Village Institutional Management Training as an Effort to Provide Excellent Service to the Community and to Manage the Village Potential in Timpag, Tabanan

Abstract

This study took partners program of Timpag Village, Kerambitan Sub-district-Tabanan District. Until now in the countryside, the problem that often arises is the high number of poor people. Their life depends on the mercy of nature with subsistence income. Moreover, in conditions such as the current purchasing power of the people declining, the number of poor and underemployed people is increasing. Recognized or not, rural poverty is not entirely due to laziness. More importantly, it is because the villagers have lack access to knowledge, skills, capital and experience to explore the sources of livelihood that can free them from the shackles of poverty. Therefore, efforts to empower the economy of rural communities must be done immediately, such as through the development of investment into the village. Technology transfer and management need to be the main goal that is managed professionally and commercially. It also cannot be separated from the issue of human resource development which implies the need for a paradigm shift and orientation, knowledge, skills and behavior of rural communities. Thus, the empowerment of rural communities is a concept of the pattern of human resource development up to the level of independence, characterized by the productivity, efficiency, and community participation. Methods of solving with the steps of problem-based learning method or problem solving method are: 1) the existence of the problem considered important, 2) formulating the problem, 3) hypothesis analysis, 4) collecting data, 5) data analysis, 6) drawing conclusion, 7) application of the conclusions obtained, 8) reassessing the entire problem-solving process. Evaluation of activities was done by using evaluation criteria, comprising: 1) pre-training test, 2) tests on the sidelines of the training process, 3) the test given at the end of the training process. The results of the study show that community service can be seen the existence of several supporting factors and inhibitors that affect the smooth operation of service devotion to the community. The supporting factor includes the passion and expectation of the participants to follow the activity. Therefore, the interest facilitates the speaker to develop the capacity of knowledge in each of them. In addition, there are also obstacles that need to be anticipated if a related study is conducted in the future. These include the lack of technical activities in the form of tutorial to the participants. The existence of more technical tutorial activities can actually be better able to improve the practical skills that should be owned by the village apparatus.