Determining Eligibility for Smart Indonesia Program (PIP) Recipients Using the Backpropagation Method

The government provides financial assistance, educational opportunities, and expands access for students from poor or vulnerable families through the Smart Indonesia Program (PIP). At Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri 20 Bireuen, the selection process for underprivileged students is still carried out manually by homeroom teachers by collecting data on students and their parents. This study aims to design, implement, and evaluate a classification method using the Backpropagation Neural Network to determine the eligibility of PIP scholarship recipients. The dataset consists of 309 entries, comprising 217 training data and 92 testing data, collected from MIN 20 Bireuen students between 2021 and 2023. The attributes used include father's occupation, mother's occupation, father's income, mother's income, number of dependents, number of vehicles, home ownership status, and card ownership status. Prior to training, the data were normalized using Min-Max scaling. The model was built with one hidden layer using a hard-limit activation function and a learning rate of 0.01. The classification results are categorized as "Eligible" and "Not Eligible". The model achieved an accuracy of 98%, precision of 100%, recall of 95%, and F1-score of 97%.