Empowering Rural Communities Through Bumdes By Reviving Home Industry

Abstract

The purpose of this program is to implement community empowerment by optimizing the role of Bumdes in pioneering village businesses. This will encourage the real sectors of community business so that it will grow the home industry. Encouraging the people's economy is no longer planned and implemented from the top structure but development will be effective if done on the awareness of the community itself. Empowerment is the key to the paradigm of building from the village. Problem solving is carried out using the participatory observation method by directly integrating into the daily activities of the community to track the potential and problems of empowerment, which will then be formulated into a program which is then carried out. Formal activities are carried out in the form of seminars and training as a medium for formulating business potential and improving the skills of the village-owned enterprise and the community. Training on making sago pudding and yam ice cream was practiced as an effort to stimulate and inspire to develop community creativity. The entire program implementation is carried out collaboratively between all empowerment partners, namely the village government, bumdes, the community and students. The sustainability of the partnership will continue through coaching on management or accounting aspects.