WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 19, 2023
National Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Extremism (RAN-PE): Youth Perception and Trust in Public Policy
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Abstract: Theories and practices related to preventing radicalism, extremism that leads to terrorism offer different intangible measures to combat such acts. The National Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Extremism (RAN-PE) as part of achieving national goals; of protecting the homeland of Indonesia’s, and participating in the achievement of world order. The purpose of this study is to determine public views on violent extremism (VE) as well as public perception and public trust toward the RAN-PE policy. In addition, this study also identifies the empirical relationship between the public perception of the VE variable and public trust under the RAN-PE policy. We conducted a survey to examine the influence of perception on the level of trust toward the government in relation to the RAN-PE policy and used Spearman’s rho in the non-parametric analysis to determine the correlation between variables. The findings showed that public perception can predict the level of trust toward the government’s implementation of policies to combat extremism, radicalism, and terrorism.
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Pages: 174-182
DOI: 10.37394/232015.2023.19.15