Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 143 CHANGE OF CHARACTER OF CANDIDATES FOR CIVIL SERVANTS OF MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION AFTER FOLLOWING CHARACTER BUILDING COURSE Dyan Apriyani1, Giri Kurnia Widyasari21,2 Balai Diklat Pembangunan Karakter SDM Transportasi, Kementerian Perhubungan1dyan.mspc@gmail.com, 2ponjil0227@gmail.com ABSTRACTThe construction of the character has long been echoed by the first presidentof the Republic of Indonesia, Ir. Sukarno in 1961. Bung Karno said: thisnation must be built by prioritizing character building, because thischaracter building will make Indonesia a great, advanced, and prosperousand dignified nation. This study is to find out the change in character of theprospective Civil Servants of the Ministry of Transportation of the secondgeneration while participating in character development training in the HRDevelopment Training Center for Human Resources Development. Theresearch data was obtained by questionnaires given before (pretest) andafter (posttest) the implementation of the training. This research isdescriptive quantitative research. The results and discussion of this study isthat there is a change in character in prospective Civil Servants of thetransportation ministry after carrying out character building training.Changes in the character of participants in accordance with the learningagenda that is owned in accordance with the curriculum, namely: 1.Intrapersonal; 2. Interpersonal; 3. Professional relationship; 4. Godrelationship. Keywords: Character building. Character. INTRODUCTIONCharacter is the attitude and nature that exist in man. The character and personality isformed by the values chosen, carried out continuously which is manifested in an action(Wening, 2012).Strong character and personality is demonstrated through the orderly, independent,respectful attitude of others, caring and affectionate, responsible, fair and acting as goodcitizens and prioritizing the public interest (Wahyu, 2011).Muchlas explained that the character is closely related to the value of human behaviorrelated to God, self, fellow human beings, environment and nationality which ismanifested in thoughts, attitudes, feelings, words, and actions based on religious norms,law, manners, culture , customs and traditions, and aesthetics which then emerge ineveryday behavior to act and act (Alawiyah, 2012).As a candidate for state apparatus who served as a public servant requires a strongattitude or character. For that character that has been embedded since childhood that if Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 144 already good, will be improved more. While the characters are less appropriate will bechanged to be better as a servant or public servant.According to research conducted in United States precisely done at Harvard Univesity,revealed that one's success is not determined by the knowledge and technical skills(hard skill), but determined by the skills of managing yourself and others (soft skill).This research revealed 80% success comes from soft skill and hard skill only 20%(Astuty, 2010).Character building is a process or effort undertaken to foster, improve and or form thecharacter, psychological nature, morals (character), human beings (community) so as toshow good character and behavior based on the value of Pancasila (Module Educationand Traning LAN RI) (Masrukhin, 2013). From the definition of character developmentcan be interpreted:1. A business or process to foster human behavior that has been owned for morality(good character) to be good.2. Improving the nature, character that has been owned by humans, which was notgood enough to be better in order to organize the government as a civil servant3. To form a character or a better character so as to display a conducive character inthe life of society, nation and state in accordance with the values of Pancasila. Evaluation is one way used to determine whether an activity that has been implementedneeds improvement and development and refinement. As revealed (Aryanti, Supriyono,& Ishaq, 2016) that: evaluation can be used to determine the level of participants'learning achievement and the effectiveness of the training program that has been or isbeing implemented or the impact of the implementation of the training program. METHODSThe subject of this research is the Prospective Civil Servants of the Ministry ofTransportation, Group II, Force II 2018 3rd Platoon, totaling 33 people. Acceptance ofCPNS class II on average from secondary school education. The Character DevelopmentTraining at the Human Resource Development Training Center was held on April 3-82018.This research data is primary data obtained from dissemination of research instrumentspecially designed by researcher in accordance with research purpose. The instrumentsused are questionnaires or questionnaires given to the training participants at thebeginning and end of the training.The analysis technique used in this research is experimental research datamanagement. By using pretest and posttest. Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 145 RESULT AND DISCUSSION ResultCurriculum of Character Building course is divided into four learning agenda, that isbuilding a good relationship with self (intrapersonal relationship), build and manageinterrelationship with others (interpersonal relationship), build and manage goodrelationship with work (professional relationship), and build and manage goodrelationships with God Almighty (God relationship).1. Intrapersonal Relationship Table 1. Test of Normality Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig. pretest 0.188 33 0.005 0.956 33 0.195 posttest 0.167 33 0.02 0.939 33 0.065 intrapersonal Relationship Kolmogorov-Smirnova Shapiro-Wilk R1 Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : Normally distributed dataHA : Data is not normally distributedBecause the sample size is 33 people then the sig used is Shapiro-wilk. Fromtable 1, a sig of 0.195 for pretest and 0.65 for the posttest indicates > 0.05. thismeans that the resulting data is normally distributed. Because the resulting datais normally distributed, it is continued on the homogeneity test of the varianceand the test of significance of the two mean differences Table. 2 Independent Samples Test Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested: Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 146 H0 : there is no character change in interpersonal relationship during thetraining of character building.HA : There is a character change in interpersonal relationship during thetraining of character building. From Table 2, the sig for the homogeneity test of variance is in Equal variancesassumed, which means that both groups are homogeneous. 2. Interpersonal relationship Table 3. Test of Normality Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig. pretest .136 33 .124 .963 33 .305 posttest .138 33 .110 .949 33 .124 Interpersonal Relationship Kolmogorov-Smirnov a Shapiro-Wilk R2 Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : Normally distributed dataHA : Data is not normally distributedFrom table 3, sig. of 0.305 for pretest and 0.124 for the posttest which bothshow> 0.05. this means that the resulting data is normally distributed. Table. 4 Independent Samples Test Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : there is no character change in Interpersonal relationships during thecharacter building training.HA : there is a character change in interpersonal relationship during thecharacter building training. Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 147 3. Professional relationship Table 5. Test of Normality Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig. pretest .083 33 .200 * .976 33 .660 posttest .099 33 .200 * .969 33 .452 Professional Relationship Kolmogorov-Smirnov a Shapiro-Wilk R3 Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : Normally distributed dataHA : Data is not normally distributedFrom table 3, sig is generated. of 0.660 for pretest and 0.452 for the posttestwhich both show> 0.05. this means that the resulting data is normallydistributed. Table 6. Independent Samples Test Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : there is no character change in professional relationship during thecharacter building training.HA : there is a character change in professional relationship during thecharacter building training. Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 148 4. God relationship Table 7. Test of Normality Statistic df Sig. Statistic df Sig. pretest .136 33 .127 .947 33 .109 posttest .205 33 .001 .947 33 .106 God Relationshhip Kolmogorov-Smirnov a Shapiro-Wilk R4 Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : Normally distributed dataHA : Data is not normally distributedFrom table 7, the result is sig. of 0.109 for pretest and 0.106 for the posttestwhich both show> 0.05. this means that the resulting data is normallydistributed. Table 8. Independent Samples Test Testing criteria:If (sig)> 0.05, then accept H0.Hypothesis Formula tested:H0 : there is no character change God relationship Almighty during the trainingof character building.HA : there is a character change God relationship during the training ofcharacter building. Discussion1. Intrapersonal RelationshipFrom the T-Test results to test the hypothesis by looking at the sig value. If the valueof sig> α then accept H0 Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 149 From table 2, in column sig. (2-taled) and line equal variances assumed obtained sig =0 so sig <0.05 means reject Ho. So, there is a character change in interpersonalrelationship during the training of character building. This is confirmed by the comments written by most of the training participants thatafter attending the training activities of character development, the participants canadd discipline in using the time. They can take time between activities and rest. Preferurgent interests rather than less important times. For examples they use more time toprepare the upcoming activities compared to playing mobile phones. Participants arealso more concerned about the environment, taking and disposing of garbage in place,maintaining the completeness, cleanliness and tidiness of clothes. 2. Interpersonal RelationshipFrom table 4 in column sig. (2-taled) and line equal variances assumed obtained sig =0 so sig < 0.05 means reject Ho. So, there is a character change in interpersonalrelationship during the character building training. Participants also stated that during the training the participants become more able tocommunicate with other people, especially new people known. Those who had beenembarrassed, began to greet and interact with new people known. In teamwork too,they can suppress the ego, hear the opinions of others, dare to express opinions ingroups and mutual respect. 3. Professional relationshipManaging relationships with work / problems (professional relationship)From table 6 in column sig. (2-taled) and line equal variances assumed obtained sig =0 so sig < 0.05 means reject Ho. So, there is a character change in professionalrelationship during the character building training. In managing relationships with work / problems, participants can apply theexperience gained in completing the work or problems it faces. In addition,participants are brave to innovate and find new ways to complete a job. 4. God relationship.From table 8 in column sig. (2-taled) and line equal variances assumed obtained sig =0 so sig <0.05 means reject Ho. So, there is a character change God relationship duringthe training of character building. During the training activities, the participants felt a very significant change in attitude.They revealed during this time many of the participants who are not on time inrunning the 5 times of worship, especially for the Muslims. As long as they undergotheir training activities become more timely in conducting the worship and performedin congregation in the mosque (for the Muslims). Participants also felt mutual respectbetween religions. At the time of the Muslim participants performing the Fridayprayer service, for other religions also perform the activities of worship in the same Jurnal Empowerment Volume 8 Nomor 2, September 2019 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 150 place and time. Participants feel the difference does not hinder the activitiesundertaken. As expressed by Wening (2012) that character or character is determined by the valuechosen by a person and carried out continuously and manifested in action. Characterbuilding training, which is carried out for seven days with programs and activitiescarried out continuously, shows an increase or change in the attitude of the participants.Of the four agendas given in training, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Professional, andGod relations, the average resulted in an increase CONCLUSIONFrom research that has been done about the change of character of Civil ServiceCandidate of Ministry of Transportation during mnegkuti training of characterdevelopment that is:1. In intrapersonal relationship, participants experience a change of attitude.Participants can self-manage in terms of time for the better. Participants becomemore disciplined in taking advantage of the time given, more disciplined to thecompleteness of the appearance and concern for the environment. For examplespicking up garbage and throwing garbage in place, keeping the environment clean.2. Intrapersonal relationship as well as teamwork, participants can better expresscommunication better. Participants who had been embarrassed to meet newpeople, now more open, dare to greet and communicate with new people. Incooperation, participants are more daring to express opinions and ideas in solvinga problem in front of his group, suppressing the ego by wanting to hear opinionsfrom others.3. Professional relationship / problems solving, participants are bold about tryingnew things, innovating, using the knowledge and experience they already have insolving problems or jobs.4. 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