Implementation of Providing Scholarship for College Students from Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang in Kota Jayapura

Abstract

This study aims to describe and analyze how the implementation of the education scholarship fund assistance policy for students of Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang in Kota Jayapura along with supporting and inhibiting factors. This research was conducted using qualitative research methods, with the hope of being able to explore and collect in-depth data in order to obtain the main data conducted using observation, documentation studies and by conducting in-depth interviews with key informants. The results showed that from the implementation of the education scholarship fund assistance policy seen from the communication indicator, it still did not run smoothly and well. In terms of communication, the implementation has indeed been carried out by the relevant Office to students from Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang and to prospective scholarship recipients. However, the Department of Education and Culture still lacks socialization so that students still do not know information related to the scholarship program. From the resource indicators, the number of staff as implementers of the regional scholarship program is adequate, facilities and infrastructure such as computers, administrative staff and others are adequate. From the disposition indicator, namely the attitude of policy implementers (bureaucrats) greatly influences a policy implementation. so that with the formation of a team tasked with implementing the scholarship program for students of Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang, it has been formed in accordance with its duties and functions. From the bureaucratic structure indicator, so far the Education and Culture Office of Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang as the implementer of the Regional Scholarship Program for students from Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang has carried out its duties in accordance with the existing SOPs and carried out its duties in accordance with the division of tasks and functions of each as determined. The inhibiting factor is that there are often delays in the distribution of scholarship assistance to students, namely from related agencies because they have to wait for the disbursement of funds from the Kabupaten Pegunungan Bintang Government to related agencies, so that these factors also hamper the distribution process to students. Then from the students themselves, namely not paying attention to how systematic, the requirements made by the agency to get the scholarship assistance funds, so that this can hinder the course of the program.