This research aims to analyse the regional inflation volatility in Indonesia for the period of 1999-2009 from both monetary and fiscal sides. The data employed in this study are regional panel data consisting of 275 observations picked from several publications. The method of analysis used in this study is Fixed Effect Model. The proxy of monetary side is outstanding of loans in Rupiah and Foreign Currency of commercial and rural banks by project location of Provinces, and fiscal side is local government debt. This research finds both monetary and fiscal sides have positive relationship with the inflation volatility in Indonesia. However, only monetary side which has significant impact, but fiscal side does not. This finding further shows that the regional inflation in Indonesia is still a monetary phenomenon. Therefore, the solution to controll regional inflation in Indonesia is to manage credit rationing conducting by commercial and rural banks for every province.

This article aims to describe impact of fiscal transfer such as village funds allocation towards regional inequality in East Sumba. This article use data such as gross regional domestic product at 2000 constant prices and realization of village funds allocation from 2008 to 2010. The result shows  that village funds allocation has a positive and significant impact to regional inequality. Therefore, it’s necessary to create a generative relationship among developed region with the area behind it to remove regional inequality.

Indonesian Otonomi Daerah or Desentralization policy had been dilemmatic and problematic when social control of society and supra-structure of the local government (supra-district) are weak and not effective. Beside exploitative and corruptive, that policy tend to stimulated sectoral egoism and regional (district) egoism. This paper which discuss the utilization and management of Senjaya water resources is a case that expose the sectoral egoism and regional egoism at the political decision making at the district level as the spirit of unsustainable development.Kata Kunci: Otonomi Derah, egoisme sektoral &, kedaerahan, keberlanjutan

The dynamics of plantation farming occure in some regions has been widely discussed. One  example  is the plantation farming at North Moriwali (Indonesian: Morowali Utara). There are two groups of farmers living in North Morowali territory, particularly in the Sub-District of North Mori. The first group chooses to make a living by cultivating cocoa, for the following reasons: 1) avoiding the risk of being lost, 2) Easy access to market, 3) Business capital, and 4) Cocoa is a sustainable plant. The second group is farmers who decide to make replacement on their cocoa plantation to other commodities (commodity change). This article will discuss factors influencing these farmers in making the replacement.Kata Kunci: dinamika perkebunan, perkebunan, petani, kakao, perubahan komoditas.

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This article aims to describe some efforts of every country  worldwide to promote welfare of the society like economic, social, environment aspects without harming the environment or social life. There is an effort to support development thought some great event such as the UN conference on sustainable development (Rio+20). This effort creates millennium development goals and sustainable development goals. However this effort still creates some problems such as ecological, social conflict, inequality, security, poverty and etc. So that there are some action that we can do to reduce some problems such as increase the role of global citizen, development ethics and wisdom.Kata kunci:  Pembangunan, Etika Pembangunan, Masyarakat Global, Kearifan

This article aims to measure poverty based on the perspective of water resource using the mix of qualitative and quantitative methods. The study was conducted in Salatiga which is rich of water resources potential. Although it has a highwater potential, distribution of raw water by the PDAM could only cover 40% households, while other households rely on springs in order to meet the needs of raw water. The water springs spreads in nearly 64 spots in Salatiga, however, they reduced to only 36 spots due to many factors. Some springs which contributes to large water flow are usually located in a settlement with limited access to good sanitation. Our study however, shows that the Water Poverty Index of Salatiga was 0.84 or 84% which indicates a good level of welfare and human resource quality of the people. This is also in alignment to the Human Development Index which was found to 77.13. Finally, the prosperity of the community and the human resource could be increased when the policy on water resource and environmental management is consistently implemented.

Zaman Peralihan adalah kumpulan tulisan Soe Hok Gie (aktivis mahasiswa Indonesia angkatan 1966) tentang kondisi Indonesia di era peralihan kekuasaan Soekarno ke Soeharto yang disunting oleh Stanley dan Aris Santoso dan diberi pengantar oleh Dr. Kuntowijoyo.

This paper discusses the implications of the tragedy series that have general developed strategies in the communities in Papua and how the communities responded the tragedy. Along with the memories of the violence and how they have been suffering by the tragedy, there was also a “culture” to remind “silent”—afraid to bear witness. The communities became a muted group. The culture of the silences also grew in the education matter. Materials in formal education in Indonesia somehow fail to recognize the tragedy series that happened to the people of Papua. There are many encouragements to Papuan to break the culture of silence, brave to be witnesses, educate others about the tragedy. In this paper the discussion will explore the relation between the violence that the Papuan had been experienced personally and the culture of silence that later grown and settled in their communities.

The silver handicrafts industry in the Celuk Village is growing rapidly along with the development of Bali's tourism sector. The number of tourists visiting Bali has increased from time to time and it affects the increase of souvenir purchases number, including silver-crafts. Celuk Viillage is a traditional Balinese village that has changed into a tourist attraction with its trademark in the form of gold and especially, silver. The sustainability of the silver handicraft industry in Celuk Village is supported by the harmony of the collaboration between entrepreneurs and craftsmen in running the business. This research found that the Celuk Village silver handicrafts industry shows ability to develop and maintains its business, also to face many different challenges. The entrepreneurs and craftsmen in Celuk Village not only from local residents but also include migrants from outside Bali. This paper describes the habitus, realm, capital (social, cultural, economic and symbolic capital) and practice through Pierre Bourdieu’s perspective. The explanation is based on the empirical experience of local and migrant populations as craftsmen and entrepreneurs when pioneering, developing, and maintaining silver-craft business in Celuk. The research found that different from the locals, who can utilize social capital and cultural capital when pioneering, use economic capital when developing business, then symbolic capital in sustaining business, the access of the migrants to economic capital and symbolic capital is very limited. Therefore migrants use social capital and cultural capital when pioneering, developing and sustaining their business. Regarding to Bourdieu, the difference findings between local and migrants in Celuk Village shows that there is a fight over resources (capital) in the realm, and it forms a new habitus which is differentiation in social stratification between locals as dominant and migrant entrepreneurs as subordinate entrepreneurs.