Family Empowerment Program as Community Education in Supporting the Prevention of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The Family Empowerment Post (Posdaya) has been running as a model for implementing community development, especially in rural areas in the fields of education, health and economy. However, mostly it still provides the minimum service standard and has not been able to reach the maximum standard in terms of transfer of knowledge and skills to the community. Therefore, the aim of this research is to design an empowerment program for public education including supporting the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a qualitative case study method, informants were selected purposively from the village government, Posdaya administrators, community leaders and entrepreneurial groups. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, discussion and documentation. Triangulation is used as verification of the data that has been collected. The findings show that a responsive, productive and innovative empowerment program in the form of informal and vocational learning is really necessary as a medium to increase motivation, knowledge, and entrepreneurial skill of communities based on local resources to maintain the welfare and the health of families and villagers especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.