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Globalization has attacked all aspects of human life such culture,
social, economics, education and politics. Nowadays, we see some changes from
the way people speak, dress, could feel how the atmosphere of advanced era is
going on. Cultural contacts with other countries affect the traditional culture
and character of the nation itself. As the world becomes more modern in this
globalization era, there are so many technologies and cultures from other
country come to Indonesia, it gives us many advantages but as we look further,
this case will aggravate our culture feasibly. The adjustment of a teenager needs
challenges, especially in this era that has a lot of changes from information
technology. With no limits of information the young age people will get
different kinds of information that will shape their own characters and
self-discovery.
Nowadays, most of Indonesian teenagers become addicted with their
gadgets due to the modernization of technology. Teens these days could easily
search the following trends and stuffs from the Internet or mobile phone. They
usually copy the western style. This thing can lead the decreasing of moral
values and characters of Indonesian teenagers. The disappearance of values of
the social and cultural will make teens don’t have a strong character.
Furthermore, today they live in an individualistic milieu in which people are
getting hectic with their own business so it can influence the characters of
Indonesian teenagers become individualistic and difficult to be assimilated
with their surrounding.
One alternative that can be done to resolve, at least
reduce, the problem of teenage characters are education. The government has already made one adjudicate
in the education sector to apply the character education in schools to diminish
the effect of this case. This character education will help Indonesian
teenagers learn how making a good relationship in their individualistic milieu.
They will learn about altruism, how to adapt their selves in their society and
what kind of good characters that they should have to protect them from any bad
influences from outside in this globalization era. Role of parents in the
family and the role of teachers in the school environment in character
education for teenagers is expected to address the various problems facing
Indonesia today, as well as to address issues that may arise in the future.
