Legal Policy of National Defense: Developing National Character in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is likely to face a complex and dynamic strategic for national development in the future. Despite the country’s political reforms, domestic security problems including communal tensions, religious radicalism, and terrorism continue to pose dangers to the wellbeing of the Indonesian people. The research is a normative-legal research using a statute and conceptual approaches. The results show that the understanding of a universal defense system in legal policy in the field of national defense is the implementation of a national defense system that involves all aspects both community and territoriality based on the values of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution. The integration of the defense component is in order to aligning the vision and mission as part of the implementation of the national defense system development agenda. By this integration it will have a greater impact on efforts to achieve development goals in the field of defense. The involvement of citizen in the implementation of the national defense system must be early exercised. Early involvement means that there is a rational effort undertaken by the State. This tiered model leads to three basic elements of the system i.e nationality insight, national schooling, and State-defense orientation.

Keywords: Character; Defense; Government; Legal Policy; Nationality

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/

DOI: 10.7176/JLPG/97-06

Publication date:May 31^st 2020