The Model of Community Empowerment of Indonesian ‘Rumah Zakat’ in West Java Province

Abstract

Community empowerment will be successful if the society participates actively by supporting it with availability of facilities. Weak people in the community, inability accessing productive resources or those who are marginalized in development  are the ones who should be empowered.  This  program of Desa Berdaya is developed by Rumah Zakat as one of solutions to decrease  poverty in villages. The program is also an empowerment program within the scope of the village area, through an integrated approach: the capacity building program (community development), economy, education, health, environment to disaster preparedness, with the target of growing and developing local institutions that are empowered to solve their own problems and collaborate with other parties, especially the village government. In this study, the number of samples who became respondents was planned to be 80 community members in the target villages in Lembang and 80 community members in the target villages in Bogor Regency. From the linear model analyzed, it was concluded that there was a direct effect from variable X to variable Y1 of 0.40. In other words, all variables and indicators of X influence variable Y by 40%. Furthermore, for the model the relationship between Y1 and Y2 has a direct effect of 68%. For the indirect effect of the variable X to Y2, it is obtained by 27%.