This article attempts to analyze the impact of investment on the community income and the economic growth in Central Java using the social accounting matrix (SAM) framework con- cerning peoples income and economic growth. The data were taken from Central Bureau of Statistics (BPS). Thus it concerns production factor block institutional block and produc- tion sector block. It shows that investment influences the people income and economical growth. Peoples income that is most affected is farming business income while that of being less affected is farming worker. The distribution of peoples income is not spread evenly among the group. Furthermore investment production block has positive impact on the big- gest economic growth especially on manufacturing industry sectors except food electricity gasses and drinking water. Peoples income condition and economic growth which are in- fluenced by investment proved to have no difference. As such several factors that support investment atmosphere policy bureaucracy and licensing infrastructure and investment protection from illegal tolls must be given more serious attention. Beside investment is ex- pected to grow effectively and efficiently. Next the implication of investment policy as the main generator of economic growth trough production sector has biggest positive impact especially on financial institution and trade sector while investment has less impact on in- dustrial and agricultural sectors especially on food crop and food industry. pdf