LAND CONVERSION AND THE LEVEL OF COMMUNITY SOCIAL COHESION IN THE SUB-DISTRICT OF EMPOANG DISTRICT BINAMU JENEPONTO REGENCY

Abstract

ABSTRACTThis research aims to find out land conversion that occurs and analyze  relationship between the level  social cohesion and collective action community after function of the land. The type research used is survey research, because  takes samples from one population and uses questionnaire basic data collection tool. The number  respondents was 74 people consisting 68 men and 6 women who were captured by convenience, incidental, and purfosively sampling techniques taken from those who had sold land and came from various RWs in Empoang subdisrict. Data analysis using  SPSS for Windows 20 application. Test hypothesis using Rank Spearman statistical test. The results  study found  land conversion occurs because land is less productive and also   form demographic adaptation and multi-form conversion. The results  Spearman rank test obtained sig (2-tailed) value 0.013 which is smaller than alpha 0.05. This explains there is positive relationship between  level social cohesion and level community involvement  collective action, although the correlation coefficient is only 0.286 which explains the relationship between variables is weak. The variable level  social cohesion increases, level of community involvement in collective action also increases even though the level increase is low due to the type relationship between the weak variables.