Wayang Golek Reog Ponorogo: The Acculturation of Indonesian Culture As Patriotism Character Education Learning Medium to Early Age Children

Indonesian society deals with a decline of patriotism. Foreign culture comes in with
Access 4.0 influencing young generation rapidly. People start leaving traditional arts
as an eastern cultural heritage. One of the examples is that many people do not know
the legendary story of the origin of Reog Ponorogo but the dance. Early childhood
education is one of the important agents to preserve Indonesia’s cultural heritage.
One of them is done through Wayang Golek Reog Ponorogo. Wayang golek is an
acculturation of West Java and East Java cultures. It comes from Priangan arts in
West Java, whereas here, wayang golek is created with the legend of the origin of
Reog Ponorogo. Containing authentic Indonesian arts, Wayang Golek Reog Ponorogo
provides an advantage as a Learning Medium of Patriotism Character Education.
This medium has two functions of character education, namely (1) the introduction of
Indonesian cultural arts, namely Wayang Golek Reog Ponorogo as one of Indonesia’s
wealth and (2) the developed manuscript story contains many character values that
can be interpreted by the audience. This medium is expected to be one of the learning
media innovations for early childhood in increasing patriotism of Indonesian people.