Stimulation Democracy Value Using Just Community Approach for Youth Offender

Youth offender was an adolescent that categorized as juvenile delinquency that offends the law and face justice that forces them to live in child prison as judgment law and decision. Child prisoners got religious advice periodically one day per week then got legal awareness in special moments. In conventional ways, the educational method used was teacher-centered, which students through in a passive way. Nonetheless, in child prison in West Sumatera, there is no significant model of guidance process to support moral development and increase democracy value. However, democracy is a basic value to power up human development such as moral thinking, ego controlling, and behavior development. It proved by the existence of recidivists and its means that the guidance process didn’t reach the goal-to made moral and behavior changes in youth offender. Kohlberg suggested just community to support their basic problem-lack of moral development-and develop democracy value in a group format that power-up student involvement. This study tries to describe youth offender’s perceptions about educational by using the School Culture Scale (SCS) and collecting the educational background of the youth offenders. The result of this study tries to design just a community model which suitable to implemented in child prison West Sumatera Indonesia.