Dampak Upaya Pemberdayaan Melalui Credit Union Terhadap Perkembangan Kelompok (Studi Kasus: Credit Union Syaloom Dampingan Yayasan Ate Keleng Di Desa Tanjung Purba Kecamatan Dolok Silau Kabupaten Simalungun)

Abstract

Society Empowerment is a strategy to increase the people’s ability from the powerless situation up to having a power developing potency they have so that they live properly. As a Social Organization moved in society development sector, Ate Keleng Foundation does this endeavor through Credit Union’s groups they formed. It did in effort to wielding their member’s loan through saving in the Credit Union. This research is classified as explanative research that aimed to prove a hypothesis Empowerment Impact through Credit Union to Group Development Ate Keleng Foundation Supported. Numbers of population in this research were 323 people from Syaloom Credit Union’s members. To represent the population, the researcher took 10% from the whole population that was 32 people from the Credit Union’s members. In this case, researcher chose sample who were members that already took Advocate activity, Society Economy Development, and Infrastructure that have been done in TanjungPurba village sub district Dolok Silau Simalungun regency. This research’s result that there were impacts of the hypothesis Empowerment Impact through Credit Union to Group Development Ate Keleng Foundation Supported in Tanjung Purba village sub district Dolok Silau Simalungun regency. This development could be seen from the way people more critical with the Advocate activity, people’s income increase by means of agriculture and animal farming activity Society Economy Development and the needs of water was filled by the Water Infrastructure through the Infrastructure activity. This empowerment did gave impacts to the group development, however the blooming didn’t work out to every member so Ate Keleng Foundation as the doer still needs more efforts to invite the whole members of Credit Union to wield the loan through the activities they arranged.