Abstract:
Presidential Instruction number 9 year 2000 stated that every development program that held in Indonesia must approach with gender issue between man and women in that program. That?s why this research aims to know about social participation by gender in the empowerment of local food community in Tempel Sub-District, Sleman Regency. Research method that is used was qualitative methods with case study approach. This research held in Mororejo Village, Tempel Sub-District. This location selected purposively because that village is the only one village which has the group of local food empowerment. Data gathered by observation, interview, and documentation. The results showed that women dominated in every empower activity, such as training of local food processing, arisan, local food contest, and products manufacture in home. Man only participated in heavy work such as harvesting cassava and accompanies his spouse to shop other ingredients in traditional market, also helps them to market the product. Those empowerment activities holds to give another alternative in local food processing that have a higher price to give supplementary income for their family.
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