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The state is  responsible for respecting, protecting and fulfilling the rights of citizens, including groups with disabilities.  One of the rights of groups with disabilities is the right to get employment opportunities.  However, in reality there are still groups with disabilities whose rights to work opportunities have not been fulfilled.  This study analyzes the empowerment of disabled workers conducted by PT.  Protecda Kreasi Prima as an effort to fulfill the right to work opportunities for people with deaf disabilities.  This study uses a qualitative descriptive research method with purposive sampling and snowball sampling techniques. Data collection uses observation, interviews, and document studies.  Based on the research results, it can be concluded that PT.  Protecda Kreasi Prima through various production unit-based empowerment programs.  This empowerment program has an impact on fulfilling the right to work opportunities, namely the potential for opening jobs for deaf disabilities such as beauty salons, mechanic workshops, cafes, providing information on work contracts at PT.  Protecda Kreasi Prima, increasing skills for deaf disabilities, absorbing labor to prevent and reduce unemployment Keywords: empowerment, fulfillment of rights, job opportunities, deaf disability  

The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the Kelurahan Community Empowerment Agency in coordinating development planning, the role of the Kelurahan Community Empowerment Agency in coordinating the planning of community institutions, and the role of the Kelurahan Community Empowerment Agency in planning development activities in a participatory manner in Santi Village, Bima City. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. Data collection techniques are interviews, observation, and documentation. Informants included the village head, village staff, LPM administrators, PKK administrators, Youth Organization administrators, Rukun Warga administrators, Rukun Tetangga, and residents who made arrangements in Santi Village. Determination of informants using purposive sampling technique. The analysis technique used is descriptive qualitative analysis, which starts from data reduction, data display, and verification and conclusion making. The research results obtained are: 1) with regard to coordinating development planning as the role of the Village Community Empowerment Institution, the results obtained have played a role and are in accordance with the mandate of Permendagri Number 5 of 2007 concerning Structuring Community Institutions and Government Regulation Number 73 of 2005 concerning Structuring Village Institutions. 2) With regard to coordinating the planning of community institutions as the role of the Kelurahan Community Empowerment Agency, the results obtained are as follows.

Community empowerment is a fundamental pillar of national development aimed at enhancing social welfare, social justice, and active public participation in the development process. This Community Service Program aims to strengthen community understanding and capacity, particularly among women members of the PKK organization in Rimba Sekampung Village, regarding the strategic role of community empowerment as a national development priority. The activity was conducted on Thursday, January 18, 2024, at Jalan Belimbing, Rimba Sekampung Village, Dumai City. The implementation method employed socialization through counseling and persuasive guidance using a non-formal and participatory educational approach. The program focuses on women's empowerment, community participation in development, and the prevention of social issues such as sexual violence and bullying among children and adolescents. The results indicate an improvement in participants' awareness, understanding, and active involvement during discussions, as well as a strengthened commitment to act as agents of change within their communities. This program contributes positively to reinforcing the role of women as strategic partners of the government in promoting inclusive, equitable, and sustainable national development.

This community service program was motivated by the suboptimal development of agribusiness partnership patterns among farmer groups assisted by the Agricultural Extension Center (BPP) of East Dumai District, Dumai City, which has resulted in low productivity, limited value added, and weak bargaining power of farmers. The program aimed to enhance farmers’ understanding, capacity, and readiness to develop sustainable agribusiness partnership strategies. The method applied was a community organizing approach through counseling, participatory discussions, and mentoring involving five farmer groups with a total of 15 farmers. The results indicate an improvement in farmers’ understanding of agribusiness partnership concepts and models, a shift in mindset from individual to collective group-based farming, and the emergence of initial agreements to develop simple partnership schemes with local agribusiness actors. In addition, farmers showed increased readiness in managerial aspects, product quality improvement, and communication with potential partners. This program contributes to strengthening farmer group institutions and provides a foundation for developing more structured and sustainable agribusiness partnerships.

The increasing incidence of sexual violence and bullying against children and adolescents has become a serious social problem that requires active involvement from all elements of society, particularly families. This community service program aims to strengthen the role of the Family Welfare Empowerment (PKK) organization in Rimba Sekampung Sub-district as the frontline in preventing and addressing sexual violence and adolescent bullying. The methods applied include socialization and persuasive educational approaches through counseling sessions, interactive discussions, and case consultations involving PKK members as community partners. The results indicate an improvement in participants’ knowledge, awareness, and social sensitivity regarding the forms, causes, and impacts of sexual violence and bullying among adolescents. Furthermore, the program enhances the capacity of PKK members to foster family resilience and create a safe, harmonious, and value-based family environment to support sustainable child and adolescent protection.

Significant temperature changes make the body unable to adjust properly, which eventually leads to disease, affects the immune system, and increases the risk of developing viruses and bacteria. Empowerment of family medicinal plants in the cultivation and utilization of TOGA can be a way to overcome these problems, especially in the city of Surabaya. The purpose of this community service is to increase public understanding of the efficacy of TOGA and to create facilities for nature conservation, especially the cultivation of TOGA greenery. The form of community service activities is providing education, giving and planting TOGA, and monitoring TOGA maintenance. The resulting output is increasing public understanding of the efficacy of TOGA and creating facilities for nature conservation, especially cultivating reforestation for special TOGA gardens (Kencur, turmeric, temulawak, and binahong) so that they can help realize preventive and promotional communities in overcoming disease problems that often arise during the transition season.

Indonesia is included in the aging society, which is the category of a country that has an elderly population above 7%. Along with the increasing life expectancy of the population in Indonesia, the Province of Bali is included in the fourth category of society with an old structure. This proves that with such a large number of elderly, there should be a contribution of more effective elderly services, because the higher the problem of the elderly can be helped and handled, the better the elderly will be and will extend their life expectancy. To answer the problems of the elderly, several activities were carried out including: health checks for the elderly and other activities that support the improvement of the health quality of the elderly. Furthermore, providing training and guidance to the elderly to be able to do fitness exercises to stay healthy physically and psychologically, as well as socializing PHBS for the elderly. Therefore, this activity needs to work with partners so that it can be useful for the elderly at the Tresna Wreda Wana Seraya Social Institution, Denpasar.

The economy in Indonesia has developed after being hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. All levels of society participate in improving the economy, including coastal communities. To improve their economy, fishing families work by fishing at sea and this activity is dominated by men. During the sailing period, an area will be dominated by wives and children. The wives will have two roles while their husbands are away sailing, as housewives and as the financial drivers of the family. This condition requires fisherwomen to play a role as drivers of the family economy. One way that can be done is by empowering fisherwomen. The community service team of the Veteran National Development University of East Java empowered fisherwomen in Pabean Village, Dringu District, Probolinggo Regency by conducting training in making handicrafts with copper wire into brooches with high selling value together with the owner of 'Tenocraft'. The method used in this training is the andragogy learning system. Participants were enthusiastic and able to follow the guidance of the speakers.

This community service program aims to improve the life skills of PKK mothers in Bulumeduro Village to be more productive through training in processing fish waste into high protein pellets and to reduce fish waste that is not properly utilized in order to create a better environmental ecosystem in Bulumeduro Village. The implementation methods used include extension or lecture method, carried out using direct practice or training methods, and assistance or monitoring for program sustainability. The results of community service activities using these three methods are that PKK mothers have a good understanding of how to process fish waste and how to make pellets and PKK mothers also know the benefits of processing fish waste into pellets, this can be seen from the pre-test and post-test results which show that there was an increase in PKK mothers' knowledge after counseling and training. The conclusion from the results of implementing the community service program is that PKK mothers become more productive in increasing income and improving life skills, in addition to increasing insight or knowledge regarding processing fish waste into high protein pellets.

Adolescent nutritional problems are a continuation of childhood nutritional problems such as iron deficiency anemia. Prolonged iron deficiency can cause anemia. Teenagers need more to replace iron lost along with menstrual blood. Anemia in adolescent girls is currently still high, according to WHO, the world prevalence of anemia ranges from 40-88%. The majority of students at SMP Negeri 5 Nekamese are young women who are vulnerable to suffering from anemia, so it is necessary to conduct anemia education and measure hemoglobin (Hb) in young women. The aim of this community service is to increase the knowledge of young women about anemia and school health so that it becomes a healthy and anemia-free school. The empowerment method in this community service activity uses the Question and Answer Lecture method. Counseling was conducted for young women in grades 7, 8 and 9 at SMP Negeri 5 Nekamese on September 9 2023, which was attended by 30 young women. The activity began with preparations for making an examination stand, distributing leaflets, explaining material or counseling using the lecture method of question and answer and evaluation. Before the counseling is carried out, a pre-test is carried out, then after the counseling a post-test is carried out. The implication of this community service activity is an increase in young women's knowledge about anemia and healthy schools. It is hoped that after carrying out this activity, young women can prevent anemia during adolescence by increasing their food consumption patterns to be diverse, nutritious, balanced and safe.

Empowerment has an important role in educational institutions which makes a real contribution to improving human resources. This includes empowering Islamic boarding school graduates in improving the quality of human resources. The aim of this service is to understand the process of empowering the Al-Qur'an Al-Asy'ariyyah Alumni Association (IKMAAL) in Kalibeber Village, Wonosobo Regency. The empowerment strategy includes four strategies, namely: preparation, work meetings, follow-up, and building togetherness. The results of this activity show that the working meeting of the Al-Qur'an Al-Asy'ariyyah Alumni Association (IKMAAL) in Kalibeber, Wonosobo district produced important points that show the alumni's gratitude towards the Islamic boarding school, namely: 1) making a coupon for land purchasers for development foundation, 2) creating an al-Al-asyariyyah coin program in each branch for the benefit of members, 3) planning a joint Umrah within the IKMAAL association, and in 2025 holding a Javanese and Madurese Qur'an hamatul. This contributes to increasing human resources for society within an institutional framework. The conclusion focuses on the importance of ties in realizing a goal and its implications for expanding the alumni network.

Information about intolerance, sexual violence and drugs is very important material for every good citizen, especially for teenagers. Mojopahit PKBM students are very diverse, but the majority in terms of age, there are still many students who are of productive age (teenagers). In accordance with the Decree of the Minister of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia Number 01 of 2003 concerning Guidelines for Education and Training of Civil Servants in the Environment, the Department of Religion also integrates human rights and gender values ​​in its curriculum. The implementation of this service activity uses discussion/question and answer/introduction and empowerment methods. In order to obtain information and get closer to the service participants, the service team conducted brain storming with the socialization participants. This community service activity targets tutors and residents studying PKBM Mojopahit, Mojokerto City. This service activity was attended by 20 participants from students from package levels A, B and C and several PKBM Mojopahit Tutors from Mojokerto City took part in accompanying the students who attended.

The purpose of this research is to analyse the protection of child labour according to Law No. 13 of 2003 concerning labour in Pasar Kasih Naikoten 1 Kupang This research is an empirical legal research conducted in Pasar Kasih Naikoten 1 Kupang City, the Office of Manpower and Transmigration of Kupang City and the Office of Empowerment and Child Protection of Kupang City. This research uses primary data and secondary data. Data collection techniques using interviews, documents, observation. Based on the results of research and discussion, the conclusion is that there are still many children who work under the age of 18 and do heavy work such as pushing trains, lifting shopping that exceeds the capacity of children, even among those who get physical and verbal violence from people around them. If there is a violation of child labour in the Kasih Naikoten 1 market, the relevant government will issue a written warning and if there is a criminal act, the government will provide legal assistance to victims and perpetrators and will be processed by the applicable law. Factors that hinder the government to tackle the problem of child labour are very small APBD, economic factors, cultural factors and educational factors.

This research aims to determine the accountability of managing village fund allocations in an effort to increase development and community empowerment in Lambou Darul Ihsan Village, Bukit Malintang District, Mandailing Natal Regency. This research uses a descriptive qualitative approach methodology, data collection techniques in this research are interview, observation and documentation techniques. Based on the research results, it was found that accountability in the management of village fund allocation in an effort to increase development and community empowerment in Lambou Darul Ihsan village in 2022 has been implemented in accordance with Minister of Home Affairs Regulation No. 20 of 2018 starts from planning, implementation, administration and reporting, while at the accountability stage both technically and administratively it is good, but sometimes there are inhibiting factors in preparing the report because the management still lacks experience and limited education, but this can be overcome because of the District government always provide coaching.

This study aims to analyze the management of village fund allocation in village development and identify factors that encourage and hinder its implementation. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive approach, with a case study conducted in Minta Kasih Village located in Salapian District, Langkat Regency. In this study, researchers analyzed the implementation of village fund allocation and its impact on village community empowerment. The research approach includes interviews, observations and document analysis to obtain information on the use of village fund allocation. The results showed several obstacles in accountability for village fund allocation, especially related to reporting and monitoring. In addition, there are gaps in community accessibility and understanding of village fund allocation programs that have the potential to affect the effectiveness of village development. From the results of the study, it is known that the factors that support the implementation of village fund allocation in the development of Minta Kasih Village are community support in infrastructure development, education, health, and the development of micro and small enterprises in the village. However, inhibiting factors include the government's inability to optimize budget use and delays in preparing village fund allocation accountability reports (ADD).

The SME empowerment policy is generally directed at supporting efforts to overcome poverty and inequality, create job opportunities and increase exports, as well as agricultural and rural revitalization, which are national development priorities. In addition, the development of small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is directed at making a significant contribution to creating job opportunities, increasing exports and increasing competitiveness.This Community Service Activity (PKM) is focused on MSMEs in Pagerharjo Village, Kulon Progo Regency. The reason for choosing this service location is because Pagerharjo Village is an Independent Cultural Village which has implemented the Preneur Village program since 2019. The Preneur Village is currently still active and developing. The problem with MSMEs, under the management of BUMDes Binangun Pagerharjo in Pagerharjo Village, Samigaluh, Kulon Progo Regency, is the lack of entrepreneurial spirit and financial bookkeeping which, on average, is still done manually.The results of the service include responses and evaluations from participants regarding the training that has been provided. The response was given by the Director of BUMDes who was impressed with the training provided which was different from the training that had been provided previously. Previous training involved mostly listening to lectures, whereas the current training involves participants being active in solving the various problems they face. The evaluation results show that the participants' knowledge has increased and their insight into their business has also increased. It turns out that producing a business is not only based on generations, but also requires innovation so that marketing will continue to develop and financial management will also improve.

As a step to expand outreach and increase community awareness, the research plan proposes providing new banners and ensuring that MSME locations are listed on Google Maps. The priority justification prioritizes optimizing potential through community empowerment with the support of the Community Service program. The focus on increasing awareness of packaging through an importance survey, developing appropriate technology, and expanding marketing networks aims to strengthen the competitiveness of MSMEs' processed food products. The ABCD approach was chosen to emphasize the utilization of existing assets in the community, so as to maximize the potential of the People's Roasted Chicken MSMEs and empower the community in a sustainable manner. The results of this study indicate that the People's Roast Chicken MSME in Kloposepuluh Village has its own uniqueness with a characteristic taste that has been maintained from the past until now, making it a favorite among the local community. The strategic sales location, right in front of the house, adds to the attractiveness for customers. Although they still use traditional methods in baking, these MSMEs have managed to survive and continue to be in demand.

This research aims to find out how the coastal community empowerment program is implemented in Takalar Regency at the South Sulawesi provincial fisheries service. What factors support and inhibit the implementation of the coastal community empowerment program in Takalar Regency at the South Sulawesi provincial fisheries service. The type of research used is a qualitative descriptive approach. The focus of this research is increasing capacity, providing access to technology and information, capital, infrastructure, market guarantees, productive economic assets. The number of informants was 10 employees of the South Sulawesi provincial fisheries service. The data collection techniques used were observation, interviews, documentation, liberal research. The data analysis technique used is data reduction, which means summarizing important things. The data presentation carried out in this research is the data obtained through research results are presented and presented in text or written form and described in qualitative form. The results of this research show that the programs provided by the fisheries service to coastal communities in Takalar Regency are appropriate and there has been improvement, namely the existence of activity programs from the government and the South Sulawesi provincial fisheries service so that with these programs and activities coastal communities are able to empower themselves.

wakqf is one of the economic instruments of the people that can be used for the economic empowerment of the people. Basically, waqf is productive in the sense that it must produce because waqf can fulfill its purpose if it has produced where the results are utilized in accordance with its designation (mauquf alaih) This research was conducted using a descriptive method with a qualitative approach based on data sources from literature study and observation. The purpose of this research is to provide information related to waqf management. The results showed that the application of productive waqf to improve Islamic economic welfare can be done with a variety of applications with development design models, including establishing mosques (places of worship), business shops, gas stations or gas stations, banking, offices, multi-purpose halls, photocopying, apartments or boarding houses, hotels, and others so as to achieve general benefits as a benefit for the people with social, economic and cultural development of the community.

Marginalized children in the Seroja Surakarta Women and Children Empowerment Institution (PPAP) have a background of various factors, including poverty, difficulty getting a job, no longer having parents or disabled, no place to live, and low education. Seeing these problems, what is needed by marginalized children is how they can get welfare in the present and in the future, especially in the economic aspect. Therefore the Slamet Riyadi University PKM Team carried out training activities on using the Tiktok application to help these marginalized children to be able to work even if they only used cellphones. Marginalized children will be given knowledge about using the Tiktok application, training to become Tiktok Sellers, namely how they can have an online shop on Tiktok, Host Live Tiktok Shops, namely how they can do live, sell, and Tiktok Affiliate so they can get sales commissions without the need to have prior capital. With this training, children can work even if only at home.