ABSTRACT
The aim
want to reach in this research is to evaluate degree of societies’
participation to programa rural development, especially programa of village’s
road development at Lais Sub District Regency of Bengkulu Utara. The
analyze method used to explain degree of societies’ participation to programa
rural development with involvement indicator in planning stage, implementation,
give and bennefitted the result, and supervising, appraisal, also maintenance
the result is descriptive method with quantitative approach use Likert Scale with 5 (five) scales, i.e very good, good,
enough good, not good and worst.
Results
of the research showed that (1) degree of society’s involvement in planning
stage with percentage 70.44% in good criteria, (2) degree of society’s
involvement in planning stage with percentage 56.50% in enough good criteria, (3)
degree of society’s involvement in take and utilize result stage with
percentage 49.60% in enough good criteria, (4) degree of society’s involvement
in supervising, assessment, maintenance stage with percentage 39.43% in not good
criteria is a dominant factor causes village’s road damage and (5) totally
degree of society’s involvement of fourth stage rural street development with
percentage 55.99% in enough good criteria.
Keywords: Participation, Society, Rural Development