JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY SERVICE

Community Service Collaboration of Higher Education Institutions: Integrating Technology in Promoting Baduy Luar Ecotourism as an Effort for Local Potential-Based Development

Umban Adi Jaya — 2025-10-18

The Baduy Luar community in Lebak Regency, Banten, possesses unique cultural assets and significant potential in handicrafts, agriculture, and culture-based ecotourism. This Community Service Program (PKM) was conducted in Baduy Luar, Lebak Regency, Banten, with the aim of enhancing digital literacy and entrepreneurial capacity among the local community to support the promotion of cultural-based ecotourism. The Baduy Luar community possesses great potential in handicrafts, agriculture, and tourism, yet still faces limitations in digital promotion and tourism management. This program applied a participatory and contextual approach involving 70 participants, including youth, MSME actors, and ecotourism practitioners. The experiential learning method enabled participants to learn through direct practice, covering smartphone use, tourism documentation, and promotion via social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp Business, and Facebook. The results showed significant improvement in the community’s skills in utilizing digital technology for ecotourism promotion and cultural documentation. Furthermore, a positive synergy was established between universities and the local community, where academics acted as facilitators of digital knowledge while the community members served as the main actors in implementing digital-based promotion. This program contributed not only to enhancing technical skills but also to preserving cultural identity through digital documentation. In the long term, the program is expected to increase community income, sustain community-based tourism promotion, and strengthen local economic independence aligned with the cultural values of the Baduy Luar.

Synergy Between Academics and the Community in Increasing the Added Value of Local Food Products through Packaging Innovation: Duwet Polinema Catfish Nuggets

Eny Widiyowati — 2025-10-28

Food product packaging plays a crucial role in determining market competitiveness, particularly for local food products in rural areas. Proper packaging not only preserves product quality but also significantly influences consumer purchasing decisions and product marketability. Despite the growing recognition of packaging importance, many small-scale food producers in Indonesia still face challenges in implementing standard packaging practices due to limited knowledge, resources, and access to modern packaging technology. This Community Service Program (PKM) was carried out by a team of lecturers from the Business Administration Department of the Malang State Polytechnic as an effort to increase the added value and competitiveness of the local food product “Duwet Polinema Catfish Nuggets” in Duwet Village, Tumpang District, Malang Regency. The main problems faced by the producer community are limited knowledge of product packaging and labeling, a lack of effective promotional strategies, and the unavailability of modern packaging equipment. The activities were carried out using a participatory approach through stages of socialization, technical training, promotional assistance, and the provision of vacuum sealer machine grants. The results of the activity showed an increase in the community's skills in packaging according to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) principles, an improvement in product quality through hygienic and aesthetic packaging, and a strengthening of digital promotion capabilities. The synergy between academics and the community proved to be effective in increasing the added value and competitiveness of local products based on fishery potential, while strengthening the community's economic independence in a sustainable manner.

Community Education Through Posyandu Activities and Supplementary Feeding (PMT) for Stunting Prevention in RW 02, Langensari Village, Garut Regency

Iwan Satibi — 2025-11-14

This Community Service Programme (PKM) was carried out by students from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Pasundan University, Bandung, at the Merpati RW 02 Health Post in Langensari Village, Tarogong Kaler Subdistrict, Garut Regency. This activity focused on educating the community through routine Integrated Health Service Post activities and providing supplementary food (PMT) to combat stunting in toddlers. The main problems identified included low nutritional intake among children, a lack of understanding among parents about health and nutrition, limited health facilities, and low community participation in immunisation. Through this PKM, balanced nutrition education was provided, and nutritious supplementary foods such as milk, whole wheat bread, and sausages were distributed. The implementation method consisted of three stages: preparation (observation and problem formulation), implementation (socialisation and PMT provision), and monitoring-evaluation. This activity successfully involved 43 toddlers and their parents. The results of the activity showed an increase in community understanding of the importance of preventing stunting and child nutrition. The outputs of the activity included increased community awareness of child health, activity reports, scientific articles for publication, and plans to register intellectual property rights. It is recommended that Integrated Health Service Post activities be strengthened through support from village government facilities, ongoing nutrition campaigns, and innovative educational activities to maintain high community interest.

Methods of Estimating Inventories Training for SMA Kristen Yusuf Students

Yanti Yanti — 2025-11-14

The partner in this community services (PKM) is SMA Kristen Yusuf. This school was chosen because it has a conducive learning environment and good support from the school for academic activities outside of school hours. Every year, the Partner always screens and prepares outstanding students to participate in accounting competitions held by various national-level universities. Therefore, the problem currently being experienced by the Partner is that the Partner needs additional accounting materials for the purposes of the competition, including inventory valuation using the estimation method. The training activity was held face-to-face (onsite) on Thursday, September 25, 2025, from 3:05 PM to 4:40 PM WIB, attended by 4 students from grades 12 and 11. The training was orderly, focused, and interactive. Participants enthusiastically answered questions posed by the PKM team. Based on questionnaire results, most students expressed satisfaction with the training. They felt the material was delivered in an easy-to-understand manner, the classroom atmosphere was pleasant, and the instructor was able to explain concepts clearly. Several students also stated that the training made them more interested in learning accounting basics independently. There are three outputs from this training: Publication Articles, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), and Products/Prototypes.