Journal of Innovation and Community Engagement

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2025-05-28T21:26:30+00:00

Capacity Building for the Tourism Awareness Group (Pokdarwis) in Edu-Tourism Village Through the “Integrated Thematic Green Rural Development Model” in the Gunung Kawi Religious Tourism Area, East Java

2025-01-31T00:50:52+00:00

The development of green rural tourism that offers the advantages of the natural environment and local culture is an interesting trend so that through the community service program, it is expected to build awareness and increase the technical capacity of tourism managers in maintaining environmental sustainability so that the tourism sector remains sustainable and competitive. The location of the community service is in Sumberdem Village, which is the area in the Wonosasi Sub-district in the Gunung Kawi region. The approach used was the initiation model in the form of integrated green rural development through the stages of needs identification, analysis, introduction of ideas, training, demonstration, and evaluation. Data collection on the success of the program was conducted through a closed questionnaire to obtain structured answers and interviews to explore more in-depth information related to the impact and effectiveness of the program. This program has produced a green tourism management model guidebook, which contains an introduction to green tourism, prerequisites for managers, implementation of SOPs, and good practices. The results of the post-training evaluation questionnaire showed an increase in the capacity of Pokdarwis administrators and members, especially those related to insight development, environmental awareness, and visitor management skills.

Enhancing River Cleanliness and Waste Management: A Community Service Initiative with Plastic Fischer in Lengkong District Bandung

2025-01-31T00:57:46+00:00

A community service, initiated by the Department of Physics Engineering at Telkom University, addresses the issue of plastic pollution in Lengkong subdistrict, Bandung. Through educational lectures, impactful sanitation activities, and advanced waste management technologies—including partnerships with international organizations—this initiative endeavors to resolve the pressing problem of plastic waste. Among the techniques employed are interactive cleanup days, educational lectures on recycling, and the application of cutting-edge technologies such as incinerators and imidazolium ionic liquids. The partnership with Plastic Fischer Germany, which actualizes SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals) and provides advanced technology and global expertise, was crucial for the program's success. The outcomes indicate a reduction in plastic waste, heightened environmental awareness, and the successful implementation of sustainable methods. This study concludes that achieving significant environmental change necessitates the integration of academic research with global cooperation and community engagement. The program's impact can be sustained and amplified through further expansion, ongoing education, and enhanced collaboration.

Empowering Culinary Businesses for Economic Improvement of GKI Pamulang Church Congregation

2025-03-10T00:41:00+00:00

GKI Pamulang, located in South Tangerang, Banten, formed a community of culinary entrepreneurs to help improve the economy of the congregation. Not only due to the pandemic, most of their congregations resorted to starting a culinary business due to the huge market opportunity and the ease of starting it. However, limited experience, knowledge, and low ecosystem support make community businesses stagnant. Through the identification of problems, it was found that business management, marketing and innovation strategies, and methods of increasing business income were not yet developed well by the community members. The structured mentoring method was carried out through assessment stages, early-stage presentations, early-stage interventions, advanced-stage presentations, and follow-up interventions. Through this stages, it was found that participants showed increased understanding and changes in knowledge, including market segmentation, customer persona, value proposition, marketing methods, and market expansion to increase revenue. The causality analysis method (cause-and-effect) was used to look at pre- and post-intervention changes using 6 themes of Bill Aulet’s disciplined entrepreneurship indicators. It can be concluded that there has been a change in understanding, insight, and skills in business management, and the goals of the culinary business community for the economic improvement of the GKI Pamulang congregation can be achieved.

Simple Financial Management Education with Lamikro for Cake and Pastry Business

2025-02-07T02:05:56+00:00

Education on simple financial management using the Lamikro application carried out by the community service team with Marife Cake & Pastry as a partner aims to provide an understanding of the need to separate business and personal financial management. This training also provided education on the technical use of the Lamikro application in preparing profit and loss reports and balance sheets since this application is easy to understand for everyone. Marife Cake and Pastry, located in the Bekasi area, has difficulty managing finances. The partners of this community service program still mixed business and personal finances and had not been calculating the profit or income from the business they have been pursuing so far. The owners of this micro, small, and medium business did not yet have a good understanding of financial management and financial reporting. Marife Cake and Pastry managed its finances traditionally, not separating business finances from personal finances. As a result, this business had difficulty determining the actual business profit. To overcome this, the community service team provided training on simple financial management using the Lamikro application. This educational activity was in the form of training on managing MSME business finance and using the Lamikro application to record every financial transaction. After following the training, Marife Cake and Pastry can utilize the Lamikro application to create financial reports and manage business and personal finances separately. The owner also gains insight into the assets owned by his business.

KelasMimpi: Early Marriage Prevention Program through Self-Realization Awareness at Wongsorejo Village, Banyuwangi

2025-03-17T00:46:06+00:00

This community service project centered on the urgent need to reduce and prevent early marriage cases in Wongsorejo Village, Banyuwangi Regency. This is due to the high number of early marriage cases and its devastating effects on Wongsorejo citizens, especially children and teenagers, such as school dropouts, higher divorce rates, higher youth pregnancy complication rates, and even stunting. Since girls are highly likely to be victims of early marriage, gender inequality is a concern that needs to be addressed immediately. This community service aims to eliminate the potential factor of extra-marital pregnancy, which is one of the early marriage main causes in Wongsorejo. This is due to the root causes of low awareness about early marriage and young pregnancy among children and teenagers. Thus, KelasMimpi provides a solution by enhancing teenagers’ awareness of early marriage, emphasizing the importance of self-realization, and demonstrating how to apply it in their daily lives. This program is aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 5, ‘Equality,’ Target 5.3, ‘Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.’ This program employs a service learning approach with three implementation methods: informative education sessions, focus group discussions, and interactive discussions. Questionnaires were used as the main impact evaluation method. KelasMimpi yields significant results in changing teenagers’ perceptions of early marriage and their self-realization ability.

Elderly Congregation Assistance: The Use of the YouVersion Bible Application for Personal and Digital Faith Communities

2025-03-06T08:46:52+00:00

The YouVersion Bible is a free Bible app from Life Church. YouVersion provides a digital Bible integrated with support services for reading the Bible. YouVersion provides a friend facility so users can share and read the Bible together. The completeness of these facilities provides opportunities for elderly congregations to use them personally or with the community. However, the completeness of the facilities is a challenge for elderly congregations to use them technically and to use the content for spiritual needs.

The community service team consisting of a combination of personnel from the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Theology has carried out the task of organizing training and mentoring. Participants were 22 active elderly congregations familiar with technology, taking part in technical training on the use of facilities, simple Bible teaching, and the concept of a complete spiritual digital community with features that support community activities. During mentoring, participants were given independent tasks to explore the application's features. Intensive discussions including question and answer sessions had been held both directly and via WhatsApp groups. Monitoring of application usage based on feature usage activities and badge acquisition: participants who continuously use the YouVersion Bible application features after the training is completed are 53% of the 22 participants. Digital spiritual communities have not yet been formed based on community support features. In addition, participants have not yet related the use of Bible applications, including social media, that support relationships with others online with church activities and spirituality.

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2025-05-28T21:19:49+00:00