Utilization of Social Capital in Community Empowerment Studi: Slum Area Policy in the City of Makassar, Indonesian A.M.Azhar Aljurida1, Sulaiman Asang2, Syahribulan3, Muhammad Rusdi4,
Universitas Indonesia Timur
Abstract
This study aims to analyze and describe the significance of the use of social capital owned by local communities to use their resources in supporting and implementing the policy program for structuring slum areas in Makassar City. This research uses a qualitative descriptive approach with case studies. Collecting data using interview techniques, observation and document review. Furthermore, it is analyzed through stages, data presentation, data verification, conclusion drawing and triangulation. The results show that community empowerment in slum areas is an alternative that must be taken by the government to maximize the performance of the implementation of the slum area arrangement program, because the characteristics of slum areas are not only a matter of infrastructure but are closely related to the culture and habits of the local community, so that their involvement as volunteers with their own resources are willing to be involved in managing their respective areas, social capital owned by local communities greatly supports community empowerment in structuring slum areas, a form of social trust can be seen from the commitment and cooperation between the community to organize their area with various programs such as ^garden aisle and healthy aisle shared norms that are internalized within the community are appointed as the slogan Makassar tidakrantasa which means our Makassar is clean, the form of social networks can be seen from the existence of social relations and interactions between communities in informal non-governmental organizations whose duty is to maintain environmental quality and are formed in all areas categorized as slum.
Keywords: Social capital, empowerment, slum management, and policies.
