Democratic Efforts Against Injustice - The Process of Transforming Consciousness Into Participatory Action

Bagus Haryono, Ahmad Zuber

2017

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the transformation process awareness, attitude and action of the urban people, especially how they can counter the injustice related to the construction and deconstruction process of the telecommunication tower building. What the democratic efforts conducting by the people against the injustice issue, and how they can generate the critical awareness in order to be actualized in participatory action. Research and development are conducted in the Surakarta city. Data were collected by questionnaire, observation, interview, and focus group discussion. Developmental research is designed by quasi-experiment, implemented the pre-test, treatment and post-test design. The informant consists of 30 people that involved in their act against injustice. The result found that the treatment has a positive impact in the education transformation process, when they can convert the naive to be the critical awareness, ranging from the thinking toward acting level, from idea toward reality, the initiative changes from the top-down toward bottom-up, and the people understanding changes from the passive toward the active actors, and the paradigm changes where the actor seen as the objects to be replaced the subject of research, and any activities changes from repressive to democratic, from passive voice replaced by participatory action. Overall changes demonstrated by the significant people movement started from the establishment, counter-effort, and deconstruction process of the telecommunication tower building.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Haryono B. and Zuber A. (2017). Democratic Efforts Against Injustice - The Process of Transforming Consciousness Into Participatory Action.In 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES - Volume 1: IcoSaPS, ISBN 978-989-758-313-1, pages 1-1. DOI: 10.5220/0007033400010001

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosaps17,
author={Bagus Haryono and Ahmad Zuber},
title={Democratic Efforts Against Injustice - The Process of Transforming Consciousness Into Participatory Action},
booktitle={4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES - Volume 1: IcoSaPS,},
year={2017},
pages={1-1},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007033400010001},
isbn={978-989-758-313-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES - Volume 1: IcoSaPS,
TI - Democratic Efforts Against Injustice - The Process of Transforming Consciousness Into Participatory Action
SN - 978-989-758-313-1
AU - Haryono B.
AU - Zuber A.
PY - 2017
SP - 1
EP - 1
DO - 10.5220/0007033400010001