ABSTRACT
The government, in order to improve social welfare, launched a vocational village program in the non-agricultural sector through the Ministry of Education and Culture. There are six requirements for the establishment of vocational villages: that they have abundant natural resources, a market for service/goods, the villages should have potential, have relevant skills, and limited skills and responsivity from the rural community. The approach used in this study is descriptive qualitative with standardized interview, observation, documentation and focus group discussion as the data collection techniques. Research findings in Sudalarang show that five of the six requirements have been satisfied. The requirement for abundant natural resources is not a research focus because it is a non-agricultural sector. Human resources are the greatest potential as 73%of the population are construction workers. Sudalarang village has the potential to become a vocational village, where human resources independently manage rural development as well as forming a community of building workers.
