Community Participation as a Constitutional Awareness of Democracy Development in Digital Era

DOI

10.2991/icils-18.2018.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

democracy in the digital era, community participation, and conscious awareness of the constitution

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the constitutional democratic countries that guarantees the protection of every citizen to express opinions, association and assemble. Freedom and openness are important means of creating public participation in the development of democracy in Indonesia. Community participation is also a form of high awareness of the rights of citizens guaranteed by the constitution. In the digital era, community participation in developing democracy is much easier. With their gadgets owned, everyone can participate in developing democracy. However, it is no doubt that the ease provided by the gadget makes people unwise in using it to give or receive hoax news. Therefore, it becomes important for everyone to be able to use the gadget to give or receive factual information in order to be synergistic with the development of democracy. This study will discuss how the community participation as a conscious form of the constitution in the development of democracy in the digital era. The results of this study show that they need a wise attitude to review information obtained or owned to be shared to the public through digital gadgets. Reviewing information will be an important point in the development of democracy. Having the truth that information received or submitted is also as a form of guarantee of freedom of opinion in accordance with the constitution.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Anna Triningsih
AU  - Oly Viana Agustine
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Community Participation as a Constitutional Awareness of Democracy Development in Digital Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Indonesian Legal Studies (ICILS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 255
EP  - 259
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icils-18.2018.48
DO  - 10.2991/icils-18.2018.48
ID  - Triningsih2018/07
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