Essay About Empowerment

LITERATURE REVIEW
A. Definition of Empowerment
Empowerment is etymologically derived from the word 'Power ' which means the ability to do something or the ability to act. Getting a prefix and become 'empowered ' which means powerful, capable, resourceful (way and so on) to overcome something. Getting the prefix and the suffix and become 'empowerment ' which can be interpreted as a making effort or process to make able, can act or do something (Big Dictionary of Indonesian: 1995).
Implementation of society empowerment is actually a real effort that concerns all aspects of life that exist and occurred in the society. One form of society empowerment activities is the empowerment of micro and small industry sectors. According to Oos M. Anwas (2013: 125-126) explained that the empowerment of small businesses is not only done to people who already have business. Empowerment in this aspect is how the society is encouraged to be able to develop their efforts in accordance with their potential. The main empowerment of small

Empowerment Program of Small and Micro Business
Micro and small business empowerment program is one form of policy undertaken by the government to improve the living standards of the society. Public policy in the definition of Dye is “whatever governments choose to do or not to do”. From thus statement, Dye wants to explain that any government activity either explicit or implicit is a policy (Indiahono 2009: 17)
According to Indiahono (2009: 31) the implementation of public policy in accordance with George C. Edward III mention that there are four variables that play an important role in the achievement of successful implementation. The four variables are:
a. Communication
Explain that every policy will be well implemented if there is an effective communication between program implementer (policy) and the target. The purpose and targets of the program/policy can be well socialized so as to avoid distortion of policies and programs.
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