Widyaiswara
= Professional
by:
Rahmat Suyatna*)
When
I took part as a coordination meeting participant and also a moderator,
Professor Soleh Hidayat quoted an education expert, " If you do not learn,
you do not change; If you do not change, you die". I try to quote this
sentence because it has such deep meaning to us. I also try to correlate his
statement to my recent profession, i.e: Widyaiswara. Banten province has 24
widyaiswara recently with various education background and expertise. The task
of Banten province government including Badan Diklat is
to
empower them and reposition them as "the soul" of the centre of
excellence. As a centre of excellence, Badan Diklat has to put forward to
improving the quality of whole process of management. And at its turn, it also
has to enhance the quality human resources including 'widyaiswara'.
When
widyaiswaras were asked to contribute their thoughts and ideas, they tend to be
critical but not to fall down their partner, i.e the structural officers. They
have clear thoughts and ideas to share. So, it should be the task of the
managers to empower them not only in planning but also in conducting the
program. As we all know that the main task and function of widyaiswara is to
educate, to teach and to train all civil servants in Banten province
government. To have the required competences, the office has to plan the
quality enhancement for widyaiswara. It has been logical, because one of the
requirements for widyaiswara to have teaching license is through a Training of
Trainer (ToT), though this regulation is not fully obeyed by widyaiswara
themself. The requirements are based on Permenpan 14/2009 concerning Jabatan
Widyaiswara dan Angka kreditnya.
A
professional is a member of a vocation
founded upon specialised educational training. This definition can be accepted
if it is correlated to widyaiswara position. To be a widyaiswara, a PNS should
take a 35-day training and education with strict selection. After holding this
training certificate they were examined very strictly and then Lembaga
Administrasi Negara as patron published the reccomendation to the secretary for
appointing the candidates to be widyaiswara. Seeing this process, widyaiswara
is professional and must be remunerated profesionally.
In
real, widyaiswara has not been professional because "money" is still
objective not the effect. In this case, we must re-manage the organisation in
order that the professional title is relevant to what we do. The starting point
of widyaiswara professionalism should be from sharpening the substantial
material. Curriculum mastery should also be held by widyaiswara beside teaching
methodology. Training and Education scheduling should also be re-managed if we
want such qualified result of the training. The training must calculate the ROI
(Return of Investment), because we conduct a training, we actually invest
through human resources development. Without having such thoughts in conducting
a training, actually we throw the money away into trash bin. It is a pity.
We
do hope that in the next future, the management of training and education be
re-fixed. And the greatest hope is that widyaiswara Badan Diklat Banten can be
empowered without having to hire other educators. I think we have sufficient
widyaiswara for serving the training and education participants. I also suggest
that because widyaiswara has the same opportunity to teach so they can be
empowered based on their expertise and LAN reccomendation. I hope.
*) Widyaiswara Badan Diklat Banten
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