The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak

Social capital is an important concept in identifying the connection and relationship of the community, which has three dimensions: bonding, bridging and linking social capital. Since nowadays the issues related to trust, criminal and relationship has been a serious problem in our community, hence t...

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Main Authors: Hasan, Muhammad Luqman, Thoo, Poh Yee, Yee, Lai Ling, Johari, Shazali, Emang, Diana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28312/1/The%20strength%20of%20social%20capital%20of%20three%20local%20communities%20at%20Gunung%20Pueh%20National%20Park%2C%20Lundu%2C%20Sarawak.pdf
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author Hasan, Muhammad Luqman
Thoo, Poh Yee
Yee, Lai Ling
Johari, Shazali
Emang, Diana
author_facet Hasan, Muhammad Luqman
Thoo, Poh Yee
Yee, Lai Ling
Johari, Shazali
Emang, Diana
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description Social capital is an important concept in identifying the connection and relationship of the community, which has three dimensions: bonding, bridging and linking social capital. Since nowadays the issues related to trust, criminal and relationship has been a serious problem in our community, hence the measurement to determine the strength of social capital dimension has been conducted. The initial process has been explored to identify the suitable social capital indicators. The result is then used to construct into an instrument comprising six indicators based on survey items and past studies namely participation in local community, proactive in social context, neighborhood connection, diversity and tolerance, feeling trust and safety and family and friends connection. This is a quantitative study involving 390 respondents with the self-administered questionnaire distributed in three communities at Gunung Pueh National Park which are Kampung Biawak, Kampung Sebako and Kampung Pueh. The result revealed that bonding social capital is strongly hold the communities followed by linking and bridging social capital. At the other hand, the result showed Kampung Pueh has the strongest overall social capital followed by Kampung Sebako and Kampung Biawak.
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spelling upm.eprints-283122020-04-15T15:52:27Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28312/ The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak Hasan, Muhammad Luqman Thoo, Poh Yee Yee, Lai Ling Johari, Shazali Emang, Diana Social capital is an important concept in identifying the connection and relationship of the community, which has three dimensions: bonding, bridging and linking social capital. Since nowadays the issues related to trust, criminal and relationship has been a serious problem in our community, hence the measurement to determine the strength of social capital dimension has been conducted. The initial process has been explored to identify the suitable social capital indicators. The result is then used to construct into an instrument comprising six indicators based on survey items and past studies namely participation in local community, proactive in social context, neighborhood connection, diversity and tolerance, feeling trust and safety and family and friends connection. This is a quantitative study involving 390 respondents with the self-administered questionnaire distributed in three communities at Gunung Pueh National Park which are Kampung Biawak, Kampung Sebako and Kampung Pueh. The result revealed that bonding social capital is strongly hold the communities followed by linking and bridging social capital. At the other hand, the result showed Kampung Pueh has the strongest overall social capital followed by Kampung Sebako and Kampung Biawak. Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering & Sciences Publication 2019 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28312/1/The%20strength%20of%20social%20capital%20of%20three%20local%20communities%20at%20Gunung%20Pueh%20National%20Park%2C%20Lundu%2C%20Sarawak.pdf Hasan, Muhammad Luqman and Thoo, Poh Yee and Yee, Lai Ling and Johari, Shazali and Emang, Diana (2019) The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 7 (5S). pp. 120-126. ISSN 2277-3878 https://www.ijrte.org/download/volume-7-issue-5s/
spellingShingle Hasan, Muhammad Luqman
Thoo, Poh Yee
Yee, Lai Ling
Johari, Shazali
Emang, Diana
The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak
title The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak
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title_short The strength of social capital of three local communities at Gunung Pueh National Park, Lundu, Sarawak
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