The Role and Existance of Safe Latrine Sociopreneur to Building Community Development: A Case Study of East Java Province of Indonesia
Koen Irianto Uripan (a*), Subagyo Adam (b), Cholichul Hadi (c), Falih Suaedi (d), Dimas Agung Trisliatanto (e)
a) Doctor Program Study of Human Resource Development, Postgraduate School of Universitas Airlangga, Jl. Airlangga No. 4-6, Surabaya, Indonesia
*koen.irianto-2017[at]pasca.unair.ac.id
b) Department of Sociology. Faculty of Social Science and Political Science, Universitas Airlangga, Jl. Dharmawangsa Dalam, Surabaya, Indonesia
c) Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Jl. Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
d) Department of Public Administration. Faculty of Social Science and Political Science, Universitas Airlangga, Jl. Dharmawangsa Dalam, Surabaya, Indonesia
e) Doctor Program Study of Human Resource Development, Postgraduate School of Universitas Airlangga, Jl. Airlangga No. 4-6, Surabaya, Indonesia
Abstract
The challenged of sanitation development in Indonesia was the socio-cultural problem and behavior of people who were used to defecating in vain places, especially to water bodies that were also used for washing, bathing, sanitation, and other hygienic needs. A global studied by WHO and UNICEF (2015) on sanitation facilities found that more than 2.4 billion people had not been accessed by sanitation facilities that met the requirements. The existence of latrines in Indonesia according to World Bank data in 2015 about 18% of Indonesias population did not have latrines. The national coverage for urban areas were 79% and for rural areas were 49%. Data on the progress of sanitation utilization of East Java in 2015 only reached 80.28%, until 2018 it would have reached until 88.26%. To overcome these problems, there were several alternative policies that could be applied, one of which was community empowerment in improving hygiene behavior and improvement in sanitation used. The purpose of this study was to analyzing the role and existance of safe latrine sociopreneur to building community development in East Java Province based on case studies. Judging from the type of data the research approach used in this study was a qualitative approach with a case study method. This study concluded that the process of implementing community empowerment programs carried out by safe latrine sociopreneur in order to improved health and ease of accessed to sanitation in the East Java province in accordanced with the implementation instructions and technical instructions through 5 community empowerment strategies, namely: enabling, strengthening, protection, support and maintenance.
Keywords: Sanitation; Safe Latrine; Sociopreneur; Sociopreneurship; Community Development
Topic: Human Resource Development