Jurnal Ekonomi dan Pembangunan

Exploring Energy Transition Based on Renewable Energy Practitioner Perspectives: Qualitative Content Analysis

First Arista Sony — 2023-12-31

The energy transition is driving a greater emphasis on using renewable energy sources because there is broad agreement on the critical importance of preventing further warming of the environment. The ASEAN nations,
however, need help with this process because the consumption of energy from fossil fuels is the main factor driving
their economies’ expansion. Consequently, this transition presents a challenge for these nations. The qualitative
content analysis study with in-depth semi-structured interviews in face-to-face dialog explores the phenomenon
of the energy transition based on the practical and empirical views of a selection of individuals who work in the
renewable energy business. The primary data based on the interview is transcribed into the text using MAXQDA
2022 to develop the core category within the Qualitative Content Analysis. The results of the data analysis led to
the formation of six core categories, which derived from the current economic development characteristics, the
renewable energy challenges (regulation, investment, market structures, and technology), encouraging customers,
energy transition potential, measuring green growth, and the impact of the national determination contribution (NDC) on catastrophic and sustainable development. Both participants’ empirical points of view demonstrate a relationship between energy security and the current state of economic development. The current state of economic development is heavily dependent on fossil fuel energy, which is in high demand and produces high CO2 emissions, which can result in potential catastrophic or natural disasters. The energy transition is presently confronted with challenges in regulations, financing and investment, market structures, and individual behaviors regarding the consumption of clean energy, fostering renewable energy, and environmentally friendly products. This study recommends adjusting the existing energy regulations, democratizing infrastructure and market structures, encouraging customers to consume clean energy, and accelerating the energy transition.

Can the Level of Well-Being Buy Happiness?

Grace Wulandari — 2023-12-31

Mental health remains a significant concern, particularly in developing countries, where a multitude of factors, such as well-being, education, smoking habits, marital status, employment status, and gender, contribute to mental health problems. This study’s primary objective is to dissect the key factors, with a focus on well-being, that adversely impact an individual’s mental health. Employing survey data from IFLS encompassing approximately
17,000 observations, this research employs OLS, Logit, and Probit methodologies to forecast the likelihood of
socioeconomic variables influencing depression symptoms. The findings reveal that education, marital status,
occupational type, year (indicating happiness level), and expenditure exhibit a positive correlation with happiness.
Remarkably, there is a coherent pattern across the OLS, Logit, and Probit models, indicating that variables such as cigarette consumption, female gender, and residing in urban or rural areas are inversely related to happiness. In conclusion, socioeconomic factors wield a discernible influence on happiness, underscoring the imperative for government intervention through policy measures, especially in bolstering well-being, to enhance individual
happiness levels.

Model Kredit untuk Nelayan: Konstruksi atas Sifat Usaha dan Budaya Ekonomi

Mochammad Nadjib — 2023-12-31

Several factors cause fishermen to experience difficulties in accessing sources of credit from banks, including unstable cash inflows, consumption patterns that are considered wasteful, and lack of collateral. In general, fishermen overcome this problem by relying on sources of financing from personal savings, loans from families and high-cost non-formal financial institutions. The problem is that if fishermen are considered not bankable, why are non-formal financial institutions willing to provide credit? The purpose of writing this article is to find financing patterns that apply among fishermen and formulate fishermen financing models that are in accordance with the conditions and economic culture of fishermen in sharing risks, sharing capital and sharing results. Data collection was carried out using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with informants in several coastal areas of Java and outside Java during the 2011-2014 period, then processed and analyzed qualitatively interpretatively and reconstructed in the form of fishermen’s financing patterns and models. There are two important findings in this study. The first is the pattern of financing fishermen in the form of an inverted U which describes the three stages of financing fishermen, namely pre-bankable, bankable and post-bankable. The second is a fishermen’s financing model that is in accordance with the fishermen’s economic culture which is formulated in four criteria namely flexible, excellent services, trust and affordability, which is shortened to FESTA

Niat Pertumbuhan dan Dampaknya terhadap Pertumbuhan Usaha UKM di Indonesia

Reninta Dewi Nugraheni — 2023-12-31

Most people think of business growth as an important goal. Business growth is a key indicator of a company’s success and a major source of new wealth, jobs, and economic growth in every country in the world. However, not many SME owners want to grow their businesses, and it’s not always clear what the entrepreneur’s plans for growth are after the business starts up. This study wants to find out what makes businesses want to grow and how that affects the growth of their small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This study found that the desire to grow a business is affected by several psychological and socio-demographic factors. Several personal traits, like emotional intelligence, willingness to take risks, need for achievement, motivation, and self-efficacy, play a big role in a person’s purpose to grow as an entrepreneur at the 5% level. Strategic, management, process, and digital skills affect the desire to grow more than education does. This study also shows that a company’s plans for growth are linked to its real growth in North Kalimantan and East Kalimantan in terms of sales growth and asset growth.

Urgensi Memutakhirkan Data Terpadu Kemiskinan Secara Berkelanjutan dan Berkualitas: Pembelajaran dari Studi Kasus di Enam Daerah di Indonesia

Dyan Widyaningsih — 2023-12-31

The Integrated Social Welfare Data (DTKS) is the database used to target beneficiaries of social protection and poverty alleviation programs in Indonesia, including social assistances to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. The problem is that not every kabupaten/kota (district/city) government updates DTKS periodically. As a result, mistargeting has been a repeatedly occurring problem in the implementation of many social protection and poverty alleviation programs. During the pandemic, the problem also results in delayed distribution of assistance. Therefore, this research aims to investigate the current implementation of DTKS updates and learn the lessons to enable a sustainable update of DTKS using a better process in the future. The data was collected qualitatively in six regions of case studies from December 2020 to May 2021. This research finds that the factors influencing sustainable DTKS updates by kabupaten/kota government lead to two main aspects: commitment to update DTKS and capacity to perform it. To make DTKS update better, kabupaten/kota governments need to be encouraged to utilize DTKS more, provided with clear regulations and strengthened in terms of their capacity. While kabupaten/kota governments are responsible for updating DTKS, the governments at central, province, and village/kelurahan levels need to support and be more engaged to ensure that DTKS is updated in a sustainable manner and at a high-quality standard.

Menggali Peluang Ekspansi Pasar: Diversifikasi Ekspor Minyak Sawit Mentah (CPO) Indonesia dan Produk Derivatifnya ke Negara Nontradisional

Muhammad Idris — 2023-12-31

Indonesia is a country that is a major producer and exporter of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and its derivative products at the global level. However, the focus of Indonesian CPO exports is still largely focused on traditional markets. This high level of dependency has a negative impact on export activities, especially in situations of economic shock in the countries concerned. Therefore, the strategy that can be taken is to diversify exports towards non-traditional markets as new destination countries. Thus, a comprehensive study is needed regarding the competitiveness, market position and opportunities for developing the Indonesian CPO export market, as well as identification of the variables that influence the volume of Indonesian CPO exports to seven non-traditional countries, namely Vietnam, the Philippines, Turkey, Ghana, Senegal, Equatorial Guinea and Fiji, in the range 2001-2019. The commodity that is the focus of the analysis is Indonesian Crude Palm Oil (CPO) and its derivative products which are classified under the HS code 1511. The analytical approach applied in this research includes Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Export Product Dynamic (EPD), X-Model, as well as panel data regression. The analysis results indicate that the competitiveness of Indonesian CPO is very high in the countries studied. Optimistic market development potential is found in Vietnam, the Philippines and Ghana, while markets with lower development potential are located in Turkey, Fiji and Equatorial Guinea. The market with less than optimal development potential is located in Senegal. Several factors that have been proven to significantly influence Indonesia’s CPO export volume include real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), RCA, price, real exchange rate, and economic distance. It is hoped that the government can strengthen trade cooperation by eliminating trade tariff barriers for countries that have promising markets. Meanwhile, for countries with less than optimal potential, a more intensive trade promotion strategy is expected to increase market penetration in these countries.

Pengaruh Yield Rate dan Inflasi terhadap Risiko Pembiayaan Mudharabah: Peran Pandemi Covid-19 sebagai Pemoderasi

Khairul Amri — 2023-12-31

This study analyzes the functional relationship between the risks of mudharabah financing and the yield rate and inflation by placing the Covid-19 pandemic as a moderating variable. Using monthly data from 2014.6 to 2021.1, the applied quantitative model consists of linear regression and moderated regression analysis, which is then estimated using the ordinary least squares (OLS) approach. The study pointed out that the yield rate and inflation positively and significantly affect financing risk. Likewise, the Covid-19 pandemic also significantly increased mudharabah financing risk. The moderating effect of the pandemic on the influence of yield rates and inflation on financing risk is negative and significant. For pre-pandemics, the two predictor variables positively affect financing risk. The higher the yield rate and inflation, the higher the financing risk, and conversely, a decrease in yield rate and inflation significantly reduce financing risk. During a pandemic, the risk of mudharabah financing increased along with the decline of the yield rate and inflation.