The Importance of Character
Building at School
Indonesia is a rich country. The
human resources in Indonesia attain in large amount, but what a pity, there are
many corruption cases happened. From this thing we know that Indonesia needs
high qualified from human resources. To fulfill those things, it needs a real
action, one of the ways is through education. As all know that education is
important part in nation progress, but this time the orientation of education
is like a shadow. Many new forming systems happened to make orientation of
education clear. Now, one of the new forming systems that often to talk is
‘Character Building’. Character building is an investment system of character
values to school family that include of knowledge consciousness and action to
commit these values, towards the God, our self, peers, environments, also the
nation that make perfect human (Prasetya, A & Revasinta, E.(2011)). The
character building at school is important for this time, but do we know why
character building at school is important? There are three reasons that become a
background from the importance of character building at school, such as the
ineffective of character education at home, the unsuccessful of educational
system in Indonesia and the relation with purpose of education in Indonesia.