The family welfare empowerment movement (PKK) as a structure relationship and agent in community empowerment

This research is motivated by the fact that that women have great potential in poverty alleviation activities through community and group empowerment. One of the organisations that is expected to become a potential container for development is Family Welfare Empowerment (PKK). The demand for PKK's flexibility to become a development agent and change agent is stronger, because PKK is one of the organisations working at the civil society level in improving family welfare and it is more effective because of the cadres reaching up to the village level. In today's democracy, it is interesting to examine how the PKK works, as an organisation formed by the government from the central to the village level, capable to act as an ideal female empowerment agency. The use of the structural theory from Giddens is used to look at the relationships of structures and actors within the PKK's institutions, in its ability to respond to new challenge, so there needs to be a substantive renewal in the work program and organisational management in the future. Data was collected using a qualitative approach, with in-depth interviews and participatory observation, in the PKK of the Sleman District. The role of the Chairperson of the PKK Mover Team with its various powers based on the basic rules of the PKK, enables agents to transform their formal power into a relatively unlimited capacity to produce creative actions in turning constraints into opportunities; so this is why the PKK today still remains and exists as a women's empowerment organisation. © 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.