A support system for accepting student assistance using analytical hierarchy process and simple additive weighting

Abstract

The Government through the Ministry of Religious Affairs provides assistance to disadvantaged students through the BSM (Indonesian Cash Transfer Programme for Poor Students) program. BSM is in the form of giving some cash to students from various levels of education such as Madrasah Ibtidaiyah (MI), Madrasah Tsanawiyah (MTs), Madrasah Aliyah (MA). BSM recipients come from disadvantaged families who have been selected through various criteria determined by the Ministry of Religious Affairs through schools. Schools still find it difficult to determine which students are eligible to receive BSM, hence to help the school in making decision about BSM acceptance, this study will apply the analytical method of hierarchy process and the simple additive weighting method to the decision support system for determining the scholarship to meet the criteria set by the school. Through a combination of analytical hierarchy process and simple additive weighting methods, the determination of prospective beneficiary students by counting the highest weight through a combination of both uses 5 criteria and 26 alternatives in the decision support system can be done. The purpose of this study is to create a decision support system based on the user-centered design oriented to all user needs, therefore the user can determine the system model used. Users can map an interactive system with various modules that are used through the implementation of user-centered design to produce a useful system and in accordance with the objectives. The results of this study are recommendation of decision support system for disadvantaged students to help with a combination of AHP and SAW of 5 (five) criteria and 26 alternatives used and oriented to the user.