CHARACTER BUILDING AND LOCAL WISDOM OF INDONESIAN TROUGH EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

This article is talking character building, local wisdom, and education.Abstract \ud Education of language, culture, and literature is philosophically multi-discipline that could develop the basic ability of pupils, students, teachers, and lecturers comprise perceptual, intellectual, emotional, social, creativity, and ethics. The presence of language, culture, and literature will continually bring about some changes. Globalization and sophisticated information technology continually flow in all aspects of human life. Awareness and social control mainly derive from the society as the owner of language, literature, and culture. They are expected to have deep and powerful understanding about cultural values existing in each ethnic group in Indonesia. The awareness, self-awareness, could create the character building of the nation like magetteng ???consistent???, warani ???brave???, malempu ???honest???, macca ???smart/clever???, mapaccing ???clean life??? never lie/corrupt, maperru ???thoughtful???, malabo ???generous???, pattulung ???helpful and philanthropy???, sipakatau, sipakalebbi, and sipakaraja ???mutual honor, respect, and values??? (Harun, 2012: 242) This research aims to find out: (a) the messages of Indonesia-Buginese literature, which has philosophical values, (b) the messages of culture, which has social/humanity values, and (c) the messages of local wisdom, which has religious values. This research was based on field research as well as text analysis in terms of Semiotic Symbols. The managing of documentation and revitalization of language, literature, and culture has been done, but it is still not maximal yet. This is done in order to avoid extinction. Therefore, the teachers and lecturers now must do research to reveal the meaning of them and to teach them to their students about ???ancestral local genius/local wisdom??? of each ethnic group in Indonesia. The best solution is to teach them through early education. By this way, the nation generations will know and understand their language, literature, and cultural message. Therefore, it is hoped, it could accelerate the character building, dignity, and civilization of the nation towards globalization. \ud Keywords: Character building, local wisdom, and education