Raising School Members Environmental Awareness through Adiwiyata Program

Education is a form of change or behavior establishment from old behavior to new behavior that is expected to be better. Environmental education is significantly carried out with the aim of fostering the community to be responsible for environmental problems. Hygiene and health of a school environment need to be achieved and supported by various parties, especially all school members as the people in charge. In line with that, the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of National Education collaborate to run an environment-based school program which is called Adiwiyata (green school) Program. This program is a school assessment or evaluation award in creating an environment-based school. Adiwiyata program motivates every school to implement the principals of Adiwiyata. Most people in general prefer clean, neat and comfortable surroundings to live in. That kind of situation needs to be applied in a school environment. A school environment shall be clean, neat and comfortable during the teaching and learning activities since environment is one of the factors that contributes to the success of the teaching and learning process.