ABSTRACT The background of this paper is the fact of social, economical, and political change ofIndonesian in the Reform and global era. It Includes changes in the context of defending statewhich in the past it was understood only as a military activity. The defending of state nowadays hasa broader meaning in economic, social, and cultural context. The defending of state in the contextof economy is more commitment to consume national products than to consume foreign product.Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the problems of defending the state in theeconomic context that involves people's habits of favoring foreign products, the impact ofconsumption patterns on selecting external products to foreign exchange reserves, and strategiesthat can be built to make people prefer national products. The method used in this paper isliterature study that is studying references or previous studies related to this issue, and in-depthdiscussion with relevant sources. This has been done to confirm or improve an understanding thetopic being written. The results of this studies are in the form of conclusions and recommendationsto build the pattern of public consumption to prefer national products rather than foreignproducts. |