The Role of Kamoro Traditional Leaders in Communities Empowerment and Health in Mimika District

Abstract

This study uses a qualitative method. Researchers as research instruments, collect, process, analyze, interpret, and verify any data and information obtained from informants. Data obtained from participants is enriched, supplemented, and refined through in-depth and free interviews, to good informants who meet the requirements so that the validity and reliability of the data can be justified. The results of this study have shown that the role of Kamoro traditional leaders in community empowerment and health in Mimika Regency. Pioneering traditional leaders who marry programs of teaching traditional values into various aspects of life, increasing public interest in formal and informal education. These traditional leaders are also one of the bridges between the government and the community and also with the company, in this case PT. Freeport. The social interaction of traditional leaders with the government and other community leaders in the context of empowering and improving public health in rural areas, is done through social contact and communication through various channels, both formal and informal, both with the community or with other regional leaders such as the government.This traditional figure has played a role in providing an understanding of the concept of empowerment to the community where they have also been involved as members of community organizations Angmume and Kamoro community development institutions which are present as institutions for community empowerment and health protection. Giving an understanding of empowerment is conveyed in a conceptual framework according to the Kamoro tribal culture approach. In relation to empowerment, related to the problem of stages in the representation of adat in the form of programs, and the higher the stages (local, regional and national), the empowerment perspective is broader and does not go directly to technical issues.