TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengthening the Students Nationalism in Border Areas
AU - Zakso, Amrazi
AU - Agung, Iskandar
AU - Widiputera, Ferdi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded from the budget of the Education and Culture Policy Research Center, Research and Development Board - Ministry of Education and Culture, Republic of Indonesia, in 2018.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Amrazi Zakso et al., published by Sciendo 2019.
PY - 2019/9/1
Y1 - 2019/9/1
N2 - This study aims to determine the condition of student nationalism in the border area, as well as the role of a number of parties that influence its formation. The results are suggested to draw conclusions on how to increase student nationalism. We find that the nationalism conditions of students in the border area resulted in a moderate performance, and susceptible to be influenced by various stimuli, both from within the country and neighboring countries. The evidence presented in this analysis points to the fact that these stimuli often weaken nationalist awareness and attitude, both related to ideology, constitution, unity, diversity and sovereignty of the nation and state. The results suggest that further action required to increase student nationalism in a short, medium- and long-term efforts as to prevent external influences, especially crimes in the border areas. The role of several parties need to be improved, namely families, schools and youth organizations in the vicinity as well as government support in the form of funding, activity facilities, instructors, training, and others. Especially the role of schools, it is necessary to involve active students in the implementation of strengthening nationalism through a problem-solving approach.
AB - This study aims to determine the condition of student nationalism in the border area, as well as the role of a number of parties that influence its formation. The results are suggested to draw conclusions on how to increase student nationalism. We find that the nationalism conditions of students in the border area resulted in a moderate performance, and susceptible to be influenced by various stimuli, both from within the country and neighboring countries. The evidence presented in this analysis points to the fact that these stimuli often weaken nationalist awareness and attitude, both related to ideology, constitution, unity, diversity and sovereignty of the nation and state. The results suggest that further action required to increase student nationalism in a short, medium- and long-term efforts as to prevent external influences, especially crimes in the border areas. The role of several parties need to be improved, namely families, schools and youth organizations in the vicinity as well as government support in the form of funding, activity facilities, instructors, training, and others. Especially the role of schools, it is necessary to involve active students in the implementation of strengthening nationalism through a problem-solving approach.
KW - constitutional
KW - diversity
KW - ideology
KW - Nationalism
KW - sovereignty
KW - unity
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U2 - 10.2478/jesr-2019-0045
DO - 10.2478/jesr-2019-0045
M3 - Article
SN - 2239-978X
VL - 9
SP - 268
EP - 283
JO - Journal of Educational and Social Research
JF - Journal of Educational and Social Research
IS - 3
ER -