Analyses of moral values of student activists’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta

Abstract

Protest demonstrations are legal according to Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 9 of 1998 about Freedom to Express Opinions in Public. This study aims to comprehensively analyze the moral values of the student activists’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta regarding the causes, demands, and processions. The study was done using the principles of field research which employed the qualitative approach in the form of the case study method. The researcher holistically looked into the activities and processes of the students’ protest demonstrations. Data were elicited by several techniques, namely in-depth interviews, questionnaires, observations, and documentation. Data were analyzed by using the NVivo 12 Plus software. Findings show that student activists’ protest demonstrations generally focused on the single tuition fee policy and other campus and government policies which do not favor students and citizens. Students’ protest demonstrations in Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta carried along 28 good moral values and 15 bad moral values which means that students’ demonstrations had more good moral values than the bad ones. It can be concluded that it is not appropriate to judge students’ protest demonstrations to carry along only either good or bad moral values.