Student Community Services In Batik Education For The Young Generation

Abstract

Batik is a heritage of art, culture, economy, and local wisdom products that are unique, and attractive. It has been globally. Central Java has several batik centers, one of which is Batik Gumelem in The sub-District of Susukan, Banjarnegara Regency is a research location. The study aims to construct student community services in batik education for the young generation the art, culture, and products as local wisdom. This study used quantitative methods and descriptive analysis through the distribution of questionnaires with a quota sample of 100 students from high schools and vocational schools at the research location. The result shows that community service as education can be analyzed into three aspects. First, declarative knowledge refers to the student's understanding of the types of batik and the importance of batik lessons to preserve local wisdom products. The second aspect is procedural knowledge which emphasizes the student's interest and assessment that learning batik, especially designing digitalmotifs, is not difficult. However, in the conceptual aspect, students considered that being a batik craftsman and entrepreneur was not prospective to generate a more promising income such as being an employee. Those results show the empowerment of the younger generation in the field of batik since designing both manually and digitally, to the process of batik to coloring is very important, besides skills in eco-print batik product innovation and its marketing promotion strategies through digital media. The empowerment of batik will contribute to developing the motivation, knowledge.

Women Farmers Group Participation in Empowering Local Food Security

“…WFG Participation in Socio-Economic Empowerment WFG after receiving an empowerment program from the company's CSR, namely being able to cultivate vegetable food security plants and produce postharvest products as a form of entrepreneurship that can meet the economic needs of both himself and his group.The research uses Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) which jointly between the community as the subject of research and researchers identify, analyze and create program solutions, even researchers also learn from the experience of the community and its socio-economic activities [33][34] Based on the analysis of the PLA method, the involvement of the research subjects, namely the members and administrators of the WFG with the research team and students who were doing practical work, were all involved in the learning process together to provide motivation and ideas for developing empowerment programs as shown in table 1 Community empowerment, especially for women, is important to continue to fight for the mainstreaming of women's gender rights which are allowed to participate in the socio-economic field. Women as actors have a dual role as domestic workers taking care of children or family at home and can also look for additional activities, income, and family welfare by working as entrepreneurs [35][36][37][38][39][40] The socioeconomic empowerment carried out by WFG can increase the knowledge and skills of members, who agree 72.7% and 27.3% strongly agree. This shows the importance of community empowerment that can open a business as an economic activity and meet personal and group needs.The implementation of the empowerment program can become a superior entrepreneur or the main job according to WFG members who agreed 51.5%, disagreed 33.3% and strongly agreed 15.2%.…”