Pemberdayaan Komite Sekolah Oleh Kepala Sekolah Pada Sdit Nurul Fikri Aceh Besar

: The empowerment of school committee is one of important factorsto succeed education programs including short-term programs, mid-term programs, and long-term program. This research aimedto find out a description of how the empowerment of school committee implemented, school committee empowerment strategies, and obstacles faced by principal in empowering school committee. The approach used was qualitative approach with descriptive method. Data was collected through observation, interview, and documentation study. The research subjects were principal, vice-principal, teachers and school committee. The result showed that:(1) The development program of school committee includedregular meetings, School Budget Planning, semester report, routine activity, feast, market day, birthday school celebration, educational visit, competition, and delivering progress and setback the schools achieved. However, the result was not effective enough. (2) The empowerment strategy of school committee was implemented through regular meetings, parent's meeting, routine activities, feast, market day, school birthday celebration, educational visit, school information, and culture transparency in school management. (3) The obstacles faced in empowering school committeewere the committee itself did not create the program. The low of economic factor, unconcerned education, and lack of time were also the obstacles faced in empowering the school committee so that the implementation of school committee empowerment was less effective