Empowering and Developing The Local Potency Through Thematic Village in Semarang

Abstract

Thematic village, in which the community actively involved in developing the local potency, is a solution to address the poverty as the main problems of the society who needs environmental improvement and settlement infrastructure. The study aims to examine the implementation of the thematic village in Semarang. Generally, thematic village program has been succeeded in empowering the community, socially, economically, and maintaining the local potency through community participation. The factor that makes the program need to be improved is the planning concept of thematic village, its application, the theme and local potency that are not synchronized, and also the lack of community participation in creating village identity. Keywords—Community empowerment, Local potency,