Community Motivation and Behavior on the Achievement of Rural Infrastructure Development Program in Gowa and North Toraja Regencies of South Sulawesi Province

摘要

The Rural Infrastructure Development Program (RIDP) is a government program that was held from 1995 until present to balance the development gap between rural and urban areas. This program was held in all provinces in Indonesia, in villages in turns. The success of the program depends largely on the level of participation of the village community in the location of the program based on the aspects of community empowerment. The Rural Infrastructure Development Program is one of the programs initiated by the government in the context of alleviating poverty in rural communities through rural infrastructure development. This program is a community empowerment program in content that all activities are carried out by the community and accompanied by technical facilitators. The substance of the activity is in the community of villages thus, the community participation will determine the achievement of the program. The program's objectives include increasing the capacity of the program management apparatus, transparency of knowledge to the village community, opening up the isolation between the villages in the marketing area and improving the economic value of rural communities. Research location was in South Sulawesi Province. The consideration of choosing the two regencies from 23 regencies in South Sulawesi, namely Gowa Regency and North Toraja Regency, was because those two regencies have different ethnic and community characteristics. The population is a number of people in the village who received assistance in the two regencies. Samples were determined based on the provisions of the SEM Method for four variables as many as 250 samples/respondents. This study concluded that, motivation has a significant effect on behavior and technical support. But, it did not have significant effect on the achievements of the RIDP. Behavior has a significant effect on the achievements of the RIDP. While, community technical support has a significant effect on the achievements of the RIDP.