The government develops for citizens to get a job and decent living. Nevertheless, the number of people who are unemployed and poor is still high. To solve those problems, the government establish the Skills Development Center as a basis for sustainable entrepreneur empowerment. This research aims to analyze entrepreneurial empowerment activities at the Skills Development Center, their positive impact, the dominant factor influencing success, and the effort to optimize the success of the Skills Development Center in facing changes in the world of work. This research used a qualitative descriptive method with an inductive approach. Data collection was documentation, interviews, and observation. The informants were 11 people who were determined based on the purposive sampling technique. Data analysis techniques through reduction, display, and conclusion drawing verification. The results showed the stages of awareness, enabling, and empowerment in implementing entrepreneurial empowerment very well. The positive impact is success in increasing agricultural and livestock entrepreneurship. The dominant factors are government policy support, increased cooperation, and adequate human resources. At the same time, the barrier factors are low community participation and lack of budget support. Then, the effort to optimize care coordination, verification, and facilitation of training activities, coordination and cooperation among regional agencies, and increasing cooperation with the industrial world so that the type of entrepreneurship can be varied and competitive.
 
 

The local autonomy policy has given very broad authority to regulate local government. To implement local government, adequate finance is required. This research aims to analyze the financial independence ratio of the Mamuju Regency Government for the 2015-2019 Fiscal Year. To find out the level of local independence ratio is to compare the local revenue with financial assistance provided by the central government, provincial governments, and loans. The research method used is qualitative research with an inductive approach. Data collection techniques are carried out through interviews and documentation. Interviews were conducted to 5 (five) informants using snowball sampling technique. The data that has been collected is then analyzed through data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that the ratio analysis of local financial independence was 7.18% in the Very Low category. As for the inhibiting factors for the low ratio of financial independence, namely the lack of planning, the lack of use of technology, and the low competence of employees. With regard to these conditions, local governments should increase local revenue by optimizing local tax and levy revenues by making special applications to facilitate the collection of local taxes and levies, as well as innovating related to the development of Local Owned Enterprises in accordance with local potential.