COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT BY STRENGTHENING VILLAGE OWNED ENTERPRISES SRIMARTANI MAKMUR IN PIYUNGAN

• Published in: Russian journal of agricultural and socio-economic sciences Vol. 94; no. 10; pp. 124 - 128
• Main Authors: Ghofar, A., Kismantoroadji, T., Harilaksana, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: iVolga Press 27.10.2019
• Subjects: Actors; community empowerment level; process; village owned enterprises
• ISSN: 2226-1184; 2226-1184
• DOI: 10.18551/rjoas.2019-10.16

The issue of this research is related to the ways on how to improve the community empowerment through the empowerment process and the actors’ ability. The aim of the research is to analyze the influence of the actors’ ability on their empowerment level through the process of empowerment. The design of this research is descriptive and it is expected to be able to explain the phenomena of the community empowerment and to direct numerous government’s policies related to the attitude aspect of the empowerment actors. The data used are primary data, gathered by using survey method through questionnaires. The analysis technique is Path Analysis. The research result shows that there is a significant influence of the variable of empowerment actor to the community empowerment level through the empowerment process as the mediator variable. The implementation of this research is that the community empowerment level needs a process and it is supported by the improvement of the actors’ ability. It is expected that from this research result, the local government, especially Piyungan village can support the implementation of the community empowerment process so that it can increase the community income by strengthening the village owned enterprises Srimartani.