PSP3 Debriefing DIY Province 2015

DESPRO NEWS (November 26, 2015) Located in Bima Room 3, Grage Hotel, Jl. Sosrowijayan No. 242, Yogyakarta, Drs. Baskoro Suryo Banindro, MSn, (Head of Product Design Study Program ISI Yogyakarta) gave briefing to the participants of PSP3 DIY Province. The activity held by the Department of Education, Youth, and Sports of Yogyakarta, Balai Pemuda dan Olahraga took place on Tuesday-Thursday, November 24-26, 2015 involving 35 participants of the "Optimization of Youth Bachelor Activator of Development in Rural Areas (PSP3) Batch XXV DIY Year 2015".

PSP3 itself is a program of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Indonesia that began in 1989 and has placed more than 18,000 graduates in rural areas. In 2015, 970 young scholars will be deployed and will be placed in more than 400 villages throughout Indonesia. The number of applicants for the PSP3 program this year reached 14,297 young scholars. Of these, 7,007 passed the administrative selection and were entitled to take the written test and interview. The placement village is no longer cross-province but intra-province with the intention of accelerating the process of assimilation and adaptation to the environment but the pilot capital will be given in the same amount for a period of one year. There are 38 candidates who passed the selection in DIY Province this year with 7 reserve candidates.

The PSP3 program is one of the government's efforts to overcome limited employment opportunities, high demands for workforce competence and the view that working as an employee is better than being an entrepreneur so that the view emerges that cities are more promising than villages. This program seeks to change this perspective with the belief that villages are a great potential to build youth independence so that the return to village program is important,

Therefore, in the program, the young scholars who passed the selection were provided with a variety of materials including knowledge about Product Design and Promotional Media. This material was given to the participants to provide insight into issues related to the production of handicraft products in rural areas. "The substance of the material also relates to the difference in terminology between craft and product design," said Drs. Baskoro Suryo Banindro, MSn. On this occasion, various types of promotional media and their characters were also presented so that the development activist scholars could make decisions on choosing the right media as a means of promotion. This briefing ended with questions and answers about the selection of appropriate media for small businesses in rural areas.