CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE ACEHNESE IDIOMS OF KUALA BATEE COMMUNITY OF SOUTHWEST ACEH

This study is entitled "Character Education in the Acehnese Idiom in the Kuala Batee Community of Southwest Aceh”. The Acehnese idiom was used as a support in advising and as a means of maintaining existing norms in the society. A Society is one of the most influential molders of character education because of its interactions. The values of traditional culture are recognized by all levels of the society in the regions and nationalities that become national identities. Not only culture, local languages also need to be used in daily interactions in society so that they do not experience a serious decline, which will eventually disappear over the time. In this case, the Acehnese Idiom became a medium to spread the value of character education to the next generation. The purpose of this study is to describe the Acehnese expressions that contain the values of character education in the community of Kuala Batee Southwest Aceh. The method of this research is a descriptive qualitative. Interview was used as an instrument. In this study, 8 subjects are chosen using purposive sampling that consist of tuhapheut and village elders in the community. The location of this study is in Kuala Batee District, Southwest Aceh. There are 18 character values in the Acehnese Idiom in the community of Kuala Batee, Southwest Aceh which consists of; religious, honest, tolerance, discipline, hard work, creative, independent, democratic, curiosity, national spirit, love of the homeland, respect for achievement, friendly/communicative, love peace, love to read, care for the environment, social care and responsibility. The expressions found in the Kuala Batee community are in the form of one line, two lines, three lines and four lines. The Acehnese idiom in the community of Kuala Batee Southwest Aceh is in the oral form which has its own meaning and use as an advice relating to divinity, self, others and the environment. Based on the above conclusions, the author suggests the community to preserve the Acehnese idiom so that it becomes a legacy for the next generation. To the government, it is hoped that they will support to publish references related to Acehnese idioms and other types of folklore related to Acehnese culture so that they can add references to other studies.


INTRODUCTION
Education is an effort made by humans in order to increase their capacity and capability because education can change a person's social status and position. In the process of changing the social strata, it really requires hard work and honesty. Honesty is the main key to blessing something we get that is related to character and personality. In achieving success, it should be in a way that is in accordance with the norms and teachings of existing religion. Therefore the character greatly influences the way a person reaches his desires. Character comes from the English vocabulary Character, which means personality, behavior that shows characteristic that distinguishes one person from another person. The idiom in Acehnese society is basically the same as the expression in Indonesian or other languages, which in Aceh is better known as hadihmaja, which contains a figurative meaning related to the behavior of a person or community member in daily life 1 . The Acehnese idiom has benefits for others, both personally and collectively because in its background the traditional idioms contain the advice and teachings of educational norms in society that must continue to be preserved. Along with the development of the era that we see in the current situation there have been many shifts in cultural values and the misuse of meaning contained in traditional idiomsmistreated by the present generation.
The idiom used by the Acehnese in everyday life is a parable to state the abstract things become concrete and vice versa 2 . Idioms are almost similar as adages or proverbs. However, idioms tend to be found in certain areas and will be different from other regions even though they are in one province 3 . The idioms are used as an image to refine the meaning and it may include the metaphor. Acehnese idioms have many meanings including advice, social criticism, praise, guidance, harmony, dependence, greed, and tranquility, while their functions include appreciation, educating, reminding, entertaining, and reinforcing faith 4 . From those reasons above, the use of idioms is very appropriate in integrating character education. This is because one of the functions of the idiom is to thicken the faith, so that the message contained in the idiom becomes a guide in the implementation of life 5 .
Referring to the theory, idioms are typical expressions used by people with the aim of strengthening their understanding of what they delivered 6 . In its application, it is found idioms deviations from general language rules. They are usually in the form of phrases, while their meanings cannot be explained logically or grammatically by relying on the meanings of the words structure. To interpret the idiom, it cannot be necessarily done based on semantics but must be reviewed based on pragmatics 7 . This is because the meaning of idioms can be contrary to the meaning in general.
The focus of this research is the values contained in the idiom in the community of Kuala Bateein Southwest Aceh as character education for students. This research is important to carry out because the use of idioms in society has been greatly reduced, but the values contained in idioms are very important in growing character for a child. Therefore, this study examines the values contained in the idioms so that they become input for relevant parties to revitalize and apply the use of idioms in learning.

RESEARCH METHODS
This research was carried out in four villages in the Kuala Batee sub-district of Southwest Aceh, namely Kota Bahagia village, Blang Makmur village, Krueng Pantoe village and Padeealu village. The approach used in this research is a qualitative descriptive. The subjects of the study were 8 people, namely 1 tuhapheut and 1 village elder community in each village that was selected so the total was 8 people from 4 villages 8 . In this study, interview was used as the instrument to get relevant data. The purpose of the interview was to find the problem being examined as well as to get opinions and solutions from the party being interviewed. The data analysis technique was in the form of data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions 9 . Data reduction was used to choose data in accordance with the formulation of the problem and develop descriptive information to draw conclusions and research results.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Religious
In KBBI, religion means belief in the existence of supernatural powers over humans. This religious value is very thick in Islam and becomes signs in everyday life. The term religiosity is very closely related to religion. Religiosity is also understood by many people as a religious value in which it binds the relationship between humans and God; human to human; and humans and the universe 10 ; 11 . The results of this study found the value of religiosity in the Acehnese language idiom in the community of Kuala Bateein Southwest Aceh as follows. The meaning contained in this expression is about human relationships with God, in which humans can plan anything but God determines whether or not these desires can be achieved. Humans cannot escape death and will never know when it will come, as well as profit and loss, everything has been arranged by God. The religious lessons in this phrase focus to human who must believe in their God and surrender to His decree 12 .

Be honest
Honesty has a relationship between facts and existing information. In the KBBI, honesty means following the applicable provisions. The results of this study found idioms that have the value of honesty that can be used for character education. "Like to do jobs that are contrary to existing values".Ranueb (betel) is a good reflection of halal, while seupahjimita (sepah sought) is a picture of work that is contrary to religious norms (haram). So, implicitly the meaning of this idiom is people not to do prohibited work.
Religiosity and honesty are very dominant in the Aceh language idiom in the community of Kuala Bateein Southwest Aceh. Religiosity is the main thing and is used as a principle for the people of Aceh who are Muslim 13 . The use of idioms that have religious values is usually used by lecturers when delivering sermons to become a benchmark for listeners. This is the same as the dominant honesty value found in idioms. Religiosity and honesty are two things that are close to each other 14 . Honesty is part of religiosity, because someone who is honest is certain to have high faith. On the other hand, if you are not honest, the value of faith is very low 15 .
In addition to religiosity and honesty, the results of this study also found several other values contained in Acehnese idioms. The values contained in the Acehnese idioms are very relevant to develop character education that has high emotional value. This is because the Acehnese language is the mother tongue for most Acehnese people 16 .
Overall, the values contained in the Acehnese dialect in the Southwest Kuala Bateein community include tolerance, discipline, hard work, creativity, independence, democracy, curiosity, national spirit, love for the homeland, respect for friendly/communicative achievements, love of peace, love to read, care for the environment, responsibility.

CONCLUSION
From the research findings, there were 18 character values that existed in the Acehnese idioms in the Kuala Batee community of Southwest Aceh, which consists; religious, honest, tolerance, discipline, hard work, creative, independent, democratic, curiosity, national spirit, love of the homeland, respect for achievement, friendly/communicative, love of peace, love to read, care for the environment, social care and responsibility. Idioms found in the Kuala Batee community are in the form of one line, two lines, three lines and four lines. The Acehnese expression in the community of Kuala Bateein Southwest Aceh is in the form of oral which has its own meaning and used as advice relating to divinity, self, others, and environment.
The researcher gives some suggestions related the character education in the idioms of the Acehnese to the community of Kuala Bateein Southwest Aceh as follows: 1. In the Acehnese Idioms there are eighteen values of character education which must continue to be preserved by the community in order to pass them to the next generation.
2. Further research should conducted about the Acehnese local wisdom, especially Acehnese Idioms and proverbs.
3. There should be a support from the government to publish references related to Acehnese idioms and other types of folklore which are related to Acehnese culture so that they can be references for further research.