Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)

Community Empowerment Based on Local Potential Resources in Bukit Aren Village, Pulubala, Gorontalo Regency

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Misran Rahman
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Misran Rahman
Available Online September 2017.
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10.2991/icset-17.2017.43How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Community Empowerment, local potential resources.
Abstract

With the enactment of Constitution Law No. 6 of 2014 about the Village, the opportunity for every village to be able to develop its potential is more open. The opportunity is supported by the government through the increasing of funding for village development every year. However, the efectivity of improving village management and community empowerment is still a challenge. Bukit Aren Village, Pulubala, Gorontalo Regency is one of the villages that has a promising, potential resource, but the society has not been optimally empowered. In addition, the access to the village is quite difficult that the marketing of the products from the village is frequently constrained. Therefore it is necessary to have a community empowerment program in Bukit Aren Village. The purpose of this study is to provide a brief description of the condition of community empowerment in Bukit Aren Village, Pulubala. Furthermore, the method used is descriptive methods and interviews. Based on the results of interviews to the leaders and residents, it is summed up that community empowerment program suggested to be done by: (i) improvement of sugarcane (aren) cultivation to increase the local economy, (ii) improvement of the people to cultivate the resources through education and training, (iii) land-condition analysis about potential plantation area, (iv) government's attention in fulfilling the infrastructure for access of Bukit Aren Village-the city

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
September 2017
ISBN
978-94-6252-419-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icset-17.2017.43How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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