not represent the demand of the curriculum due to
the less number of character representation.
Religious character exposed in subtheme 1
comprise of two indicators in which they only
represent 3,1% of the total percentage meanwhile
the core competence demands for 33%. The
difference looks totally significant. The indicator
traced only highlights the students’ gratitude
expression towards God’s blessings as a form of
obeying religious tenet. Such an action is called
worship obedience as listed by Zuchdi(2015).
Unluckily, the act of worshiping indicator was not
detected in all subthemes. Meanwhile, Kemdiknas
(2010: 9-10) has noted that religious character is
either implying obeyed attitudes and actions in
performing religion tenets that students adhere to, or
indicating tolerance attitude towards other religions
and harmony living with people from different
religions. Notwithstanding, through this research,
such an attitude is not found, so that it diminishes
the implementation of religious character per se.
Nationalist character value is only represented by
one moment (1,2%). Same as religious character
value, it ought to be 33% as stated in the core and
basic competence. Again, this shows too much
difference. Whereas, there is no doubt about the
urgency of introducing and implementing nationalist
character. Smith (2003) and Rahmawati (2013)
acknowledge that this character corresponds to
emplacing a nation in the centre of attention and
endeavouring to elevate the existence. Introducing
and implementing nationalist character is claimed as
an urge deliberation considering the recent facts
happening in Indonesia. The recent facts speak about
the demolishment of the national identity. External
factors, such as Western culture invade Indonesia
and it is absorbed hastily by every level of society.
Behaviour and performance, language style, mind-
set, and fashion are all affected by Western culture.
Such elements had been proved by Sairin (2011)to
be affected by modernization and westernization. He
specifically mentioned that many Indonesians are
obsessed by typical Westerns with their superior
image.
Additionally, globalization era brings out new
paradigms that global society is not national or local,
so that slowly but sure it obscures nationalism
values built perennially, even the reality causes
conflicts among people occasionally. Naisbit in
Mardapi (2005: 13; Yasa, 2012) mentions that
globalization era will emerge a global image with
global culture directly facing towards local culture.
Information and communication reformation as a
backwash of technology and science advancement
has decompressed regional borders, so that for
particular people, immediate and comprehensive
action to maintain the national identity is required
(Schement, 2002;Jannees, 2001; Yasa, 2012). For
Indonesians, such a condition should be responded
in an immediate and considerate way, regarding the
variety of geographical and social-culture
characteristics. Even without the impact of
globalization, Indonesia has frequently been facing
“different understanding” on its plurality, which at
the end, this difference threatens the united country
existence (Schement, 2002; Yasa, 2012). It is a
mandatory for a multicultural country like Indonesia
to be anticipating and responsive towards culture
heterogeneity wisely (Yasa,2012). Consideringthe
findings of the study, there is no doubt that the value
of nationalist should be enhanced by the exposure of
character education building as early as possible.
Integrity character representation is composed by
14 moments (16,7%). This does not meet the
demand of core and basic competence which suggest
50% for the integrity character. The book does not
even comply with a half of the requirement.
Whereas, integrity character is needed to build
student character for a long term condition.Further,
this character is expected to equip students with
honesty and strong morality, the two points
highlighted by Jahja (2005) and Ramdani (2017)
from Oxford Dictionary (2000) as the principle of
integrity. This character will direct an individual to
conduct good doings in accordance with right and
norms existing in society. For more than 50 years, a
number of research have tried to construct this
character.
Concerning more on integrity, Peterson and
Seligman (2004) assumed integrity as a behaviour
consistent with professed values, which is different
with moral, and can be an alternative to determine
an individual quality in interacting with people in
society. Kohlberg (1976, in Ramdani, 2017)
revealed that his theory explaining moral
understanding is guided by logical development,
cannot provide an answer to why moral
understanding does not guarantee a person to
perform moral-based behaviour. Subsequently, only
a person himself can define the problems, which
then leads the concept of integrity to be more
developing in any fields of an individual life.
Another opinion is proposed by Yukl and Van Fleet
by conducting several experiments in connection
with an individual’s integrity. The result suggested
that a person’s behaviour is consistent with espoused
values and that the person is honest and trustworthy
(Mauler, 2006). This research caught other
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