2nd International Conference on History Education 2018 INDONESIAN HEROIC SONGS IN HISTORY LEARNING M. Maman Sumaludin, Didin Saripudin, Erlina Wiyanarti Post-Graduate Program of History Education, Indonesia University of Education, Bandung West Java, Indonesia
[email protected] Abstract During the national movement until the revolutionary period in Indonesia, Indonesian heroic songs were created and became an important media in arousing the spirit of nationalism and patriotism in seizing and defending Indonesia's independence. However, recently, most of the students are not very familiar with it, and they have a lack of understanding of heroic songs that have historical values and the struggle of national values. The rise of contemporary songs that continue to erode the values of nationalism and patriotism, only prioritizing entertainment compared than the educational values. History learning has an important role in passing down the values of nationalism and patriotism, in this case, the use of Indonesian heroic songs in history learning. Thus, this research is descriptive qualitative research through literature study. It was conducted to develop history learning media. Also, it is hoped that it can be used as a material in implementing historical learning based on character/value so that the values of nationalism and patriotism can be embedded by singing and living the songs of heroic at every opportunity. Keywords: Indonesian heroic song, history learning, nationalism and patriotism Introduction should be passed down and embedded in every Nationalism and patriotism have been nation generation. However, as the times opened since the National movement period, changed, the sense of nationalism and around the beginning of the 20th century.