Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Dalam Pengembangan Ekonomi Melalui Badan Usaha Milik Desa (BUMDES) Sialang Sejahtera Desa Sialang Kayu Batu Kecamatan Bunut Kabupaten Pelalawan

Community empowerment in development through BUMDes must be addressed by the parties involved in empowerment by providing power and encouragement to the community to be able to improve community skills and creativity in the development of economic activities. The development of Village Owned Enterprises as the economic basis of residents currently still has many obstacles, including the lack of understanding of residents about BUMDes, management, services, the absence of social media, and the involvement of facilitators, These obstacles hinder the ideals of BUMDes as a driving force for the village economy and increase village income, support business development, and reduce unemployment and poverty. The purpose of this study was to find out about community empowerment carried out by related parties in economic development through the Village-Owned Enterprises (BUMDes) Sialang Sejahtera in Sialang Kayu Batu village. This study uses Slamet's theory (in Totok, 2020) with five indicators, namely socialization of activities, community awareness, community organizing, village development planning, and implementation of activities. This research is quite good by using a descriptive survey type with a quantitative method which explains the actual situation obtained in the research and the data obtained which is used as a reference in analyzing each variable indicator used in this study. Then the sampling technique used in the study is census sampling technique, and data collection techniques are using observation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. The type of data used is primary data and secondary data. For the results of this study, all of the respondents' answers to the questionnaire were in the Good Enough category, in this study, according to the author, there are still many things that need to be improved on community empowerment through BUMDes, it can be seen from the absence of social media, lack of public awareness to participate in the development of BUMDes and inadequate facilities and infrastructure