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The purpose of this study is to examine the role of product knowledge, perceived benefit, and perceived ease of use on QRIS adoption intention for MSMEs in Semarang City during the Covid-19 pandemic. An associative quantitative approach was applied in this study. Population of this research are merchants in Semarang City’s traditional market. Empirical data were collected through questionnaires from 100 respondents and analyzed with SmartPLS 3.0 based on the SEM-PLS method. The results of this study confirm that product knowledge, perceived benefit, and perceived ease of use have a significant impact on the intention to adopt QRIS. The findings encourage the government to continue to accelerate the formation of a cashless society and increase public awareness of the benefit of digital payments in preventing the spread of the virus, especially the use of QRIS.

This paper aims to identify the determinant factors that trigger early marriage and strategies to prevent early marriage as a targeted prevention intervention in Semarang City. The method used is quantitative research using analytic descriptions. The results showed that early marriage in the city of Semarang was not caused by economic problems, but because of incidents of pregnancy out of wedlock. The main driving factors for early marriage related to this are psychological factors: 80%, social and social: 79% and culture in society: 77% and low knowledge related to marriage and sexuality: 61%. This study recommends the provision of comprehensive and inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights ( SRHR) education for all children, increasing public awareness in supervising violations of norms and values, increasing the capacity of Karang Taruna as part of the community's economic drive, increasing social bonds and family bonds in protecting children from the bad effects of promiscuity, improving the quality of education and the economy of early marriage actors through skills training through a smartphone and internet-based digital economy, as an effort to create jobs that are practical, economical and applicable.

The Gojek Mobile application is one application that is widely used by the wider community. In recent years, Gojek has developed very rapidly and is able to beat conventional transportation modes because it is more practical and has many service features offered by the applicator. This study aims to analyze and determine the extent to which the ease of use, information quality, security quality and technical & functional quality of the Gojek application are perceived as useful for users and have implications for user satisfaction and loyalty. The approach used in this study is included in the type of explanatory research, namely research whose explanation uses hypothesis testing in which the causal relationship between variables is explained. The respondents of this study were 100 students from various universities in the city of Semarang. The data collection technique in this study used a questionnaire instrument where the variables were measured using a five-scale Likert scale, where the data was processed using SmartPLS 3.0. From the model test, the test results show that of the 7 hypotheses, five hypotheses are accepted because they have a significant effect and two are rejected because they are not significant, the data is said to be significant if it has t < 0.05. customer satisfaction variable has a significant effect on loyalty variable with P Values ​​= 0.000, information quality variable also has a significant effect on perceived usefullness variable with P values ​​= 0.001, perceived easy of use variable affects customer satisfaction variable with P Values ​​= 0.000 , the perceived easy of use variable has an effect on the perceived usefullness variable with P Values ​​= 0.009, the perceived usefullness variable affects the Customer satisfaction variable with the P Values ​​= 0.023, the security quality variable has no effect on the perceived usefullness variable with the P Values ​​= 0.085, the technical variable & functional quality has no effect on the perceived usefullness variable with P Values ​​= 0.813.

This community service activity helps managers of tourist villages in the city of Semarang aim to help increase local culinary innovation in the city of Semarang and create new menu creativity and be able to provide significant changes for the better. This activity was carried out on March 1, 2019 at the smart home of the Kandri Tourism Village, Semarang, which was attended by 30 people consisting of tourism village managers in the city of Semarang. The conclusion of this community service activity is that participants' knowledge of local culinary innovations increases, participants are able to repair and upgrade packaging to attract consumer interest, and participants are able to apply what was given during the training.