INFLUENCE OF COMMUNITY’ PARTICIPATION, MOTIVATION, BEHAVIOR AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM IN NORTH GOWA AND TORAJA REGENCIES, SOUTH SULAWESI, INDONESIA

The Rural Infrastructure Development Program (RIDP) is a government program that was held in all provinces in Indonesia from 2007 to the present to balance the development gap between rural and urban areas. This program aims to alleviate poverty in rural communities through rural infrastructure development. The success of the program depends largely on the level of participation of the village community in the location of the program based on aspects of community empowerment. This program is a community empowerment program in content that all activities are carried out by the community and accompanied by technical facilitators. The substance of the activity is in the community of villages so that the participation of the community will determine the achievement of the program. The program's objectives include increasing the capacity of the program management apparatus, transparency of knowledge in the village community, opening up the isolation between the villages in the marketing area and improving the economic value of rural communities. The objective of the study was to analyze the influence of Community participation, behavior, motivation and technical support on the RIDP achievement East Sulawesi. Research location in South Sulawesi Province. Which was determined in two of 23 regencies or cities in South Sulawesi, namely Gowa and North Toraja Regencies, with consideration of the two regencies having different ethnic groups and characters. Samples were determined based on the provisions of the SEM Method for four variables as many as 250 samples respondents. The analytical method used is Structural Equational Modeling (SEM) Partial Least square (PLS) Version 3.2.7. The results showed that Motivation had a significant effect on the achievement of the RIDP program, directly or through moderator variables. Variable participation did not influence directly to RIDP achievement, but that effect was magnified by both the moderator variables. All moderator variables affected the achievements of the RIDP program.