Public Participation on Non Formal Education In Gowa Regency South Sulawesi: Study on Community Learning Center

Efforts to improve education quality as human resources, It should become top priorites development hearts of the Indonesian nation. Education provision is expected to be drivers of community empowerment by expanding public participation in the process of education both in formal education, informal education and nonformal education. Community Learning Center as an organization designed to contribute to improving the quality of education needs to empower people, because basically the acceleration power of quality improvement will be achieved if built with the community. Similarly, the existence of the existence of community activity Center relies heavily on community participation.To know people's participation in Community Learning Center research is needed, with the aim to find a picture of participation and other forms of public participation in Community Learning Center in Gowa. This research target is the manager, tutors, learners, and communities around the Community Learning Center numbering as many as 40 people/informans. The type of data in this study are primary data from informans, and secondary data from literature study and documentation. Data collective by observation, interview, and documentation. The data analysis technique used is a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques. The results showed that the Community Learning Center community participation in terms of aspects of planning, implementation, supervision, monitoring and evaluation is still relatively low. The forms of public participation are realized in the form of attention, thought, time and energy, donations of funds and materials. Keywords—Participation, Non Formal Education, Community Learning Center