Environmental awareness at senior high school in Jakarta

Abstract

The relationship between humans and nature tends to exploit nature or the environment on a large scale. Cultivating awareness that cannot be separated from the world of education must be ensured at the beginning of schooling regarding improving perceptions of things that affect them. The emergence of environmental awareness is based on environmental ethics, which states that environmental awareness consists of environmental behavior, perceptions, and attitudes. This research was conducted to answer how students, exceptionally high school students possess environmental awareness and aimed to analyze environmental awareness that has been applied mainly at the high school level. The research was conducted by giving questionnaires to 353 students from two Adiwiyata recipient schools in DKI Jakarta. Analytical descriptive is used to analyze the results of this research. The results show that the respondents have adequate knowledge and attitudes but have good environmentally friendly behavior. The descriptive-analytical results obtained indicate that excellent results are obtained for the knowledge aspect. Good results are obtained for the attitude aspect, but the results are sufficient for the behavioral part. The impact of this research can be used as a benchmark for evaluating the Adiwiyata program related to environmental sustainability awareness.