Character Education of the Most Developed Countries in ASEAN

Abstract

Character education into an international issue, especially in developing countries. More specifically in Indonesia, character education is a major issue in the 2012's to the present. What kind of education that may build character? To be able to answer this question, we need a broad and deep research. Research simpler related to character education is research aimed at finding supporting pillars of character education. So that the findings of this study can be implemented, then education is used as a model for education in Indonesia is among countries in ASEAN, with the hope of socio-cultural conditions there are similarities. So it is assumed that education happens to be in the same context. The results showed that Singapore as the most advanced countries in ASEAN from the perspective of economic, social, education, and technology. Therefore, education in Singapore is assumed better.The basic assumption is that there is a positive correlation between education and socio-culture. While socio-culture related to technology, economic and so on. The relationship is reciprocal. Character of Singapore society appointed as a result of education in Singapore. There are six kinds of characters which stand out in Singapore society. The theoritical research is aimed at finding hypothesis. Hypothetical model were found as follows: "There are thirteen pillars supporting character education".