Oleh :
Sumardjo, Adi Firmansyah, Leonard Dharmawan.

Tanggal Terbit : 8 September 2022

Infrastructure  development  has  forced  the transformation  of  rural  farming  communities  to  peri-urban  communities  and impactedcommunity unreadiness. In Presidential Decree No. 59/2017, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been  set  as  indicators  of  Indonesia’s  development.  Private  extensionists  have  a  fundamental  role  in  community empowerment as the implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in large companies. This research has built an  alternative  concept  of  private  extensionists  in  the  SDGs.  The  research  objectives  areto  analyze  the  role  of  private extensionists  in  community  empowerment  through self-socialengineering  andto  analyze  the  impact  of  community empowerment  on  the  SDGs’  achievement.  The  research  method  used  is  participatory  action  research  supported  by  a cyberneticapproach:  participant-observer,  triangulation  techniques,  and  focusgroup  discussion  (FGD).  The  results showed  that  private  extensionists’  implementing  the  concept  of self-social  engineering  effectivelyempowered  the community. This effectiveness occurs by placing the community as the subject of creative social energy in empowerment. This  is  inline  with  the application  of  the participatory  communication  paradigm  and  dialogue, which  causes  acommunication convergence between participants. The peri-urban community empowerment approach in organic farming developmentpositively impacts the achievement of SDGs.

Keywords : Agriculture,community empowerment, private extensionist.

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