PROGRAMS OF COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT, VILLAGE GOVERNMENT AND ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN INDONESIAN

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.