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Publication Date: August 25, 2020
DOI:10.14738/assrj.78.8874.
Zurman, A., Hipdizah, & Widjayanto, J. (2020). Role of National Leadership with Pancasila Character in Optimizing the State Defend
Awareness. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 7(8) 518-531.
Role of National Leadership with Pancasila Character in Optimizing
the State Defend Awareness
Afrizal Zurman
Total War Strategy Study Program,
Faculty of Defense Strategy, Indonesia Defense
Hipdizah
Faculty of Defense Strategy,
Indonesia Defense University
Joni Widjayanto
Faculty of Defense Strategy,
Indonesia Defense University
ABSTRACT
The multidimensional crisis faced by the Indonesian today requires a
national leadership with Pancasila character. The weakness of national
leadership is realized to have implications on the weakening of state
defend awareness. State defend awareness is one of the important
capitals in national development and also in solving various problems
of the nation. State defend awareness will be influenced by one of the
national leadership qualities. Pancasila as the foundation of state and
state philosophy should be a guide and a referral in the conduct of every
national leadership practice. This research aims to explain the role of
national leadership that has the Pancasila character in optimizing state
defend awareness. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach.
The results showed that the role of national leadership that has
Pancasila character in building a state defend awareness is as a guide
for the community in achieving the objectives of the country. Secondly,
as the builder of the moral force of society in implementing state defend
in national’s life. Meanwhile, the third role is as an inspirational role
model for society.
Keywords: role, national leadership, Pancasila character, state defend
awareness
INTRODUCTION
Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, consisting of a variety of ethnic groups. As a
country born from a variety of religions, cultures and customs, the challenge of caring for diversity
is something that is not easy to do. It takes a strong leadership character to be able to lead and to
keep the grace of the heterogeneity that God almighty has given to the Indonesian nation.
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In the history of Indonesia's journey, there have been several changes of national leadership since
the founding of the Republic. However, at least the national integration till this date still remain
intact. This doesn't mean that waves of Threats, Challenges, Obstacles and Distractions (TCOD) will
disappear just like that. A variety of threats and subsequent disruptions will likely never cease to
come to test the sense of unity of the nation. As a large nation with abundant natural resources,
there are certain parties that have an interest in the natural resources of Indonesia.
The magnitude of the challenge faced by the Indonesian nation clearly requires ideological power
as the basis of thinking and acting every Indonesian citizen. For that reasons the basic concept of
the philosophy of Pancasila based on historical values, ideals and ideology, present as a guide to
reach the country's objectives [1]. The philosophy of Pancasila guides the people of Indonesia to
view the dynamics of life and to determine the direction of economic, political, socio-cultural,
security and environmental defense to an advanced, independent, fair and prosperous society.
The development of today's strategic environment increasingly makes the threat appear more
complex. The phenomenon of globalization is very influential in the shift or transformation of
values, attitudes and behaviors on all aspects of community life, nation and state. Positive changes
can solidify the values of Pancasila as the philosophy of the nation's life and develop a more quality
national life. While the negative changes must be detected and watched out early and perform
preventive actions of various forms and the potential of threats against the country [2].
The decreasing sense of nationalism in the community characterized by increased regional
fanaticism, the strengthening of individualism that eliminates togetherness, prioritizes personal
interests, mutual cooperation and sense of self-sacrifice already fading and decreasing a sense of
pride as an Indonesian nation, is one sign of weak awareness of the current state defense.
The defense of the state is in essence a reflection of the love of citizens for their country based on
their awareness and responsibility as citizens to protect the entire nation and the whole of
Indonesia's blood from various threats both coming from within and outside the country. State
problems that exist today such as the rise of radicalism, intolerance, terrorism, social conflict,
individualism, increasingly sharp economic gaps, endless political upheaval, and so on, when
viewed from the perspective of national state defense, it is a sign that there is a spirit of love to the
country that seems to be lost in the community. The public became permissive to various violations
of the law including corruption, [2], the current number one state enemy. In essence, the
multidimensional crisis that struck the country is based on one major problem, more and more
eroded awareness of the defense of the Indonesian people's current state.
One of the causes of weakening the state defense is the crisis of leadership presence without
implementation of Pancasila as a source of inspiration and guidelines to achieve the national
objectives as mandated in the opening of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia
(hereinafter referred to as UUD 1945), that is, protecting all Indonesians and all Indonesia's blood,
advancing the general welfare, educate the nation's life, conduct world discipline, and social justice.
Pancasila is the most fundamental national consensus for the nation of Indonesia and also as a key
to maintain the unity of the nation by constitutional [4]. Because of this as the basis of the country,
Pancasila has functions and roles as a guideline and a grip in attitudes, behavior, and acts in the
daily life, in a society, nation, and state for the nation of Indonesia.
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National leadership plays an important role in developing society's attitudes and optimism in
developing the awareness of state defense. Ignorance of the leader in implementing the values of
Pancasila in the state implementation will cause distrust of society to the existing leadership. The
most extreme impact that arises is the attitude of people distrust (unbelief) to the government due
to various policies taken that tend not to be oriented to the interests of the people.
One example is when the Covid-19 pandemic began to spread in early January of 2020 then. Some
officials made statements that seemed to "underestimate" the virus originating from Wuhan, China.
seemed not responded with careful preparation in facing the threat of the Covid-19 pandemic. Even
according to Chairil [3], the Government seems to be doing desecuritization, which is an attempt to
lead out the issue of Covid-19 of security discourse, so that the issue is not considered a threat that
does not require security handling. In fact, at that time, some parties have been reminded of the
possibility of the presence of Corona viruses in Indonesia.
Not to mention the problem regarding the dualism of government policy in the face of the Covid-19
is considered inconsistent [5], that is when the question of whether or not an online motorcycle taxi
(ojek online) can transport passengers when the Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) is applied.
Likewise with the problem of distribution of social assistance funds that seem messy due to
inaccurate data on the poor people in the field, so, many misguided aid and it can aggravate the
burden on the state budget (APBN) [6]. This can indicate that there is a missed management at the
leadership level that could lead to decreasing the governmental prestige. On the other hand, this
phenomenon can lead to an increasingly stronger community apathy and have implications for the
decline in state defend awareness with weak leadership aspects.
Therefore, at this point the role and the existence of leaders are very important. The leader is the
mobilizer and motivator of all the nation's components to run national life in order to achieve
national objectives. For the Indonesian nation, it is needed to be a national leader system that can
run the vision of national development based on the philosophical values of Pancasila [7]. The role
of national leadership is very influential about citizen's awareness of defending the country. Thus,
how the role of national leadership that has a Pancasila character can provide an optimization
impact on public’s state defense awareness. The author attempts to analyze the relationship
between the national leadership of Pancasila character and the optimization of state defend
awareness.
RESEARCH METHODS
This research uses a qualitative approach with the design of phenomenology, which is an
observation of various phenomena that emerge as a form of reality that appears in the field. The
method of research conducted in this study is by library research method or often also referred to
as literature research with descriptive analysis. This method of study relates to theoretical studies
and other references relating to the value, culture and norms that develop in the social situation
under research [8]. The method of collecting data is used in literature studies by collecting
information from multiple books, journals and some resources from the Internet. The data obtained
is then processed to be analyzed and presented in a descriptive narrative.
The research was conducted in March until June of year 2020. Implementation of this research
conducted in Jakarta and Bogor area. This research is done by the library research method without