ON THE PUBLICATION OF RESEARCH PAPERS IN THE AREA OF CHARACTER EDUCATION

Character education has been incorporated especially for primary (elementary) schools and secondary schools since 2010. This paper investigates the progress of the numbers of papers published internationally relating to character education. We compare the performance of Indonesian research to those of other countries' research as well as to that of the world. We obtained that Indonesian research on character education grows significantly since the establishment of character education by Indonesian government in the Indonesian education system. This finding indicates that character education is indeed important for Indonesian students.