Telkom University Helps Improve Education Quality in Sambas

Telkom University continues to be committed to improving the quality of education in Indonesia, this is a form of Tel-U's support for the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) program, one of the efforts that reflects this goal is to improve the quality of education on the border of Indonesia, namely in Sambas Regency, North Kalimantan. Through the support ofPT. Telkom Indonesia, Telkom University provided an Educations Smart System(EAZY) applicationto the Sambas State Polytechnic (Poltesa).

At the application handover event that took place at Poltesa, Wednesday (9/8), Telkom University submitted an application to help meet the academic and administrative needs of the university.

EAZY provides convenience as a solution to meet all academic needs, by utilizing technology to improve the quality of university accreditation and credibility.

Through the EAZYaccreditation feature , it is able to facilitate universities to improve higher education accreditation and study programs, according to the regulations of the Higher Education Accreditation Agency (BAN-PT).

Poltesa Director Yuliansyah expressed his gratitude to Telkom University which is committed to supporting the improvement of the quality of education in the regions, especially in border areas of Indonesia.

"All Poltesa academics would like to thank PT Telkom Indonesia and Telkom University through this application which has really helped us in improving the quality of education in Sambas Regency." he said.

Yuliansyah further said that the EAZY application is very helpful for universities in improving the quality of education, especially in improving accreditation, both higher education accreditation and study program accreditation.

"Apart from that, this application also helps us (higher education leaders) in monitoring the progress of the accreditation process." he said.

At the signing of the cooperation agreement between Telkom University and Poltesa, Telkom University Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Dr. Dadan Rahadian conveyed that one of the contributions made by Tel-U in helping to improve the quality of education in Indonesia was through a program conducted at Poltesa.

"Through this collaboration, we want to continue to contribute to improving the quality of education in Indonesia, we have many plans and collaborations with Poltesa which is one of the universities in the border area in West Kalimantan." Dadan said.

Previously the EAZY application developed by Telkom University had been implemented in Bogor and Bandung, then currently Sambas is the third area where the EAZY application has been implemented.

"We hope that this application will have broad benefits not only for Poltesa, but also for the sake of creating a superior generation for Sambas Regency and Indonesia. Through PT Telkom's CSR Program, we can carry out this program, making it easier for universities to improve the quality of education through technology." Obviously.

Also present in witnessing the process of handing over the EAZY product,the General Manager(GM) of Telkom West Kalimantan Telecommunications Business Area (Witel), Tedi Rukmantara, expressed his hope that this application could be utilized by universities not only in the 3T areas (underdeveloped, frontier, and outermost) but in all universities in Indonesia.

"By implementing this application at Poltesa, we hope to be able to support improving the quality of education in the Sambas area, and we hope that the Director of Poltesa himself can convey the advantages of this product? to allstakeholdersfrom Poltesa, as users of the EAZY application." Obviously.

Previously Telkom University had assisted the use of the EAZY application by the EAZY team, to the accreditation team from Poltesa. Besides that Prof. Maman Abdurohman as a Telkom University lecturer who is also a BAN-PT Assessor and the Informatics and Computer Independent Accreditation Institute (LAM INFOKOM) was also present at this socialization, to assist Poltesa in the process of inputting study program accreditation forms.