Title: Strengthening Political Participation Through Education in Schools
Abstract: Political participation enforcement through education at schools played important roles and gave positive effects.By being given political participation enforcement, students as beginner voters would be able to have good political education and improve their knowledge of political participation in a social environment.Political participation education given by schools through civic education could provide experiences to students that had gained minimum understanding of the importance of political participation enforcement at a school environment.To form political education knowledge as an attempt to increase political participation at schools, students would understand the importance of political participation in order to realize democratic education and make them good citizens.This research was library research.Data in forms of article were collected from literary studies by analyzing political participation education implemented at schools.The research findings indicated that: 1) Political participation education enforcement at schools should have been given to develop students' knowledge on political education and 2) Students were able to be democratic citizens and improve political participation in a social environment.