The purposes of the study are to determine and to describe the family economy and the implementation of the nine-year compulsory education program at Kajenengan village, Bojong subdistrict, Tegal district in 2014. It was a qualitative descriptive study because it only described the analysis results of the research data and did not use the statistics procedure. The population of the study was 1011 family leaders at Kajenengan village. It used purposive sampling technique to get 252 family leaders or about 25% of the population as the samples. Data were collected by observation, interviews and documentation. Then, data were analyzed by data reduction, data display, and concluding. The results of the study were: (1) the obstacles of the social and economy of the family were; a) the income source:  47.20%  of Kajenengan villagers  were farm laborers, b) the income:  the income range per day of 28.57%  of the samples was  IDR 21,000 up to IDR 30,000, c) the number of family members: 33.73% of Kajenengan families had 5-6 family members in their nuclear family, d) the use of income: only 32.80% of Kajenengan villagers who prioritized the education, especially on nine-years compulsory education program.  (2) There were only 8.73% of the samples who implemented nine-year compulsory education program; moreover; 47.62% family leaders said that not all family members followed the nine-year compulsory education and there was 43.65% of the samples who did not follow the nine-year compulsory education.
                        
                        
                        
                        
                            
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