Foreword From Editors - 19th Edition: Community Stewardship Towards Sustainable Futures

Yatmo, Yandi Andri
Paramita, Kristanti Dewi
Suryantini, Rini

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement
Vol. 10, No. 1

The discussions highlighted from the articles in this AJCE edition focuses on the institutionalization, process, and implication of community in stewarding their living environment. Such focus expands the community engagement discourse, highlighting how the act of stewardships creates a sense of shared responsibility of actors to their shared spaces and resources. In turn, this shared responsibility enables the community to shift from passive act of participation to active empowerment, creates social cohesion, and establishes local governance. Such a shift towards active empowerment and shared responsibility is the key in building systemic resilience, towards a more sustainable future for society.