The honorable miss dini all my dear friends
First of all, let’s praise and gratitude to God who has given His grace and favor so that we can all come together in this place in a healthy condition without any obstruction.
In this nice occasion let me talk about the importance of character education for Indonesian people especially teenagers.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Indonesia had been known as a civilized country since a long time ago, but in these few decades, this country gets many bad nicknames from the world community. One of them is the most corrupt country in the world. It makes our national pride in the eyes of the world becomes nothing. It is a basic concept that is applied to the thoughts of someone to make their physique, spiritual, and moral character become more meaningful. This character education should be given to a person’s mind from an early age, adolescents, and adults. So that we can form their characters become more valuable and immoral. By a good character education, we can expect no more children like to brawl, pornography, drugs, and others.
Considering the basic concepts of character education that make up personality, it should be integrated into the curriculum in schools. We can integrate these values into school subjects through the methods of habituation, praise, and sanctions. There are 18 items of character values that can be given in the school including the discipline and honesty. Discipline is the main thing in achieving success. Those are very difficult to apply in daily life. So, there must be someone who plays a role in instilling these values. In the schools, the educational process should not only limited to learning the values of knowledge but it must be more emphasized on moral values, ethics, and aesthetics which is applied in everyday life. To pursue those values, we need 3 supporting component, that is, the family, the teachers, and the community.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Parents should have sense of care toward education and directly involved in overseeing the growth of their children. It should be done in order for not making the parents become the factors that hinder the growth of their children. Beside parents, teachers also in charge to give the character education, they have to provide good examples for their students so that teachers can be used as role of good character. In giving character education to the teenager, we must certainly need extra patience because the result of character education cannot be seen directly but it requires a long process. Therefore, character education requires synergistic cooperation between the different parties to obtain good results. Takes for example parents educate their children at home, while teachers educate them in schools and then society educate them in a real life.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Let us together work actively to save this nation, especially for our young people who will be the nation’s next generation, from the degradation of moral. So that this nation can be equal with other developed nations.
So that is all the speech that I could deliver this time. Please forgive me if there is a mistake or offend someone in this speech. Thank you for the attention