Weak Trust Research Articles

Can TV Politics Improve the Trust Pattern of “Intimate Central Government and Alienate Local Government”?

The hierarchical and descending trust pattern among Chinese citizens toward governments at all levels, characterized by a stronger trust in the central government and a weaker trust in local governments, often leads to the “Tacitus trap” in local government governance. As a new platform for public participation and local government supervision, can TV political programs improve the trust pattern of “intimate central government and alienate local government,” and achieve a balance of trust between the central and local governments? Using data from the Social Consciousness Survey Data of Netizens 2018, we conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of TV political programs on residents’ trust patterns toward different levels of government. The results of this study show that: first, the opening of TV political programs can significantly narrow the trust gap between the central and local governments. This primarily achieved by significantly increasing the level of trust that residents have in the provincial government. Second, influence mechanism reveals that the introduction of of TV political programs can reduce the residents’ trust gap between central and local governments mainly by bolstering government transparency, fortifying government responsiveness, and boosting residents’ political efficacy. Third, the heterogeneity analysis indicates that TV political programs can significantly improve the trust gap between central and local governments among various groups, including women, youth, democratic party members and the public, high digitalization ability, residents in the east and provincial capital cities. Fourth, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening of TV political programs significantly increase residents’ trust in the central government but do not significantly raise residents’ trust in local governments. This may, to some extent, reinforce the trend of “intimate central government and alienate local government” among the public .

The Opinion of Agricultural Extension Agents on the Importance of Participating in Extension Activities and Procedures Provided by the Agricultural Extension Organization in the Republic of Iraq

The research aimed to identify the opinion of the surveyed agricultural extension agents on the importance of farmers’ participation in the extension activities, as well as to determine the level of farmers’ participation in the extension activities and the reasons for the poor participation of farmers in the extension activities, the procedures that agricultural extension takes to provide opportunities for farmers to participate in the activities. The research was conducted on a sample of agricultural extension agents in four provinces of Iraq, namely Basra, Babil, Salah al-Din, and Nineveh, and the number reached 209 respondents who were chosen randomly, from a community of 418 agricultural extension agents in those provinces, at a rate of 50%, and data was collected from Respondents during August 2022, In a personal interview using a questionnaire form prepared for this purpose after conducting appropriate tests to achieve the research objectives, the data was quantitatively processed and the arithmetic means standard deviation, and the weighted average was used in its analysis, as well as the range and tabular presentation were used by frequency and percentage of data presentation. The most important results that were reached were the following: It became clear that (78.5%) of the respondents believe that the participation of farmers in extension activities is very important. extension, lack of financial and moral support for farmers, weak trust between agricultural extension and farmers, low farmer returns as a result of agricultural production, and the multiplicity and overlapping of agricultural seasons. Extension activities. The most important measures taken by agricultural extension to provide opportunities for farmers to participate in extension activities are: Holding extension seminars with farmers periodically, setting up field schools, communicating new and useful agricultural information and innovations, providing incentives to owners of distinctive extension fields, choosing places close to farmers to hold extension seminars, and educating farmers on the importance of participating in extension activities.

The institutional origins of vaccines distrust: Evidence from former-Soviet countries.

How is vaccines scepticism related to the exposure to Soviet communism? Using individual level evidence on vaccine trust with regards to its efficiency and safety in 122 countries that differ in their exposure to communism, we document that past exposure to Soviet communism is associated with lower trust in vaccination. We show that exposure to socio-political regimes can negatively affect trust in vaccines, which is explained by weak trust in both government and medical advice from doctors as well as in people from the neighbourhood. These results suggest that roots of vaccine scepticism lie in a wider distrust in public and state institutions resulting from the exposure to Soviet communism.

A Minimum Adjustment Cost Consensus Framework Considering Harmony Degrees and Trust Propagation for Social Network Group Decision Making

In consensus-based social network group decision-making (SN-GDM) problems, the low degree of harmony caused by opinion discrepancies and weak trust relationships may lead to high consensus costs and conflict among experts. To address these problems, we design a minimum adjustment cost consensus framework considering harmony degrees in SN-GDM with incomplete 2-tuple linguistic trust. First, considering the decay of trust through its propagation process, a discount-factor-based 2-tuple linguistic trust propagation operator is proposed to estimate the unknown trust relationships among experts. Then, the harmony degrees are measured based on opinion discrepancies and 2-tuple linguistic trust values, and experts’ weights could be obtained. To improve the consensus levels of the inconsistent experts, a minimum adjustment cost consensus model considering harmony degrees is explored to generate interval recommendations. The existence of optimal solutions and the convergence of the proposed consensus model are also proved. Finally, the validity of the proposed consensus framework is verified by the case of base station selection. With the higher overall harmony degree and individual consensus level, we extend the classical minimum cost consensus model and incorporate the harmony degrees among experts into the consensus reaching process.

Occupational Hazards: Individual and Professional Factors of Why Journalists Become Victims of Online Hate Speech

ABSTRACT Journalists are regularly exposed to online hate speech their profession. Because discrimination often harms targets and can prompt self-censorship in journalistic content, undermining journalism’s public duty, it is essential to understand factors explaining why journalists become victims of online hate speech. Using Routine Activity Theory, an online survey of journalists in Germany (N = 497) revealed that conceptions of their roles as interpreters or adversaries were associated with more frequently being targets of online hate speech. Moreover, women journalists and journalists with migration background were additionally targeted by respectively sexist and racist online hate speech. Participation in active content moderation, a presumed destructive motivation, and audiences’ weak trust in media also raised journalists’ likelihood of being targets of hate speech online. Newsroom support, however, was positively related to such victimization, possibly as a result of sharing past experiences.

POVERTY, TRUST, AND SOCIAL DISTANCE: A SELF-REINFORCING “POVERTY TRAP”?

AbstractWe consider the concept of poverty from the asset-accumulation approach and propose an integrated framework, building upon existing theories, to describe how the interconnected factors of trust (or lack thereof) and social distance can reinforce poverty traps. Social distance is influenced by choice, while trust is the symptom that defines the strength of social ties on a group. We look at how an absence of trust influences how households make decisions about the use and accumulation of assets in ways that could perpetuate poverty. Weak trust also affects how groups interact with each other in a society, creating “trust clusters” within homogeneous groups and antagonism across groups, which in turn affects aspirations and leads to an erosion of the basis of a social contract. For more effective and sustainable poverty reduction, we need to understand these linkages and address them systematically.

RouteChain: Towards Blockchain-based secure and efficient BGP routing

Routing on the Internet is defined among autonomous systems (ASes) based on a weak trust model where it is assumed that ASes are honest. While this trust model strengthens the connectivity among ASes, it also results in an attack surface that can be exploited to hijack the routing paths. One such attack is known as the BGP prefix hijacking, in which a malicious AS broadcasts IP prefixes that belong to a target AS, thereby hijacking its traffic. In this paper, we propose RouteChain: a blockchain-based secure BGP routing system that counters BGP hijacking and maintains a consistent view of the Internet routing paths. Towards that, we leverage provenance assurance and tamper-proof properties of blockchains to augment trust among ASes. We group ASes based on their geographical (network) proximity and construct a bi-hierarchical blockchain model that detects false prefixes prior to their spread over the Internet. We evaluate RouteChain using three different consensus protocols and show its effectiveness by drawing a case study with the Youtube hijacking of 2008. Our results show that RouteChain can efficiently detect false prefix announcements and prevent BGP attacks over the Internet.

Exploring channels and gaps in information dissemination and acquisition among energy scientists and the public: The southeast Asian context.

This study investigates the flow of energy-related information, which plays a vital role in promoting the public understanding and support for various energy sources. Through 12 focus group discussions with the public and energy experts, this study found that energy information flows from scientists to the public through both direct (e.g., roadshows, scientists’ blogs) and indirect (via agents, e.g., school, news media) channels. However, communication gaps remain between scientists and the public. First, the public commonly obtains information from personal experience and the media but not directly from scientists. Second, while the public stressed the importance of mass media and social media, only a few experts reported writing news commentaries or making social media posts about energy. Third, while scientists emphasize their relationships with the government and other agencies in disseminating information, the public shows relatively weak trust in these agencies. Implications are made for future research and public communication on energy issues.

Research on Blockchain Technology and Media Industry Applications in the Context of Big Data

With the everyday use of big data technology, using big data resources effectively has become a key area of research. Media consumption creates enormous amounts of data in people’s digital lives. This data is not only very valuable to the company, but it also presents a number of concerns, including privacy breaches and data exploitation. Along with the continuous improvement of blockchain technology, the rational use of big data resources has become possible. Blockchain technology has expanded from the initial Bitcoin to the financial field and has become more widely used in the legal and media industries. This study catches the actual cases of blockchain technology in the media industry through Qingbo Big Data, analyzes the current global blockchain and media industry’s overall development status and the existing problems, and puts forward corresponding countermeasures to accelerate the integration and development of blockchain and media industry in the context of big data. The results show that the technical features of blockchain can solve the painful problems of copyright risk, algorithmic black box, and weak trust mechanism in the media industry, and the combination of the two can form a new burst of media productivity. The article discusses the broad application prospects of blockchain in the media industry, which is essential for big data and blockchain research. This paper composes the pioneering literature on the blockchain, catches the information on blockchain by keywords, analyzes the application prospect of blockchain in the media industry, and promotes the research and application of blockchain technology.

A new behavioral model of rational choice in social dilemma game

In this article, we show how human decision-makers behave in interactive decisions. We interpret the players’ behavior with the help of the concept of hyper-rationality. These interpretations help to enlarge our understanding of the psychological aspects of strategy choices in games. With the help of this concept can be analyzed social sciences and society based on the cognitive psychology approach such that human society can be understood easily and predicted more fluently. In addition, we introduce a new game in which there is a dilemma that this dilemma occurs in most societies. We investigate this dilemma based on the claim that each player is hyper-rational. In this dilemma, weak trust has been created between players, but it is fragile. In many cases, our study provides a framework to move toward cooperation between human decision-makers.

Intervention hesitancy among healthcare personnel: conceptualizing beyond vaccine hesitancy.

We propose an emerging conceptualization of “intervention hesitancy” to address a broad spectrum of hesitancy to disease prevention interventions among healthcare personnel (HCP) beyond vaccine hesitancy. To demonstrate this concept and its analytical benefits, we used a qualitative case-study methodology, identifying a “spectrum” of disease prevention interventions based on (1) the intervention’s effectiveness, (2) how the intervention is regulated among HCP in the Israeli healthcare system, and (3) uptake among HCP in the Israeli healthcare system. Our cases ultimately contribute to a more nuanced conceptualization of hesitancy that HCP express towards disease prevention interventions. Our case interventions included the seasonal influenza vaccine, the Mantoux test, and the hepatitis B (HBV) vaccine. Influenza and HBV are vaccine-preventable diseases, though their respective vaccines vary significantly in effectiveness and uptake among HCP. The Mantoux test is a tuberculin skin test which provides a prevention benchmark for tuberculosis (TB), a non-vaccine preventable disease. We conducted semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders and analyzed them within Israeli and international policy context between 2016 and 2019, a period just prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We propose the conceptualization of “intervention hesitancy”—beyond “vaccine hesitancy”—as “hesitancy towards a wide range of public health interventions, including but not limited to vaccines”. Results suggested that intervention hesitancy among HCP is rooted in weak trust in their employer, poor employment conditions, as well as mixed institutional guidelines and culture. Conceptualizing intervention hesitancy expands the ability of healthcare systems to understand the root of hesitancy and foster a supportive institutional culture and trust, cognizant of diverse disease prevention interventions beyond vaccination.

A trust transitivity model of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises under blockchain-based supply chain finance

Small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs) have been facing the financing contradiction of “strong demand” and “weak trust” for a long time, and financing constraints are closely related to the production efficiency of manufacturing enterprises. Therefore, how to solve the financing problem has become one of the most concerned issues for the development of SMMEs. After years of development, supply chain finance (SCF) has become an important way of financing for SMMEs. Under the traditional supply chain finance system, Tier 1-supplier in the manufacturing industry chain can make use of the high credit of core enterprises for financing, but the high credit of core enterprises cannot be transmitted to Tier 2 to Tier N-suppliers in the long tail market. In recent years, the innovative development of supply chain finance driven by blockchain technology has played a positive role in overcoming the lack of trust and has spawned a multi-level supply chain finance system. In this context, the paper proposes to establish a trust transitivity model based on the electronic payment voucher (EPV) issued by the blockchain, using the intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, and comprehensively consider direct trust and indirect trust. In trust aggregation, the dynamic weight allocation strategy is introduced to play the role of incentive and punishment for SMMEs. This study aims to provide a new idea for the trust evaluation of SMMEs by building a trust transitivity model, so as to give full play to the value-added and transmission effect of the manufacturing industry chain, and relieve the financing difficulties for SMMEs. Finally, the study further verified the rationality of the model through the analysis of numerical examples.

BlockTrail: A Service for Secure and Transparent Blockchain-Driven Audit Trails

Audit trails are critical components in enterprise business applications, typically used for storing, tracking, and auditing data. Entities in the audit trail applications have weak trust boundaries, which expose them to various security risks and attacks. To harden the security and develop secure by design applications, blockchain technology has been recently introduced in the audit trails. Blockchains take a consensus-driven clean slate approach to equip audit trails with secure and transparent data processing, without a trusted intermediary. On a downside, blockchains significantly increase the space-time complexity of the audit trails, leading to high storage costs and low transaction throughput. In this article, we introduce BlockTrail, a novel blockchain architecture that fragments the legacy blockchain systems into layers of codependent hierarchies, thereby reducing the space-time complexity and increasing the throughput. BlockTrail is prototyped on the “practical Byzantine fault tolerance” protocol with a custom-built blockchain. Experiments with BlockTrail show that compared to the conventional schemes, BlockTrail is secure and efficient, with low storage footprint.

The Dynamic of Muzakki’s Perception and Its Effect on Zakat Collection in Badan Amil Zakat Nasional Pekanbaru

Management of Zakat has great potential to optimize the potential of Islamic philanthropy based on Law no. 23 of 2011. But in reality, there are still many people who do not understand the content in the Act. Therefore, this study aims to analyze Muzakkī’s perception of the obligation to pay zakat through Baznas as written in Law No.23 of 2011 and its effect on the collection of zakat funds in Pekanbaru Baznas. This study uses an empirical or sociological juridical approach and is analytically descriptive. The method of collecting data through interviews and questionnaires with qualitative data analysis methods is juridical. The results of the study are that there are still many Muzakkī who do not know the obligation to pay zakat in Baznas, Muzakkī’s weak trust in Baznas, and Baznas are considered to have not succeeded in empowering Mustaḥiq's economy. So that Muzakkī’s perception of the obligation to pay zakat and understanding Law No.23 of 2011 has a negative effect on the collection of zakat funds in Badan Amil Zakat Nasional Pekanbaru

التعدیل على الإبهام عند علماء الحدیث (دراسة نظریة تطبیقیة)

استهدف البحث الحالي بيان منهج الحافظ ابن حجر في إيراد الأسانيد، والرواة المبهمين، وبيانه لهؤلاء الرواة من خلال الجزء المقرر دراسته. وإثراء المکتبة الإسلامية ببحث يتناول فرعا من فروع مصطلح الحديث، ألا وهو الکلام على الإبهام بصفة عامة، وقد اقتضت طبيعة البحث تقسيمه إلى: مقدمة، والدراسة النظرية، والخاتمة: والمقدمة تشتمل على أهمية البحث، وأسباب اختياره، وأهدافه، وحدوده، والدراسات السابقة، وخطة البحث، ومنهجه، وإجراءاته، وأخيرا التعريف بمصطلحاته. أما التعديل والتوثيق على الإبهام، وفيه أربعة مطالب: المطلب الأول: المقصود بالتعديل على الإبهام. المطلب الثاني: أقوال العلماء في التعديل على الإبهام. المطلب الثالث: أسباب التعديل على الإبهام. المطلب الرابع: صيغ التعديل على الإبهام. وقد استخدم البحث المنهج الاستقرائي والتحليلي والنقدي. وقد توصل البحث الى نتائج، أهمها: مسألة الإبهام بصيغة التعديل فيه نزاع بين العلماء بين مؤيد، ومعارض، ومؤيد بشروط. والراجح - والله أعلم - عدم قبول رواية الإبهام على التعديل. لأنه قد يکون ثقة عنده ضعيف عند غيره، فإذا قال العالم حدثني الثقة، أو قال جميع مشايخي ثقات ثم روى عن أحدهم ولم يسمه لم يقبل منه في کلا الحالتين. کما يعرف المبهم من خلال عدة طرق، وهي: وروده مسمى في بعض الروايات الأخرى، أو بتنصيص أهل الحديث والسير والمغازي على کثير منهم، وربما استدلوا بورود حديث آخر أسند فيه لمعين ما أسند لذلک الراوي المبهم في ذلک. أما القول الراجح في تعريف الصحابي: أن الصحابي من لقي النبي ﷺ مؤمنا به ومات على الإسلام، ولو تخللت ردة في الأصح، وهذا ما قرره الحافظ ابن حجر، وأيده السخاوي عليه. The current research aims to explain the methodology of Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar in citing the isnads, and ambiguous narrators, and his statement to these narrators through the part to be studied. Enriching the Islamic library with research that deals with one of the branches of the term hadith, namely, speaking on the thumb in general, and the nature of the research necessitated dividing it into: introduction, theoretical study, and conclusion: the introduction includes the importance of the research, the reasons for choosing it, its objectives, its limits, previous studies, and a plan Research, methodology, procedures, and finally definition of its terminology. As for the amendment and documentation on the thumb, and it has four demands: The first requirement: What is meant by the amendment to the thumb. The second requirement: the sayings of the scholars in amending the thumb. The third requirement: the reasons for adjusting the thumb. Fourth requirement: Amendment formulas on the thumb. The research used the inductive, analytical and critical approach. The research has reached conclusions, the most important of which are: The issue of the thumb in the amendment form in which there is a dispute between scholars between supporters, opponents, and supporters with conditions. The most correct - and God knows best - is not to accept the narration of the thumb on the amendment. Because he may have weak trust with others, so if the scholar says trust me, or all my sheikhs say they are trustworthy, then he narrated on the authority of one of them and did not name him, he did not accept him in either case. The ambiguous is also known through several methods, namely: its name is mentioned in some other narrations, or by the use of the people of hadith, biography and the magazines on many of them, and they may have inferred another hadith in which a specific was attributed to that enigmatic narrator. As for the most correct saying in defining the companion: that the companion is the one who met the Prophet believing in him and died in Islam, even if the apostasy interspersed in the more correct, and this is what Al-Hafiz Ibn Hajar decided, and al-Sakhawi supported it.

Upaya Penanganan Krisis Relasi Media DPR dalam Kontroversi UU MD3

Law No. 17 of 2014 concerning MD3 (MPR / DPR / DPRD) has been legally promulgated to become Law No. 2 of 2018 in February 2018. The birth of an article in the revision of the MD3 Law reaped this controversy among the public and the media. Many media that consider changes to Article 121 k, Article 245, and Article 73 will strengthen the power of the House of Representatives as an institution that is anti-criticism, cannot be convicted without permission of the MKD (Council Honorary Council), and easily criminal anything that suits your needs. In carrying out its mandate as a people's representative, the House of Representatives approved the media for media coverage. This report increased public opinion about the DPR's performance. For this reason, communication management is needed to build public trust in DPR institutions through media relations. Community trust and dignity, as well as the integrity of the institution and its members are very important, so that security products such as MD3 Law will have strong legitimacy and be accepted by the community. Departing from these problems, this study discusses the workings of the media relations in the House of Representatives in reducing the crisis that hit his institution. This research is a qualitative study using research strategies that discuss evolution with media relations. The research source was obtained from the processing of some related data, and also in-depth interviews of the Chair and Staff of the Indonesian Parliament News Office, and the Chair of the Parliamentary Journalists' Organization. The researcher tries to analyze how to overcome the recovery of the DPR in this issue. Planning, repairs, crises, the DPR is not optimal, because repairs, crises, the creation of a one-door system for distributing information, and the weak trust of the media and the public for the integration of the DPR itself.

Does trust matter? The role of trust in collaboration in virtual teams

Virtual cross-border teams emerged after the global credit crisis as a new operational phenomenon of multinational enterprises. This new form eliminates country-based entities and combines local departments. It is of notable benefit to financial efficiency; however, it may have a crucial impact on the structural dimension and nature of relations (ties) of social capital. The damage to ties is characterised by weak trust and heightened operational risk. Measuring trust directly is cumbersome; therefore, this study aims to measure its inversion (internal control). A quantitative research method is used to analyse a) the data (location, nationality, level of seniority, department) of 495 managers of a multinational enterprise to describe their impact on the structural dimension of social capital and the ties between employees, and b) 298 operational control points to find a statistical correlation among their number, the various types of risks and organisational diversity. The authors’ correlation analysis demonstrates that all well-structured high-risk processes are controlled by the organisation. However, the internal controlling system does not seem to cover the trust-based ill-structured processes: human relations and behaviour.

PNS121 PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE COLLABORATION WITH PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN EGYPT

This study aims to evaluate the readiness for collaboration between private health insurance (PHI) and pharmaceutical companies in Egypt. On-site survey on the 2nd of April 2019 was administered during a workshop attended by decision makers representing different private health insurance players (Third party administrator - TPA, insurer, Health Maintenance Organization – HMO). Anonymous voting was conducted on questions evaluating key elements for collaboration: trust; common objectives; perceived benefits; ideas for collaboration. An online survey was used to evaluate the same concept among decision makers from several pharmaceutical companies in Egypt. Twenty-four representatives from the PHI responded to the survey, and ten representatives filled in the online survey. The PHI had weak (41%) trust in all their stakeholders (0% meaning no trust, while 100% indicates full trust). Trust in pharmaceutical companies specifically fell below the average (38%). Pharmaceutical companies have higher average trust in their stakeholders (49%), among which their trust in PHI was close to average (48%), higher than their trust in hospitals and physicians (45% each). Fifty eight percent of the respondents from the PHI reported weak to no common purpose with the pharmaceutical companies. On the other hand, 70% of the respondents from the pharmaceutical companies reported they share a common goal. PHI representatives’ objective was to acquire the pharmaceutical products at a lower price. Comparably, pharmaceutical companies coincided about having better access to their patients. Ninety percent and 88% of the pharmaceutical companies’ and PHI respondents respectively, believe that collaboration would give them a competitive advantage. Although both PHI, and pharmaceutical companies highly believe that collaboration will give each a competitive advantage, there is a trust issue between both parties. For a successful collaboration, both parties must work on building up trust and working on patient benefit as a common interest.

Bothering to Believe: Acts of Faith in J. M. Coetzee's Late Novels

Abstract J. M. Coetzee's late fictions display a recurrent fascination with attitudes of faith and belief. This preoccupation has been read sometimes as an effort to reinvigorate the novel's engagement with materiality and embodied life, other times as an elegy to the waning power of belief in fiction. But belief is not a monolithic term in Coetzee's late work, nor does his disposition toward it remain static. This article examines two texts that display a related yet evolving concern with faith and belief—Elizabeth Costello (2003) and The Childhood of Jesus (2013). These works not only share a thematic interest in various forms of belief; they are also linked by the scene of a petitioner “at the gate.” In the final lesson of the earlier novel, aging novelist Elizabeth Costello finds herself in a purgatorial border town, where she must produce a statement of belief in order to pass on. In the opening paragraphs of Childhood, the characters arrive on the other side of a similar portal, entering a world whose institutions reject belief as a form of unreasoned, passionate commitment. Where Costello refuses the institutional demand for belief, insisting that belief in fiction is incompatible with the stronger form of commitment in excess of reason, Childhood's characters attempt a reconciliation between reading and believing. Read together, these texts present an apocalyptic vision of the novel after the end of formal realism, when readerly belief requires more than a weak trust in fiction's mimetic capacities.

Sociocultural and Economic Conditions as Causes of the Weakened Social Cohesion in Landless Peasants

Conversion of agricultural land to non-agriculture is one of the main reasons that causes peasants to lose productive jobs and create poverty. However, the flow of land conversion turned out to be difficult to control, so the number of peasants continued to decrease over time. The location of this study was set intentionally in the villages of Purbalingga Wetan Subdistrict, Purbalingga Regency and Baturaden, Banyumas Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. The research method is an intrinsic case study. The results of the study show that the weakening of social cohesion in peasant begins with the process of fragmentation. Social cohesion weakens at the level of individuals, communities and institutions. The sociocultural conditions that underlie the weakening of landless peasants' social cohesion are weak motivation, waning work values and norms, self perception as individuals who are a little strong, depleted collectivity, stretching social interaction, weak trust, micro motivated cooperation network, sense of belonging , self-exploitation and risk aversion. The underlying economic conditions include economic urgency, commercial labor relations, wage systems, subsistence economic morals, global market penetration and rising costs of living needs. Weak social cohesion facilitates peasant participation in various participatory empowerment programs. Therefore, strengthening social cohesion in community peasants is urgent and important in order to build solidarity and generate ownership empowerment programs.