Indonesian Journal of Development Studies

Strengthening Community-Based Entrepreneurship: The Significance of Community Capacity Building and Enabling Ecosystem

2025-08-08T01:05:40+07:00

Currently, community-based entrepreneurship is regarded as an alternative solution to recover community’s economic condition from crisis. Even more, it can be potential business venture to open more employment, alleviate poverty, reduce urbanization and increase community’s life quality. Despite its enormous benefits, the development of rural community-based entrepreneurships is still inhibited by some major barriers. Those barriers range from physical, hard, infrastructure to soft, human, capacity aspects. To increase its productivity, respond to more competitive business market and be sustainable, today’s community entrepreneurs need to develop more skills, persist positive business attitude and strong mentality. The study aims to explore roles of capacity building and supportive environment in promoting community-based entrepreneurship. The study adopts qualitative research method. The data are gathered and extracted from a community service program. This program aims to increase community entrepreneurs’ capacity of several small and medium scale enterprises at Lumajang. The study finds that the local entrepreneurs need more knowledges and skills on marketing and online promotion to increase their productivity and become more competitive in digital era. The study also indicates that the growth of local entrepreneurs needs to be supported by innovative and openness, networking and partnership.

Transactional And Transformational Leaderships In Islamic Perspectives

2025-08-08T01:10:58+07:00

This study examines transactional and transformational leadership styles from an Islamic viewpoint. Islam does not view transactional leadership or leadership based on rewards and punishments as appropriate. In addition, Islam endorses Transformational Leadership while placing greater emphasis on the attainment of Al Falah. This study develops a framework for Islamic leadership based on a number of factors, including exemplary character, collaboration and interaction with others, fundamental skills, and intelligence.

Tunes Of Development: An Alternative Lens To Analyse Development (Study Case: Navicula Band Addresses Environmental And Social Problems In Indonesia)

2025-08-08T01:16:34+07:00

This study aims to describe an alternative approach to analyse development issues by using popular culture as the lens of analysis. Through the analysis of tunes of development, this study argues development should be measured not only through the conventional way of measuring development by economic indicators, primarily measuring GDP (Gross Domestic Products), but also considering culture aspect to achieve a comprehensive measuring of development. Using study case of Navicula Band in its efforts to address environmental and social problems in Indonesia, this study shows an overview about the key to comprehensive development by analysing the society and its culture. This study used qualitative research method and literature review as the data collection technic.

Feasibility Analysis Of Strawberry Granary Business In Pandanrejo Tourism Village

2025-08-08T01:19:04+07:00

Applying appropriate Strawberry Barn business development strategies can encourage the development of community economic activities to create economic independence. This study aims to: analyze the feasibility strategy for a strawberry agro-tourism business, analyze the factors that support the sustainability of agricultural businesses, and analyze the factors that hinder the development of strawberry farming in Pandanrejo Village, Bumiaji District, Batu City. The research location was agrotourism picking strawberries in Pandanrejo Village, Bumiaji District, Batu City, East Java. Data were obtained by the method of observation, interviews and documentation. Validity data was tested by triangulation technique—research using descriptive analysis. The results show that the strategies that can be used to analyze the feasibility of a strawberry agro-tourism business are supporting the adequacy of agricultural materials, maintaining price stability, breaking the supply chain, and optimizing financial management capabilities for strawberry farmers and business actors.

Youth as Creative Development Resource: How does Social Environment Unlock Youth’s Creativity and Creativepreneurial Intention?

2025-08-08T01:24:22+07:00

Youth can be invaluable creativepreneurs who bring about positive community changes. Their young age, dynamics and high enthusiasm can potentially boost their capacity to encourage community development. Moreover, recent digital technology and globalization provide fertile environment for youth to unleash their creative ideas and choose creativepreneurs as promising career. The study aims to examine social aspects which may facilitate youth potential creativity and develop entrepreneurial passion. The study is extracted from a community service program aimed at increasing competencies of Karang Taruna Karang Rejo Sawah, Surabaya. The data are collected through direct observation during the workshop session. The study finds that social environment can stimulate youth’s creativity through several ways. The first way is through youth social organization from which young people learn how to be creative, build social interaction, engage in non-formal education. The second way is through social inspiration from which youth can obtain or get motivation to start their own business by acknowledging successful and inspiring creativepreneurs’ sagas, creative products and inspiring messages or experiences. Successful creativepreneurs’ painful and rewarding experiences may strengthen youth’s creativepreneurship mentality. The third way is through partnership from which young people relate themselves with outside world and explore their development opportunities.

Dynamic System for Analyzing the Effect of Growth (Government Spending, Population, Wages) and (Alk and Kor (Technology)) on Economic Growth

2025-08-08T01:30:20+07:00

Indonesia's Economic Improvement After the Covid Pandemic, economic growth will be influenced by various factors. This study tries to analyze the Growth Modeling (Government Spending, Population, Wages) and (Alk and Kor (Technology)) of the economy needed to be able to analyze its effect on economic growth. This study used dynamic system modeling using Vensim. This growth is a form of economic growth that will have an effect on job creation and it will have a major effect on the unemployment rate. The results of the first simulation show that labor needs will be influenced by real wage or real wages, then by Short run Expected Demand, and Alfa. While the Alpha Forming Elements themselves are KOR (Capital Output Ratio), Life Of capital (ALK) and Real Interest Rate. The results of Simulation 2 show that the increasing economy will also increase the number of workers and capital, but that does not reduce unemployment. This is because the state of the kor and alk is considered constant. Furthermore, it will be tested in the next simulation when the alk dank or is not considered constant. The results of Simulation 3 ALK that continue to rise or in other senses the depreciation is getting bigger, it can reduce the level of upgrading, because the speed of innovation and technology makes companies have to make new machines quickly.

Coastal Community Development in Gender and Development Perspective: Study of Women's Empowerment in the Kenjaran Area of Surabaya

2025-08-08T01:32:13+07:00

Gender Equality is one of the main targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this reason, the complexity of problems in community development, especially women's empowerment, is an important dimension that needs to be analyzed in the context of achieving the SDGs. This research explores and analyzes how the Gender and Development perspective is used in developing coastal communities, especially in women's empowerment programs in the coastal area of Kenjeran, Surabaya City. The research used a qualitative method with a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) approach. Data collection was carried out using participant observation and focus group discussion techniques. The informants in this study were actors involved in the development and empowerment of women in the Kenjeran area of Surabaya, which were taken purposively according to the research objectives. The results of this study can become a reference and database in community development with a Gender and Development perspective. The research results provide policy recommendations, especially for development planners and stakeholders involved in developing coastal communities and empowering women in various regions in Indonesia. In particular, research has found development and empowerment models that can be used as databases and models in developing sustainable development programs.