The Application of Triple Loop Learning as a Sustainable Learning Model in the Kuwatan Sadesa Program

The sustainability of community empowerment programs remains a challenge when corporate assistance is limited to a defined period. Programs need not only to generate benefits for communities but also to learn from each implementation process to continuously evolve in response to community needs. The Kuwatan Sadesa Program of PT Pupuk Kujang applies the Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach through a cycle of problem identification, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reflection, with Triple Loop Learning (TLL) serving as a reflection framework to identify problems, determine follow-up actions, and develop the program in subsequent cycles. In farmer capacity-building activities, findings related to time constraints and inappropriate learning methods encouraged a shift from classroom-based training to hands-on learning in the field, which was subsequently developed into a learning module. In activities utilizing spices for health promotion, the learning process developed into the provision of nutritious food and subsequently into the Child Healthy School program based on local food, involving community health volunteers. These changes demonstrate that monitoring and evaluation findings can serve as a basis for developing activities that are more responsive to community needs. The cycle of implementation, monitoring, reflection, development, and re-implementation forms a continuous learning process. This process is formulated as a Sustainable Learning Model, in which program implementation experiences become a source of knowledge for continuously improving and developing community empowerment in subsequent cycles