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This community servis aims to improve the skills of the people of Giriwoyo village, Wonogiri, through training in the creation of local corn food. The methods used include practical training and demonstrations on making various processed corn-based products, such as cakes and snacks. Apart from that, this activity also succeeded in creating awareness of the potential of corn as a food source with economic value. It is hoped that participants can utilize the skills acquired to develop small businesses, increase income, and contribute to the welfare of local communities.

Ecoprint is a technique of giving patterns on fabrics made from natural materials which aims to reduce the negative impact on the environment. The activity of making environmentally friendly ecoprint crafts on drawstring bags using the pounding technique was carried out with fifth grade students of SDN Cemara Dua Surakarta. Extra-curricular activities are routinely carried out by schools, one of which aims to maintain environmental preservation and prevent damage to the environment and pollution of the school.                Through this activity it is hoped that students will acquire a simple provision of knowledge about nature, especially plants. The pounding process that was trained on them used kenikir leaves which have a variety of nutritional content and are beneficial for health, besides having a unique color when tapped on the cloth. New things that can be valuable input for elementary school students besides gaining skills to make crafts that can be used alone.             The method used in this service activity is in the form of training. Students are provided with very basic simple knowledge about plants, understand the process of making works using the pounding technique, learn to make beautiful patterns by arranging kenikir leaves on the surface of drawstring bags, and produce eco-friendly crafts. In this activity the service team accompanies each student to work while playing in the hope of awakening their creativity.

Bureaucracy has a heavy duty to implement the government’s vision and mission. Therefore, reliable, integrated, honest, capable, and high-motivation personnel are required. Bureaucratic reform should be implemented using master plan of human resource with massive bureaucratic simplification, because the existing bureaucratic is too long. The position of ASN (State Civil Apparatuses) will be based on functional position only, requiring more skill and competency. In bureaucratic reform, ASN faces a problem, that is, government’s plan to remove structural post of echelons III and IV. The government wants to break the too long procedure in bureaucracy and expect to accelerate decision making and to accelerate public service when bureaucratic reduction is implemented. There are some solutions to the problem discussed, among others: a. amending ASN Law, particularly related to ASN position and ASN management; b. reorganizing the institutional structure (central and regional) in order to adapt to the bureaucratic function needed; c. reinforcing the integrated carrier building for ASN personnel emphasizing more on functional position; d. the establishment of work relation pattern and inter-function coordination that can project the quick and simple bureaucratic working system; changing ASN personnel’s mindset into work professionalism-orientation based on merit system. Internal expectation in the discussion resulting from this socialization includes: a) Regency Government gives inadequate socialization to ASNs, so that they have not understood completely the echelon removal policy; b) the echelon officials approaching pension age can accept the echelon removal policy; c) the young and productive echelon officials prefer structural position because they get more facilities and wellbeing than they do in functional position; d) potential staffs often attend education and training, have visionary perspective, and prefer functional position because they can get position promotion more quickly impacting on the increasing income; e) the staffs without structural position prefer functional position because their pension age can be up to 60 years. Recommendation and expectation to be obtained from this socialization is that all ASNs in DLH Blora will acquire complete information on echelon removal plan and keep their working spirit