Research Article
The Role of Youth in Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia. A Study of Duta Damai
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295204, author={M Z Achsin}, title={The Role of Youth in Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia. A Study of Duta Damai}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={B-SPACE}, year={2020}, month={5}, keywords={duta damai countering violent extremism indonesia preventing violent extremism youth}, doi={10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295204} }- M Z Achsin
Year: 2020
The Role of Youth in Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia. A Study of Duta Damai
B-SPACE
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.26-11-2019.2295204
Abstract
The Role of Youth in Preventing Violent Extremism in Indonesia. A Study of Duta Damai M Z Achsin Universitas Brawijaya, Malang muhaimin.zul@ub.ac.id,
ABSTRACT This study aimed to describe the role of youth in preventing and countering violent extremism in Indonesia particularly Duta Damai. Duta Damai/peace ambassador is youth community that was made by the National Agency for Combating Terrorism (BNPT/ Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Terrorisme). Qualitative approach with the descriptive research purpose became main approach in this research. Moreover, this study poses a question how does youth contribute to the preventing violent extremism (PVE) and countering violent extremism (CVE) in Indonesia through community of Duta Damai? Both of primary data and secondary data were collected by the researchers through interview and online data excavating. Five categories of youth work against violent radicalization which was provided by the European Commission is using as the categories in this study. The result shown that Duta Damai has implemented five categories mentioned before. However, Duta Damai is still lacking in some points.