Strategies to Increase the Degree of Cooperative Participation in the Implementation of Cooperative Empowerment Policies in West Java Province

This research is based on the main problem, namely the strategy of increasing cooperative participation in the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies which is considered to be still not optimal. This research was conducted using a mixed methods approach, which is a procedure for collecting, analyzing, and mixing qualitative and quantitative methods in a study. The results of this study are a) the participation of cooperatives is in accordance with Arnestein's exposure to the first degree in the theory of the degree of participation, namely non-participation which consists of ladder manipulation and therapy. b) While the measurement results of the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies in West Java Province resulted in: 1) Policy Size and Objectives had not gone well, 2) Resource factors that led to the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies were not effective 3) Communication factors between organization and implementation activities that cause the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies has not been effective. 4) Characteristic factors of implementing institutions that cause the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies have not been effective. 5) The factors of economic, social and political environmental conditions that cause the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies have not been effective. 6) The attitude factor / disposition of the implementer that causes the implementation of the cooperative empowerment policy has not been effective. The results of the analysis of strategies for increasing cooperative participation in the implementation of cooperative empowerment policies obtained the highest value with the most appropriate strategy applied to increase cooperative participation in implementing cooperative empowerment policies in West Java Province