Contribution Analysis of the State Defense Awareness Programme Towards the National Character Building

Abstract

Globalization always lead to various kinds of influences, both negative nor positive, on the national character. In Indonesia, globalization has caused a significant degradation of national character which ended by the poor national character of the Indonesia's young generation. In order to minimalize this impact, the Indonesian government has launched a program, named State Defense Awareness Programme (Program Pembinaan Kesadaran Bela Negara), in order to perform the mental revolution program and building the national character of Indonesia's young generation, which has influenced by the negative effect of globalization. But until now, the Indonesian citizens are still not convinced that State Defense Awareness Programme can be an appropriate means in building the national character of Indonesian citizens. This condition was supported by the emergence of negative stigma related to State Defense Awareness Programme, which ultimately reduces the level of people participation in the program.

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“…State defense mentality held by a person or society does not evolve spontaneously; rather, it must be taught early via education in schools, the workplace, and society, and then sustained through education. (Adianto et al, 2019). Education is proven to affect shaping one's character.…”

“…The Indonesian government has determined that the national character formed is the character of defending the country through various programs. State defense education developed through special courses at several campuses that have a national vision (Adianto et al, 2019;Arifin, n.d.;Ashari & Budiwitjaksono, 2020;Gredinand, 2017;Purwaningsih, Siti Samsiyah ;Qodratulloh, Waway ;Junaedi, 2019) & Wibawani, 2022;Jannah & Wibawani, 2018).…”

“…The need of national character, state defense (bela negara) character. In Indonesia, the national character building program is considered very important to be conducted because it is an effort to realize the mandate of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution (Adianto et al, 2019).…”