Pelatihan dan Lomba Menulis Opini bagi Pelajar, Rohaniwan dan Umat Katolik dalam Rangka Hari Komunikasi Sosial Sedunia 2021

Abstract

The celebration of the World Social Communications Day in 2021 was held by the Indonesian Bishops Conference's Social Communications Commission by online with the theme "Come and See" in the form of training and opinion writing competitions. The celebration became a momentum to raise people's awareness about the importance of communicating through real-life encounters, as well as using communication media responsibly. The main problem faced is increasing the interest of the people to follow it. To overcome this problem, a combination of training methods and opinion writing competitions was applied as last year with several improvements in the form of increasing the frequency and duration of the training. In addition, the participants of the competition were divided into three categories, namely students, clergy and people in general, and increasing the value and increasing the number of prizes in the form of coaching money, as well as increasing the quota of nominees' works that were recorded. It turned out that the improvement of the method had boosted the number of participants by up to 25% compared to the previous year. Many additions occurred in the category of students and clergy, especially Catholic nuns. Opinions presented are also very diverse and profound. So, improving the method is important and has an impact on increasing the participation of people from all categories, even people who do not yet have the skills to write opinions dare to take part in these activities.