Is Using Government Digital Media Platforms to Disseminate Regulations on Child Adoption Procedures Effective?

Abstract

Digital media has been used by government of most countries in the world to deliver information, including regulations, to their people. There are some platforms of digital media used by governments, such as X, Instagram, YouTube, and website. One of regulations that is important to be understood by society is regarding child adoption since the number of youths who consider not to have biological child, with slightly number has intention to have child through adoption, has been growing. Therefore, child adoption regulations and procedures are information that should be well disseminated to society. In relation to that matter, this work depicts and discusses: 1) which digital media platforms that the youngsters use to seek information and reasons on choosing that digital media platform? 2) have they ever watched video and/or read regulations or procedures concerning child adoption? and 3) Is digital media an effective media to educate society, particularly Gen Z? The research applies two ways in collecting data, they are focus group discussion and online questionnaire. The focus group discussion joined by 65 (sixty-five) participants, while there are 60 (sixty) respondents who fill out the questionnaire. They are university students in Central Java, Indonesia. Each respondent fills out a questionnaire via google form with open ended questions. The data also gathers from government digital media platform. The results are as follows: 1) three digital media platforms that mostly used by the respondents are X, TikTok, and Instagram, 2) there are 9 (nine) of the respondents who have learnt about child adoption and there are 3 (three) respondents who read the about child adoption but not from government official digital media platforms, and 3) in term of the effectiveness on using digital media platforms to disseminate regulations and procedures concerning child adoption, the result shows that there are 15 (fifteen) respondents who admit that government digital media platforms are effective to be used as media to disseminate regulations and procedures about child education to society (especially to gen Z).