Possitive Transformation of Appreciative Inquiry in Community Development Concept for Increase Indonesian Empowered (My Paper Resume)

Reformation era which happened in 1998 give change effect that made autonomy territory policy. This process caused significant chance especially for development interconnection, took decision in planning actuating and monitoring of development. In other hand, Prof. Gunandjar Kartasasmita tell that autonomy territory practice still face problem like lack of creativity and critical and rational people participation.

Reaching people development goals for achieve more empowered, active participation, and full of creativity in 2002 government committed to broad Indonesia become free poverty country in 2015. Otherwise UNDP notes that in the last decade Indonesian people quality getting worse.

Because of that condition it need approach people development with Community Development (CD). CD is “…the process of developing a broad network of interaction in order to increase community capacity, support sustainable development and improve the rural quality of life (USDA, 2001).”

Approach in developing people can be see from deficit based and strength bsed paradigm. Growth in strength based paradigm born new method that called by Appreciative Inquiry