Implications of Malang Creative Center (MCC) as a Community Creative Economic Empowerment Laboratory

Abstract

This study was conducted with the aim of finding out the implications or impacts of the Malang CreativeCenter (MCC) in empowering the creative economy of the community. This includes the impacts in terms of social and economic aspects of creative economy organizations, especially LINKSOS (Social Circle) which has a vision and mission to develop the creative economy through friends with disabilities. and also analyze the obstacles faced by the Malang Creative Center (MCC) in its mission to empower the creative economy in Malang City. This study is a descriptive qualitative study. Data collection techniques use observation, interview and documentation techniques. And data analysis is carried out by means of reduction, namely narrowing down data from interview results, simplifying words and information obtained from sources. The results of this study indicate the impact caused by the Malang Creative Center (MCC) in building the creative economy, starting from providing facilities for creative economy organizations in holding activities such as workshops, seminars to commercial activities. The obstacles faced by the Malang Creative Center (MCC) are the lack of a budget (maintenance) which results in the room and supporting equipment for the activities of creative economy actors being neglected. This study shows how important public spaces used for the common good are in terms of developing an economic sector. And also, the importance of a definite budget for long-term maintenance costs to support the ongoing empowerment of the creative economy.