Abstract
EMPOWERMENT OF COMMUNITY AS AN APPROACH OF RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT IN EAST NUSA TENGGARA
*Dr. Andi Hidayat Rizal and Dr. Andi Kumalawati
ABSTRACT
The geographical condition of East Nusa Tenggara Province which consists of islands is one of the obstacles in infrastructure development. As a solution for several development implementations in rural areas, especially village road infrastructure, village irrigation channels and water supply installations, the government has implemented a community empowerment policy program as an effort to expedite and involve the community in various matters relating to development in the region. This study uses a qualitative approach with primary data sources derived from resource persons, also using secondary data as supporting sources from documents and reports and studies that have been done before. In this study as a resource person is a stakeholder who is directly involved in the implementation of rural infrastructure project activities. Community empowerment in the development process is a quality development program with an empowerment and community participation approach through the followings: (i) quality development; (ii) in favour with the poor, (iii) autonomous and decentralized; (iv) participative; (v) autoactivity; (vi) compositeness. It was concluded that methods for the approach of community empowering in the construction of rural infrastructure development are: participatory approach, humanity approach and conceptual approach.
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