Character Education through the Obligation to Wear Santri's Dress

摘要

Dress is a part of the wearer identity, which is believed that wearing a certain dress will affect the wearer's behavior and can reflect the wearer's emotion, which at the same time can affect the other people's emotions. This study is aimed at discussing the impact of wearing typical dresses of santri (cap and sarong) on the behavior of male students. This study applied descriptive analysis approach, which connects the phenomena (variables) of research based on observation facts that the researcher found in the site of study. The object of this research covers the students of International Standard Boarding School of Amantul Ummah, Mojokerto. The research findings showed that wearing typical dresses of santri has positive effect on the santri's behavior. This research recommends the habituation of santri's dresses with reward and punishment mechanism to control to the santri's obedience in pesantren environment.