Policy Advocacy: A Process that Sometimes Being Forgotten by the Motorbike Riders?

Abstract

Advocacy can also be seen as an activity that involves organizing communities to strengthen their voice and interests in decision-making that affects their lives. This is important not only in the context of government but also in non-profit organizations, corporations, and various other institutions.It is an effort to improve or change a policy in accordance with the desires or interests of those who are pushing for such improvements or changes.However, in certain policies, there is still lack of advocacy policy, hence occurs bad policy and bad implementation. For example: canceling motorbike lamps to reduce accidents. This research uses descriptive analysis and qualitative methods. Data and information gained by deep interviews and literature studies.The result of this research is a model of effective policy advocacy combined with information technology and the use of social media such as whats app, whats app group and instagram is strategically important to make more effective policy advocacy. Some recommendations proposed by this research are more training in negotiation skill for policy advocator as a democratic model, the use of IT for all stakeholders and put policy advocacy in the curriculum of higher-level students