The Role and Function of Cooperatives inEducating the Community

Abstract

A state in maintaining its existence must be able to meet the basic needs of its citizens both aspects of education, health, economy and social welfare. One way to increase the needs of the community is that there needs to be a focus and hope, one of which is through cooperatives. The existence of this cooperative is the focus and hope as an effort to improve social life and social life and economic life of the community around the area of a cooperative. The development of cooperatives in Indonesia ranging from plosok-plosok to urban areas makes this cooperative in demand by many people. However, due to the large number of cooperatives whose management is unprofessional and unincorporated, many cooperatives are bogus that harm the community. The purpose of this education is to provide knowledge to the community about how a cooperative is said to be good and bad. As well as how the process of establishing a cooperative. The education method provided is through public education through information from resource persons. Provide examples of how to establish a cooperative and after providing knowledge at the end of the session, a question and answer session was opened so that participants could understand better