The Urgency of Citizenship Education in Building Citizen Political Literacy in the Digital Era

Political literacy of citizens is a necessity amid the proliferation of digital information that is cornering, provocative, hoax, slander, nuanced SARA that can poison politics is under the substance of Citizenship Education. The sophistication of technology in this digital era should be used as a temperament to realize the acceleration of useful and credible information, not otherwise used as instrumentation for the dissemination of destructive information that causes the loss of values of civilization as good citizens. Citizenship Education substantively has the aim of making citizenship who commits to love for the homeland, to defend the country, to reach high levels of diversity in the temperament of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia which is rich in differences. Thus the existence of Citizenship Education is seen as very important in its existence in developing citizens who are literate in politics. This article discusses the existence of the importance of Citizenship Education in building citizens' political literacy in this Digital