Youth Character Building Through Quality Education in Realizing Golden Indonesia 2045

Abstract

This article aims to explore adolescent character building through quality education in realizing a Golden Indonesia 2045. These two goals are part of Indonesia's SDGs. Adolescent character development in Indonesia is on an upward trend, so a character education strategy is needed to achieve the golden goal. The urgency of this article is to formulate character development that is qualified in terms of a series of opportunities and challenges faced by the Indonesian nation. This article uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach. The primary sources of this article are education policy documents and relevant recent literature. Meanwhile, the secondary data used in this study are reportage documents and supporting research. The results show that there are three domains that must be suppressed in achieving a Golden Indonesia 2045, namely: 1) Ongoing Conflict, 2) Safety and Security and 3) Militarization. In addition to peace, there are eight factors of justice and educational efforts that can be implemented in achieving SDG's point number 16. On the other hand, the realization of this Gold must be accompanied by multiracial, gender and multireligious knowledge. Building the ideal adolescent character in realizing a Golden Indonesia 2045 involves quality education that emphasizes moral integrity, social skills, a sense of responsibility, and awareness of justice values. Quality education that can realize a Golden Indonesia 2045 requires a holistic approach that integrates character building, multicultural inclusiveness, social skills development, and the participation of all relevant parties. Critical Pedagogy and Social Development theories have an important role in reviewing and creating novelty in this research. The focus of development rests on aspects of criticality, social skills and understanding by encouraging collaboration. Then local values, history and religion become one of the reinforcing factors in achieving a Just and Peaceful Indonesia.