Abstract

<p class="Abstract">Research on community empowerment generally contain a report of the implementation and the delineation of the manner of a group or individual impart knowledge or understanding for other groups. When the community has not been examining the potential within them, needed a facilitator for changing conception them over they have. This study discusses the social construction that takes place within women farmers who participates in community-based empowerment facilitated through Community Service Program (PPM) Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada in 2016. The provision of a position as free individuals should be done by the target of the program, moreover program executed by its very nature kind of external, not fully the impact <span lang="IN">from internal </span>or constituting all the ideas from the communities themselves. This fact becomes an interesting finding especially in relation to the sustainability of the facilitated activities. This study uses social construction theory supported by the theory of needs as motivation and motive theory to express the meaning of the presence of community-based empowerment activities in Ploso Hamlet, Giritirto Village, Purwosari District, Gunungkidul Regency. The method used is a qualitative method. The results of this study illustrate the existence of several factors of need that later became the motive for reasons and objectives of women farmers who participated in community-based empowerment activities. The motive that is formed then leads to the formation of meaning on the reality of community-based empowerment, from that meaning and then disclosed the sustainability of the activity. <o:p></o:p></p>

Highlights

  • Indonesia is one of the country that frequently faced against natural disasters, including floods, volcano eruption, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, and drought

  • It is related to the meaning of its participation in community-based empowerment activities. This becomes interesting when women farmers as a target group of community-based empowerment activities signify their participation in MSME group Ploso Manunggal

  • Women farmers become able to position itself in determining the needs as well as the meaning of his behavior to participate actively or want to stop and back on the agricultural business that they live everyday

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Introduction

Indonesia is one of the country that frequently faced against natural disasters, including floods, volcano eruption, earthquake, landslide, tsunami, and drought. As similar to the condition which occurred in the area of Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Province that. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. It has been predicted that 70 villages in the largest regency in Yogyakarta Special Province (DIY) will be hit by drought during the dry season (Suharjono, 2015). 2) mention that “drought caused by the lithological condition of the local area, as similar with the occurring condition in Gunungkidul Regency due to the karst span that induces the surface condition to become dry”. Drought is one of the disasters caused by the extreme weather that mostly occur in Indonesia with different frequency and risk level This research is discussing the threat of drought disaster as one of the urgency in the emergence of community-based empowerment activity

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