Integrating Tri Hita Karana in Character Education

Abstract

As a reference for education in Indonesia, the 2013 curriculum emphasizes 18 characters that must be incorporated into the entire teaching and learning process. The Tri Hita Karana idea is intimately tied to and associated with these character values in Bali. According to this phenomenon mentioned, this study aimed at investigating the Elementary school teacher and parents’ perception. By using a questionnaire-based survey approach, this study involved 24 primary school teachers and 22 parents as the participants. It was found that teachers’ perception is 4.15 which belongs to positive category. Therefore, the teachers realized the importance of the implementation of character education and need to be taught inside and outside classroom. The mean score of parents’ perception is 4.11 which belongs to positive category. The result anova test confirmed that there is no different perceptions between primary school instructors and parents towards the essential of integrating Tri Hita Karana into the process of character education.