PERAN SIBAKUL JOGJA BAGI USAHA MIKRO KECIL DAN MENENGAH (UMKM) DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYKARTA DIMASA PANDEMI COVID-19

The purpose of this study is to describe the role of the government for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of Yogyakarta Special Region during the covid-19 pandemic. The background in this research problem is that MSMEs of Yogyakarta Special Region are spearheading the economy of about 80% of per capita income obtained from the MSME sector, while during the covid-19 pandemic, the MSME sector experienced very significant paralysis. Therefore, researchers want to know how the role of the Yogykarta Special Region government for MSMEs in the Covid-19 period. Terori used to answer the formulation of the problem regarding the role of local government is using the theory gede diva (2009) which divides into three roles of government, namely the role of government as facilitator, regulator, and catalyst. The methods in this study use descriptive type qualitative research. The informant determination technique uses the purposive samling technique. While data collection is carried out through interviews, observations, and documentation. The results of this study are the role of the government for MSMEs of Yogyakarta Special Region in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic has been going well. Typology of the role of government is in the role of perintah as a facilitator because the government plays a role in providing training and mentoring, online and offline exhibitions, free ongkir, consultation, selfassisment, sifillah, and providing membership cards. Efforts made by the government for the development of MSMEs during the Covid19 pandemic provide results, namely improving the quality of production and marketing to become superior for the MSMEs sector in the special region of Yogyakarta. It's just constrained by the problem of human resources that are few and knowledge is still lacking.