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able to escape from poverty trap and backwardness.
In other words, empowering the community means
giving people the ability and independence.
Empowerment processes that emphasize the process
of providing the ability to the community to become
empowered, encourage or motivate individuals to
have the ability or empowerment to determine the
choice of life. In this case that empowerment should
be aimed at the group or layers of people who are
left behind.
There are 3 (three) approaches that can be used
in running the empowerment program, namely; 1).
Micro-approach, in practical way can be through
guidance, counselling, stress management, crisis
intervention. The main purpose is to guide or train
individuals in carrying out tasks in life. This model
is often called the task centered approach. 2). Mezzo
approach that utilizes the existence of the group as a
medium of intervention or treatment. The way that is
through, Education and training, group dynamics,
usually used as a strategy in raising awareness,
knowledge, skills, and individual attitudes in order
to have the ability to solve the problems it faces. 3).
The macro approach is usually called a large-system
strategy, since the objectives of change are directed
to wider environmental systems such as policy
formulation, social planning, campaigning, social
action, lobbying, organizing and community
development, this.
In order to support the objectives and policy
directions, a number of priority programs will be
prepared to accelerate the development of
disadvantaged regions that will be implemented in
2017 which will be implemented by the Ministry of
Education, Ministry / Institution, Local Government
and NGO.
The priority programs include:
Local Economic Development.
Improved Accessibility / Connectivity.
Fulfillment of Basic Public Service.
Increasing human resources and science and
technology.
In order not to stand alone, the government has
also set up a number of priority activities to support
the priority programs. So, it is with the goals of the
priority program activities. In essence, for all
activities to be focused and measurable so that
Acceleration of Development of Disadvantaged
Areas can be implemented in accordance with the
target set. For the funding of priority programs for
the Development of Underdeveloped Regions, based
on the 2017 RKP that has been compiled, the
government has allocated funds sourced from
Kemendes PDTT, ministries and other institutions.
Based on the results of research conducted in
West Nias district, it is known that the coordination
of West Nias District Government with North
Sumatera Provincial Government in Implementing
Community Empowerment of West Nias Regency
does not yet exist. Coordination of district
government with the community has not existed
because the government considers people's human
resources in West Nias Regency is still low.
Therefore, the district government seeks to improve
the human resources of the community through
education improvement first and then if the
community has been at the level of education that is
considered capable of being coordinated in the
development of disadvantaged areas.
To overcome this problem, we need counseling
to increase the society's awareness both in the field
of education and in the economic field in order to
change the system of life of a very traditional society
as well as counseling to plant the right rubber,
counseling the right breeding, and so forth.
This is acknowledged by the kecamatan where
the community has not been directly involved in
tackling to get out of disadvantaged areas due to:
Lack of human resources in education and expertise
possessed or human skills is very far, less than
expected as it should be. Thus, it is expected that
agricultural and legal counseling.
There is coordination between the sub-district
and West Nias district government efforts to
overcome the problem: The government provides
assistance to people or poor people such as
education, schools outside the region, the
government is looking for a job that is not capable
both inside and outside the region.
Coordination between the subdistrict government
and the district is crucial to overcome all the
complaints of the people of West Nias Regency
either morally thinking in the form of agricultural
goods / tools by the relevant agencies. Coordination
is often carried out from village to sub-district to
district but efforts to get out of the backward zone
zone have not yet existed because there is still much
that needs to be addressed. There is coordination.
Coordination between kelurahan / village and the
subdistrict is still only limited to complete the
village administration, kalua concrete form of
activity in the field is still not implemented.
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