UNS — The Community Service Team from the Fine Arts Program Faculty of Arts and Design (FSRD) Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta held a workshop on the “Implementation of Arts Paper from Straw Waste” on Thursday (1/7/2021) in Taman Oase Umbul Siblarak, Klaten.
The workshop on straw waste exploration was led by the Vice-Dean for Planning, Partnership, Business, and Information Affairs FSRD UNS, Dr. Nooryan Bahari. For two days, 15 participants attended the workshop and learned to produce art paper from straw wastes.
Dr. Nooryan Bahari, in an official release, mentioned that art paper is selected because this type of paper can be explored and developed to support the creative industry in Indonesia. “Especially in the rural areas, to avoid monotonously and to follow the current development,” Dr. Noorvan stated. “The target could be achieved by increasing people’s awareness of the environment, and our participants applied the health protocols,” he added.
He also explained that Sidowayah villagers need knowledge on how to process straw wastes in their community to create added value for the farmer’s community. The Vice-Dean also stated that straw waste processing will provide valuable life lessons and delivers moral messages and character building.
“Community services are needed to build people awareness on the importance of waste management which has short term, long term, and sustainable values. Besides supporting people economy (the waste management) will also add more values (for the community),” he explained.
The workshop was opened with a material presentation on the benefit and economic value of art paper. Participants were introduced to the tools and materials and hands-on to make art paper, such as blender, filter, plywood, storage, and rack. Joko Lulut, M.Sn., Dyah Yuni K, M.Sn, Novia, M.Hum, and Novita, M.Sn., delivered the materials. The speakers explained the process, which starts from drying straw, cutting, soaking, crushing, mixing, and molding.
Dyah Yuni K, M.Sn, a team member, stated that her team wanted to teach the skill and new experience for workshop participants, which focuses on the young generation. She hoped that the participants would be enlightened to create marketable products. “Certainly, from materials easily found and using simple production process,” Dyah Yuni K, M.Sn., said.
Analysis-Design-Develop-Implement- Evaluate (ADDIE), developed by Reiser and Mollenda in the 1990s, is used as the method in this workshop. ADDIE provides guidelines for building practical, dynamic, and supportive training tools and infrastructure. This method contains five developmental stages: analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
Dyah Yuni K, M.Sn also hoped that participants could apply the knowledge from this workshop independently and learn from the challenges during the training. “And to be willing to experiments based on their ideas,” she concluded. Humas UNS
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