Internalisasi Civic Engagement di Perguruan Tinggi melalui Program Kuliah Kerja Nyata

Abstract

This study aims to determine the internalization of student engagement through the thematic KKN program at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). This research is a qualitative research, with a special study approach at ITB at the Institute for Research and Community Service. Data collection was carried out by interviewing institution managers, implementing students as well as observing and documenting KKN activities. Data analysis was carried out by reading the entire transcript to obtain information, compiling it, then obtaining the results of the general pattern of data, grouping data, and carrying out the sequence of events, categories and typologies. The research was conducted at ITB, data collection was obtained by means of observation, interviews and documentation. The results of this study explain that civic engagement developed at the Bandung Institute of Technology is integrated in the thematic real work lecture program (KKN-T). Civic engagement is actualized in the form of four basic themes, namely the theme of water, the theme of education, the theme of infrastructure and the theme of energy. These four themes are the main issues for students to participate in the community environment in order to prepare young people who have a high sense of social humanity to live as a nation and state based on the philosophical values of the Indonesian nation.