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SURAKARTA: Around 2,000 junior and senior high school students in Surakarta, Central Java, read Pancasila and the preamble to the 1945 Constitution on Sunday
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URAKARTA: Around 2,000 junior and senior high school students in Surakarta, Central Java, read Pancasila and the preamble to the 1945 Constitution on Sunday.
Event organizer Rochmad Suryadi said that the event was aimed to encourage nationalism among students.
He said that several recent surveys had shown that most Indonesian students had not memorized the state ideology Pancasila or the four-paragraph preamble to the Constitution.
“That is why we’re holding the event,” Rohmad said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com on Sunday.
Student Heninda Rahmawati said that she could easily recite the five pillars of Pancasila, but she said was less confident in her memorization of the preamble to the Constitution.
Heninda said that it was not enough to memorize Pancasila and the Constitution’s preamble. “We have to apply these values in our daily lives,” she said.
State ideological education in schools has recently been in the spotlight as radical and extremist movements have reportedly mistreated the concepts of pluralism and tolerance in Indonesia. JP
