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Rural development has becomes the key and foundation of regional and national development, so that the role of village facilitators was expected to accelerate the backwardness and prosperity of the community. The aims of the study tto analyze the role of village facilitators in a sustainable community empowerment model. The research used qualitative Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) methods, data were collected through direct observation, documentation analysis, and in-depth interviews. The informants by purposive determination, consisting of village facilitators, especially accompaniment scholars and professional assistants, cadres of village community empowerment, village government, activists and community leaders. Data analysis of PRA through triangulation, categorization and investigation. The research took place in the village of Pasuruhan, Binangun district, Cilacap Regency. The result showed that the village facilitators are important and needed in addition to administrative and financial management of village development, as well as for the implementation of sustainable community empowerment, starting from planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, partnership and self-reliance. The village facilitators need coordination and cooperation to creat communication forums and team work to review the problems, potentials and prospects in rural development.

Islamic boarding schools (Pesantren) are not only social and educational institutions but they should also able to develop prosperity for their students and alumni as well as their respective community. Therefore, it is important to work on the empowerment of Pesantren for their harmonization and deradicalization. The current study used Participatory Action Research method. Data was collected through observation, documentation, interviews, and focus group discussions. The selection of informants was purposive and they comprised boarding school administrators, students, community groups, activists, practitioners and experts. Study locations were the Pesantren of Nurussalam in Ciamis and Al Idrisiyyah in Tasikmalaya, West Java Province and Al Muaddib in Cilacap, Central Java. The results showed that economic empowerment of Pesantren becomes strategic and important as a medium of harmonization and deradicalization between the Pesantren and the community. Therefore, it could ward off the stigma attached to Pesantren as closed, traditional, radical and even terrorist supporting institutions. Pesantren carry out social and economic empowerment in the early stages of building and increasing motivation, mindset and mental attitude, as well as interaction and cooperation. They continue to do it by designing and implementing programs in a participatory manner involving students, alumni and the community on entrepreneurial management, product improvement, and marketing in order to promote activities that are more concerned with health, environment and renewable energy.