PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER BERBASIS NILAI-NILAI KEARIFAN LOKAL ADAT AMMATOA DALAM MENUMBUHKAN KARAKTER KONSERVASI

Abstract

This study investigates local geiunses Ammatoa tradition to maintain forest sustainability to form conservation characters of students. The study used etnography apprach. Focuse of the study was Pasang ri Kajang practiced by Ammatoa community reciding in sevent sub villages of Kajang district Bulukumba South Sulawesi. The study revealed that (1) Ammatoa community has certain local geniuses to sustain forest conservation, (2) values of local geniuses in the Kajang tradition include: (a) spirituals, (b) responsibility, disciplines and honesty, (c) addherence to onward regulation, (d) caring of environment and working hard to maintain natural resources, (e) justice, humble, and peace keeping, (3) those values are integrated in the subject matters in the school curriulum to form character conservation for students and applied as alternative for learning resources.

Keywords

• local geniuses
• character education
• local community
• ammatoa tradition.