KUD Members’ Participation Development through Society Education

Abstract

This research conducted based on the weak participation of KUD members. KUD members’ participation is very determined by the members’ habits. The weak participation of KUD members will affect the weak of KUD activities. Therefore, the benefits that is gotten by members also low which affects the prosperousness of the members that most of them are live in a small village. Bantul district was chosen as the field of the research because after the earthquake years ago, the participation of the KUD members are getting weak.  In Bantul, almost 50% of the KUDs are non-active KUDs. This study is intended to produce a model in a form of “guidance” for KUD, therefore it might be used to develop the KUD activities in Indonesia. The first year research was funded by Dikti grant competition 2013 found that KUD participation was weak, then many KUDs went bankrupt because KUD could not rise. In this second year of research, the researcher emphasized the research on KUD members’ habits and provided support and training to them assumed that their participation as the members would rise and rise the KUD activities.The total respondents for this second research was 116 respondents. The instrument used in this research was PLS (Partial Least Square) to investigate the habits factor which has influence in KUD members’ participation. The data gathering technique used in this research is questioner, while the sampling gathering technique is judgment sampling. The result of this research indicates that Biographical Characteristic, Learning Process and Ability give direct positive influence and significant to Organization Commitment. Learning Process gave direct positive influence and significant to Organization Commitment, Organization Commitment gave direct positive influence and significant to Members’ Participation, Members’ Participation gave direct positive influence and significant to benefits received by the members. The result of this research also proves that support and training for KUD members must be conducted continually and increase the KUD members’ participation. Based on the result of this research, the researcher intended that the government should give better attention to KUD by providing support and training continually, therefore KUD might rise. Limitations of this study, only covers an area of one of the districts in Bantul Yogyakarta. The future research could include a wider area. Hopefully the results of the research can be applied in all regions in Indonesia and other countries that have such organizations KUD.

Keywords: biographical characteristic, learning process, ability, organizational commitment, members’ participation