ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES ISSN: 2186-8492, ISSN: 2186-8484 Print Vol. 2 No. 4 November 2013 Copyright © 2013 Leena and Luna International, Oyama, Japan. (株) ) ) ) リナ リナ リナ リナアンド アンド アンド アンドルナインターナショナル ルナインターナショナル ルナインターナショナル ルナインターナショナル, , , , 小山市、日本 小山市、日本 小山市、日本 小山市、日本. www. leena-luna.co.jp P a g e | 173 MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN SERAT CENTHINI: ITS CONTRIBUTION FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION IN INDONESIA Sutrisna Wibawa Yogyakarta State University, INDONESIA. trisnagb@yahoo.com, trisnagb@uny.ac.id ABSTRACT This research is related to the study of moral values and its contribution to the education of character. The purpose of research is: a) to conduct a critical analysis of the moral teachings of the Serat Centhini through the figure of Seh Amongraga, and b) to find its contribution to the moral teachings found in Serat Centhini through Seh Amongraga figure for character education.This study uses qualitative methods. The primary source is the Serat Centhini text, while secondary sources are literature and research results which discussed Serat Centhini. Research plan is to follow the steps of data collection, data reduction, data classification, data display, and conclusion. The analysis of the data uses two basic methods, which are methods of hermeneutics and heuristics. This study the first result is the moral values of Seh Amongraga in Serat Centhini, consisting of rights and obligations, justice, responsibility, conscience, honesty, moral courage, humility, and loyalty are good guides for human behavior. Moral values can be used as a reference norm for a person or a group of people to determine whether the attitudes and actions are good or not. Second, the contribution of moral philosophy in Serat Centhini can enrich the character-forming values in the education of character in Indonesia. Two moral consciences and the modesty can be used as supplementary material forming of the character values, complementing the existing ones. Keywords: Moral philosophy, Serat Centhini, character education INTRODUCTION Morality is an attempt to guide the actions of a person with sense. Guiding actions with any sense is to do what is best according to sense, while giving equal weight concerning the interests of individuals who will be affected by the action. This is a depiction of a conscious act of the moral agent. Conscious moral agent is someone who has a concern, indiscriminately against the interests of any person affected by what is done and implications. Such action was based on sound principles (Rachels 2004, 40-41). Indonesian people have a variety of areas in which there is a cultural richness that is priceless. Such wealth is an old literature containing moral values. Joko Siswanto (2009, vi- vii), states that the excavation of local knowledge (local wisdom) is still scattered, either explicitly or implicitly in the Indonesian cultural treasures which are rich and varied needed greatly. Moral values are the wisdom of life, which is generally passed through literary works. This literary work is full of ideals embodied in the teachings. One of the Javanese literary works that contain moral is Serat Centhini 1 , work of Sunan Pakubuwana V 2 . Serat Centhini according to history was composed by the will of Kanjeng Gusti Pangeran Adipati Anom in Surakarta. This figure was the son of Kanjeng Susuhunan Pakubuwana IV, who 1 see Karkana Kamajaya, Serat Centhini Latin (Yogyakarta: Yayasan Centhini, 1986) for other details analysis of Centhini 2 Kraton Surakarta king who ruled from 1820 to 1823. The king was known for skilled in writing literature