Peran Pemuda dalam Peningkatan Program Badan Usaha Milik Desa Bah Butong Kecamatan Sidamanik Kabupaten Simalungun

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyse the role of youth in Bah Butong Village, Sidamanik District, Simalungun Regency in the Improvement of the Bah Butong Village Owned Enterprise Program, Sidamanik District, Simalungun Regency. This research focuses on the role that has been played by the youth in Bah Butong Village, Sidamanik District, Simalungun Regency in improving the Bah Butong Village Owned Enterprise program, Sidmanik District, Simalungun Regency. In Bah Butong Village, there is a BUMDes that focuses on its activities in the service sector, namely party equipment rental, trade, livestock, small industry, ATV rental, keyboard rental, village transportation rental. For the development of BUMDes institutions, it is necessary to increase programs that involve youth, communities and the government of Simalungun Regency. The method used in this research is the descriptive method with a qualitative approach. This study took primary data through informants and secondary data from related agencies, namely the Simalungun District Youth Sports and Tourism Office, the Simalungun National Police, Youth and Sports Office and the Central Bureau of Statistics of Simalungun Regency. The results of the study show that the role of the youth of Bah Butong Village, Sidamanik District, Simalungun Regency in the Improvement of the Bah Butong BUMDes Program in marketing Ponot Waterfall tourism for regional development is the role of youth as social control, moral strength and agents of change, where these roles are influenced by internal namely: finance, poor management, lack of support from the elderly and lack of control over every activity of the Bah Butong BUMDes and External factors, namely: low levels of education, lack of awareness in properly managing existing natural potentials and natural disasters