Social Economic Empowerment of Homeless Families in Bandung
Siti Anah Kunyati; Sriwardani; Nunung Hastika
Langlangbuana University
Abstract
Social Economic Empowerment of Homeless Families Siti Anah Kunyati (sitianahkunyati@unla.ac.id) Sriwardani (sriwardani@unla.ac.id) Nunung Hastika (nunung.hastika@unla.ac.id) Abstract Society and government often blame the poor like homeless and scavengers. They live together without marriage, sleep in the storefronts and wild huts. They are not registered by the state and are in social exclusion, even have not assurence and civil rights. This study aims to description the steps to empower the social status and economy of homeless families in Bandung. The subjects in this community service are 14 people homeless. The methods used Reseach Action in this community service activity are: the assistance to build awareness of legal marriage; the assistance in stimulants for rented house in order to build proper and human housing needs; the advocacy to stakeholders and assistance for subjects to have an electronic Identity Card; and the last entrepreneurship training to increase income. The results are 1) awareness of marriage has been built both in accordance with religion and in accordance with state rules 2) the need to have a safety place to stretch has been built too, 3). advocacy and assistance helped them to obtain an electronic Identity Card and 4) the training done increased their skills in order to manage secondhand goods needed by the society. Keywords : Empowerment, Social economic, Homeless, Social exclusion Introduction The values of individualism, hedonism and materialism have strengthened in urban communities such as in the city of Bandung. Community and government perspectives on the poor like homeless and scavengers often blame the poor as lazy, resignation, difficult to adapt, hard to believe. The homeless, and scavengers are partners in the Community Service Program. They are often the target points of order and beauty of the city with frequent raids. The time to get income of homeless people is very limited, from 5:00 a.m. until 14.00 , which means about 10 hours. They walked for many kilometers to find secondhand goods with a maximum income of Rp. 25,000,-/day. Then, they sell it to collectors and they dream to become a collector. The lives of homeless people are often not in accordance with the norms of a decent life and a permanent residence because of wandering in public places (Social Ministry. 2018). Homeless and scavengers are citizens who are unregistered as citizens, so that the rights as citizens to get a variety of social security and civil rights are neglected. They live together without the bond of marriage even many of them have offspring, alternating sleeping in the patio of shops, beds-bedded, cardboard houses or under bridges. They are untouched by the hustle and bustle of development, without coaching, without anyone fighting for how they should live properly and humanely. Life is very alarming. They are as marginalized in the process of "social exclusion". According to Oxford Dictionary (1998), “social exclusion is a process by which individuals or household experience deprivation, either of resources (such as income), or of social links to the wider community or society”. A theoretical definition of poverty that focuses on the inability to make ends meet, “the poor are those who, due to insufficient access to economic resources, have an unacceptably low level of consumption of goods and services”. http://DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2397.2007.00503.x Int J Soc Welfare 2008: 17: 15–25 According to the Bandung City Social Service (2015) the number of homeless / homeless and beggars is 1692 people and poor families as many as 80.285 people with various other social problems that surround them. The problems of these 80.285 people are the condition of social injustice. According to Clive Sealey (2015) “The analysis highlights the significant difference that focuses on process
Keywords: Social Empowerment.Economy, Homeless, social exclution
Topic: Development Studies