AN ANALYSIS OF CIVIC EDUCATION AS A COMPULSORY COURSE TO BUILD THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF INDONESIA

This study aims to determine the role and constraints of civic education as a compulsory subject in tertiary education to build Indonesia'snational character of Indonesia. This study used a qualitative approach with library research methods. The data collection technique employed document studies using the data sources from books, previous research reports, journal articles, proceedings, online news and the like as the data sources. The data analysis used inductive analysis. The study results showed that civiceducation as a compulsory subject in higher education builds civic knowledge, skills, and disposition. Theoretically, this course is crucial for building students’ national character, in fact, the application is still far from expectations. The goals of building national character are not optimally achieved. It can be seen from the students’ behaviour and personality as the digital native generations,which do not reflect Pancasila’s national character, such as disobeying the law andmisusing drugs. Civic education has several obstacles due to the lack of teaching hours (only two credits) and the low lecturers’ competencies. Moreover, the students are more interested in foreign cultures than local ones. The online learning condition also decreases students’ learning motivation.