The enactment of the Village Law marks the beginning of the rural development transformation through Village Owned Enterprise (VOE) implementation. In Indonesia, 45,549 VOEs have been established in 83,931 villages. VOEs are developed with a social business model to provide economic and social benefits to the community. Unfortunately, VOEs demonstrating satisfying performance in Indonesia have not reached 600. This research focused on discovering significant factors influencing VOEs’ ability to accomplish their best economic and social performance and proposed a success pattern that other VOEs could adapt to their natural and human assets. This study adopted a qualitative mono-method with 24 sources, varying from village government officers, directors and personnel of VOEs, academicians, and other parties, focusing on exploring three VOEs with accomplishments. The findings uncovered six propositions that must be fulfilled for VOEs to attain the necessary success concerning social and economic performance. These results suggested that the village government’s commitment, the VOEs’ management professionalism, and the village community’s involvement must cooperate to produce a balanced social and economic performance. This discovery also suggested VOEs to reflect and reproduce local knowledge trough take an advantage of their distinctive natural and human resources.

UMKM Tradisional mengalami masalah yang beragam mulai dari pemasaran, produksi, dan keuangan. Namun, pendamping UMKM seringkali memberikan pemahaman dengan konsep yang rumit dan tidak sesuai dengan kebutuhan para pengusaha. Penelitian tindakan yang merupakan bagian dari kegiatan pengabdian masyarakat ini berupaya untuk mengidentifikasi peran mekanisasi dalam proses produksi yang dilakukan oleh Usaha LeBon, sebuah bisnis yang mengolah sumber daya ikan menjadi makanan cepat saji. Masalah kapasitas dan standardisasi produksi menjadi masalah yang menghambat kinerja perusahaan. Dengan bantuan pendanaan program hibah DIKTI, pembelian mesin dan pengaturan sistem produksi ternyata mampu mendorong kinerja usaha LeBon lebih efisien. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa proses pendampingan usaha mikro tidak harus selalu menghadirkan kerumitan dan kompleksitas melainkan pentingnya identifikasi awal untuk menemukan akar masalah dan kemudian menghasilkan solusi yang tepat guna.

The pandemic made important difference in the society of education in Indonesia. To protect the safety and health of participants and educators, a significant shift from face-to-face to distant learning is required. This alteration has an impact on participant-educator relationship, making distant learning less effective. One of the main reasons for the long distance learning problem was that the learning model was less inventive and resulted in lower motivation. This study used a qualitative approach to collect data from 34 geography teachers using an open questionnaire to investigate the challenges of remote learning and teachers' expectations for support from the government, school administrators, and geography MGMPs. To incorporate the findings, a thematic analysis was performed. The study's findings show that, aside from information technology, the most significant problem is the difficulty in establishing learning models due to the restricted capacity of human resources in schools.

The significance of villages position in national growth provides them with a fascinating subject of discussion. Badan Usaha Milik Desa (Bumdes) are operationalized under the Rural Act, increasing village autonomy. Unfortunately, a lot of Bumdes remain stranded because of management issue to business quality to financial resources. In order to assist Bumdes develop more effectively, this study uses an action-research approach to investigate Bumdes with active engagement as a research subject. By applying the seven steps of the soft-system technique to Bumdes experiencing issues with business performance, researchers took an active part in the study. As it was put into practice, it became clear that the realization of close communication between the Bumdes director and village head was just as important to the transformation’s success as entrepreneurial endeavors. Positive interactions between the two parties are essential for Bumdes’ development into an organization that makes greater contributions to the village.

SMEs in rural areas have characteristics that are closely related to the character of a family business. This can be seen in the management of the SME business which is fully controlled by the family. This situation shows that SMEs in rural areas are more dominated by family-owned SMEs. As a family-owned SME, this village entrepreneur has a big challenge to be able to regenerate the business for the next generation. This study seeks to identify the things that affect the dynamics in realizing the sustainability of family-owned SMEs in the village. This study uses a qualitative approach by conducting interviews through purposive sampling to culinary informants who run their businesses in rural areas and have the next generation. The results of the study show that in addition to all SMEs in the village being dominated by family businesses, these SMEs have hopes that their families will continue their business, but on the other hand it was also found that there are SMEs who do not care who will continue their business. This study produces interesting findings that can be developed to help improve the sustainability of SME development in Indonesia. Abstrak dalam Bahasa Indonesia. UKM di pedesaan memiliki karakteristik yang erat kaitannya dengan karakter usaha keluarga. Hal ini terlihat dari pengelolaan usaha UKM yang sepenuhnya dikendalikan oleh keluarga. Keadaan ini menunjukkan bahwa UKM di pedesaan lebih didominasi oleh UKM milik keluarga. Sebagai UKM milik keluarga, pengusaha desa ini memiliki tantangan besar untuk bisa meregenerasi bisnisnya untuk generasi selanjutnya. Kajian ini berupaya mengidentifikasi hal-hal yang mempengaruhi dinamika dalam mewujudkan keberlanjutan UKM milik keluarga di desa. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan melakukan wawancara melalui purposive sampling kepada informan kuliner yang menjalankan usahanya di pedesaan dan memiliki generasi penerus. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa selain seluruh UKM yang ada di desa didominasi oleh usaha keluarga, UKM ini memiliki harapan agar keluarganya tetap melanjutkan usahanya, namun disisi lain juga ditemukan adanya UKM yang tidak peduli yang akan melanjutkan usahanya. Kajian ini menghasilkan temuan menarik yang dapat dikembangkan untuk membantu meningkatkan keberlanjutan pengembangan UKM di Indonesia.