Role of the "SUMBER JAYA" Women's Cooperative in Improving the Economy of Women in Kedungbanteng Village, Tanggulangin District, Sidoarjo Regency

The economic situation, especially women, is an important factor in empowering society in the economic sector. Economic empowerment is carried out to reduce poverty rates and increase welfare to improve the level and standard of living of women and improve family welfare. "SUMBER JAYA" Women's Cooperative, which is one of the cooperatives that is committed to providing business capital assistance to members who are members of the organization. The purpose of writing this research is to describe and analyze the role of the "SUMBER JAYA" Women's Cooperative in improving the economy, especially women. This research uses a qualitative descriptive research method. The results of the research show that the role of cooperatives in improving women is still not optimal, there is a lack of administrators which causes multiple positions and there are still many bad loans which hinder the circulation of money in cooperatives.