Empowering Women in Independent Household Waste Management towards Smart Environment in Magelang City

The increasing number of household waste, without proper mitigation, is able to trigger global warming. One of the efforts to mitigate threats to people’s welfare from numerous disease factors is the management of household waste into beneficial and environment-friendly material. Legok Makmur is the first organic village in Magelang City. It began by participating in the socialization and mentoring from Non-Government Organizations engaged in the field of environmental health, the household waste and management organic village movement, involved only 20 households. The purpose this study are to analyze the empowerment activities of household waste management by the women in Legok Makmur Village; to analyze the factors that promoted the awareness of the women to participate in the program’s to manage household and waste and; to formulate policy recommendations so that the women are able to improve their living environment’s quality. The applied approach is qualitative descriptive with flow model analysis technique. Research site was in Legok Makmur Village, Magelang City. Data collection technique used interview, documentation, and observation. This research possesses a significant importance for it contributes to the discovery of the source of the issue of women empowerment program in Indonesia’s urban area is not yet optimal.