Civic Education as Patriotism Education in Indonesia

Strengthening civic education through project citizen as an incubator for democracy education

“…Held annually, exhibitions during the year of study involve groups of students arriving at a central Warsaw location and exhibiting various aspects of their project steps. As students share their projects and talk to visitors, they demonstrate their new communication skills, new knowledge of their ability to bring about change in their communities, and ongoing evidence that schools can influence the development of democratic citizens (Martens & Gainous, 2012;Nurdin, 2015;Nurdin & Dahliyana, 2017). Therefore, project citizen has succeeded in equipping students with the skills and knowledge to function as active citizens because it can contextualize formal instructions and concrete actions based on age, class, and even racial differences (Cain, 2012;Farouk & Husin, 2011;Healy, 2019).…”

“…This statement is in line with the objective of the project citizen model, i.e., to motivate and empower students to exercise democratic civic rights and responsibilities through an intensive portfolio of public policy issues at universities or the communities where they interact (Fajri et al, 2018). This is because, through project citizenship, students are able to find integration of human potentials, integration of institutions, integration of curriculum, integration of learning domains, integration of three centers of education, integration of theory and practice, and integration of learning activities because students are able to understand the relationship between civic education and the field of science that is their expertise (Muchtarom et al, 2016;Nurdin & Dahliyana, 2017). Thus, this project is able to enumerate the three visions of citizenship commonly found in colleges or universities, namely, being personally responsible, participatory, and oriented towards social justice (Boontinand & Petcharamesree, 2018;Westheimer, 2015).…”

Project citizen digital: Civic education strengthen the national defense character?

“…One of the ways is through subjects that provide patriotic education. In Indonesia, education that provides patriotic values is civic education (Nurdin & Dahliyana, 2017). The implementation of civic education is carried out separately and becomes a special course known as a mandatory curriculum subject, which is mandated to become a facilitator and instill the nation's character (Nurdin, 2015) in this case the national defense character.…”

“…This is because learning is still dominated by the teacher, so learning is monotonous, using lecture method, textbook assignments, tied in the classroom, and directing students to the uniformity of arguments that apply in the civil space (Llano, 2017;Oyetade & Oladiran, 2012). In addition, most students consider Civic Education is boring and irrelevant to their lives because they do not understand its benefits or why they should study it because it is not following their area of interest and expertise (Jabbour, 2014;Nurdin & Dahliyana, 2017). As a result, there is a tendency to reduce the actualization of national defense values among the younger generation, such as love for the motherland, awareness of nation and state, loyalty to Pancasila, willingness to sacrifice for the nation and state, and having the initial ability to national defense.…”

“…Therefore, learning Civic Education through project citizens can make students understand the real problems of the country and find solutions together through concrete steps (Sundawa & Dahliyana, 2022). In addition, the project citizen can find the integration of human potential, integration of curriculum, integration of learning domains, integration of three education centers, integration of theory and practice, and integration of learning activities because students can understand the relationship between Civic Education and the field of knowledge that is their expertise (Muchtarom et al, 2016;Nurdin & Dahliyana, 2017). However, what if the citizen project is developed in the form of digitization and is used in Civic Education lessons?…”