Community Empowerment Strategy Through the Village Spirit of Horse Riding and Farming in an Effort to Improve the Well-Being of the Community at Leban Village Sub-District Boja and District Kendal Central Java Province

Abstract

This research get focus on strategic empowerment of communities through tourist village spirit riding and agricultural in an effort to improve the condition of the Leban village. As for the purpose of this research is to draw up strategies community empowerment through tourist village the spirit of riding and agricultural in an effort to improve the welfare of the village community wide, to analyze the barricade factors and to know the efforts made to address the factors a barrier. The research is descriptive research with a qualitative approach to the source of the data from the results of interviews, review literature that analyzed using SWOT analysis to search for strategies that will be used. Based on the research done, produced 1 (one) of alternative strategy for implementation who recommended to the local government of district kendal as well as the government leban village, namely: A performance of traditional arts and culture the village community leban routinely; Based on the results of this research is recommended to the government district kendal to provide support to the rural community empowerment wide and immediately issue a decree regent kendal on the determination of wide villages into tourist village. For department of culture and tourism in order to strengthen the role of tourist group conscious (pokdarwis) and held an education and training that sustained to villagers wide community to empowerment more optimal in terms of conscious tourism.