Strenghthening The Character Of Loving The Motherland Though an Extracurricular Karawitan Music For Elementary School Students

Abstract

The many foreign cultures that entered Indonesia made Javanese culture even dimmer, causing the character of love for the motherland of elementary school students to decrease. Music extracurriculars can be used as a form of preserving Indonesian culture. The purpose of this study was to find out the characteristics of love for the motherland in elementary school students which began to diminish and the obstacles to Javanese musical extracurricular activities in elementary school students. This research method uses descriptive qualitative which aims to get facts from the phenomenon under study. The results obtained are strengthening the character of school students through musical extracurriculars at SDN Model Malang City which is characterized by the high sense of love for the motherland of each student who participates in the extracurricular while the constraints of the extracurricular itself are school infrastructure because there are several tools that are not suitable for use but does not interfere with the extracurricular process. It can be concluded that karawitan extracurriculars are able to improve the character of love for the motherland of elementary school students in the current era where many western cultures are involved.