Empowerment of Community Economic Independence Through Utilization of Local Potential
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200214.038How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- empowerment of economic independence, local potential
- Abstract
The people of Malang Regency, especially in Poncokusumo sub-district, have diverse local potential and abundant. However, viewed from the knowledge and awareness of the local community has not shown the effort in economic growth. Strategies to overcome problems in managing local potentials require systemic, holistic, and dynamic constructive efforts from University as agents of science and technology to participate in the realization of a prosperous society. Implementation of community service used the methods of training, practice, and monitoring. Community economic empowerment implemented from March to July 2018. Prior knowledge regarding the potential utilization of local communities to improve the economic well-being explored through interviews and questionnaires, while the change of knowledge and skill after community service activities were measured using a sheet of questions and observation sheet performance. Overall there is increasing knowledge and skills gained by the community through community service activities.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Sri Endah Indriwati AU - Eko Sri Sulasmi AU - Sulisetijono PY - 2020 DA - 2020/02/18 TI - Empowerment of Community Economic Independence Through Utilization of Local Potential BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Studies and Environmental Issues (ICOSSEI 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 220 EP - 222 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200214.038 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200214.038 ID - Indriwati2020 ER -