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No. 6 of 2014. Where the existence of society or
people is the subject of development and local
institutions in rural areas so it needs a place for the
community to accommodate and mobilize the
interests of a more specific and interactive domain in
gaining control and control over issues concerning
them (Cattaneo and Chapman, 2010; Holden,
Messeri, Evans, Crankshaw, and Ben-Davies, 2004;
Maton, 2008; Zimmerman, 1995). Thus the
empowerment movement must show man as an
autonomous and dynamic "institution". It means man
is a life structure that represents himself.
Therefore, the empowerment movement is
directed to the effort of self-capturing through a
number of aspects, namely cognitive aspects, aspects
of affection and behavioral aspects. When this aspect
is empowered then participatory, independent and
sustainable development expectations will be the
answer. Village law with its recommendations can
only be implemented when human and local
institutions are able to build strength through
collaborative and synergic aspects to emphasize the
involvement of community empowerment actors, as
a companion role in the realm of regeneration,
organizing and social learning which then direction of
community empowerment in institutional
strengthening, participatory development,
community-based development with consolidative
principles. For that the process of community
empowerment becomes very important to do
regardless of the hustle and bustle of the debate
seeking priority of community empowerment,
especially rural community.
3.3 Community Empowerment
through Local Wisdom of Rural
Area
Technically the method used in community
empowerment through local wisdom is to integrate
the village social institutions in their local wisdom
into an institutional strength through regulation at the
village level. This is followed by the division of tasks
and functions that are legalized through the
integration of the legitimacy of adat and village as
administrative areas of government. The
geographical context within which empowerment
occurs is important, as it is in specific ‘places’ that
individual/psychological and community
empowerment may be linked. Skerratt and Steiner
(2013) argue place empowerment does not always
result in community empowerment occurring and that
there should be a stronger consideration in research
of the complexities of empowerment. Moreover,
studies should acknowledge that communities are the
result of many differing identities, histories and social
relationships. These differences between individuals
and their allegiances to places affect a community’s
potential capacity and sense of empowerment.
Furthermore, places are residential psychosocial
environments that can affect individual and collective
wellbeing through factors such as environmental
quality and relative social position, in turn affecting
people’s commitment and optimism about
empowerment (Kearns et al., 2012). Furthermore,
places are residential psychosocial environments that
can affect individual and collective wellbeing through
factors such as environmental quality and relative
social position, in turn affecting people’s
commitment and optimism about empowerment
(Kearns et al., 2012). Area perceptions (such as
relative status and quality) can also influence
individual’s self-regard, in turn affecting their mental
wellbeing and place empowerment (Bond et al., 2012;
Gilchrist, 2009). Studies of empowerment must
incorporate this place individual collective interplay.
Community social institutions such as village
government, customary and religious figures as well
as existing village social organizations. Then the
empowerment of the community through the local
wisdom of the rural areas is meant by this policy that
in determining the policy should pay attention to the
needs and interests of the village community (Article
24, Article 81) with a participatory approach
facilitated by the mentoring process of professional
assistants (TPP) starting from the level of village
government to the level of regency government as in
the regulation of the Minister of Village number 5 of
2016 on the development of rural areas. Local
wisdom refers to the principle ;( a). Fair (b).
Participatory (c). Holistic (d).Balance (e).diversity,
(f).Ecological linkage (g).Synergistic (h).People's
economic stance (i).Transparency and (j).
Accountable.
The enthusiasm to build villages from the
periphery has been a driving force for development
that leads from rural areas based on local service so
that it will generate an inclusive dimension of the
community, information society and knowledge
community as the expected outcomes, in generally,
the information society participates in helping the
process of achieving higher and more perceived
development goals by the community on a broader
scale with the approach of technology literacy, which
by utilizing technological advances to convey
applicative knowledge. Jarvis argues that the
indication of knowledgeable society is that people are
able to respond to the dimensions of cultural change
in the order of life as the effect of globalization (Peter
Jarvis, 2007). Ideally, the idealized image of
knowledgeable peoples should be understood when
their knowledge can be used to open up opportunities
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