THE CONCEPT OF CHARACTER EDUCATION FOR THE NAHDLATUL ULAMA ORGANIZATION IN TRAINING ITS CADRES AGAINST SECULARISM

Abstract

Character education is a support in creating quality civilized education, especially for Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) cadres. Character education is a crucial element in creating quality human resources who are intellectually intelligent and intelligent in action. NU itself has a character education for its cadres to always embody Pancasila values ​​and Islamic values ​​in an applicable form in the field as a guide for their lives in carrying out their daily life activities to fight against the growing secularism amidst the constellation of people's lives. This article uses the literature study method which consists of searching articles from various sources that support theoretically through SAGE Journal, Google Scholar, and supporting books to perfect the results of writing this article. The results of this study will holistically describe the role of character education developed by Nahdlatul Ulama for its cadres in totally opposing the presence of secularism. Character education from Nahdlatul Ulama becomes a magic shield for its cadres to destroy the presence of secularism. The conclusion from this research is that character education from Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) for its cadres is a weapon against secularism and of course with this character education a religious and nationalist character will be created as proof that if humans have character, then the quality of education can be said to be complete and successful.