Model of Women Empowerment of Samin Community through Training on Social Entrepreneurship Based on Local Culture

Abstract

Samin women's community has a culture of "sedulur singkep", men are very appreciative of women, the pattern of life preserving nature by working as a farmer. Women work hard to help husbands work in agriculture, but the qualifications of his life are still poor. The objective of the research is to compile hypothetical model of empowerment of female community of Samin community based on valid local culture to improve their economy. The research was designed with R and D method, the research subjects in the exploration stage and product validation stage were Samin women who had married, productive age, while the subject at the development stage was the village women empowerment expert and nonformal education expert training unit. Data analysis of exploration stage using interactive model, development stage using descriptive percentage, while validation stage using t-test. The results of the exploratory study show that the majority of Samin women have entrepreneurial aspirations to help the family economy, but do not have adequate skills. The Samin community has been able to accept trade or entrepreneurial work as a good job, not harming other parties, supported by the potential value of social capital is very high. The result of development study is a conceptual model of empowerment of Samin women through the training of social entrepreneurship based on local culture. This empowerment model consists of 4 components, namely planning, implementation, supervision and coaching. Based on the test results of expert validity with Delphi technique, the assessment aspect of clarity of content, interrelationship between elements, the use of operational language, the attractiveness of writing and physical appearance shows the average conceptual concept score of 3.51 from the scale of 1 4, enter the category very valid . That is, the model deserves to be tested empirically. Product manual of women empowerment model, social entrepreneurship training textbook ready to be tested its empirical effectiveness in field of limited scale and