Strategi Peningkatan Kapasitas Modal Sosial dan Kualitas Sumberdaya Manusia Pendamping Pengembangan Masyarakat
Abstract: Based on normal
situation effective and successful community development are indicated by
severalevidence, namely: improvement of welfare state of the whole segments of
the community, development ofsocial trust, improvement of awareness of the community
with regard to their potentials, their real needs,their problems in achieving
their needs, and getting alternatives of solution to break their problems
byutilizing their potentials, people are innovated to get better lives, and
finally their have great motivationto be self reliance and develop more
inter-dependency with other systems. To obtain such qualifiedcommunity
development the role of so-called as partners or insider and outsider change
agents of thecommunity is absolutely needed. Commonly, the community cannot
sharply know themselves very well.They need somebodies, insider and or outsider
individuals who professionally have potentials andcompetencies to develop them
in such, that through working together they may achieve better lives. Thecommunity
partners in development are those individuals who have prepared themselves
through variouslearning processes, who ideally have unique characteristics such
as: high empathy, highly care to others,sensitive, have qualified personality,
have highly capability to utilize their senses, have highly capabilityin
communication, and very consistent in talking and doing which the community are
eager to trust andexpress their needs. But unfortunately, based on field
studies done by several doctorate candidates showthat the partners of the
community on development have not possessed such high qualification. Most
ofthem in some district areas in Jawa and outer Jawa Island need more training
to improve their socialcapital capacity, and their quality of human resources
as well. Consequently, we need smart anddiliguent strategy on how to improve
competencies of the partners of the community development throughlearning
processes in such, that sooner or later their roles will provide positive
impact on the bettermentof quality of life of the community.
Penulis: D. Susanto
Kode Jurnal: jpkomunikasidd100122
