DEVELOPMENT OF STUDENTS CHARACTERS AT PRIMARY SCHOOL THROUGH THE SEVEN-MINUTE EDUCATION (KULTUM) PROGRAM

The character of each individual is a reflection of a nation. Characters distinguish people's personalities from each other. Education is expected to be able to form an effective character because today there are many anomic behaviors that cause the moral degradation of the nation's children, including elementary school students. This study aims to describe character building habituation activities at Serang 13 Elementary School, named Kuliah Tujuh Menit (Kultum). Through this research, the researcher intends to find out the implications of the sevenminute education habituation program on fostering the character of students in Serang Public Elementary School 13 by knowing in advance the process of seven-minute education implementation and character values that appear in the habituation program. The research method used is qualitative with its type is a case study. In data collection researchers used observation, interview, documentation, and questionnaire techniques. The results showed that the seven-minute education habituation program was held every Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. WIB, with students fully involved in the implementation. Character values that appear in this seven-minute education activity can be known through the contents of the material presented and the process of implementation. The results are the implications of seven-minute education activities on the development of student character, can be seen from the results of questionnaires distributed to 60 respondents of research subjects, with results showing that 95.55% of respondents answered the influence of seven-minute education habituation programs, and 4.45% of respondents answered no influence. Thus the habituation of Kuliah Tujuh Menit program is highly recommended as an alternative in fostering the character of elementary school students.


A. Introduction
The educational process is a series that is inseparable from the process of human creation.In order to understand the nature of education it requires an understanding of the nature of human beings (Muhaimin, 2004: 27) The word character comes from Greek which means, "to mark" (mark) and focus, how to apply the value of goodness in the form of actions or behavior.Therefore, someone who behaves dishonestly, cruelly, or greedily is said to be a person of bad character, while someone who behaves honestly, likes to be helpful is said to be a person of noble character (Zubaedi, 2011, p. 12).Whereas according to the Big Indonesian Dictionary in Saptono (2011, p. 17) character means "psychological traits, morals or manners that distinguish a JPSD Vol.

B. Research Methodology
Qualitative research with the type of case study method is the research approach used in this study.Sukmadinata & Syaodih (2012) explained that the case study method was used for matters included in cases.
A case is said to be a case, not only related to the problem, an achievement or excess is also a case and data can be made to be examined and analyzed.In The students feel happy because they can help these activities that are full of benefits.
At the end of the seven-minute education, a culture of greetings is followed by all the part of schools.This value researcher can make the teacher and student relationship harmonious.
The benefits of this greeting activity were also felt by students named Aulia in grade V / A. He expressed his pleasure because he was able to stay in touch with the teachers as well as be able to increase his respect for the teacher.

Character Values in the Material and Process of Seven-Minute Education Activities
In To analyze the character values contained in seven-minute education material, the researcher conducted an analysis of several seven-minute education documents entitled as follows: 1) Devotion to Mothers / Parents 2) Al-Quran 3) The Prophet's struggle against the Quraysh 4) Properties that must be shunned 5) Isra Mi'raj 6) Thankful Favors

7) Alms
The following are the results of the analysis of the seven-minute education material documents and the implementation process.In addition to habituation programs, school management also determines the success or failure of character education in schools (Hidayat, 2012).
Therefore, quality school management support will contribute to the successful implementation of the seven-minute education program.

D. Conclusion
Based on the findings and data analysis of the findings of the above data, the researcher made the following conclusions: 1 . Humans are special creatures that God creates with various potentials, and these potentials can be optimally developed with education.Based on the National Education System Law no.20 of 2003 Chapter I (2009: 3), what is meant by education is a conscious and planned effort to create a learning atmosphere and learning process so that students actively develop their potential to have religious spiritual strength, self-control, personality, intelligence, noble character, and the skills needed by him, society, nation and country.Based on the elucidation above, the national education goals lead to the goal of changing behavior or character of each individual as an element of a country, as described by the proclaimer Bung Karno (Purnomo, 2014) that national character is the main key in building a country.Seeing the magnitude of the influence of character on the country, thus the efforts made so far by our nation is by holding teaching about character in the scope of education or known as character education.The purpose of character education itself is to educate students to bring out good character in themselves.Good character, in the view of which are aimed at principals, teachers, and students who are the subjects of research.Documentation data in this study are in the form of texts containing seven-minute education material and have been submitted by students which are school archives.The questionnaire distributed to the research subjects was made by referring to the seven-minute education texts and the process of implementing seven-minute education habituation itself, which consisted of 20 closed statements and distributed to 60 respondents.For the analysis of the data, the researcher has 3 stages, namely the stage of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion & verification.JPSD Vol. 5 No. 1, Maret 2019 Robiansyah & Faizah ISSN 2540-9093 E-ISSN 2503-0558 92 C. Research Results and Discussion The following are three things that are the focus of research for customization program in SDN Serang 13 is held every Friday starting at 07.00 -08.30WIB before learning begins.In its implementation it involves all the school parties to take part in it, starting from the principal, teachers, staff, school guards, and of course the students.School guards, teachers, assisted by students prepare equipment for sevenminute education activities such as holding carpets for sitting, sound systems, microphones, and others.The headmaster, teachers, staff, school guards and students from class I-VI were present to occupy the space provided, namely in the field to take part in the activity.The seven-minute education officer from the representatives of class IV-VI (according to the schedule on duty) is already getting ready in front of the audience and bringing the equipment according to their respective duties.This officer consists of four people consisting of: MC, tilawah, sari tilawah, and seven-minute education (kultum).After all is ready, the MC delivered by the students opens the program and reads each series of events in the form of opening, reciting the recitations, and then reciting tausiyah (kultum).After the teacher's seven-minute education adds advice affirming the seven-minute education material that is delivered and the last is the reading of prayer.After the seven-minute education event, students marched long ago, greeting one by one with the principal and teacher who had lined up too.After the greeting process was finished, students were assisted by teachers and school guards, clearing the seven-minute education equipment that had been used, such as carpets, sound systems, microphones, and others.Based on the results of interviews and observations that the researchers conducted, this seven-minute education JPSD Vol. 5 No. 1, Maret 2019 Robiansyah & Faizah ISSN 2540-9093 E-ISSN 2503-0558 93 habituation program carried out at SDN Serang 13 really attracted the attention of researchers, this is because there are several things that are characteristic of the implementation of the seven-minute education program.The first peculiarity is that students are actively involved, especially cult officers.Students are very active in their implementation, starting from the preparation process to the seven-minute education equipment.Especially for students who are already in high class, without even having to be told they are self-aware to help.This awareness arises because students already have responsibility.In addition, what is typical of the seven-minute education habituation program this time is that the students in their activities are students themselves, starting from the opening by the MC, recitations, recitations and seven-minute education delivery, which are carried out by students ranging from class IV / A, B, C to class VI / A, B, and C. With all the implementation processes carried out by students, it is a place to train mentally to speak and be confident in public, there is a feeling of pride of course for both students, parents and the school when children dare to appear in public.It does not matter when in the implementation there are still mistakes, because this is all a place to learn to foster character values in it, in accordance with the vision of SD Negeri Serang 13 namely "the realization of achievement and character schools."The benefits of this seven-minute education habituation program are also felt by students, especially for those who become officers, when researchers conducted interviews with those who had been seven-minute education officers from each representative class IV / A, B, C and V / A, B, C as many as 9 students about how this sevenminute education activity, as many as 6 students argued that this seven-minute education activity was exciting and fun, and the rest argued that this sevento him.This seven-minute education has benefits as a medium of JPSD Vol. 5 No. 1all schools.The success of the implementation of this seven-minute education program is certainly inseparable from the role of other schools such as teachers to school guards.The teacher is involved in guiding and supervising as well as being a facilitator for students who are seven-minute education officers.While the school guards help students in preparing skills for seven-minute education.When the seven-minute education program was finished, all parties worked together in tidying up the place and the sevenwho were once seven-minute education officers.