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written explicitly because it depends on the teacher. Teacher use the best way to
deliver the materials on each subject as they wish as long as it can improve both
student’s hard skills and soft skills. The last component is assessment. The draft
of curriculum 2013 also does not explain explicitly about what assessment to be
used for the entire subject. Methods and assessments usually do appear in syllabus
or lesson plan.
2.2.
Curriculum 2013
Indonesian government implemented a new curriculum on July, 15
th
2013. The
curriculum is mostly known by people with Curriculum 2013 or Character-based
Curriculum. It is a curriculum which was initiated by the former Ministry of
Education and Culture to replace the School-based Curriculum.
Curriculum 2013
is a curriculum that prioritizes on the understanding, skills,
and character education. Students are demanded to understand the materials,
active in the discussions and presentations as well as have manners and discipline
(Wikipedia.com).
On Desain Induk Kurikulum 2013, it shows different curriculum structure to
each level of education. Based on that curriculum structure, there are eight
subjects are taught in elementary school followed by two important notes. The
subjects are Religious and Moral education, Civics, Indonesian Language,
Science, Social science, arts and culture subject and PE. Whereas, the two
important notes are local language is grouped into arts and culture subject, and
science as well as social science for first to third grade are integrated to the other
subjects. In the junior high school, there are ten subjects. They are religious and
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moral education, Civics, Indonesian Language, Science, Social science, English,
arts and culture subject, PE and Craft subject. Then, senior high school also
teaches about ten subjects. The difference of its structure with junior high school
is the existence of mata pelajaran peminatan akademik for senior high school and
mata pelajaran peminatan akademik dan vokasi for vocational school.
Desain Induk of Kurriculum 2013 also explains about Standard and Core
competencies. Standard competency is categorized into attitude, skills and
knowledge. Attitudes are derived into Accepting, Performing, Respect,
Appreciate, and practicing. Skills cover some action like Observing, asking,
Testing, Processing, Creating, presenting and reasoning. On the other hand,
knowledge divided into discovering, understanding, applying, analyzing,
evaluating are included into knowledge.
Core competence contains four points. They are:
1.
appreciating and practicing the faith
2.
developing some behaviors like honest, discipline, responsibility,
caring, polite, eco-friendly, mutual cooperation, cooperation, peace-
loving, responsive and pro-active.
3.
understanding and applying the knowledge
4.
Processing, reasoning, and presenting in the concrete and abstract
domains
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2.3.
The nature of Character Education
