Lecturers and Students of Polman Negeri Babel, Develop Statistical Literacy Corner Website for BPS Babel
Lecturers, students of Polman Negeri Babel, and BPS Babel employees held intensive discussions to present a digital-based statistical literacy platform.
Innovation from the campus world is back, the Team from the Bangka Belitung State Manufacturing Polytechnic (Polman Babel) designed and developed a website called the Statistics Student Literacy Corner for the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Monday (06/30/2025)
This website is the result of collaboration between lecturers and students of the Software Engineering Technology Study Program (TRPL), namely Yang Agita Rindri and Indra Irawan as lecturers, and Muhammad Hilal Ramadhan as a student. This project was initiated as a real form of Community Service (PKM) activities in the field of statistical literacy.
The Statistics Student Literacy Corner is designed to support efforts to disseminate statistics to students, students, and the wider community. Statistics dissemination plays an important role in disseminating accurate and reliable data information, as well as encouraging transparency, understanding, and use of statistical data in educational and research activities.
According to Yang Agita Rindri, the development of this system is expected to be able to attract students' interest in understanding and accessing statistical data. "We are trying to make this system truly student-friendly, both in terms of content and appearance, so that statistical literacy among Bangka Belitung students will increase," he said.
This website offers various superior features, such as educational content in the form of articles, videos, and interesting infographics.
"There are also statistical calculators, interactive data visualizations, to statistical quizzes and challenges that can increase active user involvement," he said.
Not only that, this system is also equipped with a learning progress tracking feature and internship registration services at BPS. Users who are interested in studying the world of statistics can immediately register to experience a direct internship experience in the BPS environment," he said.
Interestingly, the development team also paid attention to accessibility. This website is equipped with features for users with disabilities, such as the option to enlarge the font and cursor, to facilitate navigation for people with nearsightedness or other mild visual impairments," said Yang.
Ridho Akbar, M.T., from the Statistics Dissemination and Integrated Services Section of BPS of the Bangka Belitung Islands Province, welcomed this initiative positively. He said that the team from Polman Babel and BPS had coordinated intensively during the development process, including in the system testing stage.
"After this system is officially deployed, we plan to include it in the BPS internal innovation competition. We see this as a breakthrough that deserves appreciation," Ridho concluded.
