Local Wisdom Development in Creating Smart People With Marine Island Character

Abstract

Intelligent and characterized individuals are expected to be
produced through the Education process as what is the goal of national
education, namely to create intelligent Indonesian people who are
competitive but virtuous, meaning that besides having high intellectual
abilities, they also have good morals. In general, the pattern of the
younger generation life to duplicate the global community lives which
deviates from the pattern of the local community life. They prefer to the
modern lifestyle with communication patterns, dress patterns and even
ready-to-eat diets. Virtue values that have formed personality and
attitudes that are in accordance with the teachings of goodness have begun
to be displaced due to the harsh currents of globalization. The habit of
local people who show their identity is a cultural element that can survive
so that it is not easily influenced by the flow of globalization. In the
interaction between the local community ideas are found ideas or ideas
that are wise, full of norms and ethics that are embedded and followed by
all societies in the local social and cultural environment. The local
environment will form moral values, norms, and good ethics as a virtue
(wisdom). Wisdom values that arise in the local environment and shape a
person's character are known as local wisdom. One of the causes of
character fragility is due to not optimal character development in
educational institutions in addition to environmental conditions that do
not support. This apprehensive condition is of course troubling to many
circles. Therefore the formation of character is very important so that it
becomes the main mission in nation building. One way that can be used
is through education, because education is a conscious effort to develop
students' potential optimally. The terms of Tabia and Upu as well as Ina
are often appears in community relations. Tabia was a good afternoon
greeting, often can be said or delivered to anyone or an older person and
the term Upu means that the Father is provided to a King (Upu Latu or
Father of the King) or a traditional figure, while the term lna means
Mother in women, as a form of respect and appreciation. These principles and values are also increasingly fading, because today's young generation
is less concerned with these values because they are not told or taught
regularly to become meaningful rules in association.