Effect of Women Empowerment to Women in Development in Songket Industry, South Sumatera Indonesia

Abstract

Songket is a custom fabric of South Sumatera Province that has high culture and historical value. Songket always used by King of Srivijaya Kingdom and currently, songket is very famous and always become the pride of South Sumatera residents. Most of the labor in this industry is women. Using quantitative analysis with 88 sample female songket labors, this study found significant effect on women Empowerment with women in development of 70.1 percent. This shows that education, economic empowerment, psychological empowerment, social culture empowerment and political empowerment should be owned by women so that this woman's position will be able to play a role in economic status and women's destiny in particular and economic development in general.