Implementing Character Education in All level schools

Dear audience. Today I want to talk about The need for character education in school to create students who have a good personality.

Recently, when we watch news on television, listen to news at radio station, and read news in newspaper, we often now that there are many bad characters covered. We know bad characters showed such as bribery, corruption, fighting, smoking, consuming narcotics and alcohol and so on. Do you know why those bad characters happened?

I personally think that one of the answers is that character building in education is not taught or implemented by teachers to all students in their schools. As we all know that it is a common in Indonesia that our education only stresses the knowledge aspects. So that student's moral and characters are ignored. So, to prevent bad characters of our students, all level schools must educate students not only knowledge and skills but also good character.

Actually, ministry of education has classified that there are 9 pillars of character that should be implemented. They are First, the character of loving God and all His creation; second, independence and responsibility; Third, honesty / trust, diplomatically; Fourth, respect and courtesy; fifth, generous, like mutual help and mutual assistance / cooperation; sixth, confident and hardworking; seventh, leadership and justice; eighth, kind and humble, and; ninth, the character of tolerance, peace, and unity.

I do believe If those nine pillars are implemented at all level schools, our nation, Indonesia will be great nation with great people. On this occasion, I deliver three main arguments about character education which must be given in all level school in Indonesia.

First, character education is the real guarantee of Indonesia nation to become a great nation. Second, character education makes Indonesian are able to compete with those overseas people especially in the globalization era Third, character education helps our nation to be a great nation with great citizen.

As my speech closing, I recommend to all level schools in Indonesia to implement character building at their school. Good character building is a must. Do you know why? Yes, we know. We really know that our nation is sick now. To cure it, let's build our young generation characters into good characters by implementing 9 pillars of character mentioned before.

Air pollution in cities

Air pollution is a serious problem for our existence in the world. It is very dangerous for human’s health. It makes our cities uncomfortable. Air pollution is one the cause of global waming. So, it can be a big problem for all people in the world and the next generation. It can damage the nature.

This matter is caused by people who don’t know about the danger of air pollution. We need public awareness to fight air pollution and keep our air clean. Another problem is caused by car, motorcycle, and some public transportations. They emit deadly gases. When they go to somewhere, they spread air pollution. Besides, the factory can cause air pollution. Many factories create air pollution.

It is not going to be easy to solve this problem. We, as young generation, should make change so that our city become cool city. Besides, all people should be told about the danger of air pollution.

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*This example of hortatory exposition text is written by Moch. Azkarijal (XI IPS I/ 9255) of MAN Sidoarjo student, academic year 2008-2009

Ponari is phenomenal

The health facility for public is very important because the condition of a country can be seen by looking the society’s condition. The poverty in Indonesia causes some problems and one of them is about health.

Today the society thinks that health is very expensive. They argue based on the expense of medicines. As they know the medicine today is very expensive. It is too high. People who care their health have been helped by government. It gives some facilities such as Askes, Jamkesmas etc.

Ponari comes when the society need the cheap expense of medical treatment. Coming to Ponari, they just pay 5000 Rupiahs and get Ponari’s miraculous water. That expense is cheaper than when they come to doctor or hospital. The phenomenon in helping ordinary people may be caused by many factors such as education, politic, poverty, economic, culture etc.

In fact, there are four victims when they want to see Ponari to ask his miraculous water. We, as good society, must avoid this incident. We don’t want another people die because of this matter. This problem should be solved by government. It should give society free medical treatment or cheap medicine.

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*This example of hortatory exposition text is written by Ahmad Afif Maulana (XI IPS I/ 9017) of MAN Sidoarjo student, academic year 2008-2009