CONSTRUCTING LOCAL WISDOM-BASED CHARACTERS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AS FUNDAMENTAL PART IN SHAPING LAW SCHOOL GRADUATES HESTI SEPTIANITA-ANTHON F.SUSANTO-ROSA TEDJABUWANA-M.ALVI PRATAMA
UNIVERSITAS PASUNDAN
Abstract
One of the key points to produce strong and good lawyer is to train the students with lawyering skills, however, at the same time, the awareness of social injustice comes to the attention. This issue is to prepare law students to not only become successful lawyers litigating in profitable law firms, representing rich clients but also representing underprivilleged people and at the same time empowering the communities. It is important to build the characters of social justice inherently among the students to sentisize them about the injustice sufferred by the communities through exposure of engagement with the people, to have an experiential learning. Before exposing the students with those situational experience however, the lawschool curriculum needs to identify characters to be built in. This writings aims to learn about characters to be built in to sentisize the students about the social injustice. The methods used in this research was conceptual research supported with empirical data. The findings show that some characters highlights the outcome of the social justice education through the exposure of handling and empowering the communities such as emphaty, pro-social behavior, and altruism. Local wisdom also plays a vital role in the construction of the character.
