Vokatek: Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat

Integrated Technology and Innovation-Based Digital Financial Management and Digital Marketing Mentoring for MASSIPA’ Banana Chips Household Enterprise in Makassar

2026-09-21T16:33:12+00:00

Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play a vital role in strengthening household and local economies; however, many home-based food businesses still face limitations regarding digital financial management and digital marketing. This community service program aimed to strengthen the business management capacity of MASSIPA’ Banana Chips, a home-based food processing group located in Antang, Manggala District, Makassar City. Conducted from May to August 2026 and involving six active members, the program comprised stages of initial assessment, practical training, technology implementation, mentoring, and monitoring. It focused on two priority areas: business management and marketing. Two digital tools were integrated into the program: the *BukuWarung* application for recording daily transactions and a spreadsheet-based business dashboard for monthly financial analysis, calculating the Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and determining profit margins. Marketing activities included enhancing branding, developing a digital product catalog, creating a content calendar, and optimizing WhatsApp Business and Instagram. Program results demonstrated measurable improvements compared to the initial baseline. Daily transaction recording increased from approximately 25% to 92%, the time required for monthly financial reconciliation dropped from 3–4 days to one day, COGS data became available for all five product variants, a standardized digital catalog was successfully implemented, promotional content frequency reached 3–4 posts per week, and two digital marketing channels were actively utilized. These findings indicate that integrating accessible financial technology with digital marketing mentoring effectively enhances managerial capabilities and supports the digital transformation of home-based MSMEs.

Integrated Business Transformation in the Domestic Sambusa Industry: Production Modernization, Management, and Digital Marketing in Pangkep Regency

2026-10-07T08:41:06+00:00

The Domestic Sambusa Industry (Industri Rumah Tangga) Mutabikh Maryama in Pangkajene and Kepulauan Regency (Pangkep) has significant potential for business development but faces interconnected challenges in production capacity, technology adoption, business management, supply chain management, branding, packaging, and digital marketing. This community service initiative aimed to strengthen the partner’s business capacity and competitiveness through an integrated intervention combining production modernization, business management strengthening, supply chain improvement, and digital marketing transformation. The intervention employed a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach involving six members of the partner group through five stages: needs identification, training and workshops, appropriate technology implementation, mentoring and monitoring, and evaluation and sustainability assessment. The intervention introduced a standing mixer, semi-automatic Sambusa skin-printing equipment, freezer, and vacuum sealer, complemented by training in financial record-keeping, inventory management using the FIFO principle, supply chain management, pricing, branding, packaging, and digital marketing. Preliminary results indicated that daily production increased from approximately 300–400 to 600–800 pieces, while production operating time decreased from approximately 8–10 hours to 4–5 hours per day. Hourly productivity also increased from approximately 35–40 to 150–160 pieces. The program additionally resulted in the adoption of food-grade packaging, a new brand identity, simplified financial and inventory recording systems, and more structured use of social media for product promotion. These results indicate that an integrated intervention combining production modernization, business management, and digital transformation can improve operational efficiency and strengthen the readiness of food-sector MSMEs to expand their market sustainably.

Digital Transformation Capability and Accounting Information Resilience: Mediating AI-Driven Analytics and Moderating Cybersecurity Governance

2026-09-30T17:12:25+00:00

Digital transformation is reshaping how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) generate, analyze, protect, and recover accounting information, yet the mechanisms through which digital capability may contribute to accounting information resilience remain insufficiently integrated. This study develops a capability-based framework linking Digital Transformation Capability (DTC) to Accounting Information Resilience (AIR) through AI-Driven Analytics Capability (AIAC), while positioning Cybersecurity Governance (CSG) as a boundary condition. The study is conceptual in orientation and employs an illustrative benchmark PLS-SEM specification based on a hypothetical structure of 300 digitally engaged MSMEs across six districts of Pontianak City, Indonesia. The benchmark specification is used solely to demonstrate the internal analytical logic of the proposed moderated-mediation model and should not be interpreted as empirical evidence. The illustrative pattern reflects the theoretical expectation that DTC may strengthen AIAC and AIR, that AIAC may serve as an intermediate capability through which digital transformation is translated into more resilient accounting-information processes, and that stronger CSG may enhance the effectiveness of this proposed mechanism. The study contributes by distinguishing accounting information resilience from conventional information quality, identifying AI-enabled analytics as a potential capability-conversion mechanism, and conceptualizing cybersecurity governance as a condition that may strengthen resilience outcomes. The framework provides a theoretically grounded and testable basis for future empirical validation using observed MSME data and for comparative research across emerging-market digital ecosystems.

Development and Implementation of a Web-Based Digital Library System (SIPERPUS) at SMKN 1 Bengkalis

2026-10-15T06:27:06+00:00

Students at SMKN 1 Bengkalis, a vocational high school in Riau, Indonesia, had no online collection they could open from their own devices, and school staff reported limited access to books and difficulty managing the collection. This community service program adapted PustakaPlus, a digital library built in 2025 by a Politeknik Negeri Bengkalis team for a village in Bengkalis Regency, into SIPERPUS. An audit of PustakaPlus found twelve defects, including media files reachable without login, an insecure direct object reference, unlimited login attempts, and a layout unfit for phones. The program ran in five stages: a needs discussion with the school and a technical audit, design, development with Laravel 13, Inertia.js, Vue 3, and MySQL, testing and deployment to shared cPanel hosting, and a socialization session on 18 September 2026 attended by 16 participants: three library staff members, twelve teachers, and one student representative. All 191 automated tests passed after one outdated test expectation was corrected. On the production server, all 19 routes checked returned the expected pages, media were served through range requests, and requests without login were redirected; Lighthouse gave performance scores of 97 to 99 (largest contentful paint 1.7 to 2.1 s), compared with 64 for PustakaPlus. During hands-on practice, participants found the application flow easy to follow; the main obstacle was that library staff were not yet used to managing data on a computer. No usability or satisfaction instrument was administered, so the results show technical readiness and initial acceptance, not educational effectiveness.

Justice in Joint Liability Burden Sharing for Compliant Borrowers: An Islamic Economic Law Analysis of Microfinance Practices

2026-10-21T14:09:41+00:00

Joint-liability group finance can sustain collective installment payments while transferring another borrower’s arrears to members who have already repaid their own obligations. This study examines how such costs were allocated to disciplined borrowers at PT Amartha Mikro Fintek in Tanjung Senang, Bandar Lampung, and interprets the practice through Islamic economic law. The research used a descriptive-analytical qualitative field approach involving interviews with one Business Manager and six disciplined borrowers from three groups comprising 63 members, supported by observation, financing documentation, and legal literature. All six borrower informants reported contributing personal funds toward others’ missed installments. Their contributions varied across episodes and were shared equally among the members covering a particular shortfall. Borrowers described redirecting money from household needs or business inventory and experiencing additional social demands. The reviewed Special Terms of Funding Agreement did not itself specify group liability, although informants described receiving an initial oral explanation. Read through distributive justice, informed consent, al-‘adl, ta‘āwun, al-ḍarar yuzāl, and ḥifẓ al-māl, the evidence raises questions about proportional burden allocation and the recovery of advances without establishing that joint liability is inherently unlawful. The study argues for clearer disclosure, reasonable limits, consideration of default circumstances, and transparent reimbursement procedures. Its conclusions are limited to the experiences documented in this qualitative case

Empowering the Baji Minasa Farmer Group through Solar-Powered Water Pump Implementation for Sustainable Irrigation

2026-10-31T08:35:37+00:00

This community engagement program aimed to empower the Baji Minasa Farmer Group through the implementation of solar-powered water pumps to support sustainable irrigation. The program was conducted in Tondong Tallasa Village, Pangkep Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, involving 24 farmers. Program outcomes were evaluated before and after implementation using six indicators: energy management knowledge, pump operation, equipment maintenance, irrigation efficiency, agricultural productivity, and farmer group independence. The assessment results showed improvements across all indicators. The results showed an improvement across all six community empowerment indicators following the implementation of the program. Energy management knowledge increased from 35.07% to 89.93%, pump operation from 29.86% to 87.85%, equipment maintenance from 25.00% to 81.94%, irrigation efficiency from 45.14% to 89.93%, and agricultural productivity from 50.00% to 85.07%. Farmer group independence also demonstrated an increase, from an estimated 39.93% to 87.85%. Overall, the average achievement increased from 37.50% before the program to 87.09% afterward, representing an improvement of 49.59 percentage points. The greatest improvement among the five indicators with calculated scores was observed in pump operation, with an increase of 57.99 percentage points, followed by equipment maintenance at 56.94 percentage points. The results suggest that the program contributed to strengthening the technical capacity and independence of farmer groups. However, the increase in the agricultural productivity assessment score does not necessarily demonstrate an actual increase in crop yields, as direct production measurements were not reported. Overall, the implementation of solar-powered water pumps has the potential to strengthen farmer capacity and support more sustainable agricultural water management.

Empowering Teachers at Sekolah Rakyat in South Sulawesi to Design Hybrid Bilingual Learning Modules

2026-11-03T08:48:18+00:00

Teachers at Sekolah Rakyat Menengah Atas (SRMA) 27 Takalar face challenges in preparing learning materials that combine classroom and online activities with Indonesian-English instructional content. Preliminary school discussions indicated that approximately 80% of teachers had not attended training on hybrid or bilingual module development. This community partnership program used participatory workshops and mentoring to support 15 teachers in designing technology-supported bilingual modules. Activities included needs identification, design training, collaborative module production, implementation support, evaluation, and plans for a teacher learning community. An evaluation involving 11 teachers used ten five-point items assessing conceptual and technopedagogical understanding. Reported mean scores increased from 37.55 to 44.09 out of 50; an additional N-Gain summary was 0.44 (moderate). The digital-readiness chart recorded an increase in module-design readiness from 54.55% to 100% and in bilingual-content confidence from 72.73% to 90.91%. Teachers also practiced using digital learning platforms and artificial intelligence tools, including ChatGPT and NotebookLM. The program produced interactive hybrid bilingual module prototypes incorporating offline and online activities, multimedia, and digital assessment. The findings suggest promising short-term changes in the evaluated teachers' reported readiness and scores, while providing a context-specific model for continuing professional support.

Implementation of a Solar-Powered Irrigation Pump and Capacity Building for a Farmer Group in Bune Village: Toward Renewable Energy-Based Irrigation

2026-11-02T15:47:56+00:00

The Rumpuleng Farmer Group in Bune Village, Bone Regency, Indonesia, faces limited irrigation water in rainfed rice fields and relies on fuel-powered pumps. This community engagement program aimed to implement a solar-powered irrigation pump while improving the group’s technical capacity and management. A participatory technology-transfer approach was applied in five stages: observation and socialization, equipment inspection, technical and managerial training, installation and commissioning, and mentoring and evaluation. Competency was assessed with a one-group pre-test and post-test administered to 16 participants; each indicator was scored as a percentage of the maximum attainable score and reported at the group level, with the change expressed in percentage points and as normalized gain. Scores increased from 30% to 85% for assembly, from 10% to 90% for maintenance, and from 15% to 95% for operation. Technology literacy and management understanding reached 100% at endline, without a comparable baseline. The installed system comprised two 250 W photovoltaic modules and a 400 W AC submersible pump; the 50 L/min flow target and fuel-use reduction were program targets and have not been field-measured. The results indicate that combining equipment, hands-on practice, standard operating procedures, and mentoring was associated with higher post-test competencies in assembling, maintaining, and operating the system; without a control group or individual-level data, these gains are descriptive and cannot be generalized. Field monitoring of flow rate and fuel savings is the next step to verify the technical-economic benefits.

Community Based Intervention Through Automatic Slicing Technology and Business Management Training for Tuber Chip MSMEs In Wonosari Village

2026-10-21T17:45:25+00:00

Wonosari Village, in Malang Regency, possesses significant agricultural potential, particularly in the production of root and tuber crops. However, home-based chip-making enterprises in this area face production challenges, primarily due to the reliance on manual slicing methods and limited business management capabilities. This community service program aims to address these challenges through the implementation of appropriate technology and the enhancement of business capacity. The program involved 10 representatives from four micro and small enterprises, utilizing an approach that integrates *Asset-Based Community Development* (ABCD) and *Participatory Action Research* (PAR). The activities included mapping local assets and production bottlenecks, designing an automated slicing machine, providing equipment, conducting technical training, and evaluating the benefits perceived by the participants. The evaluation results indicate that 100% of the participants found the machine simplified the slicing process, while 90% reported that the production process became faster. Furthermore, 70% of the participants gained an understanding of how to operate the machine; 80% understood cleaning and maintenance procedures; 60% grasped financial record-keeping and production cost calculations; and 70% understood the benefits of packaging and digital marketing. These findings suggest that appropriate technology can effectively address existing production challenges, though business management capacity still requires further development. Future evaluations should incorporate actual production data to assess measurable changes in productivity and business performance.

Transformative Islamic Education Quality Assurance in Building Strategic Value and Madrasah Competitiveness

2026-11-04T15:08:17+00:00

Quality assurance in Islamic educational institutions extends beyond regulatory compliance to encompass educational improvement, stakeholder confidence, and institutional competitiveness. However, the relationship between internal quality assurance practices, stakeholder-perceived educational value, and institutional attractiveness remains insufficiently understood. This study examined how transformative Islamic education quality assurance is associated with strategic value and madrasah competitiveness at MTsN 6 Kediri, Indonesia. Employing a qualitative single-case study design, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with institutional leaders, teachers, administrative personnel, students, and parent or committee representatives, supported by observations and institutional documents. Data analysis involved condensation, thematic display, and conclusion drawing and verification, supported by source and methodological triangulation. The findings identified interconnected quality assurance practices involving planning, implementation, monitoring, reporting, evaluation, and follow-up. These practices were associated with academic and extracurricular development, character formation, educational facilities, and responsive services. Stakeholder accounts indicated favorable evaluations of educational benefits, while institutional achievements, public communication, and reported admission demand reflected aspects of institutional attractiveness. The study proposes a context-specific strategic value chain positioning stakeholder-perceived educational value as an interpretive connection between internal quality assurance and madrasah competitiveness. This framework contributes to Islamic educational management by integrating quality management and stakeholder-oriented educational marketing. However, the proposed relationships remain interpretive rather than empirically validated causal mechanisms.

The Aware and Responsive Educational Program: Strengthening Parents’ Capacity to Recognize and Respond to Child Sexual Abuse

2026-10-26T04:55:51+00:00

Child sexual violence is a serious problem that requires comprehensive handling through a protection, recovery, and mentoring approach. This Community Service (PKM) activity aims to increase parents/guardians' understanding of early detection, forms of sexual violence, legal basis, prevention, and victim reporting mechanisms. Participants were all parents of students at SDIT Ar Risalah Kartasura consisting of 210. The implementation method began with a pre-test to measure participants' basic knowledge, followed by material delivery by three speakers consisting of two academics and one social worker in the Social Rehabilitation (Rehabsos) field of the Surakarta City Social Service, as well as a question-and-answer session and post-test as evaluation. The results of the activity showed an increase in participant understanding, marked by active participation and better evaluation results, from 72% into 94%, a 22-percentage-point representing the proportion of participants meeting the knowledge criterion rather than average assessment scores. The material presented was considered relevant and applicable to everyday life. However, this activity has limitations in terms of implementation duration and participant reach. Therefore, program development is needed through expanding targets, ongoing mentoring, and strengthening cross-sector collaboration to increase the effectiveness of prevention and handling of child sexual violence in a sustainable manner.

Integrating Fisheries and Free-Range Laying Hen Farming through Local Feed to Strengthen Food Security and the Economy of the Bahari Tomini Raya Coastal Community

2026-11-09T03:35:15+00:00

Coastal households in Bahari Tomini Raya, Central Sulawesi, have access to low-value fish but face constraints in small-scale free-range laying hen production, particularly feed costs and limited business management. This community service program examined the feasibility of connecting local fisheries with poultry farming through locally formulated feed and assessed participants' immediate learning outcomes. Forty-eight farmers from four villages joined pre-test and post-test activities, extension sessions, feed-production demonstrations, discussions, and purposive interviews. Fishers processed low-value fish into fish meal, and the group prepared 1,000 kg of feed containing fish meal (10%), corn (58%), rice bran (30%), and vitamin premix (2%). Laboratory analysis indicated 15.56% crude protein, exceeding the minimum cited in SNI 7783-1:2022; however, the reported moisture (89.37%) and phosphorus (56.92%) values were implausible for dry feed, and calcium (4.12%) exceeded the stated reference range. Post-session affirmative responses reached 100% for six feed-related knowledge indicators, while interest in expanding poultry enterprises increased from 85% to 100%. Cost-and-income recording remained unchanged at 4%. The program established a practical demonstration of a fisher-to-farmer supply connection, but improvements in feed safety, poultry productivity, household income, and food security were not evaluated and cannot yet be inferred

Pentahelix-Based Empowerment of Beef Cattle Farmers Through Laserpuncture to Support Reproductive Management in Lawanganagung

2026-11-09T05:50:28+00:00

Smallholder beef cattle farmers in Lawanganagung, Lamongan, face reproductive-management challenges involving weak estrus expression, delayed artificial insemination (AI), inconsistent feeding practices, and incomplete records. This community-engagement program sought to strengthen farmers’ knowledge and reproductive-management practices by integrating veterinary-delivered laserpuncture, fermented-feed preparation, recordkeeping, and pentahelix collaboration. Twenty farmers participated in training and practical activities on 16 August 2026, followed by monitoring and mentoring. A veterinarian applied semiconductor laserpuncture at 14 reproductive acupuncture points to three nonpregnant female cattle. Knowledge was evaluated using paired 20-item pre- and post-tests, normalized gain (N-gain), and the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Mean knowledge scores increased from 39.25 ± 6.93 to 89.75 ± 5.73 (N-gain = 0.83; p < 0.001), with improvement in all 20 participants. All three treated cattle displayed estrus after the second application and subsequently underwent AI; pregnancy outcomes were not yet available. Fermented feed showed no visible mold, three reproductive cards were completed, and all 20 farmers began business cashbook recording. The integrated program was associated with immediate knowledge gains and documented improvements in management activities. The uncontrolled observation of three cattle does not establish that laserpuncture caused estrus or improved fertility outcomes.