THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MULTIMEDIA-BASED APPROACH TO PROMOTE SCHOOL DROPOUTS’ LEARNING MOTIVATION IN BILIK PINTAR LEARNING FACILITY IN JAKARTA

Abstract

The school dropout rate in Jakarta remains high, according to the Jakarta Governor, Anies Baswedan. 116.000 students aged 16 to 18, who are school bound, discontinue or stop their education due to various reason - mostly due to socio-economic factors. Some of them decided to be street buskers and trash scavenger. There are 72 school dropouts enrolled to an emergency learning facility located in a cemetery complex owned by the local government. The location is also serving a temporary landfill in TPU Menteng Atas, Setiabudi, Jakarta. The aptly named Bilik Pintar (Bilpin) or smart chamber is currently facilitating 12 High School-aged students, 17 Junior High School-aged students, 21 Elementary-aged students and 24 Kindergarten/Preschool-aged students. The learning media and its materials are apparently limited. This situation leads to learners’ reluctance to study or attend classes. We found out that the implementation of multimedia-based learning in Bilpin is proven to promote the learners’ motivation and, and to some extend inspire them to go back to school. This learning approach basically makes use of multimedia, namely, computer, office software, website creation tools, coding tool, game making tool, graphic design and video editing software. After the first 5 months of the implementation, 98 % of the program participants are willing to learn further and develop their passion to learning. 11,4 % of them decided to go back to school and 34,3 % of them reconsidered going back to school.