International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol. 8, No. 5, October 2018, pp. 3046~3056 ISSN: 2088-8708, DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v8i5.pp3046-3056  3046 Journal homepage: http://iaescore.com/journals/index.php/IJECE Web Application to Build Information System of National Seminar Alerts in Indonesia Erlin, Khusaeri Andesa, Agustin Department of Informatics Engineering, STMIK Amik Riau, Indonesia Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Sep 25, 2017 Revised Jan 8, 2018 Accepted Aug 27, 2018 The output of research in the form of a proceeding published through a national seminar or an international conference has become a routine activity performed by lecturers as a researcher. The escalating atmosphere of disseminating the results of a study is directly proportional to the increasing number of universities, associations, or non-educational institutions organizing either a national seminar or an international conference. Each seminar organizer posts their seminar relevant information through official sites released by each organizer. However, to date, there has never been storage that can compile all the information pertinent to all national seminars held in Indonesia. This situation has resulted in the search done by search engines such as Google, Yahoo Search, Bing and others have not been efficient nor effective. Design of a web-based national seminar alert system is built to address this issue. This information system can display all the seminars held in Indonesia in the current year in storage and can be broken down based on the choices of topic, location, and date. Other additional facilities are that the application can send email messages to the application users as an early warning on the upcoming national seminar. Researchers can track each existing national seminar and always up-to-date on the most current national seminar. Keyword: Information system Seminar alerts Web application Copyright © 2018 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. Corresponding Author: Erlin, Department of Informatics Engineering, STMIK Amik Riau, Jalan Purwodadi Indah, Km. 10, Panam-Pekanbaru, Riau, Indonesia. Email: erlin@stmik-amik-riau.ac.id 1. INTRODUCTION Research activity is one of the three pillars of higher education that must be conducted by a lecturer. The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemeristekdikti), Republic of Indonesia, has annually and regularly offered grant programs for research and community services to all lecturers under Kemenristekdikti. To improve academician’s scientific publication quality and quantity, a publication is obliged as it is regulated under The Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education regulation (Permenristekdikti) No. 44 of 2015 on the Higher Education National Standard [1]. Scientific publication and presenter at a national seminar or an international conference is the type of output that becomes annual achievement for each research scheme funded by Kemenristekdikti. Then increased atmosphere for the dissemination of research result through a national seminar or international conference is directly proportional with the increase of the number of universities, associations, or non-educational institutions organizing a national seminar or international conference. Each seminar organizer posts their seminar-related information through official sites released by each organizer. Based on the lecturer’s data on the higher education database of Kemenristekdikti, 39,392 lecturers are still in the level of Bachelor Degree (14.32%) from the total of 274,988 lecturers in Indonesia. The number of lecturers with a Master’s Degree is 179,087 (65.13%), and lecturers with Ph.D. are 34,471