• News Archive
  • Simaster
  • Webmail
  • Directory
  • Crisis Center
  •  English
    • Indonesia
Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada Universitas Gadjah Mada
  • Education
    • Doctoral dissertation
    • Inauguration of Professor
    • Graduation
  • Achievement
  • Research and Innovation
    • Research
    • Innovation
  • Campus Info
    • Cooperation
    • Seminar and Workshop
    • Student Community Service Program
    • Other
  • News Report
  • Home
  • Student Community Service Program
  • Empowering Forest Village Community, UGM Deploys Students for Community Service

Empowering Forest Village Community, UGM Deploys Students for Community Service

  • 15 June 2017, 14:05 WIB
  • By: Marwati
  • 2312
Berdayakan Masyarakat Desa Hutan, UGM Terjunkan 4 Unit KKN PPM di Ngawi

In order to develop innovation and villages in 115 regencies throughout Indonesia, UGM deployed as many as 5,982 students to conduct Students Community Service Programme (KKN-PPM). They were dispatched by Home Affairs Minister and UGM Rector on Friday (9/6). As many as 115 students are subserved in Girikerto village in Sine sub-district and 3 other villages in Pite sub-district, Ngawi regency, East Java, which are Pitu village, Dumplengan village, and Selopuro village from June 10 until August 4, 2017.

The welcoming ceremony of the Community Service students was held in Pendopo Wedya Graha Ngawi on Monday (12/6). The Regent of Ngawi, Ir. H. Budi Sulistyono, and UGM representatives, Atus Syahbudin S.Hut., M.Agr., Ph.D., (Field Supervisor in Pitu Village) and Adam Sukarno, S.IP., MA., (Field Supervisor in Dumplengan) attended the event.

During his welcoming speech, the Regent said the Community Service Programme gives many benefits, both for the students and the communities. Therefore, the students are required to conduct the programme seriously.

“Be serious in conducting KKN because it is not only about completing compulsory task as students of UGM, but also training the students to learn to be the leaders and maintaining the emotional relation and empathize with the community,” said Budi.

Budi also hopes the students perceive KKN and use their own passion to approach the community. Currently, The regional government is boosting the construction of village infrastructure, including roads, waterways, and roads between villages, as well as preserving the forests. These require applied science innovation considering the community surrounding the forest has passive character.

“The forest community is passive and monotonous. Therefore, we need an innovation to preserve the forest,” Kanang emphasized.

Meanwhile, Atus Syahbudin said the theme of KKN-PPM in Pitu village is Smart Forest Village: Strengthening Forest Village Community to Manage Sustainable Forest, while the theme for Dumplengan village is Strengthening Human Resources Based on Forest Empowerment Using Agroforestry System. On the other hand, Selopuro village focuses on Strengthening Forest Village Community Based on Local Wisdom for Realizing Sustainable Forest, while the students in Singe village focus on continuing the Girikerto Green Tourism Village which has been started since 2015. Atus emphasized the students to comprehend the local cultures and aware of the development needs of the forest village community.

In the occasion, Atus symbolically handed a book towards the Regent of Ngawi entitled The Diversity of Flora, Fauna, Landscape, Water Resources, and Local Wisdom of Mount Lawu Slope Community, Ngawi, East Java. This book is the result of research by the Community Service Programme students in 2015 and 2016. It is expected to be used as a reference regarding the natural resources potential in Girikerto village.

Related News

  • UGM Sends Student Community Service for Disaster Response

    Monday,16 November 2015 - 10:41
  • Students on Community Service Become Driving Force of Rural Development

    Monday,12 June 2017 - 8:28
  • UGM Sends 892 Students for Community Service

    Thursday,26 December 2019 - 9:10
  • UGM & Peatland Restoration Agency Cooperate to Prevent Forest Fires

    Monday,04 April 2016 - 16:07
  • Community Service Program: Pangalengan Geo-tourism Festival 2020 (PGF)

    Tuesday,21 July 2020 - 15:33

News Releases

  • UGM to Bolster Cooperation With US Partners 31 May 2023
    UGM enhances cooperation in education, research, a
    Salma
  • GIS Student Wins 3 Medals at 2023 National Olympiad 31 May 2023
    UGM Geographic Information System student Hajir Helmi Nur
    Salma
  • Biology Students Grab 2 Prizes in Indonesia-Wide Scientific Writing Competition 26 May 2023
    A team from the UGM Faculty of Biology has won two
    Salma
  • Professor Ika Dewi Ana Receives WIPO National Award for Inventors 22 May 2023
    Professor Ika Dewi Ana from the UGM Faculty of Den
    Salma
  • Civil Engineering Students Win International BIM Innovation Contest CEIC XI 22 May 2023
    Three UGM Civil Engineering students, teaming up a
    Salma

Event

  • 06Sep The 5th International Conference on Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering (BioMIC) 2023...
  • 02Oct Conference of Critical Island Studies...
  • 04Oct The 7th Astechnova International Energy Conference...
Universitas Gadjah Mada
UNIVERSITAS GADJAH MADA
Bulaksumur Yogyakarta 55281
   info@ugm.ac.id
   +62 (274) 588688
   +62 (274) 565223
   +62 811 2869 988

PARTNERSHIP

  • Alumni
  • International Affairs

ABOUT UGM

  • Rector's Welcome
  • History
  • Vission and Mission
  • The Board of Executive
  • Management

VISIT UGM

  • Campus Map
  • Event

REGISTRATION

  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Vocational School
  • Professional Program
  • International Program

© 2023 Universitas Gadjah Mada

PRIVACY POLICYCONTACT