This research aims to identify alternatives and program priorities that need to be prioritized in order to accelerate the progress of reducing unemployment in Sumbawa Regency, Indonesia. This research is using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach. Respondents in this study consist of two stakeholders, that are experts to weight the given criteria and unemployed persons as program beneficiaries to weight the alternatives. The results of this research indicate that the most considered criteria of policy and program that aimed to reduce unemployment in Sumbawa is the ability of a program to increase the unemployed work ethics and motivation. Moreover, the program of providing capital grantor business loan for small entrepreneurs has become the first program priority that need to be prioritized in order to accelerate the progress of reducing unemployment in Sumbawa Regency.

Keywords : Policy; Program; Unemployment; Sumbawa; AHP.