Community Empowerment through Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) at the Department of Industry and Trade Cooperatives in Sampang District, Sampang Regency

Abstract

The existence of MSMEs in Sampang Regency is not all MSMEs can be fostered by related agencies. The existing problems includes weaknesses in access to information, lack of infrastructure assistance and capital fertilization, lack of HR skills and weaknesses in partnership networks. The purpose of this study is to empower the community of MSME actors to achieve a society that is independent, self-sufficient, able to adopt innovations and develop MSMEs. Community empowerment carried out to MSME actors uses three aspects, namely, Enabling, Protecting, and Empowering. The research method used is a descriptive qualitative approach, then the data collection technique used is an interview and documentation technique with five informants, namely the State Civil Apparatus as many as three people and the community or MSME actors two people who refer to purposive sampling techniques. The data analysis used is an interactive model analysis technique from Miles and Huberman. The results of the study obtained an explanation that community empowerment through Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the Diskopindag in Sampang District, Sampang Regency did not run optimally after being analyzed using three indicators of community empowerment because there are still many obstacles that are not in accordance with the expectations of MSME actors. So it can be concluded that community empowerment through Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises at the Department of Industry and Trade Cooperative in Sampang District, Sampang Regency, can be said to have not run optimally.