Jurnal Administrare: Jurnal Pemikiran Ilmiah dan Pendidikan Administrasi Perkantoran Volume 10, Issue 1, January-June 2023, Pages 51-60 Homepage: http://ojs.unm.ac.id/index.php/administrare/index Community Characteristics as the Basis of Empowerment Strategies In Sustainable Environmental Hygiene Management Andi Agustang 1 , Hairuddin K 2 , Andi Dody May Putra Agustang 3 , Dian Meiliani Yulis 4 1,3 Universitas Negeri Makassar, 2,4 Politeknik Kesehatan Megarezky E-mail: andi.agustang@unm.ac.id ABSTRACT The community is one of the waste producers, so community empowerment in environmental hygiene programs is very strategic. The purpose of the study was to determine the characteristics (level of education, employment, income, a distance of the house to the TPS and TPA), and community perceptions related to sustainable environmental hygiene programs, especially towards the waste management of the city of Makassar. The data collection method used in the characteristics of society towards environmental cleanliness is carried out using a survey approach. Data analysis using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results showed that the variety of these characteristics contributed (except the level of education) to the sustainable environmental hygiene management program. The results of Fisher’s contingency coefficient test showed a significant relationship between community characteristics, except for the level of education and sustainable environmental hygiene management programs. Keywords: characteristics, perceptions, and community empowerment INTRODUCTION Community characteristics (level of education, employment, income, the distance of houses to TPS and TPA), and community perceptions related to sustainable environmental hygiene programs, especially towards waste management in Makassar city are basic factors to understand community empowerment. Community empowerment in waste management in Makassar City is a basic strategy implemented for sustainable environmental hygiene management. Sustainable environmental cleanliness can be realized by empowering the community, considering that the community is one of the producers of waste (Agustang et al., 2022). Empowerment is part of the development of a development paradigm that focuses its attention on all aspects that are principled of humans in their environment, starting from intellectual aspects (human resources), material and physical aspects, to managerial aspects (Awasthi et al., 2021; Das et al., 2019; Singh et al., 2022; Zhang et al., 2022). These aspects may be developed into sociocultural, economic, political, security, and environmental aspects. According to Damanhuri (2016), community empowerment in waste management is by changing the form of behavior based on the need for clean environmental conditions which in turn can grow and develop participation in the field of hygiene.