Effectiveness of the Food Sector Msme Assistance Program Effectiveness During the Pandemic of Covid 19 to Improve Community Welfare

— This study aims to determine the effectiveness of community empowerment through micro-enterprise assistance in improving the welfare of meatball traders in Jakarta which has been carried out by Dompet Dhuafa. The research strategy is a descriptive quantitative method with a qualitative approach. Descriptive method is a method used to describe, explain, record and analyze conditions what is and is happening from the results of the interview. Collecting data and analyzing data by seeking opinions from the subjects studied using a questionnaire to determine the effectiveness of the mentoring program. The population in this study were all meatball traders who participated in mentoring in Jakarta. With a total population of 50 small traders. The type of sampling chosen in this study was purposive sampling. The number of samples is 50 MSME/PTM "saturated samples". The primary data obtained was processed using MS Excel. Statistical analysis of data in this study is descriptive analysis. The results of this study indicate that: (1) In the group mentoring program: the first group meeting is considered effective by members of PTM 5; secondly, group monitoring related to business development is considered less effective by members of PTM 5; thirdly, monitoring of healthy and halal production processes is considered to be less effective by members of PTM 5. (2) In increasing the capacity of partners through training: first, training on entrepreneurship motivation is considered effective by members of PTM 5; secondly, food safety training and training qualitative test were considered less effective by members of PTM 5; the three institutional trainings were considered effective by PTM 5 members. (3) In terms of financial assistance, PTM 5 members considered it quite effective, they felt very helped by the existence of the financial assistance program.


INTRODUCTION
The UMKM assistance program is carried out by PT.Miwon Indonesia and Dompet Dhuafa for meatball traders.Dompet Dhuafa plays a role in: selection of traders, procurement of business equipment.It even extends to providing intensive assistance to aspects of the progress and stability of the meatball trader business.The background of this program is Miwon and Dompet Dhuafa's concern for the condition of meatball traders on a micro scale who are still limited in terms of production, managerial and marketing.The form of strengthening carried out is through venture capital assistance and business assistance for a year.In the position of this research compared to previous research, this research was assisted by supervisors in the process, in the sense that this research was carried out by more than one person and received grants.
The community empowerment program is a form of alternative development that requires the community to be able to be independent in meeting their needs.The focus is not only on beneficiary involvement in the development process but also on enabling communities to monitor it to protect their lives.As a process activity, community empowerment programs/activities should be expected to elevate people's lives as the target group become more prosperous, empowered or have inner strength meet the main needs of life, and in the end will create self-reliance in society.
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit almost all aspects of life.The world economy is struggling to get moving.Millions of businesses are fighting extinction and the economy is crashing every day.In various parts of the world almost all sectors of the economy were hit.Indonesia is no exception, there are not a few sectors that have been hit hard because there is no turnover.Particularly for business people, many have experienced a decrease in turnover which forced them to go out of business.Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs Teten Masduki said the government would prioritize policies for the MSME sector in national economic development.
Observing the conditions described above, in this study the research problem was formulated: How effective is the assistance program for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in the food sector during the Covid 19 pandemic?As well as the objectives to be achieved in this research are to determine the effectiveness of community empowerment programs through micro business assistance in improving the welfare of meatball traders in Jakarta which was carried out by PT.Miwon-Dompet Dhuafa.

Effectiveness
[1] [2] states that effectiveness is an activity measured by the size of the agreement between the goals to be achieved and the results.According to [3] effectiveness is a condition that implies the occurrence of an effect or desired effect.The word Effective means the occurrence of a desired effect in an action.Every work that is effective is not necessarily efficient, because results can be achieved but maybe by wasting thoughts, energy, time, money or objects.[4] explains effectiveness is the attainment of targets showing the degree of effectiveness.In the opinion of [4] defining effectiveness is the relationship between output and goals, the greater the contribution of output to achieving goals, the more effective the organization, program or activity.[5] explains effectiveness is carrying out activities that directly help the organization achieve various goals.
The policy effectiveness criterion is a function that is not only determined by the efficient implementation of the policy but also determined by the ability to coordinate policies minimizing side effects due to the linkages between different policy measures [6].

Community empowerment
The community empowerment program is a form of alternative development that requires the community to be able to be independent in meeting their needs.The focus is not only on the involvement of recipients in the development process but also on enabling the community to monitor it to protect their lives [7] .Empowerment is basically a process that is carried out with full awareness and participation of the parties to increase the capacity and capability of the community as a development resource so that they are able to recognize the problems faced in developing and helping themselves to a better state, able to explore and utilize available resources.for the benefit of himself and his group, and able to exist clearly by benefiting from it [8].The community empowerment process starts from making the community self-sufficient so that they can improve their own standard of living by using and accessing local resources as best they can.The main target of community empowerment is the poor.In the process, it should be noted that women will be actively involved.The community empowerment process is accompanied by a multidisciplinary team of facilitators.The community empowerment team should consist of both men and women.The main role of the community empowerment team is to assist the community in carrying out the empowerment process.The role of the community empowerment team at the beginning of the process is very active but will decrease during the process until the community is able to continue its activities independently [9].
The mentoring program model which results from research [10] and also research results [11] can be described as follows:

Chart 1. Community Empowerment Program Evaluation Flow
The concept of empowerment aims to find new alternatives in community development.Development is no longer centered on the government but is also carried out by the community alone.This is so that the community at the Micro level can be reached and influenced [12].According to [13] empowerment through processes or stages.Namely the stages of awareness, capacity building, and empowerment.The awareness stage is the stage where the target to be empowered is given "enlightenment" in the form of giving awareness that they have the right to achieve "something".[14] stated that the economy organized by the people is an economic business that is a source of family income.The people's economy is different from the people's economy.People's economy is an economic activity carried out by the people themselves by using the resources they have and aims to fulfill their daily needs, namely food, clothing and shelter.Meanwhile, populist economy is an economic system based on people's power.This study uses a quantitative descriptive method, which will examine the effectiveness of the mentoring program which can be seen from the clarity of the goals to be achieved, the clarity of the strategy for achieving the goals, and the preparation of the right program.

METHOD
Data collection techniques in this study were carried out in several ways as follows: (1) field observations ( observation ), this technique was used to directly observe the behavior and activities of meatball traders and mentoring activities.(2) indepth interviews .(3) Questionnaire, to meatball traders.(4) Documentation, this technique is used to search data by studying reading materials (literature, magazines, newspapers) and documents belonging to related agencies and archives that are relevant to the research objective.
Data obtained from secondary data analysis, primary data through interviews, questionnaires and field observations, were analyzed using the triangulation method, with the stages of data reduction, followed by data display, and ended with drawing conclusions.

Implementation of Mentoring Program
PT. MIWON Indonesia synergizes with the Independent Community-Dompet Dhuafa has concern for the problems faced by MSMEs, especially meatball traders.Meatball traders are micro business entities that fall into the category of snack food traders.In general, they can also be found and do business in urban areas such as Jakarta with heterogeneous consumer segments.Bakso is the most popular snack food in Indonesia.Fans of this snack are evenly distributed, from children to adults, so that many street vendors can be found everywhere.Meatballs are usually served as food along with noodles, broth and vegetables and spices as a complement.So that in a bowl of meatball noodles there are carbohydrates and vitamins.In food processing, it is hoped that the food we process can be preferred, good and safe for consumption.Knowledge of production management among meatball traders can be said to be still limited in terms of capacity; knowledge, attitudes and skills.
The pattern of good management of production aspects such as hygiene, capital, knowledge, attitudes and skills is the key to success for food vendors so that it greatly influences the achievement or positioning of a trader, in which the majority are dominated by small-scale meatball traders.
Seeing the conditions above, intensive and comprehensive assistance is needed, especially providing guidance towards independence for meatball traders.Therefore, since 2017 PT.MIWON Indonesia synergizes with the Mandiri-Dompet Dhuafa Community to carry out the Tangguh Miwon 5 Meatball Merchant Program, which is the fifth empowerment program for meatball traders initiated to increase their capacity from both aspects; production (food safety) and managerial (business development).This group-based empowerment program aims to make people aware of the importance of hygiene, safety and halal so that it will have an impact on increasing sales turnover by optimizing the role of local institutions that oversee their activities.
The Miwon Tangguh Merchant Program (PTM) is the fifth program for meatball traders.Previously, the Tangguh Miwon Meatball Trader Program (PTM) 1 had 38 partners spread across Pulo Gadung, the PTM 2 program had 60 meatball merchant partners spread across East Jakarta area PTM 3 with a total of 100 partners spread across the South Jakarta area, and PTM 4 with a total of 52 partners spread still in the South Jakarta area.And PTM 5 with a total of 50 meatball traders spread across Pasar Minggu, Kebagusan, Jagakarsa, Kuningan, and Pancoran.
The intensive and comprehensive mentoring program is mainly related to the increase in the meatball trader group carried out by PT.MIWON Indonesia synergizes with the Mandiri-Dompet Dhuafa Community, namely providing guidance towards independence, namely with the support of facilities in the form of; business equipment (carts and their contents), business capital, routine group coaching meetings, capacity building; attitudes, knowledge and skills, the growth of local ISM institutions (Ikhtiar Swadaya Mitra).While the length of time they have been selling is more than 16 years and over, namely as much as 54%, 5.1 -15 years as much as 30%, while under 5 years as much as 16%.

Chart 5. Average Sales
For the level of sales in general they range between: under Rp.350,000 as much as 10% while above Rp.350.00 -Rp.750.000 as much as 24% and above Rp.750,001 as much as 66%.

Group Assistance
The mentoring process is also directed at changing mindsets, behavior, adding insight and partner skills.This is done as one of the stages towards the intellectual independence of the community.The methods used in group mentoring include group meetings, group monitoring related to business (financial) development, monitoring of healthy and halal production processes.In addition, the delivery of material with a system of case studies, problem solving and field applications.
It is hoped that group meetings which are held every two weeks with a duration of approximately 60 minutes will not interfere with their sales activities.Some of the activities in the meeting were the opening, partner pledges, followed by discussions with business problems and also the obstacles faced in the miwon 5 tough trader empowerment program, strengthening materials were also given such as the material presented was group philosophy, gratitude, discipline and religion other.

A. Partner Capacity Building Through Training
In addition to increasing the capacity of partners through mentoring by assistants, also in this tough miwon 5 trader program, several trainings are also provided related to partner capacity strengthening.The trainings that will be carried out include Entrepreneurship training, Food Safety training, and Institutional Training.

Entrepreneurial Motivation Training
In this training partners will be given knowledge and motivation related to entrepreneurship.It is hoped that this training will be open and motivated partners regarding entrepreneurship and development strategies.The objectives of this training are expected to:1).Open insights related to entrepreneurship; 2).Instill entrepreneurial motivation in partners who are expected to have an impact or be applied at the level of themselves, businesses and groups; 3).Assisted partners receive training related to entrepreneurial development strategies; 4).Provide knowledge about miwon products; 5).Provide knowledge and understanding of simple financial planning

Partner Capacity Strengthening Through Food Safety Training and Qualitative Testing
The objectives of this training are: 1).Provide knowledge to meatball traders about good hygiene and sanitation; 2).Providing knowledge to meatball traders about dangerous additives; 3).Providing knowledge to meatball traders regarding safe and healthy meatball production methods.

Institutional Training
In this training partners are invited to train outside the room (outdoor).This Capacity Building training was held at Pelita Ciseeng Village, Bogor.From this Capacity Building training, it is hoped that partners/groups can improve cooperation in a team, be committed, maintain togetherness, cohesiveness within the group, so that the sustainability of this program can be realized.During this institutional training session, elections for local institutional administrators were also held.

B. Finance
In the miwon 5 tough trader empowerment program, the total financing that has been disbursed is Rp.25,000,000.-(twentyfive million rupiah) for 50 partners who are members of 6 groups, or each will receive funding of Rp. 500.000,-(fivehundred thousand rupiah).Basically, the funds that have been distributed to miwon 5 tough merchant partners are their rights.However, with the pattern of economic empowerment it is hoped that these funds can continue to roll over.So it is necessary to apply financing systems to provide learning for partners who benefit from the importance of continuing business capital/financial management, the importance of helping and helping each other.Therefore, in the miwon 5 tough trader program, the provision of business capital for miwon 5 tough trader partners applies the Qordhul Hasan contract, or benevolent loans.In this case the partner is only obliged to repay principal funds, savings, and social funds (infak).when the installments of the first group of schemes are completed they can access the funds they have repaid in installments of the same or a larger amount, increasing from the first scheme to the second scheme.Of the financing provided to partners as much as Rp.500,000, -with the installment amount agreed by the partner for a period of 5 months -10 months, while the installment amount is as follows; Compulsory Partner Installments Rp. 50,000, -(fifty thousand rupiah) Compulsory savings of Rp. 5,000, -(five thousand rupiah) and Infaq (social fund) Rp. 5,000, -(five thousand rupiah) which is paid every two weeks or once a month during routine group meetings.

Business Development
As an effort to achieve the targets outlined in the output of this program, namely the realization of welfare as reflected by the indicator of increasing partners' income from before joining the program until the end of the program.The increase in income can be seen in the following table.

Table 2. Average Income Increase per group of Meatball Trading Partners
From table 2 above it can be seen that the average increase is 28.2%.the increase in each group differed from 13.6% to 44.4%, one of the increases in income was due to the use of new, better and neater carts.

MSME survey results
In order to find out the progress of the current mentoring program, a direct survey was carried out either by distributing questionnaires or conducting interviews with the Mandiri-Dompet Dhuafa Community as Facilitators and with PTM 5 meatball traders as partners.The results of the distribution of the questionnaire are outlined in the processing of descriptive statistics.

Demographics and Characteristics of Respondents
Demographics and characteristics are useful for describing the description of the respondent's identity according to a predetermined research sample.The characteristics of the respondents studied were then grouped according to business area, age, education, length of trading and average sales.Below are information tables in the form of an analysis of the characteristics of the respondents.1).Business Area Chart 6. Business Area Table 3. Business Area From Table 3 above it can be explained that the majority of meatball traders are in the Jagakarsa area, namely 48% while the rest are in Pondok Labu 16%, Kebagusan 14%, Andara 20% and Pasar Minggu 2%.From the table above it can be explained that the majority of the PTM 5 education level is junior high school, which is as much as 58%, and the remaining is high school 30% and elementary school 12%.

4) Trading Experience
Chart 9. Trading Experience Table 6.Trading Experience From table 6 above it can be explained that the number of PTM 5 has the majority trading experience of 5-15 years, namely 68%, while the rest with trading experience of more than 16 years 32% and less than 5 years 0%.Based on the average sales per day, which is below Rp. 350,000 as much as 0 with a percentage of 0%, Rp. 350,000 -Rp.750,000 as many as 27 people with a percentage of 54%, above Rp.750,000 as many as 23 people with a percentage of 46%.

Present condition Demographics and Characteristics
The results of the survey through the questionnaire conducted were changes from 2017 and 2022 as follows: 1) Business Area There has been a shift in PTM 5's current business area, the majority are still in Jagakarsa but there have been shifts or new areas entered, namely:

2) Age
Changes in the age of PTM 5 are relatively due to increasing age, the majority remain at the age of 41-50 years.There were several meatball traders who died, but were later continued by their children.

3) Education
In the 2017 survey, no education survey was conducted, this is because education is considered not to affect the business and skills of the meatball business.In the 2022 study, a survey was conducted on education, with the consideration that education is a factor that influences the skills and abilities of meatball traders to maintain and develop their business.The survey results showed that the education of the majority of PTM 5 meatball traders was junior high school.This will be able to influence the determination of training and mentoring methods that should be implemented.

4) Trading Experience
Trading experience is not dissimilar to changes in age, which is due to the 5 year span that causes the experience of PTM 5 to increase.active again, it might be possible to have a higher level of income.
-Monitoring of business development, it would be nice if the companion could direct partners and conduct online meetings (zoom, whatsapp, google meet, etc.).Regularly and periodically for the long term -Monitoring of healthy and halal production processes will soon be held again, considering halal as the main point in their business.As well as looking at the age and education conditions of PTM 5 partners who are not young.
-Motivational training, one of the objectives of this training is to instill entrepreneurial motivation in partners who are expected to have an impact or be applied at the level of themselves, businesses and groups.For motivation that has an impact on business that is not maximized, the companion focuses more on this.The goal is to be able to open as many partnerships as possible.
-Training on food safety and qualitative testing will soon be held again and it is best if the training methods and material delivery can be more adapted to the conditions and abilities of meatball traders.As well as the capacity building program can be repeated with the same material or new material, with the aim of refreshing the knowledge of the meatball traders.
-Institutional training, saw the impact produced and felt very well.For Dompet Dhuafa, perhaps holding this training again and gathering PTM 5 partners so they can get more knowledge.Funding assistance was added especially for business purposes such as cart repairs.The welfare of meatball traders is good, seen from the increase in income.In the future partners can open branches and can employ the community.So that it is not only PTM 5 partners who are prosperous but the community as well.
Location this research was carried out in the community of meatball traders assisted by Dompet Dhuafa in Jakarta, which are spread across South Jakarta and West Jakarta.The community population is 430 meatball traders throughout Indonesia, while in Jakarta there are approximately 200 meatball traders for the Tangguh Mandiri Traders (PTM) 1 to 7 work program .certain (Sugiyono, 2017) .The sample considerations in this study are meatball traders who are still actively selling and meatball traders who are actively participating in the Dompet Dhuafa mentoring program in work program 5, starting in 2017 (PTM 5).The number of samples we set was 50 UMKM/PTM

PTM partners 5 PTM 5
partners are partners who have passed the selection to take part in this program, with the following requirements: Small meatball vendors (carts), Productive age or married, Living (domiciled) in one program target area, Not following or receiving similar assistance from other parties, and Follow and comply with the rules in the implementation of the program.The number of partners who passed the selection was 50 partners, with the distribution of regions and the number of partners presented in Table. 1.

Table 1 .
Region and number of PTM partners survey of the 50 partners, the distribution of regions, distribution of age levels, sales and product usage is as follows: Chart 2. Distribution of PTM Partner Regions 5 From the graph, we can see that the distribution of Pasar Minggu has 13 partners or 26%, Jakakarsa has 23 partners or 46%, Pancoran has 7 partners or 14%, and Mampang Prapatan has 7 partners or 14.Chart 3. Age of PTM Members 5 For the age level, the dominance of ages between 41-50 is 46%, ages under 40 are 32% while those above 51 are 22%.Chart 4. Length of PTM 5

Table 4 .
Age of PTM 5From the table above it can be explained that the number of meatball traders based on the age of majority is 41-50 years old and over 50 years old, namely 42% each, while those under 40 years old are 16%.

Table 7 .
Average Sales

Table 8 .
Regional Changes

Table 9 .
Changes in Age

Table 1 .
Changing Trading Experience

Table 11 .
Average Sales Change