Abstract:

Empowerment program for women prisoners after the conflict and Tsunami in prison Class II B Meulaboh is one of the coastal areas of Aceh in Indonesia. This study uses a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The phenomenological approach is deliberately used to reveal abstract and symbolic data to understand the symptoms that appear as a whole by having basic concepts of complexity or reality of a problem caused by the subject's perspective. The informants in this study were the Kasubsi Work Activity, the Kasubsi Registration and Bimkemas, and women prisoners in prison class II B Meulaboh. The results found that empowering women prisoners carried out following the provisions of standard operating procedures in the guidance period given annually within 25 days. The facilities and infrastructure for empowerment were not maximising yet according to the needs. However, female prisoners' actualisation had not been well maximised yet psychologically due to the violence experienced by them from economic factors.