Character education in the textbook materials of “Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI” published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in the year of 2017

Character education has become one of the main goals in the Indonesian curriculum as stated in Undang – Undang Sisdiknas No. 20 Tahun 2003. Every teaching and learning prosses should integrated with the character education including in the textbook. Therefore, this research discusses about the analysis of character education formulated by the Ministry of National Education in the textbook materials of “Bahasa Inggris Kelas XI” published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in the year of 2017. This study aimed to describe the character education which is presented in the textbook materials and explains the integration of character education. This research was descriptive qualitative using content analysis. The data was collected through Simak method and analyzed by using six stages of content analysis, those are: utilizing, sampling, recording/coding, reducing, inferring and narrating. The result of this research points out that among the 18-character education, only one character did not represent in the textbook, namely democracy. Each chapter has two until ten-character education emphasized and it has correlation with the theme of each chapter. The integration of character education that are found in the texts consist of two integration, those are: Directly integration of character with the percentage 15,25% and Indirectly integration of character has 84,75%. At this stage, students should be able to think critically and understand the implied meaning. In addition, students have been able to solve the problem logically by involving various related problems