App Development for Internship and Empowering Programs Using Cluster Detection Data Mining during PPKM (Restriction on Community Activities): A Case Study on Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong of Indonesia
Internship and community service (KPM) were annual compulsory programs conducted by Universitas Pendidikan Muhammadiyah Sorong as the implementation of students’ tridharma, which were academic activity, research, and empowerment. These programs aimed at enabling students get experiences at schools, business field, and industrial field; implement knowledge, and could interact directly with community. The process of registration, allocating students and lecturers, submitting report and grading were still conducted manually. Thus, it resulted people crowd that resulted in a cluster for covid 19 spread. This research intended to develop an app for internship and empowerment programs where the decision making used cluster detection data mining. This app was expected to ease and fasten the registration process and break the crowd since it was accessed outside of campus area. Research method used was System Development Life Cycle) Model Prototyping. The app development consisted of: (1) need collection and analysis, (2) designing, (3) prototyping, (4) trial or evaluation test, and (5) implementation. Blackbox testing was the app trial test used to try the menus and procedures function to indicate that it have been up to the operational procedure standard. The black box test resulted that there was no functional error in the whole app for internship and empowerment programs.