| dc.description.abstract | Small and medium enterprises (SME) is one of the business sectors which needs
ve1)' much spesial attention from the government due to its role as the catalisator
in the economic growth in Indonesia and its ability to cope with poverty and
unemployment. In this context, the government has issued various policies
supporting the Indonesian SME 's development and productivity improvement
which have been stipulated in legislation and government regulation. The pwpose
of this study was about the in_fiuence of local government policy in providing
assistance in the forms of working capital, training, technology, access of
il1{ormation, and marketing of the profit of SlvfE business in Tanjung Pura
Subdistrict, Langkat District, Sumatera Utara Province. The data for this were
obtained through interviews with all of the respondens comprising the Slv[E
practitioners selected through census sampling technique. The data obtained were
analyzed through multiple regression using General Linear Models (GLM)
because the data used varied. Partially, the result of the study showed that
working capital and marketing had a positive and sign(ficant influence on the
SME prqfit, while training, technology and access of information had a negative
and insign[ficant influence on the SME profit. Simultaneously, the result qf' this
study showed that working capital, training, technology, access of information,
and marketing had i1?fluence on the SAlE profit. The result qf study mentioned
above reveals that the efforts of government to encourage the SAJE development
and productivity improvement has not optimally met. | en_US |
