Final Task of Public Relations Consultants Initiation:
A Case of STIKOM InterStudi Campus Jakarta
Diajeng Herika Hermanu¹, Irwansyah²
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Student of Master Degree in Communication Science STIKOM InterStudi
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Lecturer of Master Degree in Communication Science Universitas Indonesia
Keywords: Public Relations Consultants, In-house Public Relations, Consultant Initiation, PR Business Unit
Abstract: Modern Organization Theory refers to the efforts to reach sustainable development goal, including in
educational institutions which nowadays not only must compete academically but also have to develop their
profit sustainability. InterStudi is the first educational institution in Indonesia which set up a Bachelor
Degree in Public Relations. This study aims to explore the potential of in-house PR in an educational
institution as a learning implementation facility as well as a means to make an additional profit by
establishing a PR business unit. The conceptual model of this study refers to the previous studies which
focus on how to make a sustainable profit (sustainable development goal) in the context of educational
institutions. This study was conducted using a qualitative method through internal interviews with owners,
management, and users. It also suggests comprehension of how in-house PR might function as a public
relations facility as well as a means to make an additional profit from a PR agency, such as through PR
Consultants, Event Consultants, PR Campaigns, or other external PR activities, by involving external users
as the target audience. The result of this study provides a relevant suggestion for in-house PR in an
educational institution to be established independently by optimizing the lecturers’ role as an educator who
will train the students or alumni as internal PR and external PR consultants later on. The limitation of this
study lies on the students who were involved as the PR Consultants; their lack of experience compared to a
PR agency which has professionally existed makes it important to prepare training and upgrade their PR
skills. This study is also limited to the scope of educational institutions where a further research might try to
implement a similar study approach with a focus on the exploration of in-house PR business unit.
1. INTRODUCTION
The industry of Public Relations Consultants
(hereinafter referred to as “PR”) dated back to the
20th century in the United States. The development
of the production goes along with the growing needs
for organizations/ companies to communicate as
well as the increasingly complex relations between
an organization and its stakeholders. Therefore, PR
consultants are in demand to enhance the
organization’s reputation and to improve the
relationships between the organization and the
public (Hinrichsen, 2005).
In Indonesia, the PR industry also grows rapidly.
It is because there has been alteration in PR
functions, whether in for-profit or non-profit
organizations (Putra, 2008). Nowadays, PR
functions are different from what they used to be. In
the past, PR was in a marginal position in a
corporate’s services of management. In its early
development stage in Indonesia, PR merely served
as protocol officers, such as ushers, in a ceremonial
celebration like an organization’s anniversary.
The development of PR consultants in Indonesia
has started since the Republic declared its
independence. However, PR begun to grow rapidly
when multinational corporations set foot in this
country. PR activities that these multinational
corporations do intend to convince the public that
their arrival is to cooperate with Indonesia (Putra,
2008). Meanwhile, Dahlan (1978 in Putra, 2008)
noted that PR developed professionally in the 1990s.
The foundation of many reputable PR agencies such
as Fortune PR, Imogen PR, and Digital, AsiaPR, and
Cohn & Wolfe Indonesia marked this development.
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PR is often dubbed as “free advertising.” This
could not be farther from the truth since PR does not
do advertising nor is free because PR activities can
be time-consuming and labor-intensive. PR agency
owners might even claim that their business can
make the best capital return among other companies
in communication. The basis of PR activities is
making use of intermediaries to communicate with
the audience and influence them. The intermediaries
might be, among others, industry spokespersons,
stock analysts, investors, trendsetters, industry
analysts, customers, employees, even electronic and
print media (Newlands, 2014).
The PR Society of America stated that PR
consultants work to anticipate, analyze, and interpret
public opinion, attitude, and issues that might have a
good or bad impact. PR is counseling management
in every line of an organization. PR also reviews
takes action, communicates, and continuously
evaluates programs. It aims to reach public
understanding required for the success of an
organization’s goals (Wynne, 2013).
According to Staff (2013), PR activities are
carried out daily in communication/ advertising
agencies, government agencies, and creative
companies. PR consultants need to master the skill
of writing material and present it to the media. They
also have to seek and obtain media coverage when
arranging an event. Today, PR can creatively plan,
manage, execute, and evaluates an event to boost
branding.
Holmes (2012) suggested that in this digital era,
the PR industry demands more extensive skills in the
field of social media. However, Holmes argued that
the industry must return to its roots since PR has to
be able to benefit from all affiliates and means to
help the client's organization manage its relations
with the stakeholders.
PR consultant agency is a business in
communication with good sustainability. However, a
PR agency should be able to provide comprehensive
and sustainable PR services. Some of the services
are crisis management, electronic business strategy,
investor relations analysis, working relations, media
relations, public affairs, branding strategy, product
placement, event organizing, sports marketing,
exhibition, and other attributes which can contribute
to the marketing and sales of the client’s products
and/or service (Cutlip, 2006).
Every industry has different needs and uses
different approaches to find the best business
solutions. The existence of digital technology in the
industrial era nowadays becomes a new challenge
and potential for PR to accommodate it into their
activities.
Therefore, a program to establish a PR agency
will have a lot of potential for STIKOM InterStudi
business project, and it is in line with the latest
curriculum development towards a creative and
digital PR specialization. In fact, the PR agency can,
later on, serve as a facility for the students to hone
their skills and develop their potential.
1.1. Problem Identification
Based on the background as mentioned above, the
problem identification for this study is what are a PR
agency’s roles and interests in boosting STIKOM
InterStudi progress. The purpose of a PR agency
foundation at STIKOM InterStudi is to research how
far PR agency's functions and existence might
promote the development of an educational
institution in facing competition.
1.2. Purpose Statement
According to the definition communication experts
give, PR consultants is a business or agency which
offers media coverage, media planning, marketing,
or a particular communication service for all kinds
of business, including large companies which have
their public relations or communication team
(Parsons, 2003). PR consultants specialize
themselves in improving full public awareness of a
brand, a product, or an image of a company or
person. They determine the best strategy to publicize
a product which will drive traffic to the product and
increase sales. According to the PR Society of
America, most PR consultants are small to medium
enterprises whose activities specialize in catering
companies and industrial needs. On the other hand,
several large PR consultants, such as Edelman,
APCO, and Ruder Finn perform their PR activities
in a much broader scope from research, marketing,
to playing a role in a company’s marketing strategy
entirely and shape public perception. The foundation
of a PR agency at STIKOM InterStudi will take the
form of a PR Lab with the following purposes, first,
to explore how much PR consultants are needed on a
campus; second, to give the students a chance to
hone their skills in communication especially to
develop their potential in public relations; and third,
to be one of STIKOM InterStudi’s business units
which create jobs by empowering the students and
the alumni.
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2. LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. The Need to Have Public Relations at a
Higher Education Level
A professor at Cornell University, J. Paul Leagans,
has once explained the concept of need. It represents
an imbalance, lack of adjustment, or gap between
the present situation and the ideal situation desired
by many (Leagans, 1964). Still, according to
Leagans (1964), a need might arise when there is a
gap between “what you get” and “what you expect.”
The following figure might depict the concept:
Figure 1 A Concept of Need According to Leagans (1964)
To discover the need for a person or a group,
facts have to be compiled, selected, and analyzed
first before a decision is made. There are four facts
that must be obtained to find out the need of a
person or a group; namely (1) current trends, (2) the
person/group’s opinion/mind, (3) (visible) physical
factors, and (4) public problems (Leagans, 1964).
In determining whether there is a need for a PR
agency on campus, the first thing to do is to carry
out a survey in the community/group members. The
study will provide an initial picture of the level of
need for a PR agency. By using the aforementioned
facts, the questions to ask, among others, are: (1) Is
it necessary to establish a PR agency at STIKOM
InterStudi, (2) What is the business prospect of PR
consultants at STIKOM InterStudi, (3) What are the
roles/benefits of a PR agency for STIKOM
InterStudi’s students and alumni.
2.2 Public Relations
This study refers to an opinion from Cutlip (2009)
who said that PR is a function of management to
identify, determine, and maintain beneficial relations
between an organization (companies) and the public.
Meanwhile, Grunig and Hunt (2009) in Parson
(2013) described PR as communication management
between an organization and the public.
Furthermore, Public Relations Society of America
defined PR as organizational activities that are
associated with specific kind of public relations and
strategically have short term and long term plans in
order to avoid internal or external
miscommunication (Public Relations Society of
America, 2013). Public Relations also has a function
of management to help an organization achieve its
goals, wherein the process it involves research,
planning, implementation, and evaluation as well as
requires technical skills, creativity, flexibility, and
integrity (Parsons, 2003). The above quotations from
the experts support this project of PR Consultations
foundation in educational institutions since it can
generate additional value in terms of communication
management, making an organization connected to
the public, and building the students’ creativity.
PR is now highly needed by various formal
fields, whether they are for-profit or non-profit
organizations. One of them is higher educational
institutions. A study on the importance of PR within
higher educational institutions in Romania claims
that PR can shape a strong identity of the institution.
PR also becomes a very influential attribute in the
process of selecting superior higher educational
institutions from the weak ones. Higher educational
institutions that employ PR as a part of their
management have a strong image. This will
definitely influence the institutions' performance in
terms of external fund collected, a number of
students enroll, possible research contracts, and
potential cooperation with different parties (Stanciu,
2017). According to Kotler and Armstrong, public
relations may even make an impact on public
awareness with a not nearly lower cost than an
advertisement (Kotler and Armstrong, 2006). The
tools for this are a press conference, lobby, product
publicity, and investor relations.
2.3. The Roles of PR Consultants
There are five main roles of PR, according to Kotler
and Armstrong (2015). PR serves as news provider
for media, to publicize new products, and to build
relations at a national and international level. Other
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functions of PR are to lobby the government and
policymakers as well as to maintain good
relationships with investors, donor agencies, and
non-governmental organizations.
Generally, PR has a vital role in maintaining
relations with different parties such as stakeholders,
investors, and the public. Referring to this, there are
two targets in the objective of PR, namely external
organizations and internal organizations. Belch and
Belch (2004) said that external audience is
comprised of people who do not have direct linkages
with the organizations. Danandjaja (2011) stated that
the external target of PR activities is people outside
organizations, both who have linkages with the
organizations and who presumably have ones; while
the internal target is comprised of the stakeholders,
investors, suppliers, customers, and local community
members.
PR becomes a part of management to achieve a
company’s goals, and hence there has to be a fund
the company is willing to spend for PR. On the other
hand, the company also has to consider the
effectiveness and efficiency of any potential cost and
so. Consequently, many companies do not employ
PR staff but hire a PR agency instead. A company
has to consider several things before making a
decision on whether to use PR staff (in-house PR) or
hire a PR agency. In-house PR and a PR agency
have their advantages and disadvantages for the
companies (Stuart & Bond, 2013).
Skinner (2004) elaborated how to define a PR
agency from the following few aspects. The number
of clients who an agency deals with reflects the
agency’s size. Employees whose job is working with
clients are called account executive (AE). Their
main task is to give the clients suggestions and PR
plans and to implement them. The kinds of service a
PR agency provides might vary. The service might
include a full-house service or just a small part of it
as promotion or media relations. The fee and
honorarium are parts of the project value that has
been negotiated previously by both parties (Haikara,
2015).
Stuart and Bond (2013) also listed some
advantages of using in-house PR and a PR agency.
The benefits from employing PR staff are (1) quick
access because PR staff could coordinate directly
with stakeholders, (2) data security is guaranteed,
and (3) the team focuses on dealing with the
company’s PR so that targets are more achievable.
However, not all companies have a big budget to
employ PR staff, and thus many of them make use of
PR consultants. The advantages of hiring PR
consultants are (1) the company has many human
resources so that it can optimize the team functions
because they do not depend on a staff member, (2)
new ideas are likely to emerge, and (3) cost
efficiency (Stuart & Bond, 2013).
Haikara (2015) added four more points to the
advantages of using PR consultants. First, cost
efficiency in the company, by using an agency, a
company might optimize the media and methods of
promotion. Second, working relations are more
flexible compared to the ones with staff. Third, an
agency does not count on one or two people when
there is a heavy workload. Last, a company might
get some advice from professionals in different
fields that might not come from the in-house
PR/staff.
2.4. Micro, Small, and Medium
Enterprises
Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) are
businesses in various fields which touch community
interests. Small enterprises are community economic
activities which are low in scale and meet the
standards of net worth, annual sales, and also
ownership as stipulated in the Law (Primana, 2012).
The Law Number 20 the year 2008 article 6
specifies the criteria for micro, small, and medium
enterprises. Micro enterprises are businesses with a
maximum net worth of Rp 50,000,000 excluding
land and premises and maximum annual sales of Rp
300,000,000. Small enterprises are businesses with a
net worth of more than Rp 50,000,000 excluding
land and premises and annual sales between Rp
300,000,000 and Rp 2,500,000,000. Whilst medium
enterprises are businesses with net worth between
Rp 500,000,000 and Rp 10,000,000,000 excluding
land and premises and annual sales between Rp
2,500,000,000 and Rp 50,000,000,000.
Regarding the type of business entity, there are
several types the business owner might use, namely
Limited Liability Company, CV (Commanditaire
Vennootschap), firms, cooperatives, and
foundations. They are different from each other, and
every type has its advantages and disadvantages
(Salvatore, 2001).
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2.5. Conceptual Framework
Figure 2 A Model of Conceptual Framework for PR
Consultants in Higher Educational Institutions
A PR consultant business has the sole purpose of
making and maintaining income and profit that will
ensure financial returns to its funders and fair,
competitive compensation to its employees. Clients
want the best service ever, and advertising agencies
need income and profit as high as possible. A PR
consultant business might make a profit by (1)
serving its clients well; (2) controlling costs (salary
and overhead); and (3) charging fair fees and
competitive rates (Croft, 2009)
There are two types of PR consultant business;
one is an independent agency which is owned and
managed by an individual, partnership, or a group of
people and another one is a department, division, or
subsidiary of a national PR business, parent
company, or PR consultants. To make sure that a
business will thrive and profitable, equipped with
competent, professional staff, the foundation of a
company based on the legality is necessary. As an
act of conformity with the Law, a company has to
legalize its business. The legality here means legal
permissions for its activities and all elements
involved in them. Permissions could be interpreted
as a dispensation from prohibition; in that case,
when a business does not have permissions, then its
activities are not considered legal (Primm, 2007).
3. METHODOLOGY
This project applied a qualitative approach method
through interviews and questionnaires with external
and internal parties of InterStudi. The discussions
with private parties were addressed to the
representatives of InterStudi foundation, including
the owners, also the management and the students.
From the interviews, it was known that the
respondents give their full support to the foundation
of a PR Lab so InterStudi will have its own in-house
PR and the students will be able to expand their
experience by interacting directly with local
communities and implementing the knowledge they
have gained in class. Besides internal PR, a PR
agency is also required for the students to have the
first-hand experience of collaborating with
companies and dealing directly with clients. This is
in line with the course of internship for Public
Relations majors at InterStudi so that the foundation
of PR Lab will help the students go straight to work.
A potential business unit becomes the important
reason the owners agreed on the foundation because
it can be a facility for the students to learn how to
manage a business where the whole operations
themselves will be the responsibility of a PR Lab
business coach. The management of the institution
supports this business unit as a form of learning the
knowledge contained in several courses on
entrepreneurship.
In the external data collected from users,
stakeholders, and alumni, there was a finding that
the foundation of PR Lab is predicted to enhance
InterStudi’s potential in terms of education, science,
and quality. Some of the users also expect the fresh
graduates to be equipped with adequate experience
so that they can immediately perform their PR
activities well in the companies which hire them.
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The interviews were addressed to 40 students
and alumni and ten users. From the findings, it is
known that both internal and external respondents,
100% agreed on the foundation of PR Lab with jobs
became the main reason. For the questions about
whether PR consultants support every activity of a
company, 84% of respondents said that they help
solve problems. The kinds of business that clients
much need also can be seen from the interview
results, where 52% of respondents voted for
organizing a company’s events. In terms of interest
in the business unit, 70% of respondents strongly
agreed on the program. Overall, the survey findings
above showed how a PR consultancy is much
needed in educational institutions, especially at
STIKOM InterStudi.
4. PROJECT PLANNING
4.1. Description of Project Plan
A business plan is essential in project planning for
the foundation of PR consultants. It is written for a
business foundation program to be well-organized
and carried out in an orderly manner. The core of a
business plan is to compile an executive summary, a
description of the business, a market strategy or
marketing plan, a competitive analysis, a plan for
design and its development, managerial and
operational plans, and, the most important, financial
plan (Hill, 2013)
In a foundation of a PR consultants business
which is related to or a subsidiary of an educational
institution, a significant portion of income flowing
into the PR consultants will be taken in by the
institution. Weber Shandwick Worldwide, the
world’s largest PR agency, earns more than $ 400
million a year from its 2,800 employees. PR
agencies measure their company’s ability from “net
fee” as their income. It is the total earnings a
company makes from its clients through staff costs
per hour added with a mark-up and project
commission. Billings is the total cost charged to a
client by a PR agency, including a staff honorarium
and the costs of material or service the agency has
prepared for the client with an additional mark-up as
the agency commission. Generally, a mark-up of
17.65% can be generated from miscellaneous
expenses other than 15% commissions from the
media where an advertisement is placed. For
example, when an advertisement costs $100, the PR
agency will charge $100 to the client yet pays the
media $85 and keep the $15 as a commission from
the media (Johnson, 2015). When a PR agency
spends $85 for printing costs, to earn the same
amount of real commission, it adds 17.65% into $85,
which is $15, and sends a $100 bill to the client
(Croft, 2009).
4.2. Stages of Planning
A strategic plan, which should be written clearly and
in detail, is an important prerequisite to winning the
competition. A business plan should elaborate the
organized stages of a business’ foundation,
determine the people responsible for the business
and the ones who are involved in it, include the
design of financial conditions, and a plan for
business development towards expansion (Walker,
1982).
According to Roger Kerin (1990), marketing
strategy, market condition, and service
marketing plan should be parts of a plan made
by a PR agency, including product and service
mastery to create a market (market driving) or
follow the market (market-driven).
A business plan, according to Freddy Rangkuti
(2005), is about finding out customers’ profile,
market potential for future growth, current market
share, analysis of research data on customers and
competitors, customers’ characteristics, level of
competition in terms of how strong the existing
competitors are and what their pricing and strategy
are, competitive advantage, and last, future
development plans.
InterStudi PR consultant agency, whose business
specializes in public relations activities, will focus
on publicity management in the form of events. This
kind of activities guarantees the precise control of
any open event a company should do for the
community. This specialization is chosen by
InterStudi PR consultants because of InterStudi PR
graduates major in Creative Public Relations,
particularly events. Target clients include different
kinds of business, such as hotels, banks, food and
beverages companies, telecommunication
companies, and government agencies. By making
use of their competitive advantage, InterStudi PR
consultants will develop their customer base fast.
Having unique skills due to their study of creative
PR, which is supported by competent lecturers will
give InterStudi PR consultants precious insights, no
other PR agencies can offer.
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4.2.1 Vision and Mission
The vision of InterStudi PR consultants is "Attention
to Detail, Think outside the Box, Professionalism,
and Creative Result." With the vision, the mission
should be accomplished to increase clients'
satisfaction by paying attention to their needs
thoroughly and carefully, to offer different ideas,
and to deliver a creatively satisfying result.
4.3 Company Profile
InterStudi PR consultant agency is a micro-
enterprise in the field of service. It specializes in
publicity event management and collaborates with
companies that the public considers as the ones often
hold events to shape a right image. InterStudi PR
consultant agency associates with InterStudi, an
educational institution in communication,
particularly its PR Program. It also provides PR
services for other cases, such as CSR, government
relations, and company crisis, whether the cases
need immediate help or long-term management. The
agency ownership is in the founders' hand.
Concerning the need for capital, both for fixed asset
investment and for operational costs in the start-up
period, STIKOM InterStudi makes a financial
contribution to the business. The world of PR is
evolving fast in the reformation era, and technology
demands PR to be not only the mouth for an
organization but also its eyes and ears. This
profession requires skills more than mere
communication. The relations between PR as a
profession and marketing, legal, human resources,
finance, and operation are getting closer. PR should
be responsible for the management, brand, and
advertising and comprehend a wide range of
disciplines from marketing to social media.
Therefore, the market opportunity for PR services is
widely open, including in campaign activities.
4.4 Funding
Regarding working capital, this PR agency will
receive aid, either financial or assets, from STIKOM
InterStudi in line with the submitted proposal and
first-year expenditure prediction. The financial
needs for the agency foundation refer to the business
needs and opinion of an economist, Sadono Sukirno
(2000), who said that funding consists of the initial
fund, which will be spent for business foundation
affairs such as legality fees, and initial capital.
Meanwhile, operational costs consist of fixed cost
and variable cost. Fixed cost covers all expenses
with a constant amount incurred every month for
one period, whilst variable cost is expenses incurred
periodically, and the amount of them might vary
(Utami, 2017).
As for the fixed cost the PR agency should prepare
as a start-up business includes office equipment,
namely desks and chairs as many as two each, a
filing cabinet, a personal computer, two laptops, a
printer, a DSLR camera, a website and paid
subscription to a research tool like LexisNexis, and
employee salary. While what go into variable cost
are marketing, transport, electricity, internet, and
consumption.
4.5 Pricing Strategy
Pricing strategy often becomes the main incentive in
setting the project bid price. The price sent to
customers could be an important tool to
communicate the positioning of a PR consultant
agency positioning (Madura, 1997). Premium
product with premium price will be a package which
can be offered to the customers; it covers certain bid
costs for most customers, primary, and secondary
profit price (Smith, 2012). Initial price is not the
center of primary profit. For example, when a PR
agency gets a project with fees below the bid price,
it can then offer a considerably more profitable
maintenance or support contract for mutual use in
long run. To match the market level, the package
price must be in accordance with the customers’
demand and expectations. If the bid price is too high,
there might be no customers. If the price is too low,
the customers will be misjudged or disrespect the
agency’s offer (Nagle, Hogan, & Zale, 2016).
In this case, there are three approaches to pricing
strategy. First, to set a price based on a number of
factors. This is usually called “cost plus pricing” and
can be effective for producers who must cover the
initial costs. The second is “market based pricing.”
This method sees the landscape of current
competitors then sets a price based on market
expectation. It can be applied in the high-end or low-
end market as a PR agency positioning. Last, the
value of a price, which is a "value-based pricing"
model, where a price is set from how much value the
PR agency can give to the customers (Schindler,
2012).
5. CONCLUSION
The findings from the interview method of this study
showed that the foundation of PR consultant agency
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at STIKOM InterStudi is necessary, because the
agency, according to the respondents, will help the
clients with their business. Besides that, the
respondents need the agency as a facility for jobs
and training. As for the kind of service offered by
the agency, 52% respondents agreed that the agency
should handle events communication, 18% food
products, 8% political PR, 10% PR in hotel industry,
and 12% for other fields. From the questionnaire, it
was also found that the respondents had an
educational reason to have the agency. From the
academic point of view, the students can gain extra
lessons from their first-hand experience in dealing
with real cases in the world of PR, particularly in
this era where they are required to catch up on all
creativity in the current development. Another
finding showed that for a practical reason a PR
agency can be a facility to increase skills in running
a business unit, which actually has become a
demand for the administrators to master. Therefore,
according to these findings in the survey result, it is
agreed that the existence of a PR agency and its
roles are long-awaited and needed at STIKOM
InterStudi.
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