IMPLEMENTATION OF CHARACTER EDUCATION POLICY IN INDONESIA
Kama Abdul Hakam, Encep Syarief Nurdin, dan Asep Dahliyana

Lecturer of Civic Education Department of General Education
Faculty of Education Social Sciences Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia

Abstract

The purpose of writing this article to illustrate the implementation of character education policy in Indonesia. The research process uses a quantitative approach by conducting a survey. The developed instrument adopted from the Center for Policy Analysis and Synchronization of the Secretariat General of the Ministry of Education and Culture. The research population is the students who take the course of Character Education Policy Analysis in Higher Education. The sample of research is doctoral student of General Education Study Program at Postgraduate University of Education Indonesia. The element of the general education doctoral program students who responded consisted of 21 students. The results showed that the implementation of character education in Indonesia is only at the level of 2.65, meaning that it is only seen in the environment of educational institutions, has not reached the stage of habituation let alone the culture within an institution.

Keywords: public policy, character education, general education.

Topic: Virtues, Characters and Civic Community