<![CDATA[The purpose of archiving is to find archives easily and quickly if at any time it is needed again. This research was conducted at the Medan Plantation Education Institute office. The formulation of the problem in this study is how the file management system, and the obstacles in managing the records of the Medan Plantation Education Office. This research uses qualitative research that describes the records management system. Informants in this study were employees of the Medan Plantation Education Office. Based on the results of the study, the archive management system carried out at the Medan Plantation Education Office office covers how the implementation process starts from recording, storing, maintaining, structuring and transferring, to destroying the archive. The obstacles in managing archives are the absence of a special room for storing archives and also the absence of special staff to manage the archives. Efforts made in managing archives are to add facilities and infrastructure of archives to make it easier and orderly, making proposals to provide special staff to handle archives, as well as implementing an automation system in records management, namely electronic processing using computer facilities and other information technology. ]]>
