Community Empowerment Through Milk Cow Cattle Logistic: in Collaborative Governance Perspective in Boyolali Regency of Central Java

Abstract

Community empowerment is an attempt of improving the quality of life. Building independency is a part of community empowering attempt. It is a sustainable process to build community’s ability by encouraging, motivating, and generating consciousness of potency in order to be independent and to improve its standard of life. The objectives of research are to find out the process of empowering milk cow breeders and to identify its supporting and inhibiting factors. Collaborative governance is not given but builds on various aspects. It can be seen from the institution’s need aspect to establish cooperation between institutions, because of each institution’s limited ability to organize its program/activity itself. This study was descriptive qualitative research. The instrument of research was the author herself, with observation, interview, and documentation study. Data validation was conducted using data source triangulation technique. Data analysis was conducted through data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing. The result of research showed that community empowerment through logistic reinforcement has not been conducted maximally yet. Partnership and cooperation between stakeholders in milk cow management has run sufficiently well. The supporting factor is that Boyolali Regency is very superior with milk cow breeder human resource, while the inhibiting factor is that the program of improving knowledge and training for milk cow breeder human resource is held only once a year because of limited budget existing.