The role of communications in improving community participation in development

The study aims to determine how to address communication in increasing community participation and to determine the role of communication in development. Development is one of the correct alternatives in overcoming various problems that arise in the community. Communication has a central role in increasing community participation to contribute to the planning and development. Communication psychologically is an interaction to convey a more easily understood by thinking. The methods used in this study use a library research method or approach. This method is intended to examine more deeply the role of communication in the development of community empowerment. The result of communication about development is a strategy that emphasizes the need for development socialization with development actors in the form of spreading messages by a person or group to the public to change their attitudes, opinions, and behaviors to improve external progress and internal satisfaction to achieve development goals whose benefits can be felt by all equally. From this, it can conclude that communication for development adheres to the principles of development modernization by positioning the government no higher than those who only form a model of communication from top to bottom in society