Design of Geography Materials Have Substances of Indonesian Geopolitics as Systemic Program Strengthening National Character

This study aims to develop the design of geography learning
materials containing Indonesian geopolitics as a systemic program
to strengthen national character in the Department of Geography
Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, State University of Medan.
The specific target to be achieved is the production of textbooks on
geography learning materials containing Indonesian geopolitics.
The research method used is the R&D method by following the Borg
& Gall procedure. The research subjects involved: lecturers in
Political Geography courses; students as subjects for a limited
group trial; and five experts for the validation of teaching
materials. The instruments used were expert validation
questionnaires, learning outcomes tests and observation sheets,
which were analyzed using: qualitative descriptive analysis to
analyze information about various field conditions; quantitative
descriptive analysis used to analyze the scores given by the expert;
and statistical analysis assisted by STATCAL software. The results
showed that the textbooks developed were valid and suitable for
learning Political Geography, as well as contributing to the
systemic program of strengthening national character in campus
life by placing six pillars of character, namely: citizenship, justice,
honor, responsibility, caring, and being able to trust.