In this article, I describe the answers of a northern Thailand village community to protect itself against the varied risks and the uncertainty which it faces. Firstly, I present the major ...agricultural, economic and social changes lived by the village recently. Secondly, I analyze the consequences of these evolutions by claiming that, in the contemporary situation, villagers are subject to new risks and suffer from a deep feeling of uncertainty regarding their community’s future. Before risks, the answers are less and less local and there is a dependency on actors and organizations beyond the village level. By contrast, I show that the community relies on numerous religious means to appease the feelings of uncertainty, and that it is developing a touristic activity helpful in relieving concerns towards the future.
The development of a popular scientific book that is developed based on the local potential of a region is one solution that can be used to overcome problems that often arise such as a lack of ...student reading interest due to boring teaching materials and learning medifications in the Low Plant Botany course, especially in several studies of shrub diversity that require students to make direct observations. This development research aims to describe the practicality of the popular scientific book prototype entitled "Diversity of the Mangrove Shrubs in Tabanio Village." The research method used was the development model by EDR which was limited to the formative evaluation phase based on the Tessmer model. The results showed that the results of the feasibility test for popular scientific books got an average score of 88.9% with very good criteria and the results of student responses to popular scientific books got an average of 89.18% with criterion strongly agree. This shows that a popular scientific book entitled "Diversity of Mangrove Shrubs in Tabanio Village" is very practical to be used as an enrichment material in learning Low Plant Botany. Abstrak Pengembangan sebuah buku ilmiah populer yang dikembangkan berdasarkan potensi lokal yang dimiliki sebuah daerah merupakan salah satu solusi yang dapat digunakan untuk mengatasi masalah-masalah yang sering muncul seperti kurangnya minat membaca mahasiswa karena bahan ajar dan medifikasi pembelajaran yang membosankan pada mata kuliah Botani Tumbuhan Tinggi khususnya pada beberapa kajian keanekaragaman semak yang mengharuskan mahasiswa untuk melakukan pengamatan langsung. Penelitian pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan kepraktisan prototipe buku ilmiah populer yang berjudul “Keanekaragaman Semak Mangrove Desa Tabanio” Metode penelitian yang digunakan ialah model pengembangan Education Design Reserch (EDR) yang dibatasi sampai pada fase evaluasi formatif berdasarkan model Tessmer. Hasil penelitian menunjukan hasil uji keterlaksanaan buku ilmiah populer mendapatkan nilai rata-rata 88,9% dengan kriteria sangat baik dan hasil respond mahasiswa terhadap buku ilmiah populer mendapatkan rata-rata 89,18% dengan kriteris sangat setuju. Hal tersebut menunjukan bahwa buku ilmiah populer dengan judul “Keanekaragaman Semak Mangrove Desa Tabanio” sangat praktis digunakan sebagai bahan pengayaan dalam pembelajaran Botani Tumbuhan Tinggi.
Fida’an is an activity carried out by Javanese Muslims after the death of one of their community member. The activity consists of reciting the Quranic verses of al-Ikhlas a thousand times or the ...tahlil up to 71.000 times which is addressed to the deceased to avoid the torment of the fires of hell and get holy rewards. This study seeks to find out the views of the people of Plosojenar Village, Kauman District, Ponorogo Regency regarding fida’an by inquiring (1) What and how is the practice of fida’an among people of Plosojenar? and (2) How do the people of Plosojenar associate fida’an practices with hadith texts? In this study, the authors used the method of observation, interviews, and documentation to obtain supporting data. The data analysis used was descriptive qualitative with a phenomenological approach to religion and anthropology of religious symbols by examining the concept of diversity in the symbols present in the ritual. The results of the study concluded that (1) the meaning of fida’an for the Plosojenar people is divided into two parts, namely burdening good deeds and freeing from the torment of hellfire; and (2) the community's view of fida’an is diverse such as getting rewards and guaranteed by Allah Swt to avoid hell, as well as the growth of togetherness, help, friendship and charity within the community.
The purposes of community services program and research are to support, analyze, and create an accountable, transparent, independent, legally-aware and child-friendly village in Kedungkelor village, ...Warureja sub-district, Tegal regency. The paper analyzed two major parts are taken in the title of the service as well as aware of the law and child worth. Legal awareness and worthy of children are considered important because the child's world is very determining how the child will grow up later so that the village apparatus and the community need to increase of awareness related to the law and in the policies formulated by the village government or the community itself must be child-oriented. The program implemented a to realize a village that is aware of the law and suitable for children in our service is providing free legal assistance, door-to-door programs for families aware of the law and the environment, leadership training, healthy snacks and hand hygiene programs, and anti-bullying programs. The paper concluded that there are some forms of activity that will initiate the formation of a village that is aware of the law and is suitable for children.
This study aims to map the soft skills of the coastal area community’s potentials through leadership management of the village heads to be innovative to develop the village growth in the coastal area ...of northern Indonesia. The study relied on a survey with a mixed method. It involved villagers in Bilato District, Gorontalo Regency, Indonesia, as the population and 33 villagers (village heads, village officials, prominent figures, and villagers) as the sample. It was found that village heads’ leadership management in soft skill development of community potentials based on the village innovation system in the coastal area arrives at a good category. Further, this study found that the village heads’ leadership management in managing potential soft skills and characteristics of village communities in coastal areas based on village innovation systems in Bilato District, Gorontalo Regency, Indonesia, was in the good category with a percentage of 71.4%. This percentage is obtained through several indicators, i.e., (1) leadership management with 76.3% (good category); (2) village head strategy with 75.4%; and (3) innovation system with 66.2% (good category). It is expected that it can be further improved through other indicators apart from the grand design and the analysis of village heads’ leadership management model in managing soft skills of potentials and characteristics of the village community in the coastal area based on village innovation systems.
Acknowledgment We would like to express our gratitude to the Head of the Faculty, the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Village Head, and District Head, Local and Provincial Government for the implementation of this study.
Economic, social and cultural symptoms and phenomena of the rural society are also confirmed to be influenced by the Village Fund intervention and the allocation and management of the Village Fund by ...the village institutions. The central government policy allocates a number of budgets directly to the village to be managed according to the needs, enabling villages and village communities to have facilities in planning and carrying out economic activities in the village in order to create jobs, ensuring job security for workers in the village, availability of funds to optimize the potentials that have been difficult to move with capital constraints. This research was aimed at examining models of empowerment of rural communities with the support or use of the Village Fund, which further looks at the effect of the realization of activities on the socio-economic structure of village communities. The results of the study show that the Watodiri Village community economic empowerment program with the assistance of the Village Fund has a low influence on the strengthening of the economy of the villagers, with constraints on local politics that do not favor community economic empowerment.
The post-war reconstruction of Ukraine should include not only the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed and damaged during hostilities, material objects of the industrial and social spheres, ...and all other aspects of the return of the population to a full life in peaceful conditions but also the improvement of social relations, particularly, relations between authorities and self-government and the population. In this context, the continuation of the decentralisation reform should lead to the completion of the formation of conditions under which residents of all settlements, which are part of territorial communities, could influence the resolution of issues of their life activities. The article aims to highlight the institutional limitations for the inclusive development of rural communities related to the representation and implementation of their interests in territorial communities and to justify proposals for overcoming them. Research methods were used: logical-historical (when highlighting the controversy of the process of establishing the institute of starosty (local leader), dialectical and abstract-logical (when analysing the institutional limitations for realising the interests of rural communities as part of territorial communities and substantiating the direction of their overcoming), monographic (when analysing the composition starosty districts). The author reveals the manifestations of the centralisation of local self-government functions at the level of territorial communities, which resulted in narrowing the rights of residents of rural settlements, especially small and remote ones, to representation and participation in solving their problems. The paper establishes the presence of starosty districts with many villages and, accordingly, limited conditions for developing rural communities. The manuscript describes the Polish experience of organising inclusive local self-government at the lower level of the administrative-territorial system and substantiates the expediency of its fuller use in Ukraine: the central place here should belong to the endowment of starosty districts, disaggregated to the level of settlement (in particular, rural) communities, with certain powers to solve their livelihoods problems and the right to use local resources. The study results can be used to improve local self-government reform in the post-war period.
The pivotal role of community level workers in the delivery of public services is well-recognized. But, they often fail to provide equal opportunities to all ‘eligible’ beneficiaries to utilize a ...variety of public services. Although several predisposing household factors are held responsible for inequalities in access to the public services, in recent times, one factor that has been recognised as critical to such unequal access is the ‘exclusionary nature of social relations’ based on social identity embedded in the social life of village community. It is also argued that certain sections of the population are deprived of equal access to public services due to their social identity, which is different from service providers. However, the question remains–whether it is the social identity of users or providers of public services that is critical to unequal access to various services? What will be the extent of utilization of public services when the social identity of both users and providers of the services remain same? Do the social dynamics of the community life play any role in the delivery of public services? This essay addresses these questions in the context of delivery of integrated nutrition and healthcare services at the community level under the largest national flagship scheme of Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Drawing evidence from a larger sample survey of over 4000 household beneficiaries and 200 service providers, the essay sheds light on how the delivery of healthcare services is fraught with social injustice due to dominant socio-cultural norms around social identity despite the values of healthcare centres to cater to the health needs of all sections of society.
Electricity has been a vital force of soclial change. Access to electricity is an inevitable drive to multidmentional transfromation of society. The purpose of this research is to describe the forms ...of social change that occurs in Punik remote rural communities as a result of the presence of diesel generating electrical power (generator) in 2005. Based on a qualitative conducte in Punik Village of Batu Lanteh Subdistrict of Sumbawa regency, this research found the following conclusions: (a) shifts in the layers of social status, which is based on the extent of the diversity of manifestations and clumps of technology that can have, how expensive, how far the complexity or level of sophistication, how people are able to do and have it , (b) changes in the distribution of roles in the family and society, where the role of the family and society to adapt following the relative availability of resources beyond the normative criteria, namely gender and age, (c) shifts in basis and the orientation of interaction and cooperation of the elements of intimacy that strengthen kinship and altruism shifted into affective neutrality, individual and economy-oriented interests, (d) shift in the tradition, includig a variety of oral tradition that includes the inauguration of the relationship between individuals that is reduced by functions clump technology innovation; other collective traditions are relatively easier stimulus delivered through the entertainment medi; (e) The change of culture, a culture which previously relied on a livelihood, the human role and traditional equipment based technologies manifestation are displaced by electrical function, (f) the changes social events to adapt with electrical availability.Keywords: Diffusion; Electricity; Generator; Innovations; Remote Indigenous Communities; Social Change.
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