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UTILIZING SOCIAL MEDIA TO IMPLEMENT INDONESIA’S NATIONAL IDEOLOGY–PANCASILA WITHIN MILLENNIALS Nurfitrah Windriadi Oetomo Faculty of Psychology Airlangga University Email: [email protected] Abstract Introduction: Pancasila is Indonesia’s national ideology that was made through long hours of discussion from June 1st to August 18th in 1945 which contains nation’s values that were meant to guide society to a better future. The young generation of Millennials are known for their skills and are familiar with modern technology, therefore they have a profound understanding of technology usage to utilize Pancasila’s values to the younger generation so they will not forget the struggle and vision of fellow veteran warriors for the nation. Methods: Aiming to know how Millennials work on modern technology such as social media, this article uses literature review methods, reviewing different articles on millennials, social media, digital technology and Pancasila. Results: 14 articles in totals are collected from different topics of millennials, social media, digital technology and Pancasila, resulting in values that Pancasila contains, the Millennials’ role in utilizing Pancasila’s values and taking advantage of social media to utilize Pancasila’s values in Millennials. Conclusion: Pancasila as a nation’s ideology contains values that are guiding society to a better future. As Millennials live and continue the journey to build a better Indonesia, it is necessary to utilize Pancasila’s values through modern technology that Millennials are familiar with like social media so Pancasila is always in thought as guidance to live in society. Keywords: Millennials, Pancasila’s Values, Social Media INTRODUCTION Pancasila is Indonesia’s national ideology and the foundation of how Indonesia was built. Ideology (and political work) as described by Mao in Li and Soobaroyen article is included in social and educational activity, seeking certain political ideas, views and standpoints for society resulting in a definite social behaviour (8). This nation’s ideology– Pancasila, was made through long hours of discussion from June 1st to August 18th 1945 by veteran warriors or heroes who helped to make Indonesia independent from colonialism. Pancasila as a nation’s ideology aiming to guide the Indonesian people to a certain social behaviour to reach the goal of a better future of Indonesia that was dreamt by the veteran warriors and heroes. Since being legitimated on August 18th 1945, Pancasila has been used as a guidance for Indonesian to live in society and move forward in living aspects such as culture, economy, social and many others. Through ages of generations and development processes, Pancasila’s find its way to adapt to modern society and modern society find its way to adjust to the nation’s value of ideology, Pancasila. Through the development of things that are adjusted to the nation’s ideology resulting in new concepts, ideas and theories for the society to live with also making society find new relevances of Pancasila’s values and developed concepts (5). Not to mention that the nation’s ideology went through a harsh historic event known as Gerakan 30 September 1965 (G30S/PKI) or the 30 September Movement where totals of 7 victims were killed during the raid movement, 3 of them are generals named Ahmad Yani, M. T. Haryono and D. I. Pandjaitan, 1 police officer Karel Sadsuitubun, 1 aider of Abdul Haris Nasution, Lieutenant Pierre Tendean and 1 last victim is Nasution’s five-years-old daughter, Ade Irma Suryani Nasution (10). Pancasila then used as a tool for ideology so the nation’s government can figure the way out of the communist infiltration within the society, making the values of Pancasila are open and dynamic in tune with the current zeitgeist that is going on within the society way of living (5). For the improvement and optimal utilization of Pancasila, we need Millennials–the young generation who are familiar with the modern technology and current trend within the society of online communities, whereas traditionally people would often communicate and get together to exchange information, in today’s activity, internet especially social media is the only thing needed for modern gatherings of information exchange (14). Millennials are important as they are the successor of the older generation, continuing to build the nation and productively being creative to face current affairs by accessing information and spreading information widely (7). Globalization made the development of technology into a better use but also giving negative impact on some parts of Pancasila’s values for Indonesia. One example of positive impact from modern technology is making a lot of people are able to access information fast and easy, on the negative side, this fast and easy access to information is digested by the public without a grain of salt, meaning the public consumes information as it is without making a fact check, this impacts on people’s ideology of Pancasila, the national ideology in mind being affected by materialism, hedonism and consumerism (6). These consequences from consuming information through fast and easy access on the internet do not only affect their ideology but also affecting on their communication degree from real-life interaction to online-focused interaction (3). The decreasing duration of engaging in real-life interaction give impacts to people’s ideology or mindset about the things that surround them, these things affect people on their behaviour into: selfism, an act of advancing their selves first instead of others; exclusive greediness, an act of unsatisfied self and wanting a lot more; lastly, ignorance, an act of not putting other’s business into their account. Those effects can settle into an act of apathy and can affect the digital era development negatively as people would pull themselves out of the current social issue (6). Those acts could lead to the decreasing of Pancasila’s values in society if the public and government does not work together to utilize modern technology in implementing Pancasila’s values to the society (5). As of right now, Millennials are into social media, based on a large usage number of social media (14). Taking advantage of that would be a great way to continuing the growth of Pancasila’s values to the young generation. METHODS The method that is used in this research is descriptive qualitative research, studying and analyzing resources of articles and books with themes of millennials, social media, digital technology and Pancasila. Study Protocol The flow of this research started with a gathering study focusing on millennials, social media, digital technology and Pancasila, the researcher then reads all the materials that have been found and later analyze them. The analyzed materials then extracted for related research purposes as a result. The later result will be concluded for easier understanding. Article Search Strategy The study materials will be sought from a website or database that contains related themes on article or book. The materials used will mainly be in bahasa Indonesia, materials using languages other than bahasa Indonesia will be used if the data or description of the study can be used as a support for this research. Inclusion Criteria The criteria of materials used for this study are all from the publication year of 2019- 2021 to ensure relevance and up to date research study. Materials with older publication year will only be used if there is relevance within this research. Articles or books are welcomed to be used in this research as long as they related to the temes of millennials, social media, digital technology and Pancasila. Discussion other than the informed theme within the materials will not be used unless it contains a supporting source for this article. RESULTS These are the materials found for the research of this article: 1. Book: Generational Gaps in Political Media Use and Civic Engagement This book discusses how each generation engages with political news and how differently the methods were used by each generation to obtain that news. Explaining every detail related to political activities and relations that were done by the people accessing political news and engaging with civic. This book helped to understand how people engage with politics and civics, also describing how social media affects the engagement for obtaining news. 2. Article: Pengamalan Nilai-Nilai Pancasila Bagi Generasi Milenial (Utilization of Pancasila’s values by Millennials) Discusses the utilization of Pancasila’s values on Millennials that starts to fade as the generation continues to grow, whereas those values in Pancasila are made to guide the society as an ideology to face everyday difficulties as a citizen of Indonesia that is rich in culture, ethnic and language. This article studies the literature of Pancasila’s values that are being utilized on day to day basis. The reason for the fading values of Pancasila in Millennials is because of the growth of character that is out of the values that are contained in Pancasila (2). The article from Anggraini, Fathari, Anggara, and Al Amin concluded that the character of Millennials needs to be enriched and molded with the nation’s ideology, Pancasila. 3. Article: Lunturnya Norma Pancasila di Era Milenial 2019/2020 (The Fading of Pancasila’s Norm in Millennials Era 0f 2019/2020) The fading of Pancasila’s norm in 2019-2020 Millennials era is believed because of the globalization that is affecting the traditional culture of Indonesia being integrated or even replaced by the outside culture. The outside culture that came because of globalization was made as their primary key in living therefore leaving the traditional culture of Indonesia itself forgotten and were thought of as lame and out of date. Researchers from the mentioned article claimed that character building as education would help restore Pancasila’s values to the society, especially the Millennials.