FUNGSI AGIL DAN KEBERDAYAAN KELUARGA DI PERKOTAAN DAN PEDESAAN: KASUS KELUARGA DI KECAMATAN DUREN SAWIT DAN KECAMATAN JASINGA

Family has importanifimclions.for human development, and all functions must work properly. The effectiveness of functions determine family’s empowerment quality. In fact, some families failed to implement some of the functions, due to the influence of some factors. This research studied factors affected family's functions and empowerment, and develop model,for family empowerment. Data was collected in period of August-December 2006, involving Duren Saivil, of East Jakarta and Jasinga, of Bogor Regency. The four functions of family: adaptation, goal attainment, integration, and latency (AGIL) influence the family empowerment, and have a significant correlation between each other. The results of research indicate that each function is influenced differently in different area. The level implementation of adaptation, goal attainment, and latency function are low, but the integration function is in the middle level calegory in Duren Sawit and Jasinga. The family's empowerment is in middle level category in Duren Sawit and Jasinga

Peran Perguruan Tinggi Mewujudkan Dinamika Kedamaian dalam Kehidupan Masyarakat

In any civilization, peacefulness or non-violence culture could be the ultimate end of human life. It contains human right principles to be achieved by community, civics, and nation. Albeit, in reality, the situation achieved is diametrically in the opposite to what expected where competition, contravention and social conflict arises very sharply unless a constructive conflict management is applied. The potentiality of social conflict to occur may be reduced to a tolerable rate when constructive dialogues can be built. The dialogues should be able to facilitate the development of convergence communication and the actualization of equality principles. Higher education processes will be one the most important institutions that could bring the actualization of the principles of peacefulness into reality. This could be true when education could assure the effectiveness of value transformation processes throughout generations. The role of high education institutions to make non-violence culture to become apparent is essential. The dynamic life in a peaceful culture can only be realized when a situation of welfare, equality and well expression of communication behavior are well maintained in the community life

The Leadership Role of Farmer Groups and Effectiveness of the Farmers Empowerment

Ketidakberdayaan petani disebabkan karena petani tidak cukup mampu untuk menggunakan peralatan produksi secara optimal. Ketidakberdayaan juga disebabkan oleh kurang kompetensinya petani dalam memasarkan produk pertaniannya. Melalui kelompok tani, pemerintah telah melakukan proses pengajaran yang potensial dan pemberdayaan untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup petani. Dalam proses pemberdayaan kelompok tani ini, membutuhkan peran pemimpin untuk mendorong aktivitas pemberdayaan. Pemimpin memiliki peran yang penting untuk mempengaruhi dan memotivasi petani untuk mencapai tujuannya secara bersama-sama melalui kelompok tani. Tujuan penelitian ini. yaitu untuk menganalisis hubungan antara kepemimpinan dengan proses pemberdayaan kelompok tani, menganalisis hubungan antara proses pemberdayaan dengan tingkat pemberdayaan, juga menganalisis hubungan antara faktor pribadi dan faktor lingkungan dengan proses pemberdayaan. Metode yang digunakan adalah survey yang didukung pendekatan kualitatif dengan wawancara mendalam kepada narasumber. Hasil penelitian ini diolah menggunakan Rank Spearman dan Chi-Square. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada Kelompok Tani Bina Sejahtera di Desa Situ Udik, Kecamatan Cibungbulang, Bogor dan Kelompok Tani Hurip di Desa Cikarawang, Kecamatan Dramaga, Kabupaten Bogor. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan hubungan positif nyata antara kepemimpinan dengan proses pemberdayaan, sementara proses pemberdayaan tidak berhubungan positif nyata dengan tingkat pemberdayaan. Beberapa faktor pribadi menunjukkan hubungan positif nyata dengan tingkat pemberdayaan

Peran Komunikasi dalam Pengembangan Kelembagaan Ketahanan Pangan Masyarakat ; Kasus Lumbung Pangan di Ciamis, Jawa Barat

The rice barn have important role in the farmer food security, especially at period of shortage before harvest.Nevertheless, a lot of the rice barn have still social function. To supported the community food security, the role ofrice barn must be changed to economics oriented. The objective of this research are (1) to study some factors thatinfluence communication models, (2) to study correlations of communication models and supporting factors tobehavior change at members and board of rice barn, and (3) correalations of behavior change to accelaration ofrice barn. This research was conduct in three sub-district on Ciamis District, West Java. The result indicated thatindividual characteristic and external variables were significant related to communication models. The supportingvariables and communication models were significant related to the behavior change of the member and board of therice barn. The better of trust, transparancy and participation in the rice barn management were related to theaccelerated function of the rice barn food security

Factors Related to the Leather Craftsmen's Self-sufficiency in the Districts of Sidoardjo and Magetan, East Java

This research was intended to identify factors related to the leather craftsmen's self sufficiency in the districts of Sidoarjo and Magetan, in East Java. A descriptive survey research was accomplished amongst 260 craftsmen in the two districts in April 2005 through February 2006. The collected data were analyzed by using the Descriptive Statistics, the One Way Anova and the Structural Equation Modeling procedures. The findings pointed out that most of the observed craftsmen's entrepreneurial as well as their self-sufficiency behaviors were low. Furthermore, their self-sufficiency behaviors were related to their personal characteristics, business supports, and business environment

The Role of Creative Social Energy in Strengthening Ecological Adaptation Capacity Through Community Empowerment

Investments in large companies engaged in natural resource management have the potential to cause conflict, which requires an alternative model of conflict potential management. This study aims to analyze the development of creative social energy as an alternative to managing potential conflicts through empowering community food security. This study uses a participatory action study method for community empowerment and cybernetic triangulation methods in extracting data. Communities in the company's operational Ring1 area carried out community empowerment efforts by placing extension workers as community assistants. The results of the study show that community empowerment through a participatory extension approach is effective in supporting the realization of community welfare through increased income. Participatory community empowerment is effective in developing creative social energy. There is a close relationship between community empowerment and strengthening creative social energy and increasing the ecological adaptation capacity of society to the dynamics of environmental change. The ecological adaptation capacity of the community develops in line with the level of community empowerment. Community empowerment through effective participatory counseling is a model for managing potential conflicts in CSR programs. Extension workers with participatory community empowerment competencies are a key factor in the success of community empowerment

Faktor-faktor yang Berhubungan dengan Proses Belajar dan Tingkat Kecakapan Hidup Remaja (Kasus Pengrajin Sandal Desa Cikaret Kecamatan Bogor Selatan)

The objectives of this research were: (1) to study the relationship between learning process, adolescence characteristics, family roles, and environment, (2) to study the relationship between the youths\u27 life skill level and their learning process. The research took place at Cikaret Village, South Bogor Sub-District. Sixty 60 respondents were involved. Data was gathered on September-November 2005, by interview and observation. Quantitative data were analyzed by Spearman-Rank correlation procedure. In this research, the youth\u27s life skills were correlated to their characteristic, to their family role, to their environment and learning process. Some important results of this research are: ( 1) the life skills were correlated with the learning process within the conditions of learning and the experimental learning, ( 2) the learning process of the adolescence were related to the family role, the environment role and the adolescence\u27s characteristics, and ( 3) improvement of the quality of the adolescence\u27s life skills were needed together with effort to increase their quality of life, including their family, environment and learning process

Peran Kelompok Tani dalam Ketahanan Pangan Rumahtangga Petani (Desa Banjarsari dan Desa Tanjungsari, Kecamatan Sukaresik, Kabupaten Tasikmalaya, Propinsi Jawa Barat)

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengidentifikasi tingkat keamanan pangan rumah tangga petani yang telahterwujud, menganalisis faktor yang mempengaruhi keamanan pangan rumah tangga petani dan mengidentifikasiperan kelompok tani dalam rumah tangga untuk mencapai ketahanan pangan petani. Pendekatan penelitiandengan survai, responden penelitian adalah 60 kepala keluarga anggota petani dan Kelompok Tani Tanjungsaridari Desa Banjarsari, Kecamatan Sukaresik, Kabupaten tasikmalaya, provinsi Jawa Barat. Penelitianmenggunakan metode statistik dengan kuantitatif dan kualitatif spearman korelasi untuk memeriksa variabelperingkat. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa petani ketersediaan pangan rumah tangga sudah cukupmemadai tetapi masih belum stabil ketika musim menghadapi kelaparan, panen kekeringan atau tak lamasebelum.Perlu meningkatkan peran kelompok tani untuk mencapai keamanan pangan rumah tangga petani.Kunci: ketahanan pangan, rumah tangga petani, kelompok tani

Sodality in Peri-Urban Community Empowerment: Perspective of Development Communication and Extension Science

Tjondronegoro's concept of sodality is gaining momentum to be applied in a broader context. Sodality is relevant to participatory approaches in community development, extension/empowerment, and development communication. This study aims to answer how the role of sodality is in the empowerment of peri-urban communities from communication and extension development sciences. This research method uses a participatory action study by placing the researcher to live with the community. Sodality can be interpreted as the life force of a unique community unit. However, without any family relationship, they are bound by a synergy of interest relations without eliminating the primary relationship. In the context of empowerment, the bonds in sodality are colored more with interest in achieving life necessities among community members. Thus, in peri-urban communities, sodality is closer to the meaning of social capital, which effectively strengthens the community's efforts to live a life together, both with internal and external parties. The Tjondronegoro version of the concept of sodality in the current era is not only for the smallest community unit in the community territory, but it can be strengthened by the meaning of a synergy of interests in meeting the needs of a community.Pemberdayaan masyarakat semakin penting di dalam pembangunan masyarakat dan konsep sodality buah pikiran Tjondronegoro mendapatkan momentum untuk diaplikasikan dalam konteks yang lebih luas. Sodality relevan dengan pendekatan partisipatif dalam pengembangan masyarakat, penyuluhan/ pemberdayaan dan komunikasi pembangunan pada umumnya. Tujuan penelitian ini ingin menjawab permasalahan tentang bagaimana peran sodality dalam pemberdayaan masyarakat peri urban dari perspektif ilmu komunikasi dan penyuluhan pembangunan.  Metode penelitian ini menggunakan kaji tindak partisipatif dengan menempatkan peneliti hidup bersama masyarakat. Sodaliti ternyata dapat dimaknai sebagai daya hidup suatu kesatuan masyarakat yang khas, meski tanpa ada hubungan keluarga namun di antara mereka terikat oleh sinergi hubungan kepentingan, tanpa menghapus hubungan primer. Dalam konteks pemberdayaan, ikatan dalam sodaliti lebih diwarnai kepentingan untuk meraih pemenuhan kebutuhan hidup di antara warga masyarakat. Dengan demikian pada masyarakat peri-urban, sodaliti lebih dekat dengan makna social capital yang efektif memperkuat upaya masyarakat dalam menjalani kehidupan bersama, baik dengan pihak internal maupun eksternal. Konsep sodality versi Tjondronegoro di era kekinian tidak hanya untuk kesatuan masyarakat terkecil dalam teritori komunitas, namun dapat diperkuat dengan makna adanya sinergi kepentingan dalam memenuhi kebutuhan hidup suatu masyarakat