West Java Province has around 5,800 villages and sub-districts spread over 26 regencies / cities and 625 districts. Among this number, there are still more than 300 villages with underdeveloped village which have the potential to become developing villages. Almost all underdeveloped villages in West Java are located far from urban areas so that the facilities and infrastructure are very limited.
Various efforts have been made by both the Provincial and Municipal / Regency governments to find solutions on how to gradually reduce the existence of disadvantaged villages so that in the future there will no longer be villages that have the status of a disadvantaged village.
One of the efforts made by the government is by implementing the Assisted Village Program, this is an activity to improve the quality and form a pattern of cooperation between the academic community and government agencies formed through the Community Service program as a form of realization of the Tri Dharma of Higher Education.
Widyatama University as one of the best private universities in West Java that takes part in the program. Through the Community Service (PkM) program, Widyatama University previously collaborated with the West Java DPRD.
As a form of implementation of this collaboration, it was agreed to implement the Assisted Village program for Underdeveloped Villages in West Java, especially Ciamis Regency. Several villages that are included in the Assisted Village program, are Bangunharja Village, Karangmulyan Village, Cibeureum Village, Putrapinggan Village and Cibanteng Village.
One of the of the implementation program is through training programs and workshops aimed at village residents who have potential in their respective fields. so that, it will create competent human resources to achieve the target of becoming a developing village
It is expected that all these assisted villages will have a better infrastructure so that every natural resource and human resource can be optimized and in the future to make these villages will become a Tourism Villages that can bring in foreign and domestic tourists.