UNS — Architecture and Environment Research Group of the Architectural Engineering Program Faculty of Engineering (FT) Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held a community service program. The program was implemented through the assistance for promoting the potential of Puntukrejo Village, Ngargoyoso, Karanganyar as an agrotourism. This program was implemented by faculty members, students, and people in the targeted village.
Dr. Ir. Musyawaroh, M.T., the Chief of Committee, explained that this community service started with field survey, document survey, and interviews with community leaders, civil service, MSMEs, and BUMDes in Puntukrejo Village. The community service team then held training to create a website to introduce the village potential and trained the villagers to promote their village potential through social media. This training resulted in the pesonapuntukrejo.com website as an outcome of the program.
“This website shared the potential of Puntukrejo Village, including agriculture and plantation, culinary, recreation destination, traditional jamu, craft village, and another potential,” Dr. Ir. Musyawaroh explained.
The members of this team are Dr. Ir. Musyawaroh, Dr. Ars. Ir. Untung Joko Cahyono, Dr. Ars. Avi Marlina, Ir. Made Suastika, M.T., M.M., Ir. Sumaryoto, M.T., Ir. Widi Suroto, M.T., Ir. Leny Pramesti, M.T., Tri Joko Daryanto, M.T., and Ummul Mustaqimah, M.T. The team also supported by four students Auliya Salma Ihdin, Emillenia Intan Pungky, Natasya Khoiru Nissa, and Aminaturosyida Rahma Wardhani.
The training held on Saturday (19/6/2021) created a website to introduce Puntukrejo potential to the community and government institutions to apply for their leading program in the village. “The website is also equipped with Instagram from the promoted villages,” she added.
The website used a minimalistic design to ease the community in accessing the page. There are menus for plantation, agricultural, culinary, jamu, recreation, and other potentials. Each menu has sub-menus that provide detailed information on the potential. Humas UNS
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