Abstract:
Governance management reforms at the beginning were expected to involve three components
(stakeholders) which are; the country, communities and the private sector. Each component is
determined by its own standard role according to the used paradigms of development. The
development paradigm must be parallel with the changing paradigm of Government which demand the
balance in the same responsibility for community development and empowerment. However,
unfortunately, the applied development concept in many developing countries experienced for a failure.
Riau Province within one decade has its economic growth over 7% per year on average. But in fact,
most of the residents of Riau Province have not attained that economic growth. Based on the described
phenomenon it is needed for theoritical study to find a model of community empowerment in
accordance with local potential. Therefore, in this occasion I posed the following research title; “Policy
Model of Development and Empowerment in Conflict-Prone Border Region towards the Reliant
Community."
From what's disclosed the research problems are formulated as follows;
1. How are the community’s views on local government towards development activities in border areas
(economic, social, cultural, political and public service) in Riau?
2. How does the local Government view on the Community area on the borders of conflict-prone in
Riau?
3. What are the factors and efforts to support the community development and empowerment towards
the reliance community in conflict-prone areas in Riau?
4. What kind of policy model of development and empowerment that can dampen the community
conflict in conflict-prone area in Riau?
As for the goals of this research are:
a. to ind out and to analyze the community’s views on local government towards development activities
in border areas (economic, social, cultural, political and public service) in Riau
b. to know and to analyse the view of local governments on the community in the area of conflict-prone
border in Riau.
c. to know and to analyse the factors and efforts to support the community development and
empowerment towards the reliance community in conflict-prone areas in Riau
d. to drafting and to formulate policy model of development and empowerment that can dampen the
community conflict in conflict-prone area in Riau
To answer those questions, theoritically the policy model approach is used. The applied Model is using
a combination of concepts and elaborating policy models that correspond to the question of
development and empowerment in each region at the border. Therefore, this research method is
designed using a mixed methods approach which is qualitative and quantitative. This is the method for
making overlapped between a method with other methods.
