Building The Youths Characters Through Strengthening Of Hindu Religious Education

I Nyoman Winia (Politeknik Negeri Bali)
Hari Harsananda (Universitas Hindu Negeri I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar)
Prasanthy Devi Maheswari (Universitas Hindu Negeri I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar)
Made G. Juniartha (Universitas Hindu Negeri I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar)
Kadek Hengki Primayana (Sekolah Tinggi Agama Hindu Negeri Mpu Kuturan Singaraja)

Vidyottama Sanatana: International Journal of Hindu Science and Religious Studies
Vol 4, No 1 (2020)

This study aims to find an increase in the role of Hindu religious education in building the humanist and pluralist youth characters. Youth is a transition from childhood to adulthood, wherein the development phase has to undergo various tensions, one of them is emotional tension resulting from relationships. Youth is often not able to overcome the problems associated with emotional control maximally hence they fall into less humanistic and pluralistic relationships or even lead to juvenile delinquency. The low ability of youths in controlling emotions is caused by the lack of religious teachings internalization properly. If religion properly internalized in teenagers, it can foster and shape good emotional control, hence teenage lives will be more directed and all forms of inhumane and pluralist behavior in life between people can be avoided. Hindu religious education has an important role in developing humanist and pluralist youth in multicultural life.