Abstract
The main objective of this study is to examine the empowerment, expectation, priorities and attitudes toward development among rural community in Malaysia. This study is quantitative in nature and a total of 900 respondents from three states in Peninsular Malaysia were involved. This study has found that the rural communities were very well aware of the needs for local development and exhibited high expectations on its life-changing outcomes. The findings showed high rural community’s involvement in decision making and self-accomplished. A number of discussions had been placed and it is a hope that it can assist the concern parties to further develop the rural community in Malaysia. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6s4p469
Highlights
In a community led development approach, social and cultural capital exploitation emerged as an endogenous development
My involvement in activities / projects were not influenced by anyone, it was my own desire So far, I have never missed participating in activities or development programs carried out by this village I have probably participated in more than 50% of the development activities organized by the government agency in this village In the future, I do not want to miss any projects / activities I am ready to leave work if a new project promises a much worthy income I am willing to sacrifice personal interests for the sake of the success of local development I can tolerate, if necessary, in order to develop this village *SD = Standard Deviation
Looking back at the statistics, the findings showed that the rural development in Malaysia still has a long way to achieve a truly empowered community
Summary
In a community led development approach, social and cultural capital exploitation emerged as an endogenous development. Sianipar et al (2013) claimed that the implementers should play the role of contractors and serve to train local in order to sustain the result This principle is known as the empowerment process which requires a full support from the community’s participation by allocating each members of community in development activity’s engagement within the community by assigning the designated roles to the trustees (Samah and Aref, 2011). Outsiders must first understand the ecology of the local community to reach the designated social power to empower them (Speer & Hughey, 1995) They will have to educate the locals to be well aware of the importance of local development, its benefits and be involve in every decision making process during activities which involves local development
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