POLICY IMPLEMENTATION OF TERRITORIAL DEFENSE-EMPOWEREMENT OF REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO IMPROVE STATE DEFENSE-AWARENESS IN MALANG DISTRICT.

This research aims to to analyze the influence of: (1) empowerment to defend the state of consciousness in Malang and (2) the government's role towards community empowerment and awareness to defend the nation in Malang district. This research was undertaken in Malang district. The collected data was then processed to know how the result which functions to overcome the problem examined. Qualitative data was analyzed with descriptive statistics. Encoding data technique was given for quantitative data processing to make harmonization. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive statistics and cross-tabulation. While quantitative data was processed using Structural equation Modelling (SEM) technique. For the purposes of rejection and acceptance of the hypothesis, the researchers uses 5 percent of significance level (α = 0.05), The results show that a) Empowerment to the public awareness is necessary to: (1) defend the country comprising of state defense education and the national education system, (2) strengthen efforts and give a role to the mass organizations by Indonesian military (TNI), (3) seek an effort to build an information network of community empowerment, andinstitutional strengthening through the socialization of defending the country, (4) encourage, motivate, and raise awareness of the national character to all elements in the community, (5) integrate the national development to family and personal through TNI?s role. b) Empowerment has influence over the role of government as administrators who determine public policy implications. As a regulator, the government provides a basic reference for community as an instrument to regulate all activities of empowerment implementation. As a motivator, government has a role through the provision of guidance and direction intensively and effectively to the public. Commonly, the guidance provision is manifested through instructor agents and certain entities to provide training. As fasiitator, the government is engaged in assistance through training, education and development of skill, as well as in the areas of funding and capital through the provision of capital to the people who are empowered., c) The role of government in creating state defense-awareness aims to make society: (1) is able to grow and build up the spirit of the concept of nationalism, (2) is always proud to be an Indonesian, (3) is always committed to maintain the unity and integrity of the nation, (4) has willingnes to sacrifice for the nation and state, (5) practices Pancasila values, and consciousness of nation and state, and maintains community to defend not only state but also at the level of the home environment.