The Contribution of Mass Organization to the Improvement of SMEs Business (A Case Study on KJKS Ankasa GP. Ansor of Pekalongan Regency)

This article aims to find out the contribution of mass organization to the improvement of SME business in KJKS Ankasa GP. Ansor of Pekalongan Regency. This study was a qualitative research with case study approach. The subject of research was Sharia-based Financial Service Cooperatives (Koperasi Jasa Keuangan Syariah, thereafter called KJKS) Ankasa, while the object was GP Ansor of Pekalongan Regency. The result of research showed that GP Ansor of Pekalongan Regency can empower the existing economic potency of members, by means of developing pro-people economy, establishing KJKS. The presence of KJKS can reduce unemployment rate, by providing funding help. The fund grant is given to the members having expertise (skill) but having no capital. To the public, this KJKS Ankasa is a means of providing capital, particularly to small-to-medium scale employers that facilitates them in the term of financing. To GP. Ansor, the presence of KJKS is beneficial to the distribution of fund for social activity (social service) purpose. KJKS Ankasa’s business activity includes financing, investment, and saving corresponding to profit sharing (sharia) pattern and aiming to achieve organizational independency.

Character Education for Environmental Awareness through the Adiwiyata Program

The Adiwiyata program is implemented to realize responsible school members for environmental protection and management efforts through good school governance to support sustainable development. The Adiwiyata program combines learning and action, thus it provides effective methods for changing behavior. Adiwiyata School is expected to be an agent of change for the community around the school. Schools must be a model in creating a healthy and comfortable environment and become a model in realizing school citizens who are environmentally friendly and cultured. This study aims to analyze the implementation of the Adiwiyata Program in the development of environmental awareness in the Adiwiyata Mandiri School, SMAN 1 Kajen, Pekalongan Regency. This research uses a qualitative approach with case study. The research subjects were selected by purposive sampling technique, consisting of key informants and supporting informants. Data collected through observation, interviews, and documentation. The data validity technique uses triangulation of techniques and sources. The results showed that the implementation of the Adiwiyata Program was carried out in four aspects: (1) aspects of environmentally friendly school policies, (2) aspects of environment-based school curricula, (3) aspects of management of infrastructure that supports environmentally friendly schools, and (4) aspects of activity-based participatory and overall contribute positively in creating situations and conditions that support the development of environmental awareness.

The Ethnography Study of Tablighi Jamaat’s Da’wah Communication in the Symbolic Interactionism Perspective

This article aims to see how the three premises of Blumer's Symbolic Interactionism are able to explain the phenomenon of the Tablighi Jamaat preaching in the form of khuruj and jaulah. The question to be answered in this article is how Tablighi Jamaat interprets the concept of da'wah (preaching), how the meaning constructed and how the meaning maintained or modified. Using the ethnographic method, this study looks at how the three premises of Blumer Symbolic Interactionism work. Based on the findings and results of the analysis, it was found that the construction of the meaning of da'wah in the Tablighi Jamaah was very different from the general understanding of the community. According to the Tablighi Jamaat, da’wah is not a lecture but invites others to obey the rules of Islam. The main purpose of da'wah according to the Tablighi Jamaat is not to improve others but to improve themselves and is obligatory for every Muslim. This series of meaningful constructs has been built since the beginning of this movement, started by Maulana Ilyas. Long before Maulana Ilyas chose and maintained the madrasa as a method of da'wah while continuing to evaluate it to the conclusion that madrasas were not the right solution to improve society as a whole. Furthermore, he applied the methods of da'wah and tabligh which he obtained not from social interaction, but obtained from God's inspired inspiration. Thus, in this phenomenon, the perspective of Blumer Symbolic Interactionism seems to be limited and unable to explain it thoroughly.

Religious Koplo Dangdut Music: Cultural Identity and Religious Expression

Humans and culture are two things that are interrelated and cannot be separated from each other. Religion and music are two things that have a relationship with culture. Religious messages and da'wah are often displayed in the packaging of musical art and bring religious music. The development of music in Indonesia in the past two decades gave rise to one of the dangdut music sub-genres, known as Koplo dangdut, which in its performance also often inserted religious messages and presented them in the religious Koplo dangdut format. This article examines Koplo dangdut as the cultural identity and religious expression of coastal communities, which is seen as a cultural reality, with an anthropological approach. The study is conducted with an ethical perspective, where the writer only observes without being directly involved in the object of observation. The main data in this study is the religious koplo dangdut music video from YouTube. Koplo dangdut, which is famous for its vulgarity and directness in the lyrics of the song, reflects the cultural conditions of the song performers with a background in coastal Javanese society. However, the religious side of the Koplo dangdut music genre still appears in the religious koplo dangdut sub-genre. Religious expressions that appear in the stage of religious koplo dangdut are artistic expressions which include dimensions of belief (ideology), experience (ahlak), and knowledge.

Counseling Skills Training for Service Officers of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection Consultation Institute (LKP3A) in Pekalongan Regency

LKP3A counselor in terms of quality and quantity is still very lacking. One of the indications is there are still many unskillful bachelor degree graduates that work as counselors. Thus, there is a need for assistance and empowerment to meet the needs of the community. This community empowerment program aims to improve knowledge and counseling skills that are still relatively minimal for mentors at LKP3A Fatayat Nadhalatul Ulama Pekalongan. This research is a participatory action research (PAR) with a qualitative approach. This research was carried out for 1 year in the NU building in Pekalongan. The subjects of this study were divided into two community categories namely the Core Trainer Team (TIP) and LKP3A Women's Citizens (WP). Counseling skills training is carried out through three activities, namely planning, implementation, and evaluation monitoring activities. The results of this research show that after LKP3A counselors received training and mentoring, it showed many changes, including being able to understand ethical principles for counseling and paying attention to risk management; able to bring up a friendly attitude; empathize; want to listen to clients; understand and appreciate individual differences. The counselor provides services based on these differences. The focus on the client is greater. The counselor understands her position as a counselor, able to integrate theory into counseling practice, able to evaluate the course of counseling both in the process and results.

The Political Role of Women in the City of Santri, Situbondo (Overview of Political Communication)

This study aims to show how the role of women's political communication in the city of santri (a student in Islamic boarding school) in facing political power that is dominated by men in Situbondo. It becomes a development in women's political communication in a practical and scientific manner. The reality of the political climate in Situbondo is inseparable from the influence of the kyai as religious and cultural figures, so each of his political perceptions and views certainly has its own perspective and far from gender justice. Consequently, this affects the political space for female santri in Situbondo. In this research, building theoretical interconnections from building theoretical frameworks used such as political communication, gender analysis and phenomenology, related to the focus of research. With a qualitative-explorative research approach, several steps in the procedure of collecting observational data, interviews and documentation are applied consistently and continuously. The results of the research are firstly Santri woman has a political outlook with the benefit of minimizing conflict; secondly cultural barriers as a medium of political communication are effectively overcome by female santri. Besides, female santri tend to override political choices by preferring the political choices of the figures they envision for benefit purposes.

The Empowerment Of Sugar Cane Farmers In Lundo Village Through Syariah Based Cooperation

Lundo Village residents in Pati Regency mostly work as sugar cane farmers, where 60% of the total village area was sugar cane farming land. However, many of the sugar cane farmers were still in a state of economic limitations. Nearly 40% of the sugar cane farmers were below the poverty line. Various problems faced by sugar cane farmers consist of: very limited capital access, unavailability of fertilizer on time, inability to master the postharvest technology, not having access to agricultural resources, and having a low bargaining position. In addition, farmers acquired one year to wait for sugar cane to be ready to harvest. To solve this problem, it is necessary a mechanism for managing sugar cane farming in Lundo Village. The solution initiated was through the establishment of a Syariah-based Sugar Cane Cooperative. The cooperative was expected to be able to become a forum for sugar cane farmers and sugar cane laborers to integrate all sugar cane farming activities based on Syariah principles. In order to realize the cooperative, activities are carried out through training with interactive lecture methods and intensive mentoring until the Cooperative formed. The Syariah sugar cane cooperative was built with the expectation of empowering sugar cane farmers and could be a role model for other regions.

Eco-Qurani for Children (Instilling Al-Qur'an Values about Environment to Children in Pegandon Karangdadap Village, Pekalongan)

Pegandon Village, Karangdadap District, Pekalongan, one of the areas affected by the Pemalang-Batang toll road. The project has many negative impacts on the communities around the village, including children. This village is also known as a village with vast rice fields and rivers in the area. Children are the environmental assets of the future that play a very important role in preserving natural resources. So, their understanding of the Qur'anic teachings about environment is the key to maintaining human relations with nature. With a good understanding, it fosters the sensitivity to be a creature for nature in future generations. This empowerment is intended to provide understanding and sensitivity of children, especially for students of Quranic Education Park (TPQ) and Madrasah Diniyah Bustanul Iman, Pegandon Karangdadap Village, Pekalongan. Empowerment is built with the assistance method with a contextual, cooperative and problem-based approach. Empowerment is presented through the introduction of verses that teach about the environment, including natural wealth, the prohibition of damaging the environment and the obligation to preserve it. The series of activities that have been carried out have positive implications for children of TPQ and Madrasah Diniyah Bustanul Iman because they have been able to understand and practice environmental verses as teachings to preserve the environment from damage and efforts to conserve it.

Empowering The Saptawening Coffee Community Bawang Village, Blado District, Batang Regency

Abundant potential in a village should be developed and managed by the local community to fulfill household needs. Bawang Village, Blado Subdistrict, Batang Regency with an altitude of 625-1125 meters above sea level which is a fertile mountainous and hilly area and high rainfall. The natural potential possessed by Bawang Village such as nature tourism is curug (waterfall), hot spring and beautiful scenery. Other potentials such as agriculture, clove and coffee plantations, culinary and culture can be an income for the village community if developed and managed properly. Community awareness in developing potential starts from the community formed by village youths called the coffee community with the name Sapta Wening. The Sapta Wening community begins with learning about coffee management from the grower, care, harvest, post-harvest process to brewing. Learning is carried out by the Sapta Wening community with various methods such as bringing experts to visits to several coffee communities and coffee shops.

Training and Assistance for Village-Owned Enterprises (Bumdes) Based on Local Potential in Babalanlor Village, Bojong District, Pekalongan Regency

BUMDes is a village-owned enterprises formed by the community to achieve independence and prosperity of the village. The purpose of BUMDes is as an instrument of social capital which is expected to be a prime over in bridging efforts to strengthen the rural economy. In order to create an independent and prosperous village, we require the involvement of other parties, including the involvement of the community, groups, practitioners, academics and government. IAIN Pekalongan, as one of the tertiary institutions which have done community services and has concern in the community welfare problem.Through an action research method completed with data collection techniques through participatory observation, interviews, documentation, and focus group discussions, an action plan is developed. The community service team of State Islamic Institute of Pekalongan together with the community has provided assistance in the process of making BUMDes based on local potential. Through the assistance program for making BUMDes in Babalanlor Village, the village has produced the outputs and the outcomes. First, BUMDes named Sukses Mulyo along with its statutes/bylaws. Second, the assisted community already has an awareness of the importance of BUMDes because with their presence, BUMDes is expected to be able to play a role in increasing Village’s Original Income (PADes) resources, providing services to the needs of the community, increasing business opportunities and reducing unemployment in rural areas, increasing rural income, and reducing poverty.