Historical Consciousness Among Millennial Generation

This research aims to explore historical consciousness among young generation or millennial generation especially those students of Universitas Negeri Jakarta, to describe how their sociocultural has created their historical consciousness. This research was conducted at Universitas Negeri Jakarta using qualitative naturalistic design. The result of research shows the majority of informant understands the purpose of history learning. History learning is also believe to be a solution to national problem. Through historical consciousness someone should learn from his history and appreciate himself as part of the nation. More than half of informant said that radicalism phenomena today had been caused by low level of historical consciousness. In order to deal with the incessant influence of globalization the informant has several efforts such as understanding the situation in community, building tolerance among citizen, ready to maintain the political stability of Indonesia, mutual cooperation, rebuilding the character of Indonesian nation, introducing the importance of learning history to student, stem the inflow of information and film with foreign cultural nuances. The student as millennial generation used to access information and communication technology which is influencing their point of view of foreign culture and tend to receive information without critics. Nevertheless, they understand that one factor that threatens the nation culture is globalization. Therefore as young generation, they must have their positioning in the middle of globalization wave. Effort can be made to foster historical consciousness are reading objective reference book, respecting others, building tolerance and imitating national figures and heroes as an example.