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Titi Darmi
Department of Public Administration, Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu, Indonesia
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Political Dynamics of Village Head Elections and Community Empowerment Outcomes: A Comparative Study Across Bengkulu Districts Rekho Adriadi; Titi Darmi; Tri Agustin; Oktari Dwi Miranti
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.v1i1.730

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Village head elections (Pemilihan Kepala Desa, or Pilkades) are among the most consequential yet understudied political events in Indonesia’s decentralized governance system, determining not only who leads a village but also, indirectly, how subsequent development and empowerment programs are designed and distributed. Existing literature on Pilkades has documented the prevalence of patronage, vote-buying, and clientelistic campaign practices at the grassroots level, while a separate body of literature examines the outcomes of village-level community empowerment programs financed through instruments such as the Village Fund. These two literatures, however, are rarely connected: few studies trace the specific causal pathway linking electoral dynamics candidate strategies, patronage networks, and campaign promises to the concrete design and distributional outcomes of empowerment programs implemented after a winning candidate takes office. This study addresses that gap through a comparative case study employing process tracing across three villages located in three districts of Bengkulu Province, each having experienced a competitive Pilkades under Indonesia’s simultaneous village election framework. Drawing on key informant interviews, electoral campaign documentation, and post-election program evaluation reports, the study traces the causal chain connecting electoral strategy and patronage structure to subsequent empowerment program design and beneficiary targeting. Findings indicate that villages where election victory depended heavily on patronage networks and vote-buying subsequently exhibited empowerment programs skewed toward loyalist beneficiary groups and narrower participatory processes, whereas villages where election competition centered more on programmatic platforms exhibited broader-based, more participatory empowerment program design.
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

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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

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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.
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

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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.
Collaborative Governance in Village Fund-Based Community Empowerment: An Institutional Bricolage Study in Bengkulu's Marginal Villages Titi Darmi; Rosidin Rosidin; Lutvia Liyan Sari; Ella Martina Chayati
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.v1i1.727

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This study examines how collaborative governance is practiced in the management of Village Funds (Dana Desa) in marginal villages of Bengkulu Province, Indonesia, through the analytical lens of institutional bricolage. While national policy on Village Fund allocation assumes a uniform, rule-based model of village governance, marginal villages characterized by geographic isolation, limited administrative capacity, and thin economic bases frequently experience a mismatch between formal regulatory design and local realities. Employing a multi-site qualitative case study across three purposively selected marginal villages, this research explores the mechanisms through which local actors village officials, customary leaders, community facilitators, and citizens reassemble, borrow, and improvise informal collaboration norms when formal rules prove inadequate or unresponsive to local conditions. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, direct field observation, and document review, and were analyzed using an institutional bricolage framework encompassing borrowing, aggregation, alteration, and legitimation processes. The findings reveal that village fund governance in marginal contexts is not merely an implementation of central policy but an ongoing, socially embedded process of institutional reconstruction that blends bureaucratic procedure with customary practice, kinship-based reciprocity, and religious norms. This bricolage produces hybrid collaborative arrangements that both extend and constrain community empowerment outcomes. The study contributes a novel theoretical application of institutional bricolage to village fund collaborative governance a sub-field dominated by program-effectiveness evaluation and offers policy recommendations for accommodating institutional pluralism in marginal village development.
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

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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.
Monitoring and Evaluation of Micro-Enterprises Established by Returned Indonesian Migrant Workers: Follow-Up Community Assistance with PCIM Hong Kong Titi Darmi; Rosidin; Lutvia Liyan Sari Wann; Ella Martina Chayati
Economy and Finance Enthusiastic Vol. 2 No. 2 (2024): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/efe.v2i2.751

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Returning Indonesian migrant workers may establish micro-enterprises after overseas employment, but initial training and business assistance do not establish whether these activities remain operational. This 2024 follow-up community service program, implemented by Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and PCIM Hong Kong, documented enterprise status and financial-management practices among beneficiaries of a 2023 incubation initiative. Monitoring combined reviews of original business plans, field observations, interviews, four focus group discussions, and corrective mentoring. Of 35 original beneficiaries, 28 (80.0%) were reached and evaluated; the remaining seven had unverified enterprise status. The monitoring report describes approximately 33% of evaluated enterprises as continuing broadly as planned, 36% as having adapted their activities, and 31% as discontinued. These percentages are rounded summaries rather than independently verified beneficiary counts. Qualitative evidence suggested that basic transaction recording was more consistently practiced than separation of business and household cash. Participants with ongoing enterprises described supplementary household-income and social-participation roles, but the report provided no complete turnover, profit, or income dataset. The follow-up identified a need for repeated enterprise-status checks, feasible market assessment, simple cash-management tools, and sustained mentoring. The findings describe early post-return enterprise trajectories, not causal effects of the incubation program or verified long-term economic outcomes.
Psychosocial and Economic Reintegration of Returned Indonesian Migrant Workers: A Diaspora-Engaged Community Service Partnership with PCIM Hong Kong Titi Darmi; Sri Indarti; Alya Eka Safitri; Sesilia Preti Sinta
Economy and Finance Enthusiastic Vol. 3 No. 2 (2025): July-December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59535/efe.v3i2.756

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Returned Indonesian migrant workers who have experienced labor exploitation may face overlapping psychosocial, economic, and family reintegration challenges. This article examines an eleven-month community service partnership between Universitas Muhammadiyah Bengkulu and PCIM Hong Kong that linked pre-return identification and accompaniment in Hong Kong with post-return assistance in Bengkulu Province. The participatory, strengths-based program enrolled 45 returned workers (40 women and five men) and involved 12 family members in a family reintegration track. Implementation combined trauma-informed group psychosocial support, financial literacy education, participatory micro-business planning, and peer-support group formation. Program monitoring drew on pre- and post-intervention self-report assessments, observations, focus group discussions, and interviews. All 45 workers completed the psychosocial and financial literacy modules. Participants developed 28 individual or group micro-business plans, 19 of which had become operational by November 2025 (67.9% of plans). Three peer-support groups were established in Bengkulu City, Seluma, and Central Bengkulu. The final report describes improvements in self-reported wellbeing, self-efficacy, household financial planning, and family communication, although numerical baseline and follow-up scores were not available for independent effect-size estimation. Participants with more severe exploitation histories showed more limited perceived psychosocial improvement. The program illustrates the practical value of a cross-border referral-to-reintegration pathway combining diaspora access and origin-country facilitation. Future implementation should strengthen severity-sensitive psychosocial referrals, longer-term outcome monitoring, and access to business finance.
Co-Authors Afriza Putrianti Alya Eka Safitri Ella Martina Chayati Ella Martina Chayati Inderi Lara Safitri Lutvia Liyan Sari Lutvia Liyan Sari Wann Oktari Dwi Miranti Rekho Adriadi Rice Parenra Rosidin Rosidin Rosidin Sesilia Preti Sinta Sri Indarti Sri Indarti Tri Agustin Tri Agustin