CHARACTER EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT

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Character Education and Human Resource Development

    In the Big Indonesian Dictionary, education itself comes from the word didik, then this word gets the suffix me- so that it becomes educate, meaning to nurture and provide training. In maintaining and providing training, there is a need for teaching, guidance and leadership regarding morals and intelligence. Meanwhile, if you add the affixes pe- and -an so that it becomes the word education, it means a process of changing the attitudes and behavior of a person or group of people in an effort to mature humans through teaching and training efforts.

   (in Bandi Utama, 2011: 2) Education is a conscious effort to influence students to be able to develop and actualize their potential so that they can live their lives as well as possible. The potential that exists within each student is both positive and negative. Which potential will develop depends on the stimulus or environment that influences it. Therefore, an environment is created that makes it possible to stimulate the positive potential of students so that they can develop and be actualized in positive behavior, both in cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects in the form of education. (in Sri Latifah,) Education is an effort undertaken by humans in order to obtain knowledge which is then used as a basis for attitudes and behavior. Therefore, education is a process of forming human character. Education can also be said to be a process of humanization. In the entire process carried out by humans, an educational process occurs which will produce attitudes and behavior which ultimately become character, personality or character. To achieve the status of a complete human being is impossible without going through the education process.

   The word character comes from the Greek charassein, which means to engrave (paint, draw), like someone who paints paper, carves stone or metal. Rooted in such an understanding, character was then interpreted as a special sign or characteristic, and therefore gave birth to the view that character is 'an individual pattern of behavior, a person's moral state'. After passing through the childhood stage, a person has character, a way that can be predicted that a person's character is related to the behavior around him (Kevin Ryan, 1999: 5 in Ajat Sudrajat 2011: 48-49). Homas Lickona. Lickona (1991) states that character education is a deliberate effort to help someone so that he can understand, pay attention to, and carry out core ethical values. Starting from this definition, when we think about the type of character we want to build in students, it is clear that at that time we want them to be able to understand these values, pay more in-depth attention to the truth of those values, and then act what he believes in, even though he has to face challenges and pressure both from outside and within himself. In other words, they have the 'awareness to force themselves' to carry out these values.

    Rusmini, 2017: 86) Talking about national character development cannot be separated from character education which was coined by Tomas Lickona in his book The Return of Character Education. A very impressive book because it makes the world aware of the importance of character education in a nation. This is where character education begins to emerge. Character is typical good values ​​(knowing the value of goodness, wanting to do good, actually living a good life, and having a good impact on the environment) that are embedded in oneself and implemented in behavior.

    Building national character through education, meaning that the government is concerned with developing national character values. There is a need for a national character development strategy, which explains various aspects of implementing the internalization of character values ​​in national and state life, namely through socialization, education, empowerment, acculturation and cooperation. In order to shape the nation's culture and character, it also needs to be developed with the following principles:

1. Through all subjects (mutually reinforcing), local content, personality and culture of the educational unit
2.  Instilling values ​​is not taught but developed
3.  Implemented through an active learning process
4.  Implemented to improve cultural values ​​and moral values ​​through the educational process.

   in Omeri. environment and nationality. The development of national character can be carried out through the development of a person's individual character. However, because humans live in a certain social and cultural environment, the development of a person's individual character can only be carried out in the relevant social and cultural environment. This means that cultural and character development can be carried out in an educational process that does not separate students from the social environment, community culture and national culture. The social and cultural environment of the nation is Pancasila, so cultural and character education is developing Pancasila values ​​in students. educate through heart, brain and physical education.

    Human Resources are the resources that exist in an institution, both on a small and large scale, whose existence requires planning, organizing, preparing personnel, mobilizing and supervising its operational functions, to achieve organizational goals (Bangun, 2012) Meanwhile, according to Sonny Sumarsono (2003, p 4 in Mahardani A.S and Basalamah

    M.R, 2018: 107), in human capitaljournal.com, Human Resources contains two meanings. First, there are work efforts or services that can be provided in the production process. In other cases, HR reflects the quality of effort given by someone in a certain time to produce goods and services. The second meaning, HR concerns humans who are able to work to provide services or work efforts. Being able to work means being able to carry out activities that have economic activities, namely that these activities produce goods or services to meet the needs of the community. M.T.E. Hariandja (2002, p 2), in human capitaljournal.com, stated that human resources are one of the most important factors in a company besides other factors such as capital. Therefore, human resources must be managed well to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization. Human Resource Development is a process of increasing the knowledge, skills and capacity of all residents of a society. Understanding human resource development both at the macro and micro level. Macro human resource development is a process of improving human quality or ability in order to achieve nation development goals which includes planning, development and management. Meanwhile, micro human resource development is a process of planning education, training and workforce management or (PP Muhammadiyah, 2009: 43-44 in Sri Suwartini 2017: 236). Human resources are the most important asset for building a better and more advanced nation. However, to achieve that, the human resources we have must have character. Human resources with strong character are characterized by mental capacities that are different from other people, such as trustworthiness, sincerity, honesty, courage, firmness, tenacity, strength in upholding principles, and other unique traits inherent in them.

HR character traits

1. religious, namely having an attitude of life and personality that is devout, honest, trustworthy, generous, mutually helpful, and tolerant;
2.  moderate, namely having a non-radical attitude to life and is reflected in a personality that is intermediate between individual and social, materially and spiritually oriented and able to live and collaborate in pluralism;
3. intelligent, namely having a rational attitude to life and personality, love of knowledge, openness and forward thinking; And
4.  independent, namely having an independent attitude to life and personality, high discipline, thrifty, respecting time, tenacious, entrepreneurial, hard working, and having a high love of nationality without losing orientation to universal human values ​​and relations between the civilizations of nations.

Character Education and Its Implementation

      Talking about personality formation cannot be separated from how we shape the character of human resources. The formation of human resource character is vital and there is no longer any choice to create a new Indonesia, namely an Indonesia that can face regional and global challenges (Muchlas in Sairin, 2001: 211). The regional and global challenge in question is how our young generation not only has cognitive abilities, but affective and moral aspects are also touched. For this reason, character education is needed to achieve humans who have integrity and moral values ​​so that children become respectful of others, honest and care about the environment. Character education is character education plus, namely education that involves aspects of knowledge (cognitive), feelings (feeling), and action (action). With character education, a child is not only intellectually intelligent, but also emotionally and spiritually intelligent. With emotional intelligence, a person will be able to manage his emotions so that he will be successful in facing all kinds of challenges he may face and spiritual intelligence will guide him to become a human being who has a far-sighted vision. The role of educators in shaping the character of human resources.

1. Educators can be teachers, parents or anyone, the important thing is that they have an interest in shaping the personality of students or children. The role of educators is essentially as a learning and moral community. Lickona, Schaps, and Lewis outline several thoughts about the role of educators, including:
2. Educators need to be involved in the learning process, discuss and take initiative as an effort to build character education
3.  Educators are responsible for being models of moral values ​​and taking advantage of opportunities to influence their students.
4. . Educators need to provide an understanding that students' character grows through cooperation and participation in making decisions
5.  Educators need to reflect on moral issues in the form of routine questions to ensure that their students experience character development.
6.  Educators need to explain or clarify to students continuously about various good and bad values.

Conclusion

   Character education is a system of instilling character values ​​in school members which includes the components of knowledge, awareness or will, and actions to implement these values. Character education can be interpreted as "the deliberate use of all dimensions of school life to foster optimal character development". In character education in schools, all components (education stakeholders) must be involved, including the components of education itself, namely curriculum content, learning and assessment processes, handling or management of subjects, school management, implementation of co-curricular activities or activities, empowerment of infrastructure. , financing, and work ethic of all school/neighborhood residents. In addition, character education is interpreted as the behavior of school residents who in providing education must have character. Character education is a system that instills character values ​​in students, which contains components of knowledge, individual awareness, determination, as well as the will and action to implement values, both towards God Almighty, oneself, fellow human beings, the environment. , as well as the nation, so that an insane kamil will be realized.

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