learning in class becomes fun. Changes in community
environment conditions certainly make the
government try to adapt the education curriculum to
the development of the advanced and global era, as
done by Minister Nadiem Makarim, who began
implementing Merdeka Curriculum to prepare
students for the advanced digital era.
One of the efforts to create National education
goals based on Pancasila is the Pancasila and Civics
Learning subject. As a Republic Unity State of
Indonesia, our nation maintains its identity and
national personality with Pancasila. The nation and
community personality are built from family and
individual identity. Therefore, building a strong
personality is necessary. This matter needs to be
instilled in the young generation as the nation’s next
generation through Civics education that contains the
moral values of Pancasila. Pancasila as the basis of
the state formulated at the BPUPKI meeting on June
1, 1945. This formula was created by the founders of
the Republic Unity State of Indonesia, who were
involved in the meeting. The source of this formula is
a noble cultural sense, the ancestor’s cultural sense of
the Indonesian nation in the colonialism era and
before the colonialism era, like the era of the empire
(Purwanta, 2018).
Pancasila and Civic learning is one of the subjects
in today's newest curriculum, namely the Merdeka
curriculum. The Merdeka curriculum has a design
that provides opportunities for students to learn in a
calm, pleasant, relaxed way, without pressure,
without feeling stressed, and students can show and
develop their interests and talents properly (Rahayu
et al., 2022). The Merdeka curriculum is the
government's effort to create a better education which
can develop students' potential according to their
talents and interests. The development of the
Merdeka curriculum refers to the purpose of
education to prepare students to live in society. Life
is not just following the norms and values but also
providing experiences so students can optimally
develop their potential and abilities according to their
talents and interests. The independent curriculum
aims to answer the challenges of the current industrial
revolution 4.0 education (Manalu et al., 2022).
Merdeka curriculum also has a role in inheriting the
nation's cultural values and preparing students to face
changing times through the development of
educational creativity and innovation. Besides that,
the Merdeka curriculum also educates students to be
critical and evaluative in choosing values that are
considered beneficial to people's lives. Learning
activities designed in the Merdeka curriculum are
conducted in a fun, effective, recreational,
democratic, empathetic, creative and active
(MERDEKA) way (Mulyasa, 2021).
The guide to Merdeka curriculum development
explains that the school's operational curriculum must
make the profile of Pancasila students as a
foundation. Schools may add student competencies
according to school characteristics but may not
conflict with the profile of Pancasila students
covering all dimensions along with their elements and
sub-elements. This profile of Pancasila students is
also used to reflect and analyze all learning programs
in academic units. The profile of Pancasila students is
built and enlivened in their daily life through school
culture, intracurricular learning, projects that
reinforce the Pancasila student profiles, and
extracurricular activities. One of the efforts to form a
profile of Pancasila students in intracurricular
learning is through Pancasila and Civics subjects.
In the Merdeka Curriculum teacher's book
published by the curriculum centre and bookkeeping
of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and
Technology (Kemendikbud, 2021) is clearly stated
that the main focus of Pancasila and Citizenship
Education (PPKn) subjects is to prepare students to
become behave, intelligent, skilled and character and
always loyal to the nation and state by consistently
implementing the habits of thought and action that
reflect the values of Pancasila and the 1945
Constitution. In addition, Civics learning can also
develop the ability of students to think critically,
rationally and creatively in dealing with various
problems as citizens, able to participate actively and
responsibly in life, able to develop positively and
form themselves democratically following the
character of Indonesian society who can live together
and side by side, and can interact in the world either
directly or indirectly by utilizing technological
advances.
The characteristics of Civics learning at the
elementary school level are oriented toward
reinforcing the national character and insight (Lubaba
& Alfiansyah, 2022). Pancasila values contained in
Civics learning will form the profile of Pancasila
students. The profile of Pancasila students is some
characteristics and competencies expected to be
achieved by students based on Pancasila's noble
values. The profile of Pancasila students embodies
Indonesian students who are lifelong learners with
global competence and reflect behavior following
Pancasila values which have six dimensions as shown
in the following figure (Kemendikbud, 2021).