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Strengthening Diaspora Organizational Capacity for Transnational Community Engagement: Implications for VFR and Cultural Tourism Networks in Taiwan and Malaysia Farida Nur Aini; Sri Indarti; Zindi Yulian Sari; Puspita Tista
English and Tourism Studies Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/ets.v3i2.754

Diaspora organizations are not tourism institutions, yet they form part of the social infrastructure through which migrants maintain cross-border relationships, organize cultural activities, exchange information, and host visiting friends and relatives (VFR). Their ability to sustain these functions depends on governance continuity, administrative routines, and leadership regeneration. This article documents a participatory organizational capacity-building workshop delivered by Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu with the Muhammadiyah Special Branch in Taiwan (PCIM Taiwan) and the Aisyiyah Special Branch in Malaysia (PCIA Malaysia) from July to November 2025. The intervention integrated organizational diagnostics, governance and accountability training, succession planning, mentoring design, and collaborative action planning. Thirty-two participants registered, 30 completed governance self-assessments, and the reported mean governance knowledge score increased from 68 before training to 86 afterward. The workshop generated eight draft governance instruments, two organizational action plans, a pipeline of 12 prospective cadres, 10 mentoring pairs, and a cross-national peer-learning mechanism. Six instruments were reported as adopted or scheduled for adoption, while mean participant satisfaction reached 4.6 on a five-point scale. These results demonstrate immediate learning and organizational-readiness outcomes rather than verified long-term governance effects or tourism impacts. The study argues that stronger diaspora organizational capacity can provide enabling conditions for sustained transnational community engagement, cultural exchange, and VFR-related information networks, while direct effects on visitor mobility or destination development require separate longitudinal assessment.

Participatory Environmental Governance in Community Empowerment Programs: Evidence from Bengkulu’s Upland Villages Titi Darmi; Sri Indarti; Inderi Lara Safitri; Tri Agustin
Journal of Social and Humanities Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): January-June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/jsh.v1i1.732

Community empowerment programs implemented in Indonesia’s upland regions, including those bordering protected forest areas such as Kerinci Seblat National Park, are typically evaluated using economic indicators alone income growth, employment creation, and market access while the ecological sustainability of the natural resource base on which these upland livelihoods ultimately depend receives comparatively little systematic evaluative attention. This narrow evaluative focus risks certifying empowerment programs as successful even where they inadvertently accelerate encroachment, unsustainable land conversion, or degradation of the very ecosystems that upland communities rely upon over the long term. This study addresses this gap by integrating environmental governance indicators alongside conventional economic indicators into a combined evaluation framework, applied through Participatory Action Research (PAR) across three upland villages in Bengkulu Province located within or adjacent to the Kerinci Seblat National Park buffer zone. Using iterative PAR cycles of planning, action, observation, and reflection, combined with focus group discussions, field observation, and document review, the study evaluated existing coffee-based and agroforestry-oriented empowerment programs against an integrated matrix combining four economic and four environmental governance indicators, the latter including community participation in conservation decision-making, monitoring of buffer-zone land use, and adoption of sustainable agroforestry practices. Findings indicate that programs scoring well on economic indicators did not consistently score well on environmental governance indicators, revealing specific trade-offs between short-term income generation and longer-term ecological sustainability, though villages with stronger participatory monitoring institutions demonstrated the ability to reconcile both dimensions more effectively.

Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment: A Model for Disaster-Affected Villages in Bengkulu Titi Darmi; Sri Indarti; Alya Eka Safitri; Sesilia Preti Sinta
Journal of Social and Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/jsh.v3i2.733

Community empowerment programmes for disaster-affected villages in Indonesia are largely standardised, built around physical reconstruction, livelihood restoration, and infrastructure delivery. They rarely account for the psychological consequences of disaster, despite the fact that these consequences shape whether communities can participate in recovery at all. This study addresses that gap by adapting the trauma-informed care framework, developed in mental health and human services, into the design of post-disaster community empowerment policy. Using a phenomenological case study of three disaster-affected villages in Bengkulu Province, the research combines in-depth phenomenological interviews with survivors and local leaders, focus group discussions, observation of recovery activities, and review of programme documents. Analysis proceeds in two layers: a phenomenological reading of survivors’ lived experience of recovery programmes, and an evaluation of conventional programmes against a purpose-built trauma-informed empowerment evaluation matrix integrating psychosocial wellbeing indicators with community development indicators. The findings identify six themes constituting the essence of the survivor experience, chief among them a persistent mismatch between programme timetables and recovery timelines. Conventional programmes score adequately on delivery indicators but poorly on safety, predictability, choice, and cultural fit, and in several documented instances reproduced distress through their own procedures. The study proposes a Trauma-Informed Community Empowerment model specifying four sequenced phases, six design principles adapted from trauma-informed care, and an accompanying indicator set, together with practical guidance for village governments and district disaster agencies.

From Environmental Commitment to Administrative Routine: Bureaucratic Culture and Environmental Policy Implementation in Bengkulu, Indonesia Farida Nur Aini; Sri Indarti; Zindi Yulian Sari; Puspita Tista
Journal of Social and Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/jsh.v3i2.734

Environmental policy implementation research has traditionally emphasized regulatory design, institutional capacity, and formal coordination, while paying less attention to the organizational culture through which officials translate environmental obligations into routine administrative practice. This study examines how bureaucratic culture, administrative values, and accountability arrangements shape environmental policy implementation across five provincial and district government agencies in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia. A multi-site qualitative organizational study was combined with narrative analysis and a 24-indicator culture evaluation matrix covering administrative values, implementation behaviour, policy commitment, and inter-departmental norm alignment. Evidence was derived from 81 officials participating in one or more study activities, including 15 focus group discussions, 32 narrative interviews, approximately 65 hours of field observation, and documentary review. The results show a pronounced value-practice decoupling: articulated environmental commitment recorded the highest indicator mean (3.20), whereas implementation behaviour averaged 1.47 and inter-departmental norm alignment averaged 1.43. Three indicators—follow-through on prescribed measures, willingness to express cross-agency disagreement, and joint accountability arrangements—scored 1.00 in every agency. Narrative analysis identified five recurring occupational scripts: the procedural custodian, constrained steward, growth realist, documentary conservationist, and isolated champion. Together, the findings indicate that environmental commitment is widely articulated but is filtered through routines that privilege procedural defensibility, hierarchical deference, annual budget completion, and fragmented accountability. The study develops a Values–Routines–Accountability (VRA) framework to explain this decoupling and argues that reform should focus on outcome attribution, post-approval verification, cross-agency accountability, and protected professional dissent rather than relying primarily on value statements or awareness programmes.

Adaptive Environmental Policy in Flood-Prone Villages: A Comparative Study of Bengkulu and East Java Sri Indarti; Titi Darmi; Afriza Putrianti; Rice Parenra
Journal of Social and Humanities Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/jsh.v3i2.736

Flooding is a recurrent hazard in rural Indonesia, yet village policy often favours visible infrastructure over adaptive risk management. This study compares adaptive environmental policy in flood-prone villages in Bengkulu and East Java to distinguish governance weaknesses that recur across settings from responses that depend on local context. A comparative case design combined adaptive policy analysis with participatory principles. Evidence was drawn from focus group discussions, field observation, and review of village and district policy documents. A twelve-indicator evaluation matrix examined institutional responsiveness, resource allocation flexibility, and flood risk governance. The comparison shows common weaknesses in annual budget rigidity, maintenance financing, policy learning, and the depth of community influence. East Java displayed stronger formal early-warning arrangements, cross-level coordination, and funding diversification, whereas Bengkulu showed stronger reliance on local ecological knowledge, agroforestry, and nature-based measures. These findings suggest that the institutional constraints shaping adaptation are partly shared, while the assets through which solutions can be implemented remain place-specific. Effective village flood policy therefore requires a common adaptive governance core combined with locally tailored institutional and ecological strategies.

Environmental Policy Autonomy and Peatland Governance: A Political Ecology Study in Bengkulu’s Coastal Districts Sri Indarti; Rekho Adriadi; Rosa Oktapia; Yela Permata Sari
Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/sehati.v1i1.728

Indonesia’s regional autonomy framework has redistributed authority over natural resource management from the central government to provincial and district administrations, yet the consequences of this redistribution for peatland and coastal ecosystem governance remain unevenly studied. Existing scholarship concentrates heavily on the large peatland landscapes of Riau, Kalimantan, and South Sumatra, leaving the governance dynamics of smaller, peripheral coastal districts largely unexamined. This study addresses that gap by applying a political ecology framework to examine how environmental policy autonomy is exercised, contested, and constrained in three coastal districts of Bengkulu Province: Mukomuko, Seluma, and Bengkulu Utara. Using a mixed-method design that combines qualitative political ecology analysis with supportive quantitative ecological and policy data, the study draws on policy document review, semi-structured interviews with government officials and community actors, household surveys, and field observations conducted between 2022 and 2023. Findings indicate that regional autonomy has produced a form of “bounded discretion,” in which district governments possess formal authority over peatland-adjacent land-use decisions but exercise it within severe fiscal, technical, and political constraints that favor short-term revenue-generating land conversion over long-term ecological protection. Power asymmetries between district agencies, plantation companies, and local communities further shape unequal access to peatland resources. Compared with the more institutionally developed governance arrangements in Riau, Kalimantan, and South Sumatra, Bengkulu’s coastal districts exhibit weaker technical capacity, thinner civil society oversight, and a narrower policy toolkit. The study concludes regional autonomy, without corresponding investment in local ecological governance capacity, risks reproducing environmentally degrading development trajectories in peripheral peatland areas.

Competing Interests in Environmental Fund Allocation: A Q-Methodology Study of Stakeholder Perspectives in Bengkulu Sri Indarti; Rosidin; Meli Herlina; Annisa Oktaviani
Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry Vol. 2 No. 4 (2024): Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/sehati.v2i4.738

Environmental fund allocation in decentralized governance is often assessed through budget size, disbursement, and physical outputs, while the stakeholder reasoning that shapes allocation choices receives less attention. This study examines competing stakeholder interests in environmental fund allocation for upland community empowerment programs in Bengkulu Province, Indonesia, using Q-methodology. A concourse derived from document review, field observation, and preliminary interviews was refined into a 36-statement Q-sample covering economic priorities, ecological priorities, governance processes, and equity. Thirty-two purposively selected participants representing village government, environmental agencies, facilitators, farmer and forest-user groups, women's groups, and environmental non-governmental organizations completed Q-sorts. By-person factor analysis identified four coherent viewpoints: Conservation Guardians, Livelihood Pragmatists, Compliance-Oriented Administrators, and Growth-First Developmentalists. Twenty-seven participants loaded significantly on one of these factors, while five displayed mixed or confounded loadings. The strongest disagreements concerned the use of environmental funds for economically oriented infrastructure and the relative authority of technical expertise versus community deliberation. Across factors, transparency and consultation remained shared normative expectations. The findings show that environmental allocation conflicts are structured by distinct institutional and livelihood logics rather than by random disagreement. More legitimate and balanced allocation therefore requires explicit trade-off deliberation, stronger translation across stakeholder perspectives, and ecological reporting that is comparable in visibility to short-term economic outputs.

Adaptive Environmental Policy in Flood-Prone Villages: A Comparative Study of Bengkulu and East Java Sri Indarti; Titi Darmi; Afriza Putrianti; Rice Parenra
Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Socio-Economic and Humanistic Aspects for Township and Industry
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/sehati.v4i1.739

Flood risk in rural Indonesia is shaped not only by hydrometeorological exposure but also by the capacity of village institutions to revise plans, mobilize resources, coordinate across administrative levels, and learn from recurrent events. This study compares adaptive environmental policy in flood-prone villages in Bengkulu and East Java to distinguish policy weaknesses that recur across contexts from capacities that depend on local ecological and institutional conditions. A structured comparative case design was combined with adaptive policy analysis and participatory principles. Evidence was drawn from focus group discussions, field observation, and review of village and supra-village planning, budgeting, disaster-management, and environmental documents. A common twelve-indicator framework assessed institutional responsiveness, resource allocation flexibility, and flood risk governance. The comparison shows a consistent structural pattern in both provinces: annual budgeting remains difficult to adjust quickly, maintenance receives less attention than new construction, learning after flood events is weakly institutionalized, and participation is broader in implementation than in agenda setting and evaluation. East Java displays comparatively stronger early-warning organization, cross-level coordination, and access to diversified external networks, whereas Bengkulu shows distinctive strengths in agroforestry, riparian vegetation, local environmental knowledge, and community-based conservation practices. The analysis therefore supports a two-layer interpretation of adaptive policy. Structural constraints are sufficiently recurrent to justify common reforms in budgeting, maintenance, learning, and coordination, while effective solutions must be tailored to local geography, land use, social institutions, and network capacity.

Integrating Environmentally Friendly Land Management, Financial Literacy, and Micro-Business Planning for Indonesian Migrant Families in Taiwan: A Follow-Up Community Empowerment Program Sri Indarti; Rekho Adriadi; Rosa Oktapia; Yela Permata Sari
International Journal of Management Science Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/ijms.v2i2.749

Indonesian migrant worker families often face challenges in transforming remittance income and available agricultural land into sustainable economic opportunities due to limited financial literacy, inadequate business planning, and insufficient knowledge of environmentally friendly land management. Strengthening household financial capabilities and ecological agricultural practices is essential to supporting economic resilience and post-migration reintegration. This community service program aimed to enhance environmentally friendly land management, financial literacy, and micro-business planning among Indonesian migrant worker families in Taiwan through collaboration between Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and PCIM Taiwan. A participatory approach integrating hybrid training, experiential learning, and structured mentoring was implemented through four thematic modules. The program involved 68 participants across Taoyuan, Taipei, and Taichung, with evaluation conducted through pre-test and post-test assessments, business-plan reviews, focus group discussions, and verification involving 22 origin households in Bengkulu. The findings revealed an increase in average financial literacy scores from 54.3 to 79.6 points, while intended productive remittance allocation increased from 11.4% to 27.8%. Furthermore, 52 participants (76.5%) developed complete micro-business plans, of which 31 were assessed as immediately feasible using existing household resources. Twenty-nine households initiated dedicated productive savings arrangements, and five mentoring groups continued informal activities after training. These findings indicate improved financial and entrepreneurial planning capabilities and demonstrate the potential of diaspora-based community empowerment to strengthen migrant household economic preparedness. Nevertheless, longitudinal evaluation remains necessary to establish sustained economic and environmental outcomes.

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