NATIONALISM UNDERSTANDING AS A CONSTITUTIONAL AWARENESS OF CITIZENS STUDY ON COLLEGE-STUDENTS OF UAD
anom wahyu asmorojati, avanti vera risti pramudyani

Faculty of Education and Teacher Training
Ahmad Dahlan University

Abstract

Nationalism is a concept that aims to create and maintain the sovereignty of nationality and state to realize the identity, and it must be owned by every citizen. The spirit of nationalism in young generation can be asset of national development. However, only a small proportion of young generation who correctly understand nationalism that can be done in everyday life as college-students in modern era. This research aims to determine the extent of nationalism understanding on college-students at Ahmad Dahlan University (UAD) based on the awareness of nationality and state in everyday life. This research is using mix menthod approach, the data was obtained from the questionnaire given to 52 college-students of UAD, who are not from study programs of Law Studies and Pancasila and Civic Education. The result of the questionnaire was analyzed by quantitative approach, and described as qualitative by content analysis and literature study. The results are information of the whole respondents know cognitively about the awareness of national and state life as citizens. Most respondents already know that nationalism can arise if they have love for the country, guard the nations sovereignty, understand diversity, understand the rule of law. However, it is required the formation of nationalism attitudes and mental that become citizens’ characters, especially in the obligation to pay taxes, obey the rules, act honestly, and the implementation of Pancasila democracy

Keywords: nationalism, the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, young generation

Topic: Role-Model and Democratic Citizenship