Management of the Jaranan Market Cultural Village

Study of Cool Neighborhoods in Blitar City

Abstract

 The importance of community participation in the development process means that community participation needs to be developed and improved in quality. To improve the quality of community participation, the role of sub-district level government as the lowest level government organization is needed. It is hoped that this will have implications for increasing community welfare starting from the bottom so that each region's various local potentials can be better absorbed. Through Blitar Mayor Regulation Number 6 of 2022 concerning the Cool Neighborhood Program, the Blitar City Government is trying to increase the participation of the Blitar City community starting from the neighborhood association (RT) level to be directly involved in the development process in their respective RT areas, coordinated by the respective Subdistrict Governments. This research aims to describe and analyze the implementation of management policies for the Pasar Jaranan Cultural Village in Blitar Village, along with supporting and inhibiting factors. This research uses a qualitative approach with research procedures that produce descriptive data. The research location is in Blitar Village, Sukorejo District, Blitar City. Data sources include primary and secondary data. The data collection techniques used were observation, interviews and documentation. The interactive data analysis technique model from Miles, Huberman, and Saldana (2014) is used for data analysis techniques in this research. The research results show that implementing the Cool Neighbors Association Program in the Blitar Subdistrict to manage the Pasar Jaranan Cultural Village has gone quite well. The Blitar Subdistrict Government has worked according to its commitment, supported by active community participation. However, activity output is still found to be unsustainable. Apart from that, it is also known that there are factors that support the implementation of this program, namely high enthusiasm, initiative and community self-help, and the inhibiting factor is the lack of insight and understanding of the community regarding the concept and management of a cultural village.