Strategy for Improving the Role of the Creative Economy Through Community Empowerment

Abstract

This article aims to explore and understand the role and empowerment of communities in the creative economy sector, focusing on their ability to further develop through the enhancement of existing skills. The role and empowerment of the community are carried out as an effort to improve the quality of community welfare through the creative economy, which includes family welfare, empowering the poor, elevating the dignity of the lower-class society, and positioning the community as the subject in taking action. Village communities, with their limited knowledge in living the activities of the creative economy as small businesses in the traditional sector, face limited infrastructure and governmental access, which becomes one of the inhibiting factors for the development and growth of the economy at both regional and national levels in general. Furthermore, maqashid shariah is used as a perspective in observing the implementation of the creative economy, where Islam has guaranteed the right to life for everyone in the same position by establishing fundamental elements in the shari'ah guidelines, namely the preservation of religion, life, lineage, wealth, and intellect. This research used the literature study method, which was a method used by the author to collect several books or journals related to the research theme. Thus, the literature study was a research method conducted by using books, journals, and other literature as reading materials, notes, and sources of information in researching to provide answers to the problems that were studied.