School Housewife: Woman’s Empowerment Model by Utilizing Skills and Local Natural Resources in Batu Town, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to describe the models of empowerment of poor women in sub-urban area and the forms of urban poor women's empowerment done by institutions or non-governmental organization. By using a qualitative approach, this research was conducted in Batu Town by taking two focus community activities undertaken in an effort to empower women. The conclusion of this study is that the efforts are in the forms of (1) school of housewife. The school is attended mostly women who had been married date to be skills-based natural environment. The result is a very supportive family economy, (2) Aisyiyah skilled house. This community is in the form of one of the programs carried out by the branch of Muhammadiyah Batu town. As the women' schools, women's empowerment is to have focus on developing skills of women who are married armed with skills to cultivate the existing natural resources. With this activity greatly helped the family economy.