PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL DALAM DIPLOMASI PUBLIK

Abstract

Social media has became youth daily accessible communication’s tool. It is recorded that around 120 million Indonesian are using social media. Considering those abundant number of social media users, we interested to deliver short training for students of MAN 2 Tanah Datar, West Sumatera related to the contribution as public diplomacy agent through activities in social media. Tanah datar located in mountain area, 3 hours drive from the capital city Padang. This region rich of cultural heritage with beautiful scenery. Unfortunately this region is still infamous compare to Bukittinggi for example. This community service is delivered for 250 students of MAN 2 Tanah Datar, who almost all of them are social media users. We deliver this community service in form of lecture with exercise (training) with giving an example of activities that can be clasified as public diplomacy through social media. We conducted pre and post test to measure student’s understanding of the topic. We found an indication that the students understand the training through the post test that we conduted after the lecture and also the exercise during lecture.