REVIVING THE CUSTOMARY ‘AUTHORITY’ THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERACY OF CITIZENSHIP CULTURE IN THE LEARNING OF EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP LESSON (PPKn) IN SCHOOLS Solihin Ichas Hamid
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
The title “Reviving†to the subject of “Customary Authority†describes the empirical reality that “customary authority in Indonesia has long been abandoned. Especially in the middle of the majority of people who inevitably are in the middle of cross-cultural changes and assimilation coming from various corners of the world to enter the global modernization post. As something that has been considered obsolete, Customs as a cultural bond doesn’t have power anymore as the keeper of spiritual awareness of society. Although the positive side of globalism has brought not only the unity in the perspective but also in keeping the diversity of the value existence and the manifestation of the world’s culture. This article aimed to transmits the awareness of the nation’s children as the heirs of the diverse Nation’s customs-traditions to re-recognizing, promoting and maintaining its existence in the context of citizenship life. Therefore, through the development of literacy of citizenship culture in the learning of Education and Citizenship Lesson (PPKn) in schools, learners are expected to be able to appreciate every value in various forms of cultural heritage stored in the shroud of Customs. The ethnographic approach in the preliminary study was conducted to describe the value content contained in the verbal expressions that sociologically marked the cultural richness in the ethnic group language diversity but structurally show similarities as the source of moral teaching, thus becoming the ethno-pedagogical praxis model owned by each ethnic group in the framework of Customs, as the complex manifestation of noble civilization that still shows its function in the middle of the movement and change of societies in reorganizing what was become the purpose of the development of its life. The results of this preliminary study are followed-up by the implementation of the development of its praxis model in the learning of PPKn in schools. Thus, the collective morality expected to formed as the citizenship character, which substantively is the objectives of the National Education will be able to manifested to mark the resurrection of future generations that remain stand on the identity of the ethnic customs of the nation in the past.
Keywords: Custom, Customary Authority, Post-modernization, Morality, Citizenship character
