Social Networking in the Dimensions of Economic Welfare Based on Local Communities in Minangkabau as a Model of Empowerment for Islamic Communities

Abstract

The success of community empowerment programs is influenced by efforts to re-interpret the community as an object of empowerment. In traditional Minangkabau, a community is identical to the Kaum, a group of people classified by matrilineal lineage. Solid relationships and cooperation that are part of communal interaction in Kaum significantly are instrumental in fulfilling social and personal needs. This article tries to answer a fundamental question of how social networks of economic welfare based on the Kaum as a model of empowering Islamic society. To answer this question, the inductive logic of multiple case designs is used by taking five (5) Kaum in Nagari Tabek Patah as the locus of the study. This case study used NVIVO in the data processing. This research reveals that kaum social networks are formed naturally in the community, strengthened by customary norms and laws, and become a controller in realizing economic welfare.