Year: 2023 | Faculty: FEB
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Source metadata: PKM: The Use of Reusable Plastic Bags Among Students in Rural Islamic Boarding Schools: An Extended Theory of Planned Behavior Approach | Tim: Fajar Bambang Hirawan, Yudi Saputra
Sustainable behavior often begins with small actions repeated consistently. One of those actions is replacing single-use plastic bags with reusable alternatives. Through a community engagement project on the use of reusable plastic bags among students in rural Islamic boarding schools, UIII explored how environmental awareness can grow from the everyday routines of pesantren life.
The Faculty of Economics and Business team used an extended theory of planned behavior approach to understand why students adopt or resist environmentally friendly habits. This perspective is useful because behavior is rarely shaped by information alone. It is also influenced by social norms, perceived convenience, collective expectations, institutional support, and the moral values that guide daily life.
In the pesantren context, environmental education can be connected to religious values such as cleanliness, simplicity, moderation, and responsibility for creation. A boarding school is not only a place of learning; it is also a community with shared meals, shared facilities, and shared discipline. When a sustainable habit becomes part of that community culture, its effect can reach far beyond individual students.
The project therefore opens a strong feature angle: green change does not always need to begin with large campaigns or sophisticated technology. It can begin in rural schools, dormitories, prayer spaces, classrooms, and student markets. The pesantren can become a social laboratory where faith, education, and environmental practice reinforce each other.
For UIII, the activity shows how behavioral economics and Islamic educational settings can be brought into conversation. Before publication, the news story should include the name of the pesantren, the number of students involved, and any visible change in plastic-bag use. The draft can already emphasize that ecological responsibility becomes more powerful when it is rooted in local institutions and everyday moral practice.
A central message of the program is that waste management succeeds when communities understand both the ecological and economic logic behind it. Segregation, collection, recycling, and reuse require discipline, trust, and incentives. When those elements are in place, waste can move from being a household burden to becoming a source of learning, income, and collective responsibility.
For UIII, the activity reflects a broader commitment to linking research with social action. The university’s community engagement agenda is not only about documenting good practices, but also about translating them into knowledge that can be shared with other communities, local governments, social enterprises, and education institutions.
The draft news angle can highlight the human side of waste management: residents who change habits, community actors who sustain local systems, and academics who learn from the field. Before publication, the story would be stronger with the exact location, number of participants, quotations from community members, and visual evidence from the activity report. Even at the draft stage, however, the project already shows how UIII can contribute to sustainable cities through community-based knowledge.
