Improving Self-Concept through Pencak Silat Learning

The National Policy of Nation Development stated that the function of character building is to select the local culture and to filter the foreign culture that is not suitable with the values and the characters of a dignified nation (UU RI, 2011). The research is focused on the efforts of the development of the national cultural wealth that is pencak silat. Pencak silat is believed to be able to improve students self-concept. The correlational method with post-test only design is used to reveal the correlation between the skill of pencak silat that the the students have learnt with the students' self-concept. The sample of the research involved 40 students of faculty of sport and health education of UPI who were given the learning of pencak silat for one semester. Based on the statistic analysis, it is concluded that the learning of pencak silat is significantly correlated with the development of students self-concept.