PROGRAM KEMITRAAN MASYARAKAT KELOMPOK USAHA KERAJINAN ANYAM PANDAN DI KECAMATAN RAJAPOLAH KABUPATEN TASIKMALAYA

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The aim of Program Kemitraan masyarakat (PKM) is to assist UKM in their development in order to be more advanced and improve their business so they can live prosperously. The way in which the team in improving the welfare of these UKM begins with the analysis of the situation to the field to write problems faced Partners, ranging from raw material procurement to marketing. In this devotion, the Team has helped on: 1) procurement of raw materials. 2) Lay Out / arrangement of space in (Interior). The method of applying the program begins with the coordination and socializes with the Partner responsible. Pandan plant species are considered quite expensive and not easily obtained around us, because almost 80% of raw materials imported from outside the district of Rajapolah, such as from Sleman, Bekasi, and from Singaparna. If the raw materials are available in the local population, this will be easily obtained at a very affordable (cheap) price. By way of cultivation of these raw materials should be encouraged, we rented the land where the raw material is planted by assisted by the plant experts. (biology). Arrangement of inner space (Interior), the intention is to organize the interior production room, it is functioning once to streamline the production flow, improve the product (result), guaranteed from the security and facilitated the comfort factor. With two ways of solving implemented to Partners, Partners are helped in their efforts to improve their production.

Keywords: handicrafts, pandanus woven, rajapolah and tasikmalaya