The Role of the United Nation and Political Agency (Bakesbangpol) in Forming Character of the Pancasila

Abstract

West Java is listed as one of the provinces with high heterogeneity and a large population that allows for social friction and conflict. The data that researchers obtained from the Opendata.JabarProv.go.id website in 2020 describes the number of potential conflicts from 27 cities/regencies in West Java as a whole exceeding 446. Social friction in West Java society such as issues of SARA, tolerance, deradicalization, radicalism, and various high conflict resistance due to differences in political choices have been found in West Java. The problem is that some of the social frictions of the people of West Java are due to the lack of internalization of Pancasila values in every individual in society. The West Java National Unity and Politics Agency is one of the instruments owned by the West Java government that focuses on ideological affairs and nationalism. The development of the Pancasila character in the West Java region in an effort to defend the state is one of the focuses of the West Java Political and National Unity Agency. The general aim of the research is to find out how far the role of Bakesbangpol West Java has in Shaping the Pancasila Character of West Java Society. This research uses a literature study method with a qualitative approach. This research is an additional reference for the world of literacy, especially those that discuss the National and Political Unity Agency which provides solutions to existing problems. Our results note that the National Unity and Political Body is one of the important elements of government in increasing nationalism, national insight, and preventing various understandings that cause the degradation of the character of Pancasila.