Community Perception of Smoke-Free Policy in Depok City, Indonesia

This study aims to analyze the perception of the targeted group to the smoke-free policy as part of university community service. Several studies have supported that smoke-free policy is a useful tool to reduce the smoke prevalence and minimize risk factor of the cigarette consumption. Depok City in West Java, Indonesia, is a city that has started the implementation of smoke-free policy since 2015 but this city still deals with critiques about the weakness of the process. This study is a qualitative research. This perception of the targeted group will become a baseline for the further step of the collaborative governance research. This study conducted one focus group discussion which involved 28 community members as informants. The result found that majority of the informants already know about the harmful impact of smoking, but some of them do not understand the existence of the smoke-free policy. Smoke-free policy in Depok City gives the essential duty to the citizen to conduct monitoring and evaluation of the implementation stage. However, this study found that the informants do not well informed about this role and difficult to identify available channels for monitoring. Therefore, this study proposes to Depok City government to build information and communication platform to send and receive message from and to the people related to the monitoring and evaluation of the smoke-free policy. As technology develops, there are many mechanisms to share the information and communicate with people or organization which may increase the beneficial interaction between people and the government of Depok City. This communication channel is very significant to align the community perception or the people perspective with the policymaker's point of view

Pendampingan Baca Tulis Al Quran bagi Anak-Anak di Lokasi KKN Kelurahan Dodu Kota Bima

This community service activity is through attracting community participation to allow children to learn the Koran. The objectives of the activity are; as a solution to the limited number of Koran teachers in the midst of a ban on crowding during the COVID-19 pandemic. The coaching program is carried out through assistance in eradicating illiteracy in the Koran through the Iqra method. Initial observations through interviews with religious leaders and several communities stated that children were less interested in the Koran at TPQ because they had to queue for a long time at one Koran teacher so that they felt bored and ended up decreasing their concentration and enthusiasm for learning the Koran. This activity is divided into three classics, namely; Opening activities (early classics), core activities and closing activities (late classics). The existence of a place to learn the Koran at the KKN Post every night, becomes a means to gather and interact with each other, besides being a means to meet other children with one another, it is also very important for the children of Dodu Village. because with this learning facility it can increase knowledge to children, especially in terms of correct and precise reading of the Qur'an through learning Iqra. The existence of the KKN post as an alternative to learning the Koran is very beneficial for children who previously only spent their days playing and with busy parents who sometimes make children less attention from their parents