Tanggapan Masyarakat Penerima Manfaat Terhadap Penggunaan Manfaat Program Kartu Prakerja Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 di Kelurahan Pasar Doloksanggul

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Abstract

Program Kartu Prakerja merupakan program pengembangan kompetensi kerja dan kewirausahaan yang ditujukan untuk pencari kerja, pekerja/buruh yang terkena pemutusan hubungan kerja, dan/atau pekerja/buruh yang membutuhkan peningkatan kompetensi, termasuk pelaku usaha mikro dan kecil. Program Kartu Prakerja ini pada awalnya tidak di desain untuk masa pandemi covid-19, namun seiring berjalannya waktu program ini mendapatkan beberapa modifikasi sehingga program ini dijadikan sebagai upaya percepatan pemerintah dalam menghadapi gejolak sosial dan ekonomi akibat dampak pandemi covid-19. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menggambarkan mengenai tanggapan masyarakat penerima manfaat terhadap penggunaan manfaat Program Kartu Prakerja pada masa pandemi Covid-19 di Kelurahan Pasar Doloksanggul. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif. peneliti memilih penelitian kualitatif desktriptif adalah karena dengan metode ini peneliti dapat mengetahui dan memahami fonomena (need to know) yang berfungsi untuk menggambarkan fakta, membuktikan, menggambarkan dan menemukan pengetahuan terkait suatu objek yang diteliti. Program Kartu Prakerja ini hadir sebagai solusi atas masa krisis ditengah-tengah masyarakat akibat gejolak sosial dan ekonomi yang disebabkan oleh pandemi covid-19.

Kata Kunci: Program Kartu Prakerja, Masyarakat Penerima Manfaat, Pandemi Covid-19

 

Abstrak

 

Kartu Prakerja Program is a work competency and entrepreneurship development program aimed at job seekers, workers/labourers who have been laid off, and/or workers/laborers who need to increase their competence, including micro and small business actors. This Kartu Prakerja Program was not originally designed for the COVID-19 pandemic, but over time this program has received several modifications so that this program is used as an effort to accelerate the government in dealing with social and economic turmoil due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aims to determine and describe the response of the beneficiary community to the use of the benefits of Kartu Prakerja Program during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pasar Doloksanggul Village. This study uses a qualitative research method using a descriptive approach. Researchers choose descriptive qualitative research because with this method researchers can know and understand the phenomenon (need to know) which serves to describe facts, prove, describe and find knowledge related to an object under study. This Kartu Prakerja Program is here as a solution to the crisis in the community due to the social and economic turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the study, researchers went directly to the field to be able to see firsthand how the public's response to the use of the benefits of Kartu Prakerja Program during the Covid-19 pandemic in Pasar Doloksanggul Village was. The Beneficiary Community of Kartu Prakerja Program in Pasar Doloksanggul Village considers that the benefits offered by Kartu Prakerja Program ranging from incentive funds, training, and competency certificates are the best alternatives today to save people's lives from the economic and financial crisis as a result of the social and economic turmoil in the past. the time of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Keywords: Kartu Prakerja Program, Beneficiary Community, Covid-19 Pandemic