E-ISSN 2240-0524 ISSN 2239-978X Journal of Educational and Social Research www.richtmann.org Vol 10 No 3 May 2020 105 . Research Article © 2020 Ifham Choli and Raihan. This is an open access article licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) Factors That Influence the Character of Students in School Ifham Choli Ph.D. Students, Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia Raihan Lecture, Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia Doi: 10.36941/jesr-2020-0050 Abstract The object of this study is the religious attitude and character of students in junior high schools. The purpose of this study is to understand and explore the relationship between Islamic Religious Education with student's character, the level of discipline with student's character, and Islamic education and the level of discipline with student character. The scope of this study is the character of students in school, and student's religious practice. This study uses quantitative analysis based on primary data or survey data at MTs Al_Whatoniyah 20, Bekasi. The findings in this study are that there is a positive relationship between Islamic education and student character at MTs Al-Whatoniyah 20, Bekasi. One increasing index in Islamic Education is associated with an increase of 0.93 in the student character index in Mts Al_Whatoniyah 20 Bekasi. Besides, the value of discipline also has a strong positive relationship with their character. For every one index that rises in the discipline index is also associated with an increase in 1,006 index in the character of students in MTs Al_Whatoniyah 20 Bekasi. The Islamic Education index and the discipline index also simultaneously have a positive relationship with the student character index at MTs Al_Whatoniyah 20 Bekasi. Keywords: Discipline, Islamic Education, and Students’ Characters 1. Introduction The progress of religious knowledge and knowledge is very rapid, so educators must be ready for changes in education. Educators become one of the important and decisive factors in efforts to organize and build people towards better, disciplined, quality and character. Character education is a concept that is implanted in a person and can shape the person to be more polite, civilized, and physically and mentally healthy so that he will have a better character in his life. The concept of education is a hope that every individual has the ability to manage themselves, both in the learning environment, family environment, and in the social environment. By controlling themselves well students will be able to cope in their environment and can avoid the problems that are accepted, and be able to overcome the rules that exist in the school. This self-