THE IMPLICATION OF ISLAMIC CHARACTER EDUCATION AND MINANGKABAU CULTURE TO BIOLOGICAL LEARNING ACHIVEMENT

The decline of the nation character is a negative impact of globalization which become a common task that must be solved. Character education program is one solution to overcome the moral degradation at educational institutions. Indonesian society still holds eastern culture and puts the local culture as a strategy to realize the educational character. The aims of this study were: (1) to analyze the implementation of Islamic character education based on Minangkabau culture in one of the best senior high schools in West Sumatra; (2) to describe the implications of Islamic character education based on Minangkabau culture to biological learning achivement. The approach used was a descriptive, specifically case study. Data were collected through observation, interviews, questionnaires, documentation studies. The results showed that (1) the implementation of Islamic character education based on Minangkabau culture consisted of: values based school culture and school activity program; (2) the success of character education was influenced by Minangkabau culture; (3) Islamic character education gave positive impact to student character and biological learning achivement