Community Involvement Strategies in Quality Legal Counseling

Abstract

The strategic role of the National Law Development Agency (BPHN) in raising legal awareness has been carried out by various methods, namely direct legal counseling and indirect legal counseling. The results of the implementation of legal counseling were not as expected. Considering this strategic role, this research was conducted with an emphasis on how the strategy to create a better legal awareness of the community. The purpose of this research is to offer new strategies that can be applied by BPHN to create legal awareness. The normative juridical research method is used in this study with primary and secondary legal material. The technique of collecting data is through literature study which is then analyzed qualitatively. It was found that BPHN has so far still viewed the community as an object of counseling by assessing legal awareness from the formation of a lawaware village. Therefore, a community involvement strategy is needed in the form of a village / sub-district task force that has an extension work program using technology. Periodic evaluation of the performance of the task force is required to be directed at increasing legal awareness.