Abstract:
This paper contributes to existing programs of community empowerment, village
government and ecological footprint on environmentalliterature by analysing the implication
of programs and village government on index of ecological footprint in the context
ofIndonesia.The link between development such as programs of community empowerment,
village government and ecological footprint has been discussedbut the empirical evidence in
Indonesia is less investigated.This study aims to examine the link between programs of
community empowerment, village govenmentand index of ecological footprint in
Indonesia.We measure environmental degradation by ecological footprint. Village
Government is gauged by village representative board and village internal budget.Programs
of community empowerment is measured by maintenence of the village infrastructure,
improvement of economy capacity and social capacity. We used a unique national
village/community neighbourhoods census (Podes) 2011 consisting 77,961
villages/community neighborhoods and Indonesian-Environmental Care Behavior Survey
2013 consisting 276,789 household. Logistic model is conducted to drive the ways in which
the distribution of village government, programs of community empowerment and
ecological footprint. The discoveries expose strong support for the causal flow running from
programs of community empowerment to ecological footprint index. All instruments are
highly connected with ecological footprint index.
