Student Creativity Program for Public Toilet Sanitation Management in Rainorendang Hot Spring Tourism, Leilem Village, Sonder District
Authors: Palar Novie Roky Anders , J.I. Joice 
Published: February 2024

This community service with the Community Partnership Program (PKM) scheme for 2023 is intended to manage public toilets since the problem of public toilets that are not paid attention to by officers greatly disturbs the comfort of the people who visit the location. The management and repair program of public toilets at tourist sites becomes very important when various losses may impact the community, such as reducing the income of the area (Leilem Village) and the availability of clean water and sanitation in existing public toilets. There are various actions from the community to ask the government as a policy or regulation maker to immediately improve the condition of public toilets in tourist places. This is one of the social impacts (becoming conflicts) in society. The increase in population and the pattern of toilet use in people visiting Rainorendang Hot Spring Tourism Leilem Village is a trigger for uncontrolled noise both from the volume, type, and characteristics of clean water in public toilets which is increasing. The management of public toilets is currently not in accordance with environmentally sound public toilet management methods that harm human health and environmental damage. Community participation in using public toilets is very important since people who visit use these toilets. Education to the public systematically with various portfolios of managing public toilets is initiated to facilitate good activities from tourism management infrastructure from various communities concerned about the cleanliness of public toilets is very helpful in reducing the noise of the people who visit. Building awareness in the community of visitors to tourism sites, especially people who live in the environment of tourism sites in the handling of users and managers of public toilets. The area of application of science and technology from universities as a business to process public toilets, to reduce conflicts in the community (1). The target partner of this program is located in Leilem Village, Sonder District, Leilem Village, North Sulawesi Province, which is geographically located in Minahasa Regency. The problem faced by the group of public toilet managers in tourism locations is the limited knowledge and insight of technology to manage public toilets so that clean water is always available and public toilet sanitation managers are always considered so that people always visit and Leilem Village gets opinions. The purpose of this program is to increase the skills and income of the Leilem Village community economically. The specific target of this activity is to produce community skills by processing public toilets so as not to damage the surrounding environment and provide business continuity and resilient management. The implementation methods that will be applied to this program are: 1) The agreed partner problem is the management of public toilet sanitation; 2) The approach methods that will be offered to overcome partner problems are improvement, training, mentoring, and evaluation; 3) Work procedures to support the 3 aspects of the problem, namely survey, improvement, training, evaluation, output, reporting. The benefits of this activity are to improve household welfare and economy as well as utilization of tourism location potential.