Emerging volunteerism for Indonesian millennial generation: Volunteer participation and responsibility

ABSTRACT

Voluntary activities have been a part of Indonesian society since the pre-independence era until now. Volunteerism began implemented effectively in many countries after the Second World War, including in Indonesia. Currently, voluntary activities have grown in the community social life, especially volunteer involvement in the festival event. This article explores the involvement of young volunteers in the Krakatau Festival. The data were collected from the volunteers who were involved in the festivals. An ethnographic approach implemented to reveal the engagement of the individual during the event conducted. This article identifies the festival as a medium for young volunteers to strengthen self-civic virtue in the life of the millennial generation participation in the community. The result shows that young millennial generation’s activities cannot be separated from engagement with information technology, which can be used to strengthen social integration, active participation, and responsibility.

KEYWORDS:

• Indonesian millennial
• participation
• responsibility
• volunteerism
• volunteer

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Priyambudi Sulistiyanto and Rosslyn von der Borch (Flinders University) for their support and helpful comment. I also wish to thank Lampung Province Tourism Department and all volunteers for their insightful information and support and made invaluable contributions to this research.

Disclosure statement

The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

Notes

1. Priyambudi Sulistiyanto is a Senior Lecturer at Flinders University, South Australia, especially at Centre for United States and Asia Policy Studies. His research expertise are Indonesian politics, Southeast Asian Studies, and Local politics in Southeast Asia. He is teaching for Asian studies, Indonesian studies, and Southeast Asian studies. Priyambudi really concerns about Indonesian culture especially cultural tradition from Yogyakarta, and for several times he was conducted several gamelan music concert at Flinders University and festivals.

2. Rosslyn von der Borch is Lecturer at Flinders University, South Australia especially at College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Regularly she always conducting Bahasa Indonesia schools project across South Australia, and thousands of students involved with the workshops and school visit.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education of the Republic of Indonesia [1645/UN26.21/KU/2017].