CSR Program Pt Pertamina Based on Community Empowerment in Peat Ecotourism Development

Abstract

Environmental problems that require serious handling are the problem of land and forest fires, especially on peatlands which cause losses, especially economic and environmental aspects. Peatlands are a natural resource that has the potential to be utilized for the welfare of the community. Utilization of peatlands is not only for agriculture, plantations and residential land, but can be used as peat ecotourism. The large number of peatlands that were initially not utilized, and most of them became unproductive idle lands, can be managed properly and are able to contribute samsirto improving the welfare of the surrounding communities through the company’s CSR program. This paper aims to analyze the management of the CSR program in the development of peat ecotourism in Bukit Batu DistrictPakning River.Researchers collected field data through interviews, observation and documentation. The results showed that the company’s CSR program is directed at developing various community empowerment programs, aiming for the community to have the power, strength or ability in physical and material aspects, as well as economic aspects.Utilization of post-fire peatlands with community empowerment in the process of developing peatland ecotourism through the Peat Typical Tree Planting program on burned land, the development of the Environmental-Based School Curriculum program and the Peat Arboretum Development program. The management of the CSR program is carried out through the planning, implementation and evaluation stages. The management of the CSR program is analyzed throughCommunity Based Tourism (CBT) Model which is a tourism development planning strategy.

Women Farmers Group Participation in Empowering Local Food Security

“…Figure 1 shows an indicator of empowerment, the ability to do business and meet economic needs, that the empowerment activities carried out at WFG according to the members as respondents and more research subjects answered that they could become part-time entrepreneurs, then increase knowledge and skills, increase welfare, add friendships, look for activities and become a major entrepreneur.Empowerment programs from CSR have been successful because of motivational factors or the strong desire of members of the community's socio-economic institutions to move forward and develop into entrepreneurship [41][42][43][44] Then the company factor that is responsible for carrying out CSR programs for the surrounding community, not only in the form of donations for celebrations or ceremonial grants but in the form of counseling and productive entrepreneurship training. The local government also provides support in the form of policy implementation for the company's CSR which can be used for the socio-economic empowerment of the community to improve welfare as well as self-reliance.…”