Komunitas 8 (1) (2016):135-144 DOI:10.15294/komunitas.v8i1.4936 KOMUNITAS International Journal of Indonesian Society And Culture http://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/komunitas Developing Environmental Education Model Based on Local Wisdom Abdul Rahman Hamid 1 and Rusfadia Saktiyanti Jahja 2 1 Sociology Program, Jakarta State University DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/komunitas.v8i2.4936 Received : 24 January 2016; Accepted: 22 March 2016; Published: 31 March 2016 Abstract This article discusses the development of environmental education model based on local wisdom. The study is motivated by the existing conditions in secondary schools, where environmental education merely focuses on students’ cognitive level and does not touch affective and psychomotor aspects. Students only understand the concept of climate changes, but they do not change their daily behavior in solving it. This study was conducted using mixed approach to analyze the need. It was continued with the development of educational models. This model tried to integrate the environmental education with the existing subjects at school. Therefore, the result can be applied in accordance with the local content. Several experts have reviewed the model and it is further tested in schools to be the pilot project. Keywords: environmental education model  Corresponding author : Address: Department of Sociology State University of Jakarta Email : saktiyanti@gmail.com Phone : 081280011078 INTRODUCTION This article will explain the stages in develo- ping environmental education model based on local wisdom. This model will be imple- mented as a local-content subject and can also be integrated within a subject; in this case it would be limited in sociology subject. This study is motivated by the increasing condition of the environmental damage caused by human actions which no longer consider human needs of sustainable deve- lopment. Because of this, the educational institutions also have an important role in instilling values for environmental care awa- reness in students. Refecting to the existing conditions in the capital city, Jakarta, the factor of public awareness on environmental preservation is evidently still low. This situation can be seen from their low awareness of people dealing with waste and thei increasing non-envi- ronmentally friendly behavior. The external factor for such damage is the conversion of forest land into residential and industrial areas. In addition, at the local level, the over- fow of streams and gutters from household waste becomes another problem. This en- vironmental damage has reached alarming level (Chawla and Cushing 2007; Eames, Cowie and Bolstad 2008; Haigh 2006; Wil- lard 2012). Even some of them have reached a harmful level to human survival such as forest fres that occur annually in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Papua. Apart from the na- tural factors, human being activities are also responsible for such damage. Not only oc- curring on land, this environmental damage also occurs in coastal areas where there have been large-scale of sand mining as it occurs in the Coastal area of Tanjung Burung, Tan- gerang, Banten (Agus 2011). This sand mi- ning makes the land to be narrower and the citizens lose their jobs as farmers of prawn. All of these are caused by lack of awareness on the importance of protecting the envi- ronment from destructive human activities. © 2016 Semarang State University. All rights reserved p-ISSN 2086 - 5465 | e-ISSN 2460-7320 UNNES JOURNALS