Community Empowerment Strategy: Raising Cattles and Goats Around Coffee Plantation Areas in Besuki Region
- Author Purwowibowo
- Co-Author Hanafi
- DOI https://ww
- Country : Indonesia
- Subject : Social Welfare
Keywords : Community Empowerment, Coffee Plantation, Living Condition, Life−stock Insurance, Poverty Rate, Well−Being.
Abstract
The community around the coffee plantation are still deplorable, most of them live under striking poverty conditions. This paper describes a strategy of community empowerment around the coffee plantation areas. Interestingly, with their living conditions, they can maintain and sustain the life, even in abject poverty. Improving the value of lives of people in this class, survival strategies, i.e. empowerment through 'life–stock insurance model' are to be learned. Empowerment by the model is so that they can solve the problem of their poverty. In explaining the model, this research is conducted by the qualitative method, using primary and secondary data, and descriptive analysis. The results show that the community needs to reduce the poverty rate by setting a passive survival strategy but, the conditions of their poverty do not end there. In addition to changing the condition, it is necessary to empower them through active and creative survival strategy. One of the strategies is to change their mindset of life, not only to survive but also to make changes that are better for their living and well-being. One of community empowerment functions is building capable communities. Therefore, they can process natural resources around the area from lower values industrial commodities to those of higher values, i.e. using 'insurance life–stock insurance model.
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