The Role of Opinion Leaders in Diseminating Climate Change Policy

Abstract

Opinion leaders have important roles to boost the successful of the government policies and programs implementation. The climate village program is a form of national climate change policy to reduce climate change impacts. The program will not run smoothly without roles from various parties, especially the opinion leaders. The research aimed to reveal the roles of opinion leaders in encouraging the implementation of national climate change policy at the grassroots level. This research was a qualitative descriptive study conducted in Pendulan Hamlet, Sleman. The results of this study found that the successful implementation of the national climate change policy in the form of a climate village program at the hamlet cannot be separated from the role of its opinion leaders. The research found that opinion leaders have played strategic and crucial roles in bringing the successful of the climate village program implementation. There were at least three important roles played by opinion leaders on the success of the program. The roles they played that support the success of the program were motivator, initiator and communicator.

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“…The principles of expertise, trust, fairness, self‐efficacy, and optimism are principles that can be developed through the monthly training that Ambassadors take part in to learn how to carry out discussions in a sensitive and empathetic manner. Diffusion of information is also studied in other fields, such as climate policy (Luthfia & Alkhajar, 2020), video game settings (Z. Wang et al, 2020), or social media (Zhang et al, 2015). Many of these studies focus, however, more on simulation and mathematical models (Liu & Liu, 2018) instead of examining real world scenarios.…”