19 August 2024
Syafrijal S.Kom
Humbahas - The Community Service Institute of the University of North Sumatra through the Community Service Team chaired by Samerdanta Sinulingga, S.ST.Par., M.Par., who is also a Lecturer in the Vocational Faculty's Travel Tour together with USU Students and the Parsingguran II Village Apparatus of Humbang Hasundutan Regency initiated several programs to support the increase in class of the Village from a Developing Village to an Advanced Tourism Village.
There are 5 categories of tourist village classes: starting from pioneering tourist villages, developing tourist villages, advanced tourist villages to independent tourist villages. For 3 consecutive years, Parsingguran II Village has become a USU fostered village that has increasingly skyrocketed in existence and management under the guidance of the Community Service Institute of the University of North Sumatra. Starting from an ordinary agricultural land to becoming a favorite tourist destination in Humbang Hasundutan Regency.
"There are several community service programs that we have created to support Parsingguran Village to become an advanced tourist village. This program was created from our questions based on observations in the field. In the first year, after conducting observations, our question arose, how can PAD (Village Original Income) from tourism be created? That was our question at the beginning. In the second year, how can tourists be comfortable visiting??. In 2024 as USU's final assistance, the implied question is: How can the system be built," said Samerdanta representing the USU Pemas team, recently.
This year, the team provided several assistance including: 1) two 5 in 1 agricultural tools (there are 5 types of uses in one agricultural tool provided); 2) a scientific, simple, easy-to-use and easy-to-understand personality analysis tool software; 3) a tablet computer as a tool for cloud-based financial recording; 4) a transaction receipt printout; 5) provision of an open financial system application/software; 6) a tourism magazine; 7) a 3D Cartoon form of the village masterplan; 8) provision of a tourism potential map; 9) official uniforms for the Parsingguran II village tourism manager; 10) provision of a tool for recording the performance of MSME-scale human resources; 11) provision of Social Media Analysis tools.
“11 gifts from the University of North Sumatra through LPPM became the main key to the end of my service in Parsingguran II village. Personality assessment tools are used superficially in determining a person's performance prospects. I think it is very rare for a recruitment system or tool to be implemented on a village scale, maybe this is the first, a village has a personality assessment tool in the village recruitment system. Social media analysis tools, finally the village has a system to measure the strength of their promotion system in a systemic way," he said.
"However, of the 11 things given by USU, my favorite is in the cloud-based open financial system, I have very high hopes in this area. My team and I designed the open financial system to be the binding rope for all systems in the management network. So our strategy, when we pull and centralize this cloud-based open financial system, others are forced to be interested, because they are all tied to one point. When the financial system is driven, cultural performance must run, tourism magazines are forced to run, the software we provide must be used. This is our big plan," added Samerdanta.
Head of Dea Parsingguran II Sabar Banjarnahor expressed his gratitude to the USU Pemas team for the assistance provided.
"We hope that the assistance provided can improve the development of our MSMEs," said Sabar Banjarnahor.
