PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT MELALUI PROGRAM KURSUS KOMPUTER DALAM KERANGKA TEORI JIM IFE (STUDI KASUS DI PUSAT KEGIATAN BELAJAR MASYARAKAT BINTANG FLOBAMORA KOTA KUPANG)

Abstract

Community empowerment is an effort to increase the dignity of the

community so that they are able to escape the shackles of poverty. According to the

theory of community empowerment put forward by Jim Ife, empowerment can be

said to have run optimally when the four perspectives, namely the pluralist

perspective, elitist perspective, structuralist perspective, and post-structuralist

perspective, are applied simultaneously. The purpose of this study was to determine

the application of the four perspectives proposed by Jim Ife in the theory of

community empowerment at PKBM Bintang Flobamora.

This research method uses qualitative methods with a case study approach.

The research location is PKBM Bintang Flobamora, Kupang City. The subjects in

this study were the heads and staff of PKBM Bintang Flobamora, instructors and

learning residents of PKBM Bintang Flobamora. Collecting data using interview

techniques, observation, and documentation studies. Data analysis techniques in the

form of data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions.

The triangulation used to explain the validity of the data is source triangulation and

technique triangulation.

The results of the study show that PKBM Bintang Flobamora has

implemented the four empowerment perspectives. From a pluralist perspective,

services such as computer course training have been provided, then from an elitist

perspective, PKBM Bintang Flobamora has collaborated with various parties such as

the education office, religious institutions, and also government agencies. Then, from

a structuralist perspective, PKBM Bintang Flobamora has generalized all services for

every learning citizen. And the post-structuralist perspective of PKBM Bintang

Flobamora does not only focus on computer course training, but also provides other

guidance.