The honorable Mr.

Yulius as the
Lecture, and all my dearest 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.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
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
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them is the most corrupt country in
the world. It makes our national
pride in the eyes of the world
becomes nothing. Moreover, about
the condition of our nation’s moral
degradation at this time, takes for
example in 2007, the National
Commission (Komnas) child
protection surveyed 4500 young
people in Indonesia. The result was
so surprising that 97% of those
teenagers admitted to watching porn,
97.3% admitted to kissing, oral s*x
and petting. In addition, the case of
the fight that has been going on
lately is reflecting the nation’s moral
decline. Based on the problems
above we can say that character
education in Indonesia is absolutely
needed to fix.
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It is a deliberately effort of the whole
dimension of life to form the
character optimally. 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
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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

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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
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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.
Ladies and Gentlemen

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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