Pekalongan City Government Research Articles

The analysis of wastewater management at small and medium textile (batik) enterprises in Pekalongan city

This study intended to analyze the wastewater management at Batik small and medium enterprise (SME). The study took place in SMEs at two boundaries in Pekalongan City. The research subject was the businessmen of SME. Observation and interview were employed to collect data and were analyzed descriptive-comparatively. The results showed that the Pekalongan City Government had built a Waste Processing Unit (WPU) in Jenggot Village and WWTP (Wastewater Treatment Plant) in Kauman Village. The operation of WPU and WWTP still needs optimization by increasing the participation of SME entrepreneurs/craftsmen so that environmental damage due to wastewater produced by textile SMEs (batik) can be minimized.

Kinerja Sistem Informasi Manajemen Pelayanan Publik Pemerintah Kota Pekalongan

The City of Pekalongan is one of economic growth hubs in Central Java. Pekalongan possesses a classic issue like an overweight and inefficient bureaucracy, lack of innovation, dissatisfaction of public service, and so on. The government then proceeds digital-based budget so that it succeeds to push public spending. This paper aims to provide an overview of Pekalongan City Government Performance Management in implementing Management Information Systems (MIS) for Public Services. The analysis uses various theoretical perspectives on public sector performance management, public services and public service performance innovation. This research is a descriptive study with data collection techniques using non-reactive content analysis through secondary data and documents that already exist. The analysis shows that the application of technology to the Pekalongan City government innovation performance can save energy, time and budget. Performance monitored through the system from planning to implementation can be monitored through information technology innovation. Thus, an efficient, fair, responsive, accountable public service system can be more easily achieved.

The Position and Function of Masjid Jami’ and City Square in The Dynamics of Pekalongan Development

Identical to other cities in Java, Pekalongan city center is characterized by the presence of city square (alun-alun). Pendopo (palace/central government) - alun-alun (city square) – mosque are characteristic features of the Islamic Mataram city. Commonly, the square as the heart of the city is located in the middle, it is surrounded by the Jami mosque at west side of the square, the pendopo/governance office at the south side of the square, plaza at the east side of square, and settlement at the north side of square . Nowadays, the position of the pendopo in Pekalongan still remained as the beginning of its existence, but there is a change of its function especially in the square and the pendopo. The pendopo that was previously the office and official residence of the Pekalongan Regent no longer functions as before since the government of Pekalongan Regency was moved to Kajen in 2003. Furthermore, slowly but surely, the city square was switched its dominant role as an economic function, that is surrounded by stalls, culinary and fashion products sellers started from afternoon to the middle of night. In addition to the reason for the movement of the central government of Pekalongan Regency from this place to Kajen, this also happened because it was built the center of the Pekalongan city government buildings in other area (Mataram street) that is supported with the square. Therefore, a research on the position and function of Jami’ mosque and city square needs to be held, considering that in this case there were time dimensions and historical values that must be preserved in the context of urban development. This study uses a phenomenological approach. The findings of this study are the existence of Jami mosque is timeless, meanwhile the city square is needed to be revitalized so that it has functions in accordance with its era without leaving its function as a safe and comfortable public open space and having continuity with the function of the mosque.

The Implementation of SAK ETAP to The Financial Report of SMEs

This study aims to determine the preparation of Financial Report based on SAK-ETAP and constraints on the preparation of Batik Ar-Radhah SMEs in Pekalongan City. This research method uses a qualitative approach. This study uses primary data on the SMEs Batik Ar Radhah Pekalongan City. Data collection techniques using triangulation techniques, namely participant observation, interviews, and documentation. The sample in this study was selected based on a purposive sampling collection technique. Data analytic technique with data reduction, data display, and conclusions. The results of the study are the financial statement components in SMEs Batik Ar-Radhah Pekalongan City are slightly different when compared to the financial statement format with SAK ETAP chassis. The financial format according to Batik Ar-Radhah Pekalongan CitySMEs is current assets, trade receivables and other receivables, trade payables, short-term liabilities, and equity. In SAK ETAP regulates the existence of current assets: cash and cash equivalents, inventories; non-current assets, short-term liabilities, and long-term liabilities and equity. Constraints faced due to the lack of human resources in the field of financial accounting and financial report socialization based on SAK-ETAP by the Pekalongan City Government through training. So the suggestion from the author, it is better if human resources must be supported by its quality. For example: providing scholarships for employees of S1 Accounting / S1 Management education; employees are involved in training activities from Disperindagkop and other institutions.

DAMPAK PEMBANGUNAN JALAN TOL TERHADAP FAKTOR SOSIAL, EKONOMI DAN LINGKUNGAN PADA USAHA BATIK DAN PERHOTELAN DI KOTA PEKALONGAN

The construction of the Trans Java toll road is a national program which is expected to have a 
 positive impact on economic development for the Java region. Toll roads are built with the hope of 
 reducing congestion as well as income of the state treasury. But on the other hand, the construction of 
 this toll road raises new problems, namely reduced income, changes in the environment for batik 
 traders, hotels, restaurants and other problems, because in the pantura area there are many small to 
 medium-sized businesses that rely on business from visitors who pass through the northern coa st road.
 For this reason, with the construction of the Trans Java Toll Road, it is necessary to examine whether 
 the construction of the Trans Java Toll Road has had an impact on economic, social and 
 environmental changes. By using purposive sampling a samp le of 140 respondents was obtained. 
 Respondents were drawn from batik businesses, batik consumers, hotels, hotel guests and the public. 
 By using descriptive analysis the results of the study found that the greatest impact of toll road 
 development is the economic impact. From questionnaire, 54.5% of batik businesses stated that their 
 businesses had decreased and 72.7% of respondents from hotels stated that their room rent had 
 decreased. Whereas from the elements of batik buyers, hotel guests and the public, the construction of 
 this toll road has had a positive impact. Recommendations from the results of this study can be given 
 that the Pekalongan City Government needs to hold national level events, need to hold religious 
 tourism periodically, need improvemen t and promotion of Pekalongan tourism, it needs to be assessed 
 if it is proposed to build a batik shop in a rest area, canting pillars or landmarks in the road to the 
 Pekalongan toll exit as well as the batik businesses asking for real and immediate action from the 
 government with this economic impact.
 Keywords: Trans java toll road, Toll road impact, Social factors, Economic factors and 
 Environmental factors, Pekalongan city

KAMPUNG BATIK DIGITAL BERBASIS VIRTUAL TOUR SEBAGAI WADAH PROMOSI BATIK KOTA PEKALONGAN DI ERA INDUSTRI 4.0 (Studi Kasus: Kampung Batik Banyurip)

The promotion of batik products in the Pekalongan batik city needs to be carried out so that it can be 
 better known to the community, but is constrained by the limited working hours available. On the 
 other hand President Joko Widodo stressed that the need to create a virtual trade exhibition, so that 
 buyers can interact without the need to wait for an exhibition or are constrained by time. To respond 
 to the appeal of Mr. Joko Widodo, through the development of virtual reality tenology which has also 
 given birth to virtual tour innovations, a virtual tour village based on virtual tour will be built, so that 
 batik artisans will have more time to promote their products, as well as visitors / consumers who have 
 not had time to come to the batik village, will still be able to see the atmosphere of the existing batik 
 village by accessing the digital batik village application of Pekalongan batik city based on virtual 
 tour, and keep interacting with Pekalongan batik craftsmen, whenever and wherever. The application 
 of this research will have a positive impact on several parties, namely: 1) batik artisans, 2) visitors / 
 consumers, and 3) Pekalongan city government. The existence of digital batik villages based on virtual 
 tours will be a new breakthrough / new paradigm in creating and managing batik villages so that they 
 can be visited from anywhere and anytime.
 Keywords: Batik Village, Digital, Virtual Tour

Closed Beta Testing on e-Label Batik Application to Know the Best Environment for Optimal Application Performance

—The Batik of Pekalongan is a heritage that continues to be maintained and until now it is still used as a source of livelihood for the majority of the people in Pekalongan city, so the city of Pekalongan is known as the city of batik. However, the existence of batik is facing a serious threat, caused by the abundance of textile products with batik motifs (batik printing) on the market, but not matched by increased public knowledge of batik. Various efforts, both in Pekalongan city government through the labeling of batik, and ASEPHI in Pekalongan city through the implementation of original batik hologram, has been done to maintain the sustainability of batik. But this has not yet provided optimal results, because it is still found that the fraudulent batik seller who put the original batik label/hologram on batik printing, thus harming the society, harming batik craftsmen/producers and tarnish the batik image of Pekalongan city. This happened because the batik label or the original batik hologram had not been connected to a computer-based information system, so that they cannot monitor and validate the attachment of original batik labels/holograms. For this reason, researchers developed a e-label batik application that was able to be used by the community to scan batik labels that produced by the e-label batik application, so that can know information the authenticity of the batik. The application is also equipped with facilities that provide convenience to monitor, validate, get feedback from the community and become a learning media for the community towards batik. The development of e-label batik applications has gone through the stages of alpha testing and continued with closed beta testing to find out the ideal environment, So that the performance of the batik elabel application is optimal, and can be used properly by the community.

MELESTARIAN KAWASAN KONSERVASI SEBAGAI LANDASAN BUDAYA DALAM PERENCANAAN KOTA PEKALONGAN

Pekalongan formed through a long and unique history, which is characterized by a variety of historical relics and ancient buildings the main building. Starting from this, it seems we need a comprehensive conceptual thinking to handle the pearls in Pekalongan city, which still looks dull and does not appear to shine. Pekalongan city government itself also can not see that the potential of the region and the ancient building is of pearls are still dull and hidden, which can be polished so shiny and attract attention. They prefer talkative build buildings and malls without careful planning, and often displacing precisely these historic buildings. From sentences above, presumably, this research is needed to handle the pearls through the development of the concept of conservation, namely the concept of the arrangement, preservation, and development of the areas historic city of Pekalongan, and certainly is one of the bases for planning and development of culture and tourism city. Regulation on the protection of historic buildings the city is already there, but it is still necessary regulatory or conservation regulation in order to historic district Pekalongan sustainable, not just the building alone.

Batik Originality Marker As a Protection Model To The Manufacturer And Batik's Consumer

Such way from Pekalongan City Government in protecting the existence of crafstmen/batik seller and its consumer is by publishing region regulation of Pekalongan City Number 6 in year 2014. By that regulation, Pekalongan city government obligue all manufacturer/batik seller that produce and sell batik product in/from Pekalongan city should label their product with “ Batik Pekalongan”, hence it is not only functioned as a marker for consumer that is not able to identify the kinds of batik nor differentiate with printing batik, but also functioned as a protection model for the manufacturer/batik seller in Pekalongan. Nevertheless the absence of monitoring in the usage of label “Batik Pekalongan”, has been absorbed by certain manufacturer/batik seller to make fraud, thus the effort of Pekalongan city governmnt in giving protection to the manufacturer/batik seller and also their consumer hasn’t been well realized. The research resulted an e-label batik application that supports the effort of Pekalongan city government, by augmented reality technology utilization will make the label of “Batik Pekalongan” displaying such information about the kinds of batik, batik pattern/motif, the profile of the manufacturer/batik seller and other related information, if consumer scans that label by their smartphone, the information will be just displayed, and when the Pekalongan city government as the observer of the usage of batik label has done the validation based on the sustainability of the label certainty with the kinds of batik sold by the manufacturer/seller, the label of “Batik Pekalongan” will be functioned as the trusted mark

UPAYA PENERAPAN AKRUAL DAN PEROLEHAN OPINI WTP DI KOTA PEKALONGAN DARI KACAMATA KURT LEWIN

The aim of this research is to reveal and describe the organizational change occured on Pekalongan City Government in implementing public sector accrual accounting and attaining unqualified audit opinion as perceived from the aspects of readiness and strategy implementation by the government based on movement stages following to Lewin’s Organizational Change Theory (1951). The results showed that the change from cash to accrual accounting as well as strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion is a form of pressure and a process that is deliberately done in order to increase the accountability of the financial statements to be usable for decision-making. The goverment officials have shown resistance and negative impressions to implement of accrual accounting and strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion. Preparations to implement accrual accounting and strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion are expected to minimize the attitude of resistance so that the organizational changes can be successful. Preparations to implement of accrual accounting and the strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion are conducted by issuing Perwal. No. 34 and No. 35 2014, establishing SIMDA and SIMBADA, managing asset, defining a target in its RPJM, following up the BPK’s recommendation, and maintaining common commitment as public sector institution.

Protecting Batik Customers and the Existence of Pekalongan Original Batik by Augmented Reality Technology Based on Cloud Computingin Batik Label

The wrong assumption stating batik printed textilebatik issimilar withoriginal batik bears a loss for batik producers, because customers tend to buy printed textilewhich are cheaper than originalones (“tulis”, “cap” or “combination” batik). The misperception used by some batik enterpreneurs who mentioned that products he sold arekinds of original batik, although theyare printed textile. It disrupts the existence of Pekalongan traditional batikas well andmany customers experience losses. This research is an effort to support Indonesian government in maintaining batik as an Indonesian cultural heritage, and Pekalongan city government in maintaining the existence of "World's city of Batik" byissuing Regional Regulation No. 6 of 2014 Pekalongan about the use of Pekalongan batik label. Through the use of augmented reality technologybased on cloud computing, it will create a "Batik Pekalongan" label which provides information about the authenticity of Pekalongan batik products through smartphones access, and convenience for Pekalongan city government or Pekalongan ASEPHI in supervising the use of the label. Therefore, it will not be misused by unscrupulous batik entrpreneurs.

The Development of Online-Based Hotel and Restaurant Tax: Advantages and Constraints in the Case of Pekalongan City

In the attempt to improve the quality of service to hotel and restaurant taxpayers and to avoid the evasion of local income tax, Pekalongan City Government through DPPKAD or Dinas Pendapatan, Pengelolaan Keuangan dan Aset Daerah (Local Income, Financial and Asset Management Service) introduced a Hotel and Restaurant Tax using online system. This research aims to identify problems and constraints in applying the online-based tax system and recommends steps to address the problems. This study surveyed the users of the system using purposive samplingof DPPKAD officers, hotel, inn, and restaurant owners, and bank as the service provider. The results identified the advantages of online-based Hotel and Restaurant Tax namely: reducing potential fraud; improved tax assessments; reducing administrative works in the recordingof Surat Pemberitahuan Tahunan (Annual Notification Letter). However, DPPKAD of Pekalongan City encountered some constraints: many taxpayers were not willing to calculate their own tax and had the DPPKAD to specify the tax amount; many restaurant owners were not willing to use cash register because they were afraid that it would increase their products’ selling price; exposure of taxpayers’ private financial records; 2) the preparation of infrastructure is inhibited because the taxpayers have not been willing to connect the cashier machine directly to the partner’s bank system,3) DPPKAD had not had human resource with the competency of examining the local tax.

UPAYA PENERAPAN AKRUAL DAN PEROLEHAN OPINI WTP DI KOTA PEKALONGAN DARI KACAMATA KURT LEWIN

The aim of this research is to reveal and describe the organizational change occured on Pekalongan City Government in implementing public sector accrual accounting and attaining unqualified audit opinion as perceived from the aspects of readiness and strategy implementation by the government based on movement stages following to Lewin’s Organizational Change Theory (1951). The results showed that the change from cash to accrual accounting as well as strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion is a form of pressure and a process that is deliberately done in order to increase the accountability of the financial statements to be usable for decision-making. The goverment officials have shown resistance and negative impressions to implement of accrual accounting and strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion. Preparations to implement accrual accounting and strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion are expected to minimize the attitude of resistance so that the organizational changes can be successful. Preparations to implement of accrual accounting and the strategy to achieve unqualified audit opinion are conducted by issuing Perwal. No. 34 and No. 35 2014, establishing SIMDA and SIMBADA, managing asset, defining a target in its RPJM, following up the BPK’s recommendation, and maintaining common commitment as public sector institution.

Implementing pro-poor planning and budgeting: a case study of government-community poverty alleviation partnership in Pekalongan City, Indonesia

Pro-poor planning and budgeting systems can function as an integral approach in achieving good governance, especially to address urban poverty challenges. In Indonesia, Act No. 25 of 2004 on the national development planning system mandates that the formulation of the development planning document include a whole community approach. However, there is still uncertainty about this approach and how to implement its requirements. Furthermore, some criticism has emerged over formal efforts to fulfil the stipulations of the pro-poor planning process. Pekalongan city is currently attempting to modify their existing planning process in favor of an explicitly pro-poor approach. Results have yet to be quantifiably measured but some positive signs are observable. This article presents the Pekalongan city government's efforts in implementing a pro-poor planning system since 2008. Findings indicate that Pekalongan has successfully stimulated increased community participation and that the government-community partnership in city development activities has also been successful in implementing specific poverty alleviation programs.

Implementing pro-poor planning and budgeting: a case study of government-community poverty alleviation partnership in Pekalongan City, Indonesia

Pro-poor planning and budgeting systems can function as an integral approach in achieving good governance, especially to address urban poverty challenges. In Indonesia, Act No. 25 of 2004 on the national development planning system mandates that the formulation of the development planning document include a whole community approach. However, there is still uncertainty about this approach and how to implement its requirements. Furthermore, some criticism has emerged over formal efforts to fulfil the stipulations of the pro-poor planning process. Pekalongan city is currently attempting to modify their existing planning process in favor of an explicitly pro-poor approach. Results have yet to be quantifiably measured but some positive signs are observable. This article presents the Pekalongan city government's efforts in implementing a pro-poor planning system since 2008. Findings indicate that Pekalongan has successfully stimulated increased community participation and that the government-community partnership in city development activities has also been successful in implementing specific poverty alleviation programs.