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Assistance in modern agricultural technology is the implementation of the government's strategic policy to improve people's welfare. However, policy implementation can work effectively if a comprehensive evaluation program has been conducted. Therefore, this study evaluates an agricultural technical assistance program through the aspiration of legislative members of Yogyakarta in 2014-2016.
The objectives of this research are: (1) to map the distribution of aid to the community; (2) to describe the results of the evaluation of agricultural technology assistance program for community empowerment with indicators of program understanding, responsiveness, effectiveness, efficiency and the impact of the program.
The research was done by qualitative-quantitative method (mix methods). Data were collected by interview and questionnaires from 98 respondents in Yogyakarta.
The results showed that the mapping of agricultural technology program assistance is required in four areas, namely coastal, forestry, rice fields/fields, and mountains area. The implementation of aid programs can be channeled to the community as a kind of beneficiary issue. Meanwhile, the evaluation of the tested program, based on the results of the hypothesis testing, is accepted.
Keywords: Program evaluation, agricultural technology assistance, and community empowerment.
1.Introduction
Indonesia is an agricultural country, so agriculture becomes an important sector in the national economy. This is seen by the large number of people working in the agricultural sector (Breman, 1983). Agricultural sector policy will be useful for national development. Thus, strategic policy needs to be designed in accordance with needs that will have a direct impact on the economic improvement of the society (Mubyarto, 1989).
The agricultural sector, directly facing food, is natural when food security becomes a strategic study to improve welfare (Tauchid, 2007). Increasing welfare in the agricultural sector, is not good to rule out the performance of the people in the informal sector. The performance of this sector consists of several clusters; agriculture, fisheries, forestry, coastal, labor, domestic workers, and others (Rahardjo, 1986). Thus, the government through legislative members directly related to the sector of informal performance is the commission of four in the region of Yogyakarta; fisheries, marine, agriculture, and animal husbandry sectors (DPR RI, 2016). The role of legislative commission, as a function of oversight, has a central role in strengthening the food sector by advocating for the government (Setiawan, 2003). This...