Abstract:
The Locus of this research is The people of South Sulawesi who are upholding their highest
value which are Siri’ focus on shame and self-esteem as a human. This cultural value
becomes the strength binding the caracther of the nation, based on the cultural and
religious values which often lost to western culture. The Western culture has positive values
such as hard working, tolerance, discipline, and as well as negative values which based
from permisifm. The subjects of this study were 60 PAUD education teachers using
quantitative survey methods with questionnaires as instruments. The research findings show
(1) the relationship of religious values with the nationalism attitude of PAUD teachers by
0.948; (2) the relationship between religious values and the integrity of PAUD teachers is
0.747; (3) the relationship between religious values and the PAUD teacher's cooperation
attitude of 0.761; (4) the relationship between the understanding of local wisdom with the
nationalism attitude of PAUD teachers by 0.422; (5) the relationship between
understanding local wisdom and PAUD teacher integrity is 0.378; and (6) there is a
significant and positive relationship between the understanding of local wisdom with the
PAUD teacher's cooperation attitude of 0.412. In Indonesian society, The religious values
which related with integrity and cooperative such as ta’awun, syura’ and hubbul wathan.
On the other hand, the religious values such as adele’, rebba’ sipatokkong, and Mali
siparappe’. These values become the binder in various life aspects, including education.
Keywords: character education, religious values, local wisdom