MODEL PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT MENTAWAI MELALUI PENGUATAN KELEMBAGAAN LOKAL DI PULAU SIBERUT

Abstract

The study was based on the premise that the criteria and size of poor households should be returned to the community. Society has its own criteria and size are strongly influenced by the value system that is rooted in the cultural, religious and environmental carrying. Local institutions that owned by the community capable to answer the problems that faced by the community if those have been strengthened and empowered. This study aims to (1) analyze the criteria and indicators of poor households in the view of the public. (2) to analyze the strategies of poor households to capitalize upon the economic resources, the allocation of labor in the household. (3) to analyze the profile of the program, implementation patterns that have been and are being implemented by the government and non-governmental organizations. (4) Analyze the creative social energy that includes a system of values, norms, and institutional leadership and social capital can be used to realize the innovative potential of the common welfare, both at the level of the kinship unit or2 SOSIO KONSEPSIA Vol. 04, No. 02, Januari - April, Tahun 2015 units locality remote indigenous communities. This study uses the Anthropology approach, the method and qualitative data collection techniques; observation, in-depth interviews and focus group discussion (FGD). Informants research consist of 8 key informants, which are; village head or village secretary, chief village meetings and village heads, while the regular informant as much as 30 heads of households are included in the category of poor people’s judgment. The findings showed that (a) Mentawai Communities have their own criteria and measures of poverty and poor households. (b) Institutional-based kinship (tribe) has a strategic role, if empowered to solve the problem of poverty. (c) Mentawai Communities have social capital / social energy to overcome the problem of poverty, which is based on (i) Land as a communal asset that has not been used and managed for productive ventures. (ii) The strong social solidarity (mutual trust, mutual help and cooperation) in the family and community level, in meeting the needs of food and housing. Empowerment model that can be done, among others, by revitalizing local agriculture (organic farming) institutional-based kinship (tribe). Local governments are expected to initiate the birth of traditional markets and microfinance institutions in the form of a cooperative and open the isolation of the villages in the interior of the Mentawai Islands