Abstract

Nowadays, character education is required to educate learners so they will be excellent individuals.
Many schools take various ways to apply strategies to succeed in character education programs.
Besides nurturing the characters at home, done by parents, the educational institution also plays a
great role to develop children's characters. This research used a qualitative approach. The data were
collected through in-depth interview, observation, and documentary study. The data analysis used
data reduction, display, and conclusion. The findings consisted of 1) the Islamic school characterbuilding
strategies in Dempet applied Islamic habituations. They were such as reading Asmaul
Husna and reciting Al-Qur'an together in the morning before getting into the class and starting the
learning; 2) the implementation of character educational empowerment was done through Islamic
cultures in Dempet district. It could be done by providing memorization tasks of Al-Qur'an verses.
Every class should have different memorization level and should apply extracurricular to educate the
learners to have excellent characters, and 3) the engaged hindrances during its implementation were
lacks of parents' controls. Thus, the learners tended to have bad personalities while being at school
or home.