PARTICIPATORY COMMUNICATION OF STUDENT REGIMENT COORDINATOR OF REGION 1 SURABAYA IN IMPROVING STUDENTS' INTEREST IN NATIONAL DEFENSE

Abstract

This study aims to determine the participatory communication of the Surabaya Region 1 Coordinator Student Regiment in increasing students' interest in national defense. This type of research is descriptive qualitative with data collection methods through observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that the Student Regiment is one of the organizations in the University to form the potential of students in the semi-military field, develop attitudes of discipline and soldiering towards expanding participation in national defense efforts. The purpose of the Student Regiment in each University is expected to help prepare students who have insight, ethics, discipline, physical, and national knowledge of national defense efforts. The Surabaya Region 1 Coordinator Student Regiment applies the basic principles of participatory communication in actively involving members starting from identifying problems, finding solutions, to decision making. The forms of participatory communication that occur in the Surabaya Region 1 Coordinator Student Regiment are heteroglasia, dialogic, polyphony, and carnival. The implications of this study are that each university is expected to provide knowledge and information about Menwa and national defense insights to general students.

 Keywords: Student Regiment, Participatory Communication, National Defense