The Economic Empowerment Through Entrepreneurship and Cooperatives for the Harmonization in Society

The community has disharmony and potential conflicts caused by traumatic from terrorism arrests, so it requires anticipation in empowerment activities as a social and economic rehabilitation of the community. Therefore, the study aims to create economic empowerment models in entrepreneur and cooperative institutions for the harmonization of society. Study used qualitative research methods of Participatory Action Research (PAR). Data was collected through interviews, documentation, observation, and Focus Group Discussion. Informants have been purposive selected form each research location i.e. 25 people from the entrepreneurship group and cooperatives. Research location Binangun District of Cilacap Regency in Central Java and Cikoneng District of Ciamis Regency in West Java. The research analysis through triangulation, seeking diversity and investigation with society. The results showed the implementation of community economic empowerment model, it was succesful to set the spirit and togetherness to improve knowledge and skills of entrepreneurship and cooperatives, execute a program extension, training and comparative study. The successfully implemented to monitoring and evaluation in the form of assistance, expansion of market access and partnership, and then managed to become rehabilitation process of mental, social and economic from the traumatic, negative stigma and disharmony in the community after the event of arresing terrorism suspected.