The Attorney-in-School Program as a Tool of Social Communication in Increasing Society’s Law Awareness Especially School Teenagers (original) (raw)

2018, International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

(hereafter is called Judiciary) to administer an activity of society's law awareness improvement as a duty realization of the division of discipline and public tranquility. The Attorney General's responsive action to such attribution authority is to publish the Decision of Attorney General of Republic Indonesia No. 184/A/JA/11/2015 on November 18, 2015, About the Formation of Attorney-in-School of the Judiciary of Republic of Indonesia. Such normative implication of Attorney General's Decision, causes the Attorney-in-School (hereafter is called JMS) program to be a part of Judiciary Law. The JMS program is a responsive form to the Nawacita (the nine main agenda or vision-mission) belongs to the President of Republic of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, particularly the eighth cita (agenda) which is "To execute the Revolution of the Character of Nation." This JMS program is indeed specialized to stray teenagers or youngsters as the target, due to their vulnerabilities of deviated behaviors and violating the law (onrechtmatigheid). Judiciary, as a government agency administering authority in the field of law establishment, is morally responsible to advance young generation of students to always understand and comprehend about law and its problems. Judiciary considers that students are the main door of a young generation which has the nation-and-country's goal and direction in the future. That is to say, the future of nation and country is determined by the school teenagers or student's qualities, abilities, and readiness, The enforcement of activity of law-abiding society (hereafter is called binmatkum), especially in this JMS program, points to increase the law awareness of the young generation so they have an understanding, awareness, and doing their rights, obligations, and responsibilities, as the next generation of the nation development's goals. The understanding about law awareness in young generation is expectedly able to reduce the crime rate, especially on the child case. According to the JMS's slogan: "Know the Law, Avoid the Punishment;" means that by understanding the law, then will be able to stay away from doing anything that is against the law, which can cause punishment or sanctions. The law reality, presenting the crime rate done by the doer especially children, keep increasing each year. In responding such law reality, it requires a preventive act to overcome it. The JMS program is one of legal solutions in facing such law reality. JMS program, as a part of Judiciary Law, is the Judiciary's communication tool which has the role to distribute law science that aims to increase the society's law awareness, especially the young generation, as a preventive effort for the cause of law violation or the acts against law, particularly in the circle of students or young generations. Based on such matters, thus this writing aims to study the essence of the JMS program as a social communication tool in decreasing crime done by school students. 2. Discussion The law awareness is cognition or the values included inside humans about the existed law or about the law that expectedly exists. The law awareness emphasizes about the society values about what functions that are right to be