Palembang, The Indonesia Post – The Governor of South Sumatra H Herman Deru said efforts to increase legal awareness can be done by providing legal literacy starting from the personal, then to the family and the environment.
That way HD is targeted, South Sumatra residents can become citizens who are aware and obey the law. This was said when he opened the Kadarkum Competition for High School Students in South Sumatra in 2022.
“Legal awareness starts from the order of each individual, regardless of the product, whether the law or any regulations, if there is no individual desire to obey it will be in vain. This must be instilled in the youth. Because there are so many material victims and even lives due to lack of legal awareness ,” he said.
HD appreciates the steps taken by the Legal Bureau and its partners to organize this activity as a way to improve the future, starting with the youth.
The next step, HD instructed the Legal Bureau to form law-conscious groups within the South Sumatra Provincial Government such as dharma women who are aware of the law, law-conscious communities and others.
“I want all parties to manage their environment by means of legal literacy. Hopefully through the levelkum competition we will get students with good legal awareness,” he said.
The Head of Law of South Sumatra, Drs Syahrullah, SH., MSi, said that this activity was carried out to increase legal awareness for high school students. So that it can anticipate social crimes among the legal generation. At the same time increasing legal awareness for South Sumatra students so that it can reduce the crime rate in South Sumatra.
Participants came from students from 17 regencies/cities in South Sumatra. And presenting resource persons from the South Sumatra High Prosecutor’s Office, South Sumatra Police, Kemenkumham, Disdik, and the Legal Bureau.
HD also inaugurated the Legal Awareness Group for Senior High School and the student community of Law and Human Rights activists at the Provincial level in 2022 consisting of district/city high school student representatives. (mhn/ril)
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