Research in Border Villages by a Number of Students of the Department of Geography, FMIPA UI

May 30, 2022

Two villages in Jasinga District, Bogor Regency were used as the location for the 3rd Field Work Lecture (KKL) by students from the 2019 batch of the Geography Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia (FMIPA UI). The two villages are Tegalwangi Village and Wirajaya Village.

There were 19 students participating in this activity. In the border area, they conducted research with the main theme 'Research in Border Villages'. The activity was carried out for 3 days, starting from May 23, 2022 to May 26, 2022.

To the FMIPA UI Public Relations team, Dr. Taqiyuddin as the supervising lecturer revealed that in accordance with the theme, the KKL 3 activity in Jasinga raised the issue of research in border villages in West Java and Banten provinces.

"A total of 19 of our students participated in the research, it should have been 20 but one did not participate due to obstacles," he said.

Each student works on research with a different title by referring to two major themes given, namely Physical Geography (Water quality, flood threats, landslides, droughts, etc.) and Human Geography and their combinations (Public health facilities, healthy nutrition access facilities, children's education during the Covid-19 pandemic, etc.).

The research material focuses on issues related to the theme, including the implementation of therapeutic landscapes in tourist attractions in Jasinga District, and patterns of changes in residential land use based on topography in 2016 and 2022.

The human geography expert also said that the results of this research will be processed into a database for the university, and then will be published more widely to help the local government in solving problems in the border area.

"We will publish it more widely with several journals in the form of articles and others, in addition to seminars on campus and off campus," he concluded.

News source: https://sci.ui.ac.id/

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