SERVIRE: Journal of Research and Service

Three Decks, One Spirit: A Comparative Study of Mental Health, Spiritual Coping, and Wellbeing across Nautical, Engineering, and Port-Shipping Management Cadets

April Gunawan Malau — 2026-04-30

Pendidikan maritim sering kali berlangsung dengan asumsi bahwa taruna yang dipersiapkan untuk karier di bidang nautika, teknika, serta ketatalaksanaan angkutan laut dan kepelabuhanan merupakan satu kelompok profesi yang homogen, meskipun ketiga program studi tersebut sesungguhnya mengarahkan mahasiswa pada jalur karier yang sangat berbeda. Studi eksploratif dengan dominasi pendekatan kualitatif ini bertujuan untuk menelaah apakah kesehatan mental, koping spiritual, dan kesejahteraan psikologis menunjukkan pola perbedaan tertentu di antara ketiga subdisiplin tersebut pada taruna Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain yang mengombinasikan wawancara semi-terstruktur, dan diskusi kelompok terarah, yang dilengkapi dengan penilaian diri numerik sederhana yang digunakan secara deskriptif dan bukan sebagai komponen kuantitatif yang memiliki kekuatan statistik. Partisipan penelitian terdiri atas tiga puluh taruna yang dipilih secara seimbang dari tiga program studi, lima dosen, tiga pelaut senior, dan dua syahbandar senior. Data dianalisis melalui analisis tematik, perbandingan antar kelompok, dan sintesis naratif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa meskipun tingkat stres dan kesejahteraan yang dinilai sendiri secara umum relatif serupa di antara ketiga kelompok, para taruna menggambarkan adanya perbedaan penekanan dalam jenis stresor yang mereka alami, praktik koping spiritual yang mereka gunakan, serta dimensi kesejahteraan yang mereka kaitkan dengan kehidupan yang berkembang secara optimal (flourishing). Temuan-temuan ini disajikan sebagai indikasi awal yang bersifat eksploratif, bukan sebagai bukti pasti mengenai pengaruh bidang studi atau profesi tertentu, karena desain penelitian yang bersifat cross-sectional dan hanya dilakukan pada satu institusi tidak dapat menyingkirkan kemungkinan adanya faktor-faktor lain, seperti kecenderungan pemilihan program studi oleh mahasiswa maupun faktor institusional lainnya yang dapat memengaruhi hasil penelitian.

Maritime education has often proceeded as though cadets preparing for nautical, engineering, and port and shipping management careers constitute a single occupational population, despite the substantially different career trajectories these three programmes prepare students for. This exploratory qualitative-dominant study examines whether mental health, spiritual coping, and psychological wellbeing differ in patterned ways across these three sub-disciplines among cadets at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta. The design combines semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions, supplemented by simple numerical self-ratings used descriptively rather than as a statistically powered quantitative component, with thirty cadets drawn equally from the three majors, five lecturers, three veteran seafarers, and two veteran port masters. Data were analysed through thematic analysis, cross-group comparison, and narrative synthesis. The findings suggest that while overall self-rated stress and wellbeing levels are broadly similar across the three groups, cadets describe somewhat different emphases in the stressors they report, the spiritual coping practices they draw upon, and the dimensions of wellbeing they associate with flourishing. These patterns are presented as suggestive and exploratory rather than as demonstrated occupational effects, since the cross-sectional, single-institution design cannot rule out self-selection into majors or other confounding institutional factors as alternative explanations.

Participatory Extension as an Effort to Change Farmers’ Behavior in the Implementation of Organic Farming at Kartika Group Farmers Oenbit Village Insana Subdistrict Timor Tengah Utara Regency

Eduardus Yosef Neonbeni — 2026-04-30

Agricultural practices in the dryland areas of Timor Tengah Utara Regency (TTU) remain dominated by conventional systems reliant on chemical inputs, contributing to soil degradation and low ecological awareness. The gap between extension services and the adoption of organic farming highlights the need for participatory approaches. This Kosabangsa Community Service (PKM) activity aims to enhance farmers’ capacity through participatory extension. Methods include awareness sessions, Focus Group Discussions (FGDs), training, field practice, and pre- and post-test evaluations analyzed using comparative quantitative methods. Results show significant improvements in knowledge (48.5%), technical skills in block compost production (56.2%), and ecological awareness (52.3%). These findings confirm that participatory approaches effectively promote behavioral change toward organic farming. In addition to improving individual capacity, this activity strengthens farmer group institutions.

From Cadet to Captain: Christian Faith, Happiness, and Moral Resilience Across the Maritime Career Lifespan

Marihot Simanjuntak — 2026-06-29

Abstract: The maritime profession demands one of the longest sustained engagements with high-demand work that any career requires, yet the inner architecture by which maritime professionals sustain themselves across this lifespan has remained almost entirely unstudied. This qualitative study, employing a phenomenologically informed thematic approach within the transcendental phenomenological tradition associated with Moustakas, examined how Christian faith, happiness, and moral resilience are described across the maritime career lifespan, drawing on the testimony of thirty cadets at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta together with five lecturers, three veteran seafarers, and two veteran port masters. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and life-history conversations and analysed through a procedure combining epoché, horizonalisation, thematic clustering, and the construction of textural-structural descriptions, supplemented by cross-group comparison and narrative synthesis. The findings suggest that faith is generally described as a stable orientation that participants associate with deepening through difficult experience, although a minority of participants also described periods of doubt, spiritual struggle, or distancing that complicate any uniformly positive account. Happiness is described by many participants as an inner orientation distinct from momentary affect, and veterans' retrospective accounts suggest a pattern resembling a U-shaped trajectory across the career, a pattern we present as a hypothesis grounded in retrospective testimony from five veterans rather than as longitudinally confirmed evidence. Moral resilience is described as developing through repeated encounters with ethical challenge. The study offers an exploratory phenomenological contribution extending the religion-and-wellbeing literature into a temporal register that has so far been underdeveloped, while explicitly acknowledging the methodological and sampling limitations inherent in a cross-sectional, single-institution, predominantly positively self-selected design.

Designing Informative Media to Support Congregational Regeneration at GKI Ayudia Bandung

Vania Hefira — 2026-06-29

Gereja Kristen Indonesia Ayudia Bandung (GKI Ayudia) under the Regional Synod of West Java, Bandung Classis, has been established since 1991. Situated in the middle of a residential area and an old culinary district, its active congregation largely consists of the surrounding community. Church information and worship updates were previously delivered through the “Warta Jemaat” booklet, available in both printed and e-book formats distributed via a WhatsApp group for members and sympathizers. However, there has been a lack of informative media for the wider public, particularly for visitors to the area, which has posed a challenge to the regeneration of active congregants. The community service project involved designing an information medium in the form of a worship and office operational schedule board. The design process followed Robin Landa’s five-step methodology: orientation, analysis, concept, design, and implementation. The implementation results indicated an increase in the church’s information visibility within its surrounding environment, making worship schedules more accessible and fostering higher public awareness and participation. The design implications of this study highlight the importance of raising awareness of social issues that can be addressed through graphic design, particularly within religious communities. Observation after the implementation indicated a noticeable increase in community engagement, with more passersby stopping to read the schedule board before joining the Sunday worship.

Between Pulpit and Bridge: Lecturers as Pastoral Mentors in Indonesian Maritime Education: A Case Study of Spiritual-Vocational Transmission

Larsen Barasa — 2026-06-29

Maritime lecturers frequently function as informal pastoral mentors alongside their technical instructional role, yet this phenomenon has received no empirical attention in the religion-and-wellbeing literature or in maritime education research. This qualitative case study examined how five lecturers at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta understand and enact their dual role as technical instructors and pastoral mentors, triangulated with the perspectives of thirty cadets and five veteran maritime professionals. Data were collected through in-depth semi-structured interviews and focus group discussions and analysed through thematic analysis, cross-group comparison, and narrative synthesis. The findings show that lecturers transmit spiritual-vocational wisdom through four integrated mechanisms — modelling, quiet availability, sea-service testimony, and responsive moral guidance — producing effects that cadets recognise during formation and that veterans identify as having carried across their careers. A multiplier effect was documented, with mentored cadets replicating pastoral behaviour with junior officers during sea service. The study situates these findings within the psychological dimensions of maritime cadet formation — cognitive load, professional identity development, and post-internship readiness — that characterise the broader formational environment in which pastoral mentoring occurs. The study contributes original conceptual insight into the informal agents of spiritual-vocational transmission in vocational education.

The Storm Within: Anxiety, Depression, and Spiritual Help-Seeking among Indonesian Maritime Cadets in the Shadow of Post-Pandemic Seafarer Mental Health Crises

Nathanael Suranta — 2026-06-29

Seafarer mental health has become a global priority following the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the upstream question of how future officers learn to seek help for psychological distress during their formation years remains unaddressed. This mixed-methods study examined anxiety and depressive symptom prevalence and help-seeking pathways among thirty cadets at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta, drawn equally from the nautical, engineering, and port and shipping management majors, together with five lecturers, three veteran seafarers, and two veteran port masters. Data were collected through validated screening items, semi-structured interviews, and focus groups, and analysed through thematic analysis, cross-group comparison, and narrative synthesis. The findings show that a notable minority of cadets experience moderate or moderately severe symptoms, that spiritual coping is the most common first response while professional help-seeking is the least common, and that the relationship between the two follows three patterns: complementary, substitutive, and delayed. Trusted lecturers emerge as the most valued bridge between spiritual coping and professional support, with significant implications for maritime welfare provision.

Faith in Formation: A Longitudinal-Design Protocol for Tracking Christian Spirituality, Stress, and Psychological Wellbeing across the STIP Jakarta Cadet Journey

Marudut Bernardtua Simanjuntak — 2026-04-30

Literatur mengenai agama dan kesejahteraan psikologis masih didominasi oleh penelitian potong lintang (cross-sectional), dengan keterbatasan yang paling sering dikemukakan adalah ketidakmampuan untuk menetapkan urutan temporal dalam hubungan antara spiritualitas dan hasil-hasil psikologis. Artikel protokol ini menyajikan desain penelitian, instrumen, data dasar (baseline), serta validasi oleh para ahli dari suatu studi longitudinal multi-gelombang yang melacak perkembangan spiritualitas Kristen, tingkat stres, dan kesejahteraan psikologis sepanjang perjalanan pendidikan taruna di Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta. Penelitian ini melibatkan tiga puluh taruna yang dipilih secara seimbang dari program studi Nautika, Teknika, serta Manajemen Transportasi Laut dan Kepelabuhanan, dengan pengukuran dilakukan dalam empat gelombang yang disesuaikan dengan fase-fase transisi utama, mulai dari awal pembentukan taruna hingga memasuki masa kerja profesional. Data dasar menunjukkan tingkat kesejahteraan spiritual dan kesejahteraan psikologis yang berada pada kategori sedang hingga tinggi, disertai tingkat stres pada kategori sedang, sehingga menyediakan nilai acuan untuk pemantauan pada tahap-tahap berikutnya. Validasi oleh lima dosen dan lima praktisi maritim senior menegaskan validitas tampang (face validity) serta kesesuaian budaya dari instrumen yang digunakan. Protokol penelitian ini menjawab kesenjangan metodologis yang paling mendesak dalam bidang tersebut sekaligus menempatkan STIP Jakarta sebagai lokasi penelitian yang memiliki potensi untuk menghasilkan bukti longitudinal mengenai hubungan antara spiritualitas dan kesehatan mental.

The religion-and-wellbeing literature is overwhelmingly cross-sectional, and its most frequently cited limitation is the inability to establish temporal precedence in the relationship between spirituality and psychological outcomes. This protocol paper presents the design, instruments, baseline data, and expert validation of a multi-wave longitudinal study tracking Christian spirituality, stress, and psychological wellbeing across the cadet journey at Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Pelayaran (STIP) Jakarta. The study follows thirty cadets drawn equally from the nautical, engineering, and port and shipping management majors across four measurement waves timed to coincide with major phase transitions, from the beginning of formation through early professional employment. Baseline data confirm moderate-to-high spiritual wellbeing and psychological wellbeing alongside moderate stress, establishing reference values for subsequent tracking. Expert validation by five lecturers and five veteran maritime professionals confirms the instruments' face validity and cultural appropriateness. The protocol addresses the field's most pressing methodological gap and positions STIP Jakarta as a site for temporally ambitious research on spirituality and mental health.