Habituation Activities to Strengthen the Character of Students in Islamic Elementary Schools

Abstract

In this contemporary digital era, there have been considerable changes in the community in terms of social aspects as well as a moral degradation. Those phenomena occur not only in adults but also in children. Therefore, it is urgently needed to strengthen character education, of which one is through the activity of habituation on children, particularly on students in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah. Character is a distinctive identity depicting the behavior, nature, and attitude of each person or individual. The strengthening of character education is an educational movement in madrasah to develop students' character through the harmonisation of exercises involving the heart, feeling, mind, and body that is supported by the public and cooperation among school, family, and community. The aim of this article is to depict generally the habituation activity on the strengthening of the students' character education in MI Darwata Karangasem so that it can be used as a reference for the reader, notably teachers who are implementing the strengthening of character education program in their own madrasah. The kind of this research is a qualitative research. The technique used is interpretative-descriptive. The research object is the habituation activity that is participated in by students in MI Darwata Karangasem, Sampang District, Cilacap Regency. According to the research, it can be concluded that the habituation activity is significantly affecting the process of strengthening the character education of students in madrasah.