Towards The Qualified Human Resource: Internship Program at Leading Ex-LPTK Universities in Indonesia
Sheila Febriani Putri a, Dwi Narullia b, Dhika Maha Putri c, Fitri Purnamasari d, Miranti Puspaningtyas e
a Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
sheila.febriani.fe[at]um.ac.id
b Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
dwi.narullia.fe[at]um.ac.id
c Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
dhika.maha.fe[at]um.ac.id
d Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
fitri.purnamasari.fe[at]um.ac.id
e Universitas Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia
miranti.puspaningtyas.fe[at]um.ac.id
Abstract
Internship becomes a way to grow human resource capabilities in terms of competencies on knowledge or practical skills 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 programs 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. Using qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were held with the lecturers as well as superintendents and staff at three ex-LPTK universities, and processed by content analysis. 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.
Keywords: Internship, Human Resource, Education, Ex-LPTK
Topic: Human Resource or Capital