Klaten, Gojateng.com — Daleman is an agrarian village located in Tulung Subdistrict, Klaten Regency, Central Java, making this village rich in potential of SDA (Natural Resources).

So, the residents take advantage of this to be the main ingredient for making soun or the other word is vermicelli. No wonder now Klaten is known as the center of the soun industry.

However, behind the great potential of SDA itself, apparently there is still a problem around waste. Not only soun waste, but household waste also contributes a significant volume.

Whereas in 2026, Mr. Mursito said that planning to build a TPA (Waste Final Processing Site) for Daleman Village.

To solve this problem, the head of the village invited all KKN (The Real Work Lecture) Undip students to be able to solve the problem through the 3R initiative, which is believed to be the right solution and become accredited as a 3R village like another village in that region.

Unfortunately, both residents and village officials didn’t realize the benefits of the 3R initiative.

Therefore, in line with this vision and mission, I as a student of the Universitas Diponegoro majoring Applied English Student who is part of the 148 Thematic KKN team from Multidisciplinary 1 with the theme “3R Application Education to Optimize Waste Management in Daleman Village” is trying to made a guidebook about 3R which can later be used as a guideline for villagers to start implementing 3R along with the construction of TPA.

By taking the culture from Japan, which is known as the cleanest country, I also added renewable innovations in the method of educating villagers towards the Japanese 3R initiative.

By approaching the villagers with 5W1H method to more understand informations, we included topics such as What is 3R (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle), Why it’s Important, How to 3R, When to Start, Where & Who and accompanied by policies, examples of implementation, mottos, benefits, and invitations at the end of sentences that all have been adapted to the culture in Japan.

The targets of my program include members of PKK (Family Empowerment and Welfare), Karang Taruna (Community Youth Development), industry players, village officials, and villagers of Daleman Village. Later, I hope that the villagers can understand the Japanese 3R initiative as well and can implement it by now just from home to support the construction of the 3R-based TPA itself.

Based on the first problem, Daleman Village also faces the second problem on how to improve the existing tourism industry in the global era to support the government’s program about SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals).

That’s why, I’m here to revitalize one of the ecotourism places in Klaten, named Umbul Nilo.

Cause it mentioned before on our KKN activities named "Sowan" with Mr. Nurul Astangin as the Director of BUMDes (Village-owned Enterprises) who manages the Umbul Nilo, said that there was a tourist from Turkey who came here with their personal local guides to feel the purity of nature and sense the freshness of water without polluted by any waste.

Starting from them, I’m from Multidisciplinary 2 with the theme “Revitalization of Umbul Nilo as an International Ecotourism Potential” tries to provide innovation through the creation of promotional media based on bilingual leaflets (including Indonesian and English language) to then be distributed for tourists who came here later.

Why must bilingual leaflets?

Simply, this is just based on the application of my subjects named English For Travel Agent & Tour Guiding. In those subjects, the lecturer gave me some techniques on how to make a professional guide leaflet that is interesting for tourists to read and save for their next visit.

Then, I applied that into my leaflet and also give some information include an interesting cover, an invitation sentence that eyecatching for tourists, the history or fun fact of Umbul Nilo, list of HTM (Entrance Ticket Prices), operational hours, address, contact person, social media, list of facilities, three best spot recommendations, and no less important is visiting tips for newer tourists.

Not only that, during The Central Java Cold Chain Expo 2025, co-located with AGRIMAT in Muladi Dome yesterday, there has so many visitors coming in KKN-T 148’s stand to just asking about 16 top programs of KKN and many of the booth visitors were interested in the result of my work program.

Even both Guidebook Japanese 3R Initiative and Umbul Nilo Bilingual Tourism Promotion Leaflet were requested by one of the stand visitors.

As the one who runs this program, I am so happy to hear that, because with the request of the outside KKN, it makes a benchmark for further development, so that it can be known and certainly beneficial for anyone who reads.

Don’t worry for those of you who are curious about the program that I have made, you can visit the KKN UNDIP Student Work Degree (Gelar Karya) which will be held on August 28, 2025 at Muladi Dome Undip, Semarang. See you there!