AIM & SCOPE

Aim
The journal aims to serve as an academic dissemination platform for community service and empowerment initiatives based on the downstream application (hilirisasi) of research, science, technology, and arts (IPTEKS). The journal focuses on addressing real-world community challenges, enhancing partner capacity, and fostering innovative empowerment models that deliver academic value, measurable impacts, and long-term sustainability.

Scope
The journal welcomes multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary community service manuscripts across various fields, focusing on:

  1. Situation Analysis & Partner Problem Solving: Baseline condition assessments and targeted solutions for practical challenges faced by community partners (SMEs, productive/non-productive communities, schools, villages).
  2. Application & Downstream Implementation of Science & Technology: Implementation of appropriate technology, research innovations, and social engineering to meet societal needs.
  3. Empowerment Methods & Strategies: Execution of structured engagement methodologies, such as Participatory Action Research (PAR), capacity building, training, plot demonstrations, and interactive education.
  4. Impact Evaluation & Effectiveness: Rigorous measurement of program outcomes (measurable outcomes), including changes in knowledge, technical skills, productivity, and socio-economic added value for partners.
  5. Sustainability & Replicability: Assessment of post-assistance community independence (sustainability) and the potential for scaling or adapting the empowerment model to other regions/communities (replicability).