TGO Journal of Community Development

Time Management Assistance in Developing Superior Human Resources

Ana Sopanah — 2025-05-10

This study aims to improve the effectiveness of employee time management through training and mentoring at PT Kasih Jaya Sejahtera, Malang Regency. The method used was a qualitative approach with data collection techniques in the form of in-depth interviews with company owners, operational workers, and HR managers, as well as field observations from January to March 2025. The results of the activities showed an increase in employee ability to set work priorities, adherence to schedules, and efficiency in completing daily tasks. In addition, unique implementations such as the "Daily Focus Zone" system and daily digital monitoring emerged as innovations in time management practices. The discussion of the results indicates that the training and mentoring not only impacted individual behavior changes but also strengthened a disciplined and collaborative work culture within the company environment. These findings align with previous studies that emphasize the importance of time management in HR development and increasing organizational productivity. Despite limitations in the duration of the activities and the scope of participants, the results show great potential for the sustainability of similar programs in the future.

Reflective Financial Awareness for Student Bootstrapping Founders: A Community Engagement Approach

Hanif Rani Iswari — 2025-07-22

This community service initiative aims to cultivate reflective financial behavior among student startup founders who rely on bootstrapping as their primary funding strategy. Conducted over four months, the program engaged a student-led startup operating in both private tutoring and catfish farming sectors. The initiative addressed common behavioral finance biases—such as overconfidence, sunk cost fallacy, and status quo bias—through contextualized education, reflective journaling, decision-mapping, and low-cost tools like pre-mortem analysis and behavioral checklists. The results revealed tangible improvements in financial self-awareness, decision quality, and emotional regulation. Participants began implementing structured pause points before making financial commitments, differentiated financial logic between service-based and production-based businesses, and revised pricing strategies based on both operational realities and psychological insight. The program also fostered a psychologically safe environment for discussing financial anxiety and learning from failure. This intervention demonstrates that reflective financial education can serve as an impactful and scalable early-stage support model for young entrepreneurs. Its low-barrier, behaviorally-informed approach can be replicated across educational institutions and community-based startup ecosystems, particularly those lacking formal financial mentorship structures. The outcomes suggest that empowering founders to understand their financial behavior is just as crucial as teaching them to manage financial tools.

Public Participation in Elections

Rahmat Hidayat — 2025-06-30

In every election, community participation is an interesting thing to study and discuss, the history of the long journey of elections from 2004 to 2024 elections is a form of evidence of the ups and downs of community participation, this is due to many factors and it is the duty of election organizers to evaluate this. This research was conducted to examine and want to know how the urgency of community participation in elections and how the strategies of election organizers in strengthening community participation using library research, namely research material obtained from library materials related to the object under study. The urgency of community participation in elections can have a significant impact on the stability of democracy, this is based on the fact that a country that adheres to a democratic system is obliged to involve its people, with low participation rates resulting in unhealthy democratic stability, besides the urgency of community participation in elections can guarantee legitimacy in the government order. So to maintain the stability of democracy and the legitimacy of the government requires the role of election administrators, namely the KPU and Bawaslu, the movements that can be carried out by the KPU are conducting political education, socialising elections and providing assistance to disability elections, while the movement that can be carried out by Bawaslu is to provide space for the community to participate in election supervision in order to achieve participation and peaceful and honest elections.