The Economic Empowerment of Women Through Local Culture-Based Crafts (Ulap Doyo Woven Fabric in Tanjung Jone Village, West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan)

. This study aims to identify and analyses women's economic empowerment through handicrafts based on the local culture of Ulap Doyo woven fabric in Tanjung Jone village, West Kutai Regency, East Kalimantan, the function of charge and its constraints. This research method is qualitative with a case study approach. The research conducted on traditional cloth craftsmen Ulap Doyo in Tanjung Jone Village. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, and documentation. Test the validity of the data by triangulation and data analysis using the Miles and Huberman model. The results showed that women's economic empowerment through local culture Ulap Doyo is done in the form of the family business and realizes the concept of "sibaliparriq", which puts women like male friends to carry out the responsibility of building their families jointly. Their weaving skills are acquired by self-taught and then taught from generation to generation. The function of empowering women who produce Ulap Doyo is to help the family economy and educate young women in maintaining the moral values and indigenous culture of Dayak. The obstacles faced by the weavers are the raw materials of doyo leaves that must obtain from other villages, limited capital and marketing, and there is no community for the weavers, so they work individually. The obstacles faced by the weavers are the raw materials of doyo leaves that must obtain from other villages, the limitations of capital and marketing, and there is no community for the weavers, so they work individually.