Towards the Qualified Human Resource: Internship Program at Leading Ex-LPTK Universities in Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200812.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

educational system, human resource, internship program, workforce

Abstract

Internship becomes a way to grow human resource capabilities in terms of competencies on knowledge or practical and soft skills. Higher education institutions like universities as the organizers of an internship program certainly have some roles to produce capable, intelligent and professional workforce. Therefore, it is undeniable that a good internship program in university is an important stage in the development of quality human resources. Our research aims to uncover the description of the system of organizing internships at university level, in order to obtain a comprehensive picture of the program’s objectives in preparation for students to enter the workforce life. In this research, we also specifically portrayed the management of internships at the best ex-LPTK (Lembaga Pendidikan Tenaga Kependidikan) universities in Indonesia, as the institutions whose mission is to produce graduates as teaching staff/academics along with practitioners. We use mixed-method to earn our data from lecturers, superintendents and staffs of internship programs as well as the students at ex-LPTK universities. Overall, the internship programs at these universities have been managed with the orientation on the interests of students, have adopted the use of technology, and are evaluated routinely based on feedback from internal and external parties of the university. The lack of internship and the organization of the mentoring system conducted by the lecturers become the major deficiencies in organizing internships at the universities. These can be used as a basis to put on efforts to improve the internship system at the university level, especially in Indonesia.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dhika Maha Putri
AU  - Dwi Narullia
AU  - Sheila Febriani Putri
AU  - Fitri Purnamasari
AU  - Miranti Puspaningtyas
AU  - Mohd Rizal Palil
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/13
TI  - Towards the Qualified Human Resource: Internship Program at Leading Ex-LPTK Universities in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd Asia Pacific Management Research Conference (APMRC 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 97
EP  - 101
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200812.018
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200812.018
ID  - Putri2020
ER  -