Citizen Journalism and Village Empowerment at Cangkudu Village, Tengerang Banten-Indonesia

Abstract

The implementation of Community Service Program in long terms aimed to produce village communication media in the form of village newspaper and website. This village communication media is essential as a media to deliver the information of the village development program implementation and various village’s potential to the village stakeholders. This village communication media also functions as education media to increase the villagers’ awareness regarding various actual issues and village development framework. Method used was fact finding. The data collection was done through literature study, interview and participation observation to the youth villagers (Karang Taruna) and the village apparatus. Technical assistance was performed through a series of journalistic workshop and media production as well as media distribution to various villages’ government stakeholders. The result of this community service was the Village Communication Media, of which one of them is the village newspaper and its development in the form of dynamic website which can be managed by KarangTaruna and the village apparatus.