Empowerment Strategy Through Salak Fruit
Abstract: This articles aims
to understand the practice of empowerment through assistance to salak farmers.
The study includes 60 salak fruit farmers which are taken as the samples.
Descriptive analysis is used to analyze the obtained data from the study. The
research result shows that most respondents have the relative low level of
empowerment. The empowerment level from business aspect explain that most of
the respondent (73%) are never and could not got the financial assistant to
develop their business. Likewise, it could be happen in the technological
access, most of the respondent (56,7%) explain that in the production process
the technology that used is base on traditional and hereditary. So, it is
depend on labour relieves when the production and harvest process. Furthermore,
the research shows that a low level of a capability to access the market
information. It could be seen that most of the farmers (38,3%) directly selling
their product to the consumers and 33,3% sell their product to the broker. The empowerment
from non economic aspect could be seen from the low ability of lobbying aspect,
like the asking for a relieves from their colleagues at the local government
officer (10%), financial institution like cooperation, bank and etc (25%),
society figures (32,1%), employees (32,1%), non government
institution/academision (10%) and a families (93,3%). To empower the farmers in
order to make them sustainable, it is necessary to build a partnership by
empowerment strategy. The empowerment strategy that involves industry as the
farmers’ partner is carried out to improve the empowerment of the farmers of
salak fruits.
Author: Sucihatiningsih Dian
Wisika Prajanti, Fafurida, Avi Budi Setiawan, Himawan Arif Sutanto
Journal Code: jpsosiologigg150011
