Role of Law Students in Providing Legal Literacy through Street Law

Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is one of the programs that develop softskills for law students so that after graduation they’ll be ready to useand have a good spirit in helping others. The target group of theprogram are poor and/or marginalized who need help to get an accessto justice. CLE program consists of several activities, while the clinicwhich developed by the Faculty of law Pasundan University Bandung isthe provision of legal aid in the form of learning the law or the legalknowledge to those in need.


ABSTRACT Introduction
Clinical Legal Education (CLE) is one of the programs that develop soft skills for law students so that after graduation they'll be ready to use and have a good spirit in helping others. The target group of the program are poor and/or marginalized who need help to get an access to justice. CLE program consists of several activities, while the clinic which developed by the Faculty of law Pasundan University Bandung is the provision of legal aid in the form of learning the law or the legal knowledge to those in need. Groups of people who were targeted activities are women and children. Why women and children? This is because they are vulnerable to becoming a victim. Those who involved in this activity are students through Street law. CLE program has become compulsory for all students of the 5th semester since 2015. There are about 245 students who participated in a semester that ended with field activities, namely conducting legal literacy and for the poor or marginalize using interactive teaching methods.

The Role of Law Student on Street Law: Pasundan University Experience
In the beginning of semester these students equipped with material about legal aid, understanding of CLE, application in the field, making a lesson plan and develop interactive and participatory learning methods. Why should be interactive and participatory? It because law is something that is difficult to understand by the common people, a lot of terms that are not understood, but they need legal knowledge to defend their rights. The challenge is how to provide legal assistance in the form of learning using simple language yet not boring. Through interactive teaching methods and fun teaching the public easily absorb the material.

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Students have gained theoretical knowledge, directly confronted with the creation of lesson plans, the selection of community groups and the selection of the topic of what the legal requirements needed by the community. Students were divided into groups and had to carry out activities of street law at least three times in the community. The Students select groups such as farmers, fishermen, housewives, children in orphanages and high school students. First they conducted interviews about their legal needs, then they prepare the lesson plan and then perform the learning activities. There are several groups of people who by the lecturers cannot be reached yet by these students they can be approached, such as groups of farmers in remote areas and the fishermen. They provide legal learning about their rights on the land and matters relating to criminal and civil law. For a group of children living in orphanages and children's school, the material concerning children's rights, domestic violence, sexual abuse and how to report it. For a group of house-wife, the material provided regarding the rights of women, identify types of domestic violence, as well as how to report when domestic violence happens to them.
Activities undertaken these students are directly monitored by supervisors that the lecturers who taught courses in Clinical Legal Education, this is to ensure that these students do their job in the right track based on the legal needs of society. But the activities of street entirely done by the students. They are given the confidence to make the learning process of law and to apply what they know in college to help the community.
The presence of students in the community is like a fresh air, because in some ways, people feel embarrassed if it should relate to the lecturer and the university, but when the students offering help they with open their arms and welcoming the students, so that the separation wall between the community and the university is no longer there. Especially for children who live in orphanages and children of school age who are not too far away, the presence of law students to provide illumination and can be used as an opportunity for them to talk about the legal issues. Law student attendance among in high school students are very helpful in giving correct information on specific legal cases. At school they get certain material that highlights the legal issue, but only on the surface, the presence of these students are free to ask them more than they ask the teacher in the classroom. These learning activities carried out by several methods of learning fun and avoid boredom.
Some interactive learning methods activities are: Brainstorming, Critical thinking, role play, Each one teach one, ranking, debate, mini lecture and visual aids. This method should be prepared based on the topic and groups in the community. In providing learning sessions, avoided lecturing or one way communication, as this will lead to boredom and materials will not be conveyed properly. The space required at the time of learning sessions can be done anywhere, because there are several methods that require limited by the benches and tables, it also aims to avoid boredom.
In the field, the students also conduct an assessment of the cases that often occurs in the lower class, that if they get a case that require further help they would recommend people to take the case to the realm of the courts or followed up by pointing to legal aid in the form of advocacy for legal aid at the campus. Furthermore they will conduct advanced research in preparation for their final project. After the students doing fieldwork, they must make a written report to supervisor to include daily reports and findings in the field.
Students could be used as agents of change through CLE activities, interact directly with the community to make the more empathy and respect for those whose lives are not as fortunate as them. These activities helped them to be more independent and make them to be individuals who have a desire to help others. When students are given the confidence to train himself as a member of society and given a place to donate his ability so, they will seize the opportunity and turn into a more responsible person. On the other hand, the citizens consider that a university or the education is concerned with their condition, so there is no gap between the community and the University.