NON-TRADITIONAL SECURITY: CIVIC LITERACY REINFORCEMENT and COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Rusnaini dan Erna Yuliandari
Universitas Sebelas Maret
Indonesia
Abstract
Civic education should be implemented in the attempt of satisfying the need for human resource that can at least solve both national and local problems encircling it. It is desirable in the attempt of strengthening civic literacy, for example: non-traditional security (NTS) issues. The reinforcement of civic literacy needs a supporting spirit becoming the main foundation to wake up and to deal with a variety of challenges becoming the reality of nation today. Civic literacy challenge lies on the track of research developing flexibly meeting our dual objectives: to improve the knowledge beneficial at both local and national levels and to develop knowledge more beneficial to civic education area globally. This article explains an idea of improving community engagement containing non-traditional security material as a new bearing community civic education in Indonesia.
Keywords: Non-traditional security, Civic literacy reinforcement, Community engagement.
