Decision Support System for Admission of Regional Government Scholarships in Merauke Regency Using the TOPSIS Method

Scholarship is a government program given to high school graduates to be able to continue their studies at the tertiary level. This is as stipulated in the Regent Regulation (PERBUP) No 25 of 2019 concerning "providing scholarships and educational assistance to students of Merauke Regency". In the scholarship acceptance selection activities in 2019, approximately 103 applicants were recorded, and 74 were successfully accepted. The process of selecting prospective scholarship recipients is currently being carried out, namely checking and comparing one by one with the applicant's data. Based on data in 2019, where there are applicants whose report card value data is incomplete but is accepted for a scholarship. This is considered to have an impact on the decision-making results of prospective scholarship recipients in subsequent years. In order to assist KESRA in selecting scholarship recipients, these obstacles can be overcome by using a decision support system. The design of this decision support system is carried out using the TOPSIS method, namely selecting the alternative that is the shortest distance from the positive ideal solution and the furthest distance from the negative ideal solution. The results obtained in this study are a system that can assist the People's Welfare in determining the selection of scholarship recipients based on the three predetermined criteria. Testing the accuracy of the system obtained is 67% and for testing the questionnaire to obtain a percentage of 66.67% which is in the "Agree" category.