What would you do in 10 or 20 more years to deal with the global “GLOBALIZATION”?

Globalization is a phenomenon that we can not avoid. It rapidly comes along with science which influences many aspects such as culture, language, social, economy, information and technology and so on. Globalization has a significant role for Indonesian people because it helps society to be an interesting effort to achieve welfare. Therefore, globalization requires high-quality resources and full competitiveness. Human resources are an important asset of the country. This rapidly growing globalization era has many challenges and deep influence, so it means that we must be able to compete in it and follow its development.

In fact, globalization has a big impact which is the negative and positive effect on people and individual life. The positive impact of globalization encompasses in various field of life, namely the economic globalization can be seen from the aspect of creativity competitiveness with the increasingly open market for export products. The growth of creativity makes us produce innovative products which are reliable and good quality domestic products. Whereas in the globalization of education provides the addition of foreign language of school subjects that help students learn and understand the language of other countries and can communicate well. Globalization of education is carried out to meet the needs of a qualified workforce who is expected to compete in the world market.

Globalization is not only to have a lot of positive impacts but also negative impacts. For negative impact in information technology, we can access the internet easily and seeking whatever we want on it but it is not only a good thing but also bad things. Sometimes that information contains negative things. If this happens to our teenagers can lead to being broken morale that they get. With the internet, people obtain the information which is alleviated but it is sometimes peppered with negative things. Television shows bad programme like violence and non-educative event. In addition, globalization creates consumptive behavior as people buy electronic goods and transportation to fulfill their needs. But they do not give priority to their functions to people only on fashion. Even more items purchase will be increasingly viewed by people. Hence, globalization makes people like to be introvert, narrowminded, waste and love imitating had behavior.

The internet disclosure for anyone can cause to change a person’s lifestyle and point of view. Globalization leads to people don’t keep the old culture because of entering of the foreign culture. There are some things that we can do as teenagers in facing of globalization. Filter good and useful information. Besides, supervision from all sides is needed so that the information circulating in the society doesn’t have a negative impact on the youth. People must also try to keep up with the development of technology. So, we don’t leave behind other countries and is not easily fooled by information coming in from outside. Reducing consumptive attitude, everyone should have any awareness of not having glamorous lifestyle by buying cheap and good quality domestic goods. To decrease globalization can be done by increasing the domestic products. Promoting local products, the promotion can improve public knowledge about domestic products and attract consumer and switch to local products.

In the field of culture, people must be selective in choosing the culture from outside by taking the culture that appropriates to local culture. Local culture must be also reappointed by holding various exhibitions, seminars, cultural competitions, and etc. The culture that has been passed down from the generations must be preserved to that no part is left behind. To support this can also be done by keeping historical places, cultural tourism, nature tourism, and various things related to regional customs. In the field of education is also not much different. Education will never escape interrelated components of teachers and students. The teacher assignments are not limited to teaching activities but the most important thing is to form students characters. By educating well, a good and critical character can be formed. This character formation is needed to that student can respond and filter the influence of globalization appropriately. This can also be strong with the support of the family and the surrounding environment. These two components must be stronger in instilling the values and norms in the society. Supervision must be done that the children won’t easily be influenced by outsiders.

The Government should actively get involved organize, regulate, put in order the economy of Indonesia for the sake of Indonesia society’s welfare. The Government should understand the society desire namely: Indonesia state should struggle to completely remove foreign debts and national industrialization. To synergy all natural resources to obtain the maximum result for the sake of Indonesian society’s welfare. More active perpetrate international business negotiation to boost better export of Indonesia to possible increasing economic growth of Indonesia. By doing such action sincerely the world economic globalization may lead to world society’s welfare equally. These cannot be implemented if there is no active role of all state components, both government and society. For this reason, good cooperation is needed so the result can be maximized.