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Politeknik Negeri Ketapang (Ketapang State Polytechnic), better known as Politap, is a campus established on 12 February 2006 during the leadership of Regent H. Morkes Effendi, S.Pd.
During the early development of the campus, the local government provided grant funding between the Ketapang Regency government and the Directorate General of Higher Education (Ditjen Dikti Depdiknas).
At 12 years of age, Politap continues to develop into a quality campus for human resource development and encourages the younger generation to be reliable, capable, and competitive in the workforce.
In addition to providing the best instructional services on campus, Politap's role in the community has truly delivered tangible benefits to the public.
Currently, Politap is running a partnership program on enhancing technology utilization skills to improve the quality of public services in the community. This program is based in Suka Mulia Village, Sungai Melayu District, Ketapang Regency.
Geographically and administratively, Sukamulya Village has a population of 1,196 people, with 730 people of productive age and 819 people categorized as poor, distributed across three hamlets: Wono Rejo Hamlet, Bangun Rejo Hamlet, and Marga Rahayu Hamlet, with a total area of 1,090 hectares. Most residents work as farmers, livestock breeders, traders, and in the government sector.
According to Eka Wahyudi, S.Pd., M.Cs., the head of the program, village officials face many obstacles in administrative processes, such as lengthy processing times for correspondence, inadequate supporting facilities and infrastructure, and village apparatus human resource capacity that needs to be improved, he explained.
“Information technology needs to be utilized in village public services because this will cut workloads to make them more effective and efficient, and villages must be open and embrace technological developments,” he said.
Eka, as he is familiarly called, noted that the lack of computer utilization in facilitating public services impacts correspondence data processing, requiring considerable time and resulting in less precise and less accurate records, he said.
The postgraduate alumnus of Universitas Gadjah Mada stated that there are various ways to develop village information technology, namely by providing knowledge, skills, and training to village officials and building desktop-based programs by implementing public service applications, he explained.
The partnership program, which began in July 2018, is a collaboration between the Center for Research and Community Service (P3KM) of Politeknik Negeri Ketapang and Sukamulya Village involving youth, students, villagers, village officials, and lecturers, he added.
Sukamulya Village serves as a pilot project in improving information technology skills to advance public services.
This program will be monitored and evaluated by the partnership program team and Politeknik Negeri Ketapang; the community and village officials will continue to receive guidance so that the village can thrive, advance through innovation, and move faster, he hoped.
This article was published on http://www.arusmuda.com/2018/10/politeknik-ketapang-dorong-keterampilan.html under the same title.