UPAYA MERUBAH PARADIGMA DALAM RANGKA MENINGKATKAN PENDAPATAN MASYARAKAT BERBASIS KOMUNITAS

Abstract

Poverty is identified with laziness and lack of community entrepreneurship, even though this perspective is not entirely true. In fact the statement "The Sumba People Are Lazy" denied by the people themselves. But why conditions have not really changed, even though assistance through poverty alleviation programs continues. The spirit of social entrepreneurship actually arises from some people who are actually ordinary people, they only have dreams that the people around him live better lives. Poverty must be
thrown away, and the people must throw it away themselves. The church is one of the
institutions in the community, which every week interacts with the congregation. Based
on the background above, the problem of this research is that the paradigm / mindset of
the community addresses the life and livelihood that they have lived so far. There are
two focus issues; 1) How to change the paradigm/mindset of the community? 2) How
much increase in people's income after experiencing a paradigm / mindset change? This
study aims to find out 1) paradigm/mindset changes that occur in the community, and 2)
Increased income of the people of Kamalapia village. Analysis tools are linear
development analysis and free trend analysis. This study concludes that, 1) There has
been a development of paradigm/mindset changes in Kamalapia society for some
people, that work will change their lives, and giving starts becomes a new habit for
them, namely through tithing and activity participation, so that there is a paradigm shift
towards abundant mentality, 2) There is an increase in family income that occurs
during 6 months of assistance in stages up to 500 percent, from Rp. 300,000, to Rp.
1,500,000.