The Development of “Tomira” Village Cooperatives (Koperasi Unit Desa/KUD) in Kulon Progo Regency
- DOI
- 10.2991/icorsia-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- cooperative, people-oriented economic, Tomira (people’s store)
- Abstract
Many people-oriented economic models have been developed by several countries in the world. One of them is cooperative economic model which applied in Indonesia. There are some interesting and worth things to be examined related to the development of cooperatives in Indonesia. One of them is a cooperative in Kulon Progo Regency, a Regency in the westernmost tip of the special region of Yogyakarta. Kulon Progo regency was able to develop Tomira (Toko Milik Rakyat) or People’s Store, a pro-people-economic model. Tomira is a cooperative partnership model between cooperatives and network modern stores. The approach used in this research was a qualitative approach with Research and Development (R & D) research type. A qualitative approach used since the aim of this research was to uncover in depth about how the development of Village Cooperative (KUD) model in Kulon Progo Regency is. The results of the research are as follows: first, the development of Tomira (People’s Store) as the Village Cooperative (KUD) model in Kulon Progo Regency; second, the emergence of Tomira (People’s Store) was able to empower local products to gain modern market share; third, Tomira (People’s Store)'s partnership program was able to improve the welfare of rural communities in Kulon Progo.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Fulia Aji Gustaman PY - 2019/05 DA - 2019/05 TI - The Development of “Tomira” Village Cooperatives (Koperasi Unit Desa/KUD) in Kulon Progo Regency BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Rural Studies in Asia (ICoRSIA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 167 EP - 169 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icorsia-18.2019.40 DO - 10.2991/icorsia-18.2019.40 ID - Gustaman2019/05 ER -