THE ROLE OF SAKA BHAYANGKARA SCOUTS IN THE CHARACTER EDUCATION OF AFFIRMATION STUDENTS
Abstract
The current condition of society is that there are many shifts in the view of life from a religious society to secularism, bringing students to a life of poor characteristics such as drunkenness, lying, corruption, free sex theft, and other acts of crime or immorality, This is also felt by ADEM (Affirmation of Secondary Education) scholarship students or often known as repatriation scholarships, which are scholarships provided by the Indonesian government through the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia to be intended for junior high school graduates (Junior High School) to continue to a higher level of education, namely SMA (Senior High School). The number of ADEM students at SMAK Hidup Baru Bandung is 50. The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the strengthening program of character education through Krida Saka Bhayangkara on affirmation students as a form of manifestation of Pancasila values and to describe the implementation of strengthening character education through the Krida Saka Bhayangkara program at SMA Kristen Hidup Baru. Therefore, researchers conducted a qualitative research approach with the condition in natural conditions (natural setting) The method used is a case study conducted at SMA Kristen Hidup Baru Bandung. The research participants were affirmative students who attended SMAK Hidup Baru, with a total of 38 participants. Data collection techniques in this study are interviews, observation, and documentation studies. The results of observations shows that strengthening character education through the work program of Krida Saka Bhayangkara SMAK Hidup Baru, namely traffic krida training, community order krida training, and disaster management prevention training can run well and produce Pancasila character values in affirmation students, namely religious values, independence, social adaptability, democratic, patriotic and nationalist.
Keywords: Character Education, Affirmation Students, Saka Bhayangkara, Pancasila values.