Community Empowerment in Village Economic Development in

Sidomulyo Village Belitang OKU Timur District

Ruliyansa

Department of Management, STIE Trisna Negara, South Sumatra, Indonesia

Keywords: Community Empowerment, Economic Development.

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to describe the role of government and non-government in community economic

empowerment. And to know the supporting and inhibiting factors faced in community economic

empowerment in Sidomulyo village, BelitangOKUTimur District. The research method used is a qualitative

approach. Data analysis techniques. In this study, using an interactive model. The results showed that the

government policy of the East OKU Regency in empowering the community especially the development of

the Village in Sidomulyo Village, BelitangTimur OKU District included providing assistance and facilitating

facilities and infrastructure for the community, as well as an extension of the government in fostering,

directing and controlling including opening up great opportunities especially outside the region. In addition,

the facilities provided by the government as one of the facilities to obtain business capital assistance from the

banking sector. Thus, community empowerment activities are determined.

1 INTRODUCTION

Entering the era of globalization, the main thing must

be avoided the process of widening inequality,

because the opportunities arising from an open

economy can only be utilized by more developed

regions, sectors, or groups. This economic crisis has

not yet been fully implemented and in turn, has

created a multi-crisis, which is a burden on society

and the government and is truly a difficult problem to

overcome. Like what has stated above, the

community of small economic actors or so-called

SMEs felt abandoned because the government's

attention was considered to be lacking and only

defended the interests of more advanced economic

groups. In fact, particular attention must be given to

the alignment and empowerment of the community

through economic development, namely the

economics of small businesses, including

cooperatives, so as not to lag behind and instead be

able to take advantage of the momentum of

globalization for its growth. Gaps that are a reality in

development require solving with partiality and

empowerment for actors - economic actors are

significantly weak. For this reason, every citizen has

the right to an adequate level of welfare and is obliged

to participate in efforts to realize the prosperity of the

people. In this perspective, poverty is also a shared

responsibility, so that efforts to overcome its demand

the active participation of all parties.

Therefore, in this reform era an effort will be

made to shift from a growth paradigm to a

development paradigm that is based on equity with

the people's economic power, small businesses,

including small farmers, small farmers, fish farmers,

medium businesses and cooperatives given the same

opportunities as large businesses. Therefore, there is

no loss between small and medium businesses, even

partnerships that can be more effective and mutually

beneficial.

Permendagri RI No. 7 of 2007 concerning

Community Empowerment cadres, states that

community empowerment is a strategy used in

community development as an effort to realize the

ability and independence in the life of society, nation

and state (Article 1, paragraph 8). The core

understanding of community empowerment is a

strategy to realize the ability and independence of the

community. Minister of Home Affairs Regulation

No. 66/2007 concerning village development

planning, Article 5 paragraph 2 of empowerment is an

effort to realize the ability and independence of the

community in the life of society, nation, and state.

The development of the Regency of East OKU

through its programs has made a lot of efforts to

empower economic development in the context of

empowering rural communities, especially in the

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Community Empowerment in Village Economic Development in Sidomulyo Village Belitang OKU Timur District.

DOI: 10.5220/0009962804360440

In Proceedings of the International Conference of Business, Economy, Entrepreneurship and Management (ICBEEM 2019), pages 436-440

ISBN: 978-989-758-471-8

village of Sidomulyo, BelitangOKU Timur District.

The main policy is the development of small

industries or home industries. Based on the

background above, there are several problem

formulations as follows:

1) What is the role of government and non-

government in community economic

empowerment?

2) What are the supporting and inhibiting factors

faced in community economic empowerment

in Sidomulyo Village, BelitangTimur OKU

District?

3) While the purpose of this study is to describe

the role of government and non-government in

community economic empowerment and find

out supporting and inhibiting factors faced in

community economic empowerment in

Sidomulyo village, Belitang District.

2 LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 Community Empowerment The

The concept of empowerment includes the

understanding of community development and

community-based development. Related to this

understanding, it is necessary to first understand the

meaning and meaning of empowerment and

empowerment through independence, and even it is a

"must" to be more empowered through their efforts

and accumulation of knowledge, skills, and other

sources in order to achieve their goals without relying

on the help of the relationship external.

Empowerment in the context of the community is

the ability of individuals who are united in the

community and builds the empowerment of the

community concerned. Empowering the community

is an effort to increase the dignity of the layers of

society, which in their present condition, are unable

to escape the pitfalls of poverty and

underdevelopment. In other words empowering is

enabling and independence of the community.

Empowerment or empowerment comes from the

word "power or empowerment." Empowerment

refers to the ability of people, especially vulnerable

and weak groups, so that they have the power or

ability to fulfill their basic needs so that they have

freedom, meaning not only free to express an opinion

but free from hunger, free from ignorance, free from

pain.

Community empowerment is an effort to increase

the dignity and status of a group of people who are in

poor condition so that they can escape from the

pitfalls of poverty and underdevelopment.

Empowerment is an effort to build community

capacity by encouraging, motivating, to develop that

potential into concrete actions. Community

empowerment is a concept of economic development

that encapsulates social values. This concept reflects

a new paradigm of people-centered, participatory,

empowering, and sustainable development. The

concept of empowerment is broader than just an effort

to meet basic needs or just a mechanism to prevent

further impoverishment.

Adi (2003) explains that describing the process of

continuous empowerment as a cycle consisting of five

main stages, namely:

a. Bringing back experiences that empower and

not empower.

b. Discuss the reasons why empowerment and

empowerment occur.

c. Identify a problem or project.

d. Identify a meaningful power base for making

changes.

e. Develop action plans and implement them.

In the context of social welfare, the empowerment

efforts described by Hogan above are, of course, also

related to efforts to improve the standard of living of

people from a level to a better level. Of course, by

examining the factors that cause a community to

become powerless.

2.2 Village Economic Development

Economic

Development is seen as an increase in per capita

income, and the pace of economic development is

demonstrated by using the GDP growth rate for the

national level and GRDP for the regional level. The

development definition cannot be separated from the

notion of economic development, because basically

both the development goals and economic

development is to improve the welfare of the

community. The difference is that economic

development only covers the efforts of a community

to develop economic activities and enhance the level

of community income, whereas development in the

most basic sense must include material and financial

problems in people's lives.

Economic development is part of national

development. The aim of national development in the

opening of the fourth 1945 Constitution, which is to

protect the entire Indonesian nation and all of

Indonesia's blood spills, promote public welfare,

educate the nation's life, participate in and actively

maintain world order based on independence, eternal

peace, and social justice. The aim of economic

development is to increase the prosperity and welfare

of the people.

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3 RESEARCH METHODS

Qualitative research is essentially observing people in

their environment, interacting with them, trying to

understand language, and their interpretation of the

surrounding world. Data sources in this research are

primary data in the form of data from informants

(Sidomulyo Village community, Sidomulyo Village

Head ). Note the results of observations about the

conditions and events encountered during the field

and notes the results of interviews. Data analysis

techniques using an interactive model consists of 4

activities: data collection, data editor, data

presentation, and drawing conclusions.

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS

4.1 The Government's Role in

Economic Empowerment of Village

Communities the

Policies of the East OKU Regency in empowering the

community, especially economic development in

Sidomulyo Village, Belitang District include

providing livestock assistance and facilitating

facilities and infrastructure for the community, as

well as government extension in fostering, directing

and controlling including the opening of market

opportunities, especially outside regional markets. In

this case, the department's role in the economic

empowerment of the community is highly needed.

As in the results of the interview, June 14, 2019,

it was that:

a. statedSocialization of disease carried out in

Sidomulyo Village

b. Development of socialization

c. Providing assistance in the form of Livestock

d. Assistance in arranging group administration

books

e. Supervision of infectious diseases

f. Guiding to livestock groups

g. Monthly counselling

4.2 Non-government Role in

Empowering Community Economy

Village

As an extension of the government, the role of this

group is quite significant in fostering and directing its

members. As the comments made by the group leader

stated:

"... the task of the group here is very easy if the

characteristics of each member are the same, but

because each group member has a different opinion

and will. However, due to the cooperation spirit

owned by the Sidomulyo Village community, these

difficulties can be reduced. "

The results of the interview delivered were sincere

expressions from a farmer in Sidomulyo Village.

With the community empowerment in the economic

development of the village in his village Thus, most

of the residents in Sidomulyo Village, whose duck

breed is now prosperous. Likewise, with the role of

the government to assist community empowerment,

such as providing guidance to farmers, socializing,

and also providing assistance.

With the development of duck farming, residents

who have livestock can request product certification

from the government so that the community

empowerment activities for duck farming groups are

determined: business development, cooperative

development, human resource development, and

submission of venture capital assistance with

facilities from banks. The activities carried out by the

activity groups will be explained as follows:

a. Distribution of the remaining allocation of

operating results by AD / ART

b. Social funds/development participation is

manifested in the activities of upgrading

public facilities such as the renovation of the

mosque, improvement of village roads, or

compaction of village roads with grass / coarse

sand.

c. Activities to strengthen group venture capital

in terms of meeting other needs.

4.3 Supporting Factors and Inhibitors

of Community Empowerment in

Village Economic Development

4.3.1 Supporting Factors Supporting

Factors are understood as conditions that strengthen

duck farmer groups "Food sources" in village

economic empowerment. Participation of community

leaders also helps in supervising and giving direction

to people who do not understand the empowerment

program of the village economic development, as

well as acting as social control in the community.

While community involvement, in general, is needed

as the main target object in the community economic

empowerment program developed by the Public.

Factors that support the "Source of Food" Duck

Farmers' group in community economic

empowerment in Sidomulyo Village, Namely:

1) Support from the government, both from the

South Sumatra Provision government as the

originator of program policies, then the East

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OKU district government that accompanies

and oversees the program, and until the

government Sidomulyo Village which

facilitates the implementation and oversees

its performance.

2) Support from the community, both from

community leaders and citizens in general.

In addition to getting facilities from the

government, many community leaders

helped and worked together in community

economic empowerment programs

developed by the Duck Farmers Group in the

Village of Sidomulyo, Belitang District.

3) The enthusiasm of the community that the

existence of an independent community

empowerment program from the

government will spur the enthusiasm of the

residents of Sidomulyo Village, Belitang

District to participate in registering

themselves as a community to create and

develop a business and the results are

expected to bring goodness and prosperity to

the family economy.

4.3.2 Inhibiting Factors

Based on the findings in the field of factors that

inhibit the non-government of East OKU Regency in

community economic empowerment in Sidomulyo

Village, namely:

1. There is no laboratory that is good enough

for livestock needs in Sidomulyo village.

2. The community has felt the experience of

raising duck livestock. So it does not need

counseling and coaching from the livestock

service.

3. The community is less pleased with the

provision of spraying on their duck cages

because it can affect the condition of their

ducks, which results in a decrease in egg

yield.

5 CONCLUSIONS

The role of government and non-government in the

economic empowerment of villagers in

DesaSidomulyo as following:

a. The Role of the Department of

Agriculture, plantations, and farms OKU

District East:

1) Dissemination of the disease that

doesdibalaiSidomulyo Village

2) Development socialization

3) provision of assistance in the form of

Livestock

4) Assistance arrangement book group

administration

5) Supervision of infectious diseases

6) Guidance to livestock groups

7) Monthly counseling

b. Role of the administration of the economy and

natural resources Sidomulyo Village

Secretariat:

1) The coordination function of the relevant

SKPD in selecting and determining the

location of the

2) The facility in relation to the location setting

of the

3) A facility-related to the location branding.

c. The role of groups in community

empowerment is, as stated above, that the

policies of the East OKU district government

in empowering the community, especially

duck farmers in Sidomulyo Village. Belitang

District is provided by providing assistance

and facilitating facilities and infrastructure for

the community. As an extension of the

government in fostering, directing, and

controlling, including opening up great

opportunities.

d. The success or failure of a program is

determined by two conditions that influence it,

namely supporting factors and inhibiting

factors. Factors that support community

empowerment in village economic

development are support from the

government, both the provincial, district, and

village governments, support from the

community, and community participation.

While the factors that hamper the course of

community economic empowerment are

6 SUGGESTIONS

From the findings, discussions, and conclusions that

have been put forward, it can be taken some

recommendations proposed to overcome community

economic empowerment in Sidomulyo Village,

Belitang District:

a. There needs to be an increase in community

economic empowerment, one of which is

carried out more intensive development efforts

by paying attention to the socio-economic

conditions of the community, both through

technical guidance, education, and training.

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b. The limited ability of venture capital for the

community, it is necessary to be facilitated in

terms of capital support or at least given the ease

in the procedure to obtain business credit.

c. The need to provide vitamins - good vitamins

for ducks to survive during the rainy season and

can maintain the amount of production so as not

to decline and also to be resistant to disease

outbreaks that hit during the rainy season.

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