Evaluasi Implementasi Program Taman Cerdas Kelurahan Jebres Kota Surakarta

This Taman Cerdas (Smart Park) program is one of Child-Friendly City platforms in education field. The management of Taman Cerdas in Surakarta has been governed in Mayor’s Regulation No.6 of 2008 about Manuals of Taman Cerdas Management Implementation. Taman Cerdas construction in Surakarta aims to provide public facilities for playing, interacting and learning activities for children, and to utilize the governments’ uncultivated land asset. This research aimed to evaluate the process of implementing Taman Cerdas program in Kelurahan Jebres of Surakarta City according to the enacted manuals and to find out the factors inhibiting the program implementation. The indicators of implementation used were communication, resource, compliance, and responsiveness of targeted group. The research method employed in this study was descriptive qualitative one. The data used consisted of primary and secondary ones. Data was collected from some sources through interview and documentation methods. Data validation was carried out using data triangulation technique. From the result of research, it could be concluded that the implementation of Taman Cerdas program in Kelurahan Jebres of Surakarta City had been conducted despite less compatibility to the enacted implementation regulation or manuals. Therefore, its quality had not been maximum yet as expected, for example, in activity preparation stage conducted by Child Protection Service including people meeting (Rembug Warga) and Child-Friendly Village Team establishment, an obstacle was still found related to the inadequate communication. Furthermore, in implementation stage conducted by administrator and management of Taman Cerdas in Kelurahan Jebres, an obstacle was found related to inadequate human resource. In the last stage, program review, conducted by the administrator of Taman Cerdas in Kelurahan Jebres, an obstacle was found related to inactive administrators of Child-Friendly Village Team. In this stage, the inhibiting factor included compliance and responsiveness of targeted group. Keywords: Evaluation on Implementation, Taman Cerdas in Kelurahan Jebres of Surakarta Cit