Contribution of Local Product Purchase Policy to Improvement of the 21st Century Learning

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the "Bela-Beli" policy for improving 21st-century skills in vocational education graduates, including creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and digital literacy. This research is ex-post facto research with a quantitative data approach. This study involved 155 respondents from the community who graduated from vocational education in Kulon Progo Regency. Data was collected through a questionnaire method with a 4 Likert scale questionnaire instrument with answer options Strongly Agree (SA), Agree (A), Disagree (D), and Strongly Disagree (SD). The collected data were then analyzed using regression analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM). The results of the research that have been analyzed show that the "Bela-Beli" policy contributes significantly to the improvement of 21st-century skills which include creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and digital literacy in the vocational community of graduates of vocational education. Thus, the policy is very feasible to continue to be applied, even to be developed, so that the community can continuously improve the 21st-century skills currently needed in the world of work, especially for vocational education graduates.