Character education at its core aims to form a nation that is strong, competitive, noble, moral, tolerant, mutually cooperative, spirited patriotic, dynamic, science-oriented and technologically all animated by faith and piety to God Almighty based on Pancasila.
Character education works for:
develop the basic potential to be good-hearted, good-minded, and well-behaved
strengthen and build multicultural nation behavior
enhance the civilization of a competitive nation in the association of the world.
Character education is done through various media that includes family, educational unit, civil society, political community, government, business world, and mass media.
Character Shaper Values
The actual education unit has been developing and implementing the values of character formation through the operational program of each educational unit. This is a precondition of character education in the educational unit which for the future is now strengthened by 18 values of empirical studies of the Curriculum Center. The value of the preconditions (the existing values), among others, piety, clean, neat, comfortable, and polite.