Bachrudin, Sholahuddin, A., and Rozikin, Z.

Abstract:

Gaining knowledge about the level of community empowerment and its participation within the development practice, especially in the planning process, requires knowledge of conditions, traditions, problems and potential existed in the society. This knowledge is required for solving problems, needs, and solutions needed. Based on this reason, the researcher wants to describe and analyze the community participation and empowerment in the local wisdom-based development planning and find its driving factors and obstacles especially in the coastalarea of Sendang Biru, Tambakrejo Village, Sumbermanjing Wetan Sub-district. The data analysis technique used is qualitative analysis with data sources obtained from the government, Sendang Biru community leaders, and the community representatives. This research was conducted in Tambakrejo Sendang Biru village, Sumbermanjing Wetan Sub-district, Malang Regency.The study location is selected purposively (deliberate), considering that Tambakrejo Village is a coastal area where the people have a characteristic of coastal communities, work as fishermen and there is a port existed that many fishermen come from all over the areas thus creates a pluralistic society. The study results were based on an evaluation of Fujikake’s empowerment, i.e. the community in Tambakrejo village had a high awareness that was formed from the existence of local wisdom and government policies thus a community empowerment was created which had an impact on many aspects forbetter life. In addition, it was also found that the inhibiting factors forthe empowerment of coastal community were influenced by the low level of education of the community, poverty, budget limitation, making it less aspirational so that it was not optimal in utilizing the available potential resources.

Keywords:  Local Wisdom, Community Empowerment, Participation, and Development

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