Abstract
Universities have three complementary missions, namely research, teaching, and community services. The Lampung University community services has responsibilities to the surround communities with being active roles in educating people, doing the strategic plans of the university, implementing and disseminating various university research results. Sekincau is a region in West Lampung with a great potential for horticulture productions, however, until recently, Lampung depends on West Java for supplying of horticulture productions. Some community programs had been done consistently in this area by Agronomy faculties of Lampung University with the local agriculture extension and farmers groups. The activities included introducing and developing good quality seeds of potato and baby beans seeds until certified for progeny of basic seed, intercropping of sorghum and baby beans, introducing internet applications useful for farmers and built a start-up particularly for young farmers. The method was “training and visit” which for regions where the level of development is still very low, instructing farmers what to do was probably more appropriate. This paper evaluated university roles in disseminating innovation to farmers. In general, it can be concluded that community development and services would only effective if continually conducted by the same group and focused on certain chosen area.
Highlights
Innovative universities conceive themselves to have three complementary missions, namely research, teaching, and community service
Community services is considered important since extension-education can be seen as an approach to enable transformative changes to occur through facilitating people to be able to help themselves, communication of innovation, facilitating learning for a better future, and as advisory services related to innovation systems [1]
The objectives of extension services in Indonesia universities in general are: (a) to develop independent communities in terms of economic and social welfares, (b) to help communities in developing safety and comfortable environment and, and (c) to help communities to have certain skills such as literacy and writing, and other soft skill and hard skill needed for better life
Summary
Innovative universities conceive themselves to have three complementary missions, namely research, teaching, and community service. In Indonesian Universities community services have certain characteristics including problem solving, comprehensive, significant and sustainable. It should be multi target such as communities which is economically productive, or it could be non-productive but have strong motivation to be entrepreneurs or common people. The non-productive communities including youth group, women group, street kids, neighbourhood organization, and community health services. For these groups the objectives might be not economic development but could be better services, better environment safety, and better communities’ facilities. Lampung university community services has responsibilities to the surround communities with being active roles in educating people, doing the strategic plans of the university and implementing and disseminating to the community various university research or studies results
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