Character Education for Golden Generation 2045 (National Character Building for Indonesian Golden Years)

Abstract

Education has been considered as the centre of excellence in preparing human's excellent characters. This belief drives every single person to be ready to face the global challenges. This beliefs also becomes the basic foundation for the world to say that Indonesia will be a very strong nation in all sectors in 2045 or 100 years after its independence day. This is supported by Indonesia's economy growth. Already the 16th-largest economy in the world, Indonesia has the potential to be 7th-biggest by 2030 (Oberman et al., 2012). Within this context, the government of Indonesia believe that preparing young generation is the only way to go to be a very strong nation in 2045. Education is considered to be the best place to prepare the agent of change of the nation that will bring prosperous to others. Education institution is no longer a place to transfer knowledge only, but it is also a place to form youth's attitude, behaviour, character, and leadership. Thus, it is justifiable to reflect some basic value and character of Indonesia and cultivate them to all young generation in the form of national character building through education.