CHARACTER BUILDING
BACKGROUND
• The priority of national development as outlined in the National Long-Term Development Plan
(RPJP) for 2005 – 2025 (UU No. 17 of 2007) includes creating a society that is noble, moral, ethical,
cultured and civilized based on the Pancasila philosophy.
• Education Important thing nowadays.
• Education as an activity and process of intentional activity is a symptom of society when it has
begun to realize the importance of efforts to form, direct and regulate human beings as the community
aspires to be.
DEFINITION
• The definition of character according to the Language Center of the Ministry of National Education
is innate, heart, soul, personality, character, behavior, personality, nature, character, temperament,
character.
• Character refers to a series of attitudes (attitude), behavior (behavior), motivation (motivation), and
skills (skills).
• John Sewey it is commonplace in educational theory that the formation of character (character) is
the general goal of teaching and character education in schools. Character strength will be formed by
itself if there is support and encouragement from the surrounding environment. The role of the family,
school and community is very dominant in supporting and building character strength.
BUILDING CHARACTER AND THE PERSONALITY OF A NATION PERSONALITY IS NOT
CHARACTER
• Character cannot be inherited. Character must be consciously BUILD and DEVELOP day by day
by going through a PROCESS that is not instantaneous. Character is not something innate that cannot
be changed anymore like fingerprints.
• Everyone is responsible for his character. We have FULL CONTROL over our character, meaning
we cannot blame others for our good or bad character, because we are fully responsible. Developing
character is our own personal RESPONSIBILITY.
NATIONAL CHARACTER EDUCATION
• Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education
-Martin Luther King.
• Character controls our thoughts and behavior, which of course determines our success, the way we
live life, achieve obsessions and solve problems.
• Character education through schools, is not merely learning knowledge, but more than that, namely
the cultivation of morals, ethical values, aesthetics, and noble character. And most importantly,
practice after the information is given and do it with discipline by every element of the school.
BACKGROUND
• The priority of national development as outlined in the National Long-Term Development Plan
(RPJP) for 2005 – 2025 (UU No. 17 of 2007) includes creating a society that is noble, moral, ethical,
cultured and civilized based on the Pancasila philosophy.
• Education Important thing nowadays.
• Education as an activity and process of intentional activity is a symptom of society when it has
begun to realize the importance of efforts to form, direct and regulate human beings as the community
aspires to be.
DEFINITION
• The definition of character according to the Language Center of the Ministry of National Education
is innate, heart, soul, personality, character, behavior, personality, nature, character, temperament,
character.
• Character refers to a series of attitudes (attitude), behavior (behavior), motivation (motivation), and
skills (skills).
• John Sewey it is commonplace in educational theory that the formation of character (character) is
the general goal of teaching and character education in schools. Character strength will be formed by
itself if there is support and encouragement from the surrounding environment. The role of the family,
school and community is very dominant in supporting and building character strength.
BUILDING CHARACTER AND THE PERSONALITY OF A NATION PERSONALITY IS NOT
CHARACTER
• Character cannot be inherited. Character must be consciously BUILD and DEVELOP day by day
by going through a PROCESS that is not instantaneous. Character is not something innate that cannot
be changed anymore like fingerprints.
• Everyone is responsible for his character. We have FULL CONTROL over our character, meaning
we cannot blame others for our good or bad character, because we are fully responsible. Developing
character is our own personal RESPONSIBILITY.
NATIONAL CHARACTER EDUCATION
• Intelligence plus character that is the goal of true education
-Martin Luther King.
• Character controls our thoughts and behavior, which of course determines our success, the way we
live life, achieve obsessions and solve problems.
• Character education through schools, is not merely learning knowledge, but more than that, namely
the cultivation of morals, ethical values, aesthetics, and noble character. And most importantly,
practice after the information is given and do it with discipline by every element of the school.
