Chief Justice Anwar Usman giving a keynote speech at the public lecture of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of UNS, Wednesday (5/25/2022). Photo by Humas MK/Ifa.
Wednesday, May 25, 2022 | 14:22 WIB
JAKARTA, Public Relations—Millennials as agents of change must read information objectively and cross-check the sources so that its validity is ensured, said Chief Justice Anwar Usman as the keynote speaker at the public lecture on “The Internalization of Pancasila Ideology in the Digital Era among Millennials” at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of Sebelas Maret University (FISIP UNS) of Surakarta on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
At the event, which took place both onsite with strict adherence to COVID-19 protocols and online, Justice Anwar recognized the challenges in building and preparing millennials in the post-truth era, where rapid flow of information from various media can bring about misleading information and in turn lead to social fragmentation. For this reason, millennials are expected to be able to find precise and accurate information to avoid information that is full of conflicts.
“For this reason, millennials should regard the information they receive as insight and knowledge, not as a basis for making decisions, let alone a belief. Although technology has made it easier for us to get information and knowledge, we still learn pedagogically, through formal education in stages, so that the knowledge can be accounted for,” he said before UNS Rector Jamal Wiwoho, FISIP UNS Dean Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni, Head of the International Relations Study Program of FISIP UNS Ign. Agung Satyawan, and students and faculty members of FISIP UNS.
Democracy with Belief in One God
At the lecture, Constitutional Justice Arief Hidayat also linked the lecture’s theme to Pancasila. Indonesia is a great country born and formulated by the founders, he said, by laying the foundations of the state and the policy lines contained in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution.
Along with the nation’s development of Indonesia until the Reform, the independent Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) still stood strong. This, he said, cannot be separated from the words “By the grace of the Almighty God...” in the Preamble to the 1945 Constitution, designed by the founders long ago during the struggle for independence. Therefore, the main task for the next generations is defending the NKRI with the basic values of the ideology Pancasila.
He further said that in managing the state, Indonesia upheld the Constitution. The state had mandated the Constitutional Court (MK) to be the guardian of the state ideology and the Constitution. Paragraph IV of the Preamble to the Constitution, he added, show that Indonesia’s political and social makeup in running the state differs from that of other countries.
“Indonesia practices theocracy, nomocracy, and democracy simultaneously. The three concepts are combined by Indonesia into a democracy based on a constitution with the belief in One Supreme God. In Indonesia, the relations between the state and religion and the faiths of the people synergize into a foundation for the life of the nation and state,” he explained.
Justice Arief urged the students to build the democracy characterized by Pancasila as recently there had been much hate speech, which was a far cry from the life of the nation as the founders had intended.
“Let's create a universe of Indonesia. For example, how regional autonomy and general elections are imbued with Pancasila characters,” he encouraged the participants.
Hoaxes in Digital Era
FISIP UNS Dean Ismi Dwi Astuti Nurhaeni talked about the impacts of hoaxes in the digital era. She explained that hoaxes appear in various forms, including incomplete information, factual information added with the presenter’s subjective opinion, and misguided information that is peppered with the presenter’s subjective opinion.
Hoaxes, she added, are often presented by effective, charismatic, respected speakers whose following and fans were substantial. Despite that, she said, there were always smart ways of verifying facts and digital footprints of anyone.
“Therefore, millennials must possess seven elements of digital literacy: information literacy, digital scholarship, learning skills, ICT literacy, privacy management, communication and collaboration, and media literacy,” she said.
After the presentations, the students were encouraged to ask questions or provide inputs to/for the speakers.
Writer : Sri Pujianti
Editor : Nur R.
Translator : Yuniar Widiastuti (NL)
Translation uploaded on 5/27/2022 09:23 WIB
Disclaimer: The original version of the news is in Indonesian. In case of any differences between the English and the Indonesian versions, the Indonesian version will prevail.
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