Character Education in Madrasah Mu’allimin Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta E W Junaidi 1 , S Rochmat 2 Post-graduate, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia 1 Ekowjwj@gmail.com, 2 rochmat@yahoo.com Abstract. Character education becomes the main focus of the Indonesian pedagogy sector. Along with the national goal of education, Madrasah Mu’alliminMuhammadiyah Yogyakarta existed as an institution that focuses on building the character of its students. This research aims to describe the ongoing pedagogy practices in Madrasah Mu’allimin. This research is using a qualitative approach.The result of this study shows that character-building becomes one of the primary objectives, along with education and religion. Each form of activity in school or dormitories intended to enhance the character development of the students. The designated schedule carefully arranged by the teachers, straight down for each day. Hopefully, this arrangement would be accustomed to the students when they are graduating from school. The character development from Madrasah Mu’allimin could prepare the students to become a valuable human being for the society, nation, and country. Keywords: Education, Character, Muhammadiyah. 1 Introduction Education is a conscious act towardsthe development of the people and society according tocertain ideas in purpose to humanize a human being[1]. While according to Suryadi [2], education is a conscious act carried out by family, society, and government in forms of mentoring activities, training in and outside of school to prepare the students in fulfilling their role in various places. The ultimate objective of education is to combine both personal development and dedicated roles accordingly. Character development seems to be one of the educational goals. This goal contained in the first article of the 2003 SISDIKNAS act, which explains that the purpose of education is to improve the intelligence, character, and moral potencies of the students.[3] stated that character education is a value system that provides students with components of intelligence, awareness, and visible action to carry out those values so that they become a wholesome human being. Thus, character education can be concluded as a character developing process that creates a generation that possesses dignity and noble characters. Looking back on the goals of national education which also including the character development, there were Indonesian figures who already promoting character education. One of the people who do that is K.H. Ahmad Dahlan, the founder of Muhammadiyah. He established the Muhammadiyah to implement his ideas, including his concepts about education. He barely wrote books about his ideas on pedagogy matters. His ideas were only ICSSED 2020, August 04-05, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Copyright © 2020 EAI DOI 10.4108/eai.4-8-2020.2302539