The first reason for young
people are obliged to take Bela Negara training is for a mental revolution.
Today, our young generation begin to be poisoned by the values of foreign
ideologies, such as liberalism, capitalism, socialism, communism, and fanatical
religious sects, militant and radical. They also begin to make groups of people
for political interests of certain political elite, then they are oriented to
the values of individualism, consumerism and materialism. Politically, it needs
a revolution in their mental by taking Bela Negara training to defend the
country. As we know that to produce a strong young generation who are capable
of promoting Indonesia, this revolution can change their negative states that
have been entrenched by young people to a positive direction. Thus, the mental
revolution can be done by developing their good character as youth and their
quality in a society. Not only the family but also the government should take a
part in facilitating them by this Bela Negara Training.
The second is finding the national
identity, then Indonesian people should have a high nationalism to the country
especially for the young generation. By the time many young people who
do not understand or misunderstand of the meaning of nationalism. For example,
just a warning-day of national holiday is only meant as a ceremonial and
entertainment without building their sense of nationalism inside their minds nowadays.
The other examples are the loss of a sense in loving our domestic products. It
is because of many foreign products come to Indonesia and they completely
forget of their identity as a part of Indonesian civilians. They tend to
imitate the western culture to be a part of their lifestyle which is regarded
as the role model of civilian modernization. Lots of western culture and ideology
that come into Indonesia that give negative impacts. Then, this ideology is
accepted so easily by our Indonesian people. So it will happen an acculturation
or even the disappearance of the culture and personality of the people who
should have the identity of Indonesia.
A third reason is to foster patriotism. The attitude of brave, unyielding and self-sacrifice by putting national aspects above their personal and group interests is the implementation of patriotism. However, this generation have less patriotism feelings. For example, there are many high level crimes which are committed by juveniles. The other is the lack of respecting the heroes who are still living today. Those people who had sacrificed everything for our independence only receive unpleasant compensation in the rest of their time. Our young generation only think about what the country has given to them instead of what they have done to the country. Because of this selfishness, our youth demand their rights more than their obligations as citizens. This attitude results many disadvantages to us like our national defense will be weak and can be easily attacked by outsiders. Indonesia will re-colonized in terms of mentally and ideology colonized. That is why our nation should be able to grow the spirit of patriotism to the next generation.
A third reason is to foster patriotism. The attitude of brave, unyielding and self-sacrifice by putting national aspects above their personal and group interests is the implementation of patriotism. However, this generation have less patriotism feelings. For example, there are many high level crimes which are committed by juveniles. The other is the lack of respecting the heroes who are still living today. Those people who had sacrificed everything for our independence only receive unpleasant compensation in the rest of their time. Our young generation only think about what the country has given to them instead of what they have done to the country. Because of this selfishness, our youth demand their rights more than their obligations as citizens. This attitude results many disadvantages to us like our national defense will be weak and can be easily attacked by outsiders. Indonesia will re-colonized in terms of mentally and ideology colonized. That is why our nation should be able to grow the spirit of patriotism to the next generation.
From the three reasons
above, we can see why compulsory military or Bela Negara training should be
implemented by young generation in Indonesia. Maybe, there are still some people
who think that conscription is just a waste of time and effort, but this
training will help us to make a mental revolution inside of us, an increase of the spirit of nationalism and patriotism to nurture the soul
of young people. Because of that, we must support the movement of compulsory
military or Bela Negara training for the young generation that are our successor
to the nation!
(696 words)
Created By : Putri Handayani/10151038
Sumber :
http://www.pusakaindonesia.org/lunturnya-rasa-kebangsaan-dan-upaya-menmbangkitkan-nasionalisme/
