Developing Citizens’ Environmental Awareness in Environmental Preservation in Slums Area

Abstract

The environment is one of the global issues of citizenship in the 21st century. Urbanization as a result of globalization makes the emergence and development of dense and slums in urban areas appear. The purpose of this study is to analyze efforts to build environmental awareness of citizens towards environmental conservation, especially in dense and slums in urban areas. This research uses a qualitative approach, with a case study method. Data collection techniques through in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The results showed that the concept of Citizenship Education can be found in building citizen awareness as an effort to preserve the environment in slums. The concept of building slum into a tourist village becomes a new alternative in growing and bringing up new concepts in an effort to build environmental awareness of citizens. Efforts that can be made to build environmental awareness are changing the mindset and behavior of the community to care for the preservation of the environment in which they live. Efforts to build environmental awareness of citizens are implemented through the participation and appreciation of the community to be directly involved by working together to build and organize slums into tourist villages. The values of concern for citizens in preserving the environment are based on the values of the spirit of mutual cooperation, togetherness, the spirit of unity, the spirit of hard work, and the values of independence, this can be a broad model for the formation of citizen awareness in environmental preservation.