Organizational Transformation of School of Meteorology

Climatology and Geophysics and Its Impact to the Graduated

Qualities

Ita Soegiarto

, Billy Tunas

and Mahmudin Yasin

Faculty of Economics, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Jakarta-Indonesia

Faculty of Economics, Suryadarma Halim Perdana Kusuma, Jakarta-Indonesia

Keywords: Organizational Transformation, Graduated Qualities

Abstract: School of Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (STMKG) is an official vocational school under the

Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG). STMKG originally called the Academy of

Meteorology and Geophysics (AMG) changed its name and system from academy to school in accordance

with the Republic of Indonesia Presidential Regulation Number 35 of 2014. These practical changes made

various lines also change with expectations can support the performance of BMKG organizations to be

better. This study aims to determine the quality of STMKG graduates who have worked in BMKG offices

throughout Indonesia. The study was conducted by distributing questionnaires to the heads of offices that

had recent STMKG graduates. The questionnaire obtained was then analysed to determine the level of

quality of graduates. Based on these results, it is known that the quality of STMKG graduates is relatively

good from various aspects of assessment, namely in terms of integrity and moral ethics, expertise based on

education, the ability to use foreign languages, the ability to use information technology, communication

skills, teamwork and self-development. This result certainly had an impact on the good BMKG services

provided by STMKG graduates to the public. Based on these results, it can be concluded that AMG changes

to STMKG support the performance of BMKG organizations for the better.

1 INTRODUCTION

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics

Agency (BMKG) is a non-ministerial government

institution that has the main tasks and functions to

carry out the tasks of carrying out government duties

in the fields of Meteorology, Climatology, Air

Quality and Geophysics in accordance with

applicable laws. To carry out these tasks and

functions, BMKG which is a central institution has

operational offices in all regions in Indonesia. The

majority of employees at BMKG offices are

graduates of the College of Meteorology,

Climatology and Geophysics (STMKG), which is an

official school under BMKG. STMKG is a IV

diploma school in the field of meteorology,

climatology and geophysics which each graduate

will be directly absorbed by BMKG.

Before becoming STMKG in 2014 based on the

Republic of Indonesia Presidential Regulation

Number 35 of 2014, STMKG was named the

Academy of Meteorology, Climatology and

Geophysics (AMG). This change is in view of the

demand for educated and professional human

resources in the fields of meteorology, climatology

and geophysics to provide the best service of

information related to meteorology, climatology and

geophysics to the Indonesian people, namely

quickly, precisely, broadly, easily understood.

The quality of human resources is indeed a very

important capital in every line of life, especially

development. Quality resources will certainly

support the achievement of organizational goals to

be able to work well according to mandated tasks

and functions.

The change in AMG to become STMKG

certainly helped change how the output of graduates,

Soegiarto, I., Tunas, B. and Yasin, M.

Organizational Transformation of School of Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics and Its Impact to the Graduated Qualities.

DOI: 10.5220/0009509908770880

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who had previously only been observers, is now an

analyzer in the fields of meteorology, climatology

and geophysics. Not only that, in terms of quality, it

is also expected that high school graduates of

diploma IV level are better than before who are only

at diploma level III.

Based on this background, the author tried to

conduct research on how the quality of STMKG

graduates was based on the assessment of the heads

of BMKG offices throughout Indonesia where

STMKG graduates worked.

2 THEORICAL FRAMEWORK

Karen Coffman and Katie Lutes explain that change

management is a structured approach to help

organizations and people to transition slowly but

surely from the present to the desired situation.

Changes are certainly very necessary to answer the

challenges of the objectives and adjust the work

requirements that will be done. Organizational

change is of course intended for organizations to be

able to survive on time which continues to grow

rapidly and so that organizational goals can be

achieved optimally.

If previously as an academy with diploma level

III, the school under BMKG was only able to issue

graduates to become observers in the fields of

meteorology, climatology and geophysics. Now with

the transformation of organizations into high schools

that also change parts including the structure of

policy makers, learning curricula, and graduate

graduation standards, of course this is indeed a need

that must be fulfilled for the development of the

service of the organization itself.

3 RESEARCH METHOD

The data in this study were obtained based on the

distribution of questionnaires filled in by the Heads

of UPT BMKG to STMKG graduates who had

worked at each UPT throughout Indonesia. This

questionnaire was filled out by the Heads of UPTs

during the BMKG National Coordination Meeting

on 25-28 April 2017 in Jakarta.

STMKG graduates who assessed their

performance were the last two graduates, namely

2016 and 2017 STMKG graduates with the numbers

presented in the table.

There are twenty-eight items of questions in the

graduate performance questionnaire which must be

answered by the leaders of UPT BMKG throughout

Indonesia. There are four assessment criteria to

answer all questions in the questionnaire, namely (1)

Less; (2) Enough; (3) Good; and (4) Very good with

the symbols D, C, B, A respectively for these

criteria. All twenty-eight questions were distributed

into seven assessment categories with each

assessment category consisting of four questions.

These 7 categories are based on graduate

standards as used by the National Accreditation

Board of Higher Education, including:

1. Integrity and Moral Ethics

2. Main Competence

3. English Language Ability

4. Ability to Use Information Technology

5. Communication Ability

6. Team Cooperation

7. Self Development

The results obtained based on this research are

then presented statistically analysed qualitatively

with a case study approach to find out and

understand management after organizational

changes at STMKG, so that they can find answers to

what happened, why it happened and how it was

confirmed by Finlay and Ballinger Qualitative

research is research that can answer why and how an

event occurs. In addition, this research is expected to

find a management system after organizational

change.

Analysis of data in qualitative research begins

with preparing and organizing data, namely text data

such as transcripts or image data such as photos for

analysis, then reducing the data into themes through

the coding and summarizing process and finally

presenting data in the form of charts, tables or

discussions.

4 ANALYSIS

Not all graduate performance questionnaires that are

distributed get feedback from graduate users, in this

case the leaders of upt bmkg throughout indonesia.

Of the 349 graduates who will be assessed for their

performance, only 251 graduates received feedback

or only 71.92% with the details of each study

program as follows.

Table 1: Graduate Feedback for each study program

No. Study Program

Graduated

Student

Feedback Percent

1 Meteorology 214 154

71,96

2 Climatology 55 49

89,09

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3 Geophysics 50 27

54,00

4 Instrumentation 30 21

70,00

Total 349 251

71,92

Table 2: Graduate Performance Evaluation Table

Meteorology Applied Bachelor Program

No. Type of Ability

User Responses

A B C D

(%) (%) (%) (%)

Integrity and

Moral Ethics

29 63 7 1

Main

Competence

16 72 11 1

English

Language

Ability

1 49 42 8

Ability to Use

Information

Technology

25 71 4 0

Communication

Ability

14 74 11 1

Team

Cooperation

16 70 13 1

Self-

Development

17 16 13 5

Table 3: Graduate Performance Evaluation Table

Climatology Applied Bachelor Program

No. Type of Ability

User Responses

A B C D

(%) (%) (%) (%)

Integrity and

Moral Ethics

39 54 5 1

Main

Competence

16 72 12 1

English Language

Ability

9 46 42 3

Ability to Use

Information

Technology

35 58 7 0

Communication

Ability

25 61 14 1

Team

Cooperation

27 60 14 0

Self-

Development

19 66 12 2

Tabel 4 : Graduate Performance Evaluation Table

Geophysics Applied Bachelor Program

No. Type of Ability

User Responses

A B C D

(%) (%) (%) (%)

Integrity and

Moral Ethics

38 59 3 0

2 Main Competence 26 72 2 0

English Language

Ability

0 68 30 2

Ability to Use

Information

Technology

44 54 1 1

Communication

Ability

10 90 0 0

6 Team Cooperation 18 76 6 0

7 Self-Development 32 65 3 0

Tabel 5 : Graduate Performance Evaluation Table

Instrumentation Applied Bachelor Program

No. Type of Ability

User Responses

A B C D

(%) (%) (%) (%)

Integrity and

Moral Ethics

46 42 12 0

Main

Competence

0 91 8 1

English

Language

Ability

1 62 36 0

Ability to Use

Information

Technology

39 61 0 0

Communication

Ability

26 69 10 0

Team

Cooperation

28 62 10 0

Self-

Development

16 75 7 1

5 RESULTS

The percentage tables above show that the output of

STMKG graduates in the four study programs

currently working in all UPTs in Indonesia is

considered to have good performance, even very

good, based on the questionnaire submitted by

graduate users in this case the head of the office

concerned.

The good performance provided includes seven

aspects above which spread over 28 questions

should reflect the quality of work of graduates in the

field of meteorology, climatology and geophysics

data to the community who previously only provided

observational data when they graduated diploma III,

so now has been able to provide observational data

coupled with analysis and recommendations which

of course is very beneficial for the organization and

the wider community.

6 CONCLUSIONS

The organizational change from AMG to STMKG

has certainly resulted in changes in terms of mindset,

goals, work mechanisms, and expected output of the

organization, which are better than before. Based on

findings of this research, these changes had a

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positive impact on BMKG because it managed to

improve the quality of STMKG graduates in a

sustainable manner. Such an improvement is evident

from the increasing ability of STMKG graduates to

complete and perform BMKG’s tasks and functions

quickly, precisely, effectively, and efficiently so as

to help improve its quality and performance.

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