Lessons for Citizens Regarding Government Efforts to Promote Covid-19 Vaccines: Responses and Challenges to Post-Pandemic Citizenship Education

Abstract

Presence of Covid-19 vaccine does not actually imply public consent and obedience to the government's rule for vaccine injections. There are still citizens who do not follow this vaccination rule, especially in Indonesia there are many concerns about effectiveness of it’s vaccine. Disobedience of citizens with vaccines becoming a phenomenon, especially about mutual relations and synergy between government and citizens. This issue is part of Citizenship Education that aims to strengthen democratic education by educating citizens about government compliance. As for this research aims to develop perspective on the new lessons of citizens to civic culture as a result during this pandemic. Moreover, it is an answer and also challenge to post pandemic citizenship education, related to citizens’ participation in effectiveness government policy. This research uses a qualitative approach with literature study method. Main concepts in this research become instruments for conducting data on processing data procedures. Data processing with literature method done by identifying various references related to the main topic. Several findings and main themes were obtained, as follows: 1) Lessons to post-pandemic Citizenship Education is to build an optimistic attitude of citizens to government; 2) Education through information disclosure by government in the main communication media to enhance public digital literacy; 3) Strengthening educational democracy with citizen participation in order to policies implementation; 4) Support for dialogue practices between segments of society to enrich perspective of Citizenship Education. Therefore, implication of this research is that Citizenship Education needs to adjust it’s subject matter after the pandemic (Post-Pandemic Citizenship Education) through strengthening awareness and it’s understanding about urgency of citizen participation to realize effectiveness government policies.