TY  - JOUR
T1  - Influence of Local Leadership in Poverty Eradication in the State of
Terengganu, Malaysia
AU - Ibrahim, Abdullah AU - Abdullah, Ramle AU - Rami, Ahmad Aizuddin Md AU - Abdullah, Hamdy 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 7
SP  - 1305
EP  - 1309
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.1305.1309
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.1305.1309
KW  - development
KW  -leadership
KW  -leader
KW  -Rural community
KW  -rural development
AB  - Challenges in rural communities call for awareness of community leaders in overcoming these
challenges. One of these challenges is the government’s endeavour to ensure that the rural community
development is parallel to the country’s development, hence a credible, effective community leader is needed
to achieve the country’s development aspiration. This study was conducted in four rural communities in the
state of Terengganu, Malaysia to identify the role played by local community leaders. These communities were
selected based on their excellent achievement in community development programmes and contests. The
objectives of this research are identifying the role of leaders in bringing success for every development
programme and ascertaining the community leadership characteristics that can bring positively impact a
community. The data for this study were obtained from observations and interviews with 40 informants who
comprised of chairpersons and members of the villages development and safety committee (J3K) as well as local
residents. The findings showed that effective community leadership plays a significant role as an agent of
change and has the ability to positively impact the development of rural community. Besides that community
leader’s practise of effective leadership style is perceived to bring changes among the community in the social,
economic and cultural aspects as well as changes in the way of thinking among rural communities. In this
regard, leadership in these four communities is viewed to manifests the change into better leadership that can
inspire other community leaders.
ER  -