Empowering Teen Dropouts inBerkoh Village, Purwokerto Selatan Sub-District
- DOI
- 10.2991/amca-18.2018.85How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Ant nests, Red ants, Ant eggs, Skill
- Abstract
This activity aims to improve the ability and skill of teen dropouts in Berkoh Village by utilizing red ant nests around their yards as a productive business and by mastering the technology of the cultivation of red ants, as ant eggs producers. The approaches employed were classical lectures, discussions, training, direct practice of making demonstration plots, mentoring, coaching, and partnership with the teen dropouts. The empowerment of teen dropouts in Berkoh Village was conducted through several activities, i.e. training of how to make kumbung (red ant growing house) consisting of two houses (4x4x3 m3with six shelvesof 3x0.6x1.9 m), training of constructing red ant nests which yielded 225 jars of red ant nest, and training of harvesting which resulted 22.5-30 grams of ant eggs per five jars of nest. As the conclusion, there was an improvement of teen dropouts’ ability and skill in utilizing red ant nests around their yards as a productive business.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Aman Suyadi PY - 2018/07 DA - 2018/07 TI - Empowering Teen Dropouts inBerkoh Village, Purwokerto Selatan Sub-District BT - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Community Development (AMCA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 312 EP - 314 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/amca-18.2018.85 DO - 10.2991/amca-18.2018.85 ID - Suyadi2018/07 ER -