dc.description.abstract | Mount Baung Natural Park is one of the conservation areas in East Java, to reduce
encroachment by the public, the government holds community empowerment. This study aims to
determine: the motivation of people in the area of empowerment; Socio-economic factors that
affect the motivation of people in the areas in implementing empowerment programs; Strategies
undertaken to empower communities in the areas. The research method uses a descriptive and
analytic. Descriptive data analysis tools uses Likert scale, multiple linear regression and
analysis of FFA. The results shows that the motivation of people on community development
programsis high while the motivation of people on elephant grass in the Mount Baung Natural
Park is low, socio-economic factors that influence on the motivation of people in the areas in
implementing empowerment programs are age (years) , revenue (Rp), and the number of
dependents (soul). While the factors that do not affect significantly are the education (years)
and land area (m2). Strategies that can be done is: rehabilitate some areas of Mount Baung
Natural Park that has been already degraded with labor-intensive methods and design tour
packages which are capable of absorbing the local community as labor (tour guide) for tourists
and researchers. | en_US |