DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i09.017

Pages: 1846-1855

This article aims to analyze the importance of character education for the growth and development of education quality in Indonesia. The key of quality education lies in the creation of benchmarks of the output quality of educational process itself in this case is the task of educational institutions such as schools and other similar institutions. Consequently, these institutions require an appropriate strategy in order to obtain a quality education. The strategy comprises how to promote and develop optimism among the learners in the process of education. This can be done by applying character education among the learners. Since the character is built early and becomes a mindset and pattern of action of the students or learners, optimism in learning process will be easier. Ultimately, academic success will be easier to achieve. More than that, Indonesian character education is believed to be the right formula in order to attain quality education in Indonesia. The preceding character education is Indonesian character education, a strategy of educational concept formula sourced from the treasury of Indonesian wisdom.