PERSEPSI MAHASISWA OPEN UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (OUM) TERHADAP KONFLIK POLITIK PALESTIN-ISRAEL.

This study aims to identify and examine the perception of Open Universiti Malaysia students on political conflict of Palestine-Israel. The awareness of a students to current issues can train them to become a voice in the society. For the purposes of this study, there are three main aspects of the study: level of knowledge, views/opinion, and the relationship between the level of knowledge and the views/opinion on the Palestine-Israel political conflict. These three aspects form the main objectives of the study, namely to measure student perceptions of the Palestine-Israel political conflict. The survey tool used is SurveyMonkey's online survey set. A total of 108 OUM students are involved as respondents to represent the population of the study. These respondents were randomly selected from those invited from myINSPIRE OUM on-line forums, as well as OUM's internal email. The sampling technique used is snowball sampling technique to obtain sufficient sample size. The data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistical method and inferential statistical method. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 21 is used to analyze data. The findings show that the level of knowledge and views of OUM students on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is high. Most respondents have good knowledge of the issue. The study results also found that there was a significant relationship between the level of knowledge and the views/opinion. The higher the level of student's knowledge of Palestine-Israel issues, the better their views/opinion on the issue. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that the perception of OUM students on Palestinian-Israeli issues is at a positive level. Therefore, as the voice of the society, students have to move forward in enlightening the Palestine-Israel issue to the public so that the issue can be clearly and precisely understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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