The Decadence of Gotong Royong

Abstract

Gotong royong as a culture value and Indonesian identity becomes very vital and important for this nation and country. This statement is strengthened in the Opening of The 1945 State Constitution (Pembukaan Undang-Undang Dasar) of the Republic Indonesia in the Fourth Paragraph in which the core is that Indonesia will be able to achieve the great mission if the society applies gotong royong. However, in its development, gotong royong experiences decadence in understanding the meaning and its implementation, so that the prevention strategy is highly needed. One of the strategies offered by the researchers is using Social Capital. Thus, it is important to explore further about the roles of Social Capital toward gotong royong. This study is a library study using references in a form of books and journals, both online and printed forms. The result of this study is that Social Capital can be one of the solutions for the problem in this research, in which gotong royong itself is a social capital for Indonesian people. Therefore, it can be concluded that Indonesia needs to have the renewed understanding and to realize that by gotong royong, Indonesia can be a developed nation since gotong royong itself is a very vital and important social capital for Indonesian nation and country. Keywords—gotong royong, indonesia, decadence, social