Roles of Democratic Volunteers in Developing Political Literacy

Abstract

One of priorities on political development post- reformation movement is improving civic political literacy. The meaning of the literacy has been broadened. It is not merely related to exclusive political knowledge, but also refers to promote the effectiveness and participation of civic in daily basis political movement. This paper describes the role of democratic volunteers as facilitators of political education or community based-voters education in previous general election in 2014. Further, the paper is also aimed at describing the roles of the democratic volunteers in implementing public political education and conducting other efforts in developing civic political literacy.