Faktualisasi Pendampingan Sosial dalam Peningkatan Usaha Ekonomi Produktif Masyarakat Miskin (Studi pada Kabupaten Buton Selatan dan Kolaka, Sulawesi Tenggara)

This study aims to look at an overview of productive economic efforts and social assistance carried out at the research sites, namely in South Buton District and Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi Province. This study used descriptive qualitative methods with independent interviewers followed by focus group discussion (FGD) on 17 informants in the South Buton District and nine informants (assistants) in Kolaka Regency and two critical informants from the social services of Southeast Sulawesi Province. The results of the study show that: 1) The productive economic business of the poor who receive assistance from the government has gone well, with limited capacity possessed by the assistants. Productive commercial enterprises can be seen from two things, namely: a) Types, benefits, and business synchronisation; where the type of business being run must come from the recipient of assistance and synchronise with the government program. Various benefits obtained by the poor from the Ministry of Social Affairs program in the form of aid to this effort, both in the form of KUBE and UEP, including the business potential that has been owned by the poor because there is no working capital can be overcome besides the economy in the area is also increasingly passionate. b) The potential of productive economic enterprises in the two research locations is still very high, the extent of both areas characterises this, the possibility of agriculture, fisheries, energy, the trade which are still mostly untapped so that if all of these can be optimised then productive economic efforts can develop optimally. 2) Mentoring has gone well even though there are still limitations that the facilitators have, including limited coordination skills, basic abilities, analytical skills, technological utilisation abilities, and entrepreneurship skills.