IOSR Journal of Business and Management (IOSR-JBM) e-ISSN: 2278-487X, p-ISSN: 2319-7668. Volume 21, Issue 12. Series. I (December. 2019), PP 69-74 www.iosrjournals.org DOI: 10.9790/487X-2112016974 www.iosrjournals.org 69 | Page Road Maintenance Based on Community Participation in Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi Province * Grace Yoyce Malingkas Civil Engineering Study Program, Sam Ratulangi University * Abstract: The research took population at societal members Sample taking in the research by non random especially the purposive samples. In the research 230 respondents from 14 villages/wards.. Data analysis to know the influences of internal factor, external factor and local government policy toward the societal participation in the road maintenance in this analysis by using structural equation modeling (SEM).The result showed The road maintenance has participation choice at both, although there is tendency for higher selection at the societal participation at the road maintenance than road cooperative, good model is external factor, because give the highest contribution at the participation and the model than should be done such as the government with try to lower the road damage, decrease the difficulty in reaching the activity location and plan the effective road network that connected with other area.government policy, government with try to intensive to initiate community service initiated by government.For more significant road cooperative model implemented due to external factors, among others, the existence of damaged roads and difficult to place activities. Keywords: societal participation, cooperative road model, road maintenance. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 28-11-2019 Date of Acceptance: 13-12-2019 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. Introduction Road maintenance is absolutely necessary to maintain road conditions (Prabowo and Mulyono, 2016). Road damage and limited road maintenance funding have led to a decrease in the level of road services. Limited funding for road maintenance is a classic problem faced, where in almost all regions of Indonesia there is a lack of budget for road maintenance (Gultom, et al 2015). Based on data from the Minahasa Statistics Agency (2013), it can be seen that road conditions in Minahasa Regency are 26% damaged. The level of service conditions of a road service section greatly influences user comfort and safety. Unevenness(irregular) of road surface and road condition index are parameters that are often used to determine the level of road service conditions (Suherman, 2008). In recent years, a new tendency has emerged to carry out self-management / self-management of roads carried out in a self-managed manner by institutions that have a background and human resources in engineering such as the Department of Public Works and LLAJ. Although the state has a large role and responsibility, community participation is needed to guarantee the success of development (Kartasasmita, 1996). Community participation can basically be in the form of thinking, skills / expertise, energy, property or money. Maintenance of rural roads using the method of road cooperatives, namely maintenance of rural road organizations, either by establishing a legal entity or without a legal entity, where the road is managed by the local community itself is an alternative budget solution in road maintenance (Isotalo, 1992). North Sulawesi is one of the provinces in Indonesia consisting of various ethnicities, religions and races, so that customs, traditions and culture are different but have high social capital, namely mutual cooperation. Communities as government partners in carrying out development, maintenance, require involvement in every project run by the government. Research (Muskin, et al 2011), shows how the factors that determine the success or failure, the size of the change depends on the involvement of the community as partners. II. Method of Research design The design of this study took a quantitative approach as a goal to test the theory of hypotheses based on the results of the questionnaire distribution instrument. The questionnaire instrument consisted of a number of structured questions and was distributed to respondents. The type of closed-ended question structure in which the respondent must choose from the answers already available on the questionnaire list. SEM (Structural Equation Modelling)requires data that is normally distributed or can be considered normally distributed. The sample size should not be too small, for SEM models with the number of latent variables (constructs) of up to five and each construct is explained by three or more indicators, the number of samples> 100 data is considered sufficient. Samples below 100 will not produce good results if using SEM (Sarwono, 2010).