Restoring the Identity of Post-Pandemic Scouts. Learning can be obtained from formal and non-formal education that has continuous and tiered characteristics. What distinguishes formal education is carried out from kindergarten, elementary school, junior high school, high school, and college. Meanwhile, non-formal education is carried out outside of school hours in the form of extras and institutions.
Understanding Scouting
Scouting is
a non-formal education that students must follow. The Ministerial and Cultural Regulation on scouting education in Article 2 of 2014, states: Scout education is carried out as a compulsory extracurricular activity in primary and secondary education.
Definition of Scout Education
Scout
education is one way of instilling character, shaping personality, and developing skills according to talents and interests. Offer Scout Education according to Elisa (2019: 7) is to instill the value of
character education of learners in following activities with hands-on
practice. Meanwhile, in Fitri's opinion (Ar-Ruzz Media: 2017) Scout character education is a conscious effort made to
shape the personality of students.
The Importance of Character Education
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused the learning process to be carried out online. Teachers and students must condition themselves to learn quickly about the technology that helps the learning process of the learners. Also read: Plant Trees, Improve Character Care for the Environment The obstacles are very pronounced in extra scouting activities. Because students cannot do guidance and practice directly. To give practical tasks only individual tasks.
The child's ability to apply scouting values is very low. The process of pamong in scouting can only be done on a limited basis. So that guidance cannot be optimal. The expected character education in scouting is only touched by independent assignments. So the scout's identity cannot be fully applied. The new normal situation in education has gradually begun to be restored with the presence of students in person.
Scout Implementation
The
implementation in high school began to be held again every Friday
regularly according to the objectives
of achieving the 2013
curriculum, which emphasized the achievement of scout competencies including (KI-1) spiritual attitudes,
(KI-2) social attitudes, and skills.
To achieve this goal, the implementation of scouting
activities is carried out inside the school and outside the school, in order to
hone and directly apply scout materials. which was obtained
from participating in extra scouts online, turned out to be far from expectations. Many children
cannot adjust to the environment, cannot cooperate, and tend to be
individuals.
Characters Instilled In Scouting
From here, awareness is needed to restore the function of extra scout education that emphasizes the character of scout identity in building the younger generation. Extra Scout activities support the improvement of national conditions in the wake of covid-19. To recover, rise and grow together to make Indonesia progress.
It is necessary to return to the identity of the Boy Scouts who emphasize the Trisatya and Dasadarma scouts. To restore it must be emphasized on scout character education which is carried out in a civil manner in instilling scouting values. The implementation of scout education has a basic task for young people, in order to grow the nation's shoots of character.
The characteristics instilled in scouting are:
1) God's love,
2) Independence and responsibility,
3) honesty, 4) respect and courtesy,
5) Generous, helpful and mutual aid,
6)Confident and working hard,
7) Leadership and justice,
8) kind and humble,
9) Tolerant, peaceful and united.
The return of scouts' identity after the pandemic is crucial. The character's emphasis on being responsible is very low when studying at home. This is where it is
very important to train the responsibility of learners directly. Being polite towards others is very
important.
Learning online causes children to be unable to cooperate directly and causes many individual children. No less important, civil service teachers must teach tolerance to students. Scout education plays an important role in shaping the character of students in the future. Teachers or civil servants must immediately restore the character of the scout in equipping students. Restoring the Identity of Post-Pandemic Scouts