COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND THE CREATION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE

This study aims to analyse the role of community development on the success of national development. By using qualitative study, this study reveals that community development has many benefits in supporting the success of development in terms of increasing active participation in every process of development, increasing the quality of development planning based on the results of relevant studies of identification of fundamental needs of community, and ecological effects toward environment, and increasing the independence of the public to continue to promote forms of culture and local wisdom. Finally, the results reveal that community development is capable of enhancing the role and function of local institutions in the community institutionalization in order to realize the concept of local community based development.