Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Law and Local Wisdom in Tourism (ICBLT 2022)

The Role of Informal Leaders in Efforts of Economic Empowerment of the Local Crafts Community

Authors
Rizki Yudha Bramantyo1, *, Bambang Pujiono1, Arrum Normasari1
1Faculty of Law, Kadiri University, East Java, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: rizki_bramantyo@unik-kediri.ac.id
Corresponding Author
Rizki Yudha Bramantyo
Available Online 25 January 2023.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-93-0_106How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Informal leaders; empowerment; local crafts
Abstract

The dependence of the community on informal leaders who act as traditional leaders, community leaders, certain cultural instruments is very high. This is because the community members believe that traditional leaders have certain abilities and advantages. The community believes that the presence of traditional leaders can bring peace and harmony. It can represent society to relate to ancestors. Traditional leaders are mediators between the community and their ancestors in relation to spiritual rituals. Thus, informal leaders/customary leaders have an important position and role. He is not only a traditional leader who acts as a community leader in customary law and protects ancestral traditions, but also as a figure who acts as a government mediator in the social and customary fields. In this social function, Informal Leaders have the role and ability to represent and represent the community in all fields including the economy and the pursuit of prosperity. This research is a doctrinal research with a literature approach that analyzes informal leadership theories with their potential to empower the local community they lead. The results show that informal leaders have a role to voice, sell, participate in and delegate various systems of cooperation that have the potential to empower the local artisans’ economy.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Business Law and Local Wisdom in Tourism (ICBLT 2022)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
25 January 2023
ISBN
10.2991/978-2-494069-93-0_106
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-494069-93-0_106How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2023 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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