Social Advocacy in the Behavior Change Program Facing Covid-19 in the Madura Community

Normatively, development is intended to change people's lives from poor, less advanced conditions to better, advanced, and modern.Development problems in various theoretical perspectives and research studies are not only caused by the model and choice of development program policies chosen, but also by the implementing apparatus, the attitude of the community, the affiliation of interests between the state, the private sector, and the community, especially between state and private interests.With conditions like this, development activities such as in social empowerment programs have become a problem for most people.Social development and empowerment as a manifestation of the humanitarian mission of the Muhammadiyah Association personally has actually been reflected in the renewal movement carried out by KH.Ahmad Dahlan, especially in the education sector in order to build knowledgeable and progressive people with a spirit of hard work and responsiveness to social problems of the community (Syakirman, 2001).The outpouring of KH.Ahmad Dahlan's self as the first stone of the foundation of the Muhammadiyah Association in responding to social problems of the community is still maintained in the institutional management structure of the Muhammadiyah Association in an organizational manner in the form of the Council of Institutions (Central Leadership of Muhammadiyah, 2015).The responsiveness of the Muhammadiyah Association to humanitarian problems in turn becomes a method of da'wah assistance or empowerment in the Muhammadiyah Association.The existence of assemblies and institutions within the Muhammadiyah Association, especially the Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC), is an institutional entity that is functionally specifically designed to answer the needs and problems of the community in cross-sectoral disasters