Strengthening political education through an integrative-participative model for political parties in Indonesia

• Main Authors: Darvina S, Vina Salviana, --, Wahyudi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: JQ Political institutions Asia
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/13099/1/33.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/13099/; http://www.uumicg2014.com/

National knowledge (Wawasan kebangsaan) for Indonesians today seems relatively decreasing, including for politicians.The relations between political parties and their constituents is becoming greater because in the political life, peoples always support a political party and hope that the political party can accommodate their aspirations to fulfill their need and improve their lives.In local, regional and national elections, the conflicts often happen among political party supporters and it shows a relative low political education among them.From those description, it is interesting to study: (1) how is the national knowledge of political party’s cadres and constituent? (2) How is the political education for the cadres and constituent? From the study in East Java province, we found that the national knowledge and political education for political party’s cadres and constituents are not optimal. Their knowledge about politics is still limited and more pragmatism.It is caused by the lack of political education from the political party. Based on these findings, we develop a solution to solve those problems by strengthening political education using an the integrative participative model.The model includes a synergy between political party committee, universities and NGOs as part of civil society.Political parties have responsibility to give national knowledge and right political consciousness to their constituents.If it can be done, it will create qualified constituents and develop the constituents with good national knowledge and political consciousness.