THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CULTURAL CHARACTER VALUE "PELA GANDONG" OF HISTORY LEARNING IN HIGH SCHOOL IN MALUKU

Rahma Temarwut
1Ms. Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia, temarwutrahma@gmail.com]

Abstract

Pela gandong is a local culture owned by the people of Maluku that has the volue of character education. These cultural values ??have existed since long ago, but this culture starts to forgetten by the people of Maluku now. Maluku itself had experienced religious conflict in the year 1999-2002 in Ambon City. The conflict between one tribe with another tribe often occurs even at the level of education. Conflict between School one with another school often happens. The conflict can be concluded that the value of Culture "Pela Gandong" has been reduced unnoticed.It is influenced by the new culture that enters and the lack of public awareness about the cultural value of pela gandong itself. The purpose of education is not just to educate students, but also as a place to form the character of learners. The purpose of this study was to describe the values ??of character education in pela gandong culture in the Maluku community and to describe the use of the pela gandong ??as the subject matter of history in high school. The method used in this research is literature reviewt from books and provious researches in the form of jurnals. The results of this study indicate that: 1. the pela gandong contained the value of character education, such as: brotherhood, compassion and caring. 2. The pela gandong" can be used for history materials because this value can be applied so that students love each other though different. Therefore, the Pela gandong is very good to be used as a learning material for the subjects of history because history also develops students’ character and contains many kinship values.

Keywords: Character Education, Pela gandong, Culture, Senior High School