Community Assistance in Tarakan the Urban City of North Borneo Province

Abstract

Urban city mentoring is a form of actualizing the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi through the community services activities, social devotion and the development of scientific implementation. Community assistance activities is also a media for IPDNs lecturers to combine between the theories to the government problems with current issues as to enrich the existed theories or to abort the anomaly theory. This service activities are also expected to benefit in particular for Local Government as a form of partnership for the success of government programs, regional development and community building by finding the common solutions to the problem that faced by people in the region. The material of community assistance implemented by IPDNs lecturers team and Praja in Tarakan city derived from research which has valid and benefit for the public. Urban population policy issues, Urban community empowerment and drug eradication. The final result of the urban community assistance is government policy recommendations that could be a reference for Tarakan city in determining the direction of Local Government Policy.