STUDI TENTANG POSISI KKN-PPL DALAM DINAMlKA PERKEMBANGAN PERGURUAN TINGGI DAN TUNTUTAN MASYARAKAT

Abstract

This article concerns a reposItIOn study on the KKN-PPL
program conducted in the development
of a dynamic university in
relation to community needs, which had three important objectives,
(1) to gain information of the effectiveness of the KKN-PPL
program in relation to the university curriculum implementation, (2)
to gain information
of resistance occurring during the
implementation of the KKN-PPL integrated program, and (3) to
describe stakeholders' perceptions of information about the KKN­
PPL program hosted by the State University
of Yogyakarta.
The study was a policy research, in which several factors
supporting or resisting an effective implementation of the KKN-PPL
were analyzed and described intensively by using a descriptive
exploratory method to discover patterns
of theory based on a set of
data scores.
The study on the repositioning of the KKN-PPL program in the
development
of a dynamic university in relation to community needs
produces three important recommendations. Firstly, it is possible
that the KKN-PPL program is to be conducted separately
in order to
obtain its specific objectives, the KKN program, essentially a
program to make students learn from experience
in doing public
service for the community, to be specifically for students with non­
teacher majors and PPL, essentially a program
of field teaching
practice, to be for students majoring in teaching. The management of
the KKN program used to be essentially by LPM, a public service
institution in the university, and the administration ofPPL used to be
essentially by UPPL, a university unit managing students' field teaching practice. Therefore, secondly, the manager of the KKN
program and that
of the program of PPL is to be returned to its
former function. This recommendation is aligned
to a historical
aspect
of conducting the KKN program within a three-month
duration on location. Thirdly, alternatively, the integrated KKN-PPL
program is
to be continually handled at UNY by enhancing its
mechanism system into a more efficient and effective one.