Indigenous Learning in Coastal Community Empowerment at Jember Regency

Abstract

The principle of the community empowerment program includes three things, namely from, for and by the community. Coastal communities have noble values that are held and inherited in the form of traditional learning. Community empowerment activities require a kind of redesign with an indigenous learning approach to better ensure community participation with accompanying local wisdom. The research activity was carried out with the aim of describing the community's indigenous learning patterns which included participation in planning, implementing and evaluating empowerment program activities as an effort to adapt to climate change in the Coastal Region of Jember. This study uses a qualitative approach with descriptive methods to examine objects that describe how the indigenous learning of coastal communities in dealing with climate change in the Coastal area. The results showed that the indigenous learning of coastal communities was carried out through learning stages based on the experiences of coastal communities which were then reflected so that it became a conception of climate change adaptation activities carried out in a participatory manner on vegetation and waste management in the Payangan Coastal Area