For the social dimension, the average is 6.81, and the psychological dimension on average is 7.47, where women feel socially and psychologically empowered quite well. The main driver of women’s empowerment is the opportunity and permission from their families to participate in tourism activities. The main obstacle to women’s empowerment is the low self-confidence due to skills that have not been maximized.

This research intervenes with the seemingly endless empirical debate that seeks explanation to the notorious budgetary discipline problem in the local government. Some scholars attribute it to social networks, but others emphasize entity internal control systems. Supported by budgetary theory-structural equation modeling (SEM) triangulation, the researchers examined data from 33 districts, seven municipalities, and 345 sub-counties in Uganda (East Africa)’s north-western and eastern regions. The SEM results revealed that socio-economic structures and partisan politics are key social network constructs to predict budgetary discipline. However, another attribute, ethnicity, is not. Additionally, the internal control system mediates the social networks-budgetary discipline relationship as initially anticipated. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.

Education is one of the strongest instruments owned by society to reduce poverty and vulnerability. This is because knowledge and skills are acquired through education. Thus, increasing productivity and creating access to employment opportunities. So that income will increase along with the increase in education. The most strategic target in developing quality human resources is children. There is an empirical study of the effect on household resource allocation where household decisions are influenced by the power that individuals have in the household. The distribution of power within the household can affect the level of spending on education for each child. This study aims to determine the impact of working mothers on their children's human capital in Indonesia and the differences in the influence of relative education and the relative income of working mother on children's human capital in Indonesia. The analysis technique used is the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Chow-test to determine the difference in the effect of the relative education and relative income of working mothers on their children's human capital in Indonesia. Using IFLS5 data, we found out that the impact of working mothers has a significant effect on children's human capital in Indonesia and there is a significant difference where the income of working mothers has a greater influence on children's human capital in Indonesia.

This study aims to estimate the effects of macroeconomic indicators and financial technology on financial inclusion in ASEAN 8 during 2010-2018. There are three financial inclusion indicators, which include debit card ownership (Model 1), credit card ownership (Model 2), and domestic credit to GDP ratio (Model 3). Furthermore, the dynamic panel is applied to demonstrate dynamic financial inclusion models. The findings show that the domestic credit to GDP ratio is influenced by the unemployment rate, inflation, and financial technology. In addition, Model 1 and 2 show that the FEM is a robust model, while Model 3 indicates that REM is a robust model. This study encourages governments in ASEAN 8 to manage macroeconomic indicators progressively and stably to expand equal financial inclusion for the community

This research aims to determine the classification of economics structure and the leading sectors of Magelang. The analysis of the research employs Klassen’s Tipology, Location Quotient and SWOT. The results show that the city of Magelang is included in the advanced and fast-growing regions with high economic growth and high per capita income. Location Quotient (LQ) shows all secondary and tertiary sectors are included in the leading sectors, while agricultural sector, mining sector and manufacturing sector are not included in the leading sector. Based on SWOT analysis, there are leading sectors that needs to be improved to persuade the better economic condition in the main area of Magelang city, by taking action some possible development strategies, such as, improving the base sector’s products by utilizing advanced technology, maximizing the realization of investment and maximizing the sale of leading sector products as well as creative industry products. Another possible startegies are creating a conducive business environment and improving the competitiveness of the regional economy.

Since independence of Indonesia, authorities and functions of national agency for food affairs often changed until nowadays. This phenomenon can impact on acchieving national food safety. In Presiden Suharto era, agency for food affairs—namely Bulog was successful in stabilizing food price although its statuta as non-profit institution. Meanwhile, politic of food-stock supply in 1998 also more or less give impact on achieving it. Both Law Number 7 Year of 1996 and Law Number 12 Year of 2012 do not clearly regulate about institution on food affairs. Since Bulog became a business company in 2003, Bulog was failure in stabilizing some food prices, except rice. As qualitatif research, this study uses descriptive-analysis as tool to solve problem by analysing historical data relevant with the topic. This study explain that eventhough government has already set up Bulog as single agency for food affairs, but food problems rise up due to multi-dimension problems and complexity of government policies. In this concern, it is needed policy coordination amongst different govt institutions to overcome the increase of food prices. Problems of distribution and marketing also impact on achievement of food safety.