Community service learning : recovery and community empowerment of the post merapi eruption

Community Service Learning Program (CSLP) is one of curricular programs that aims at developing the students’ characters as a whole person (character education). Character education in Sanata Dharma University focuses on developing the three aspect of human character, i.e., competence, conscience, and compassion. In CSLP, the process of character education is carried out in two aspects: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge in the contextual situation in a selected community. Whereas the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity and cares for others To achieve this goal CSLP is carried out in a 28-days-live-in program to give the students working-in-a team opportunity to intensively interact with the community, as well as the team members, as a part of the character building process. They have to cooperate and work together to analyze either the real social problems or potentials, and then they have to carry out recovery or development programs. Therefore, this program also aims at developing students’ critical thinking in comprehensively analyzing the problems and potentials, and interdisciplinary proposing the solution in recovery and development programs. CSLP is conducted in USD twice a year since 1990, in the period of June-August and December-February. The community is selected based on specific needs to which the students can give their service. In the current time, starting in 2011, as a response to the impacts of mount Merapi eruption in October 2010 to the community, CSLP is conducted in Cangkringan villages, one of the worst areas of Mount Merapi eruption 2010 in which thousands of people live in shelters since they have lost their houses. Doing this program, students will work for those people proposing a variety of post-eruption recovery programs, especially in forty villages at the Mount Merapi slope in Cangkringan, Sleman Regency. Within the paradigm of sustainable development, the Center for Community Service Learning Program of Sanata Dharma University together with the communities develop the recovery and community development programs in these forty villages into a Roadmap of The Community Service to be implemented in five years

MENUMBUHKAN MINDSET KELEMBAGAAN DALAM PENGELOLAAN DESA WISATA

Pandemi Covid 19 menyebabkan aktivitas pariwisata sempat terhenti pada pertengahan tahun 2020. Banyak daya tarik wisata yang menghentikan kegiatannya mengikuti anjuran dari pemerintah. Tak terkecuali dengan daya tarik wisata yang berada di wilayah pedesaan Daya tarik wisata Pancuran Tuk Bulus salah satunya. Kawasan lembah sungai yang terletak di Dusun Tegalbalong, Kelurahan Bimomartani, Kapanewon Ngemplak Kabupaten Sleman ini pada saat sebelum pandemi sudah menampakkan aktivitas pariwisatanya. Dengan potensi mata air berlimpah yang dimilikinya, Pancuran Tuk Bulus mengundang wisatawan lokal setempat untuk menikmati kejernihan dan kesegaran air serta suasana alami yang mengelilingi kawasan tersebut. Namun mereka harus berhenti beroperasi sementara karena pandemi. Namun demikian, pengelola dan masyarakat Dusun Tegalbalong tidak berhenti dalam mengembangkan daya tarik wisata Pancuran Tuk Bulus tersebut. Mereka justru melihat ini sebagai peluang untuk terus mengembangkan Pancuran Tuk Bulus agar menjadi semakin siap menerima kunjungan dari wisatawan dari wilayah yang lebih luas. Dalam hal ini perlu adanya pendampingan. Mereka merespons positif inisiatif perguruan tinggi untuk terlibat dalam pengembangan Pancuran Tuk Bulus. Pada kesempatan ini, Tim abdimas pengabdian masyarakat memberikan pendampingan tentang growth mindset untuk pengembangan kelembagaan daya tarik wisata Pancuran Tuk Bulus. Terdapat beberapa pendekatan dalam kegiatan pengabdian. Pertama kegiatan pendampingan dengan melalui media Whatsapp dan secara tatap muka terbatas. Kedua dengan menggunakan pelatihan berupa talk show dengan melalui zoom meeting. Dan ketiga memberikan membuat video

Community service learning program : supporting community-based tourism in Gunungkidul Regency, Yogyakarta

One curricular program that aims at developing the students’ characters (character education) is Community Service Learning Program (CSLP). Character education in Sanata Dharma University (SDU) focuses on developing three aspects of human character, i.e.: competence, conscience, and compassion. There are two aspects to develop: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge they have learned in campus in contextual situation in the society. Meanwhile, the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity, cares, and attention to the poor or marginalized society. Students have to work together to analyze either the social problems or potentials, then carry out recovery or development programs. Therefore, CSLP also aims at developing students’ critical thinking in analyzing the social problem, proposing and implementing the solution programs. There are two types of CSLP in SDU: regular live-in and thematic programs. Students taking regular live-in program live in the community where the service learning program is taking place, while in thematic program, students are not living with the community. Students carry out the program simultaneously during the running semester since the location is only one hour from the campus. One emphasis of thematic CSLP in SDU is supporting community-based tourism (CBT) program at Gunungkidul Regency. SDU in collaboration with the government office of Gunungkidul has developed a roadmap in supporting CBT there. The design of the program, conducted since 2011, starts with coaching, observation, program development, program implementation, and evaluation and reflection. The academic background of the students involved is multidisciplinary. The subjects of the program are the local tour guides, homestay operators, culinary providers and the DMO. The program provides training in Public Speaking, Communicative English, Healthy Foods Serving, First Aids Skills, Aesthetics, Hygiene and Sanitation for Homestay, Information System for DMO. Students taking the program learnt how to collaborate to solve the society’s problems, and to develop their interpersonal skills