Vol. 2 No. 1 (2016): EFEKTIVITAS PROGRAM PENDIDIKAN KESADARAN BELA NEGARA KEMENTERIAN PERTAHANAN DI DAERAH RAWAN KONFLIK DAN PERBATASAN

Fostering awareness to defend state is an everlasting process in order to maintain nation-state’s existence and identity. If the nation-state is unable to respond current situation, eventually it will lose its national identity and disappear. Thereby, fostering awareness to defend state is a long life education for Indonesia as a nation. As long as the nation and the Republic of Indonesia exists, awareness to defend state will always be needed. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of the socialization program to raise awareness to defend state in conflict-risked areas and borderlands by the Directorate of State Defense Directorate General Defense Potency Ministry of Defense and to describe the obstacles and barriers that are found in the research loci, as well as to provide solutions and recommendations to increase the effectiveness of the program in the future. This study uses analytical description as its method combined with SWOT analysis. Data was collected by questionnaire and in-depth interview. Questionnaire was filled by the respondents who already had conducted socialization program by the Ministry of Defense. The respondents consist of 25 officers, citizens, and the youth from 123 participants of technical guidence carried out by the Directorate of State Defense Directorate General Defense Potency Ministry of Defense in September 2011 in Sambas Regency, West Kalimantan.