Data Processing System Improvement in New Student Admission Selection of State Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia Using Information Technology Approach

Continuous self-improvement should have been a part of every Muslim in order to always be better than before. Similarly, the implementation of the national new college admissions of state Islamic higher education in Indonesia (called SPMB-PTAIN) that held regularly every year should be able to be better from year to year. This paper will discuss the improvements made to a data processing in SPMB-PTAIN as such particular continuous improvement activities of integrated system in new college admissions for 53 institutions of state Islamic higher education in Indonesia. Improvements done by proposing a system that utilizing the function of data and information control and data monitoring on SPMB-PTAIN data processing. The system has been tested on the next SPMB-PTAIN event. Beside from being a real form of continuous improvement that is done, the system can also provide transparency of data processing on the implementation of the SPMB-PTAIN. Therefore the similar model may be applied to other systems related to public services to provide transparency and gain the public trust of public services institutions itself.