Building students whose characters are MarTuhan-Marroha-Marbisuk is not different from the process of shaping and turning students’ characters into personalities with quality to enliven and manifest the values of MarTuhan-Marroha-Marbisuk throughout their lives, either alone or in a community.

The character virtues of  MarTuhan-Marroha-Marbisuk (3M) invite Del community to be “their own personalities” with special features as students who enliven the 3 M values in manners of being ordered, cultured and cheerful not only in Del campus environment but also amongst society when students come back to live with them.

The character building process becomes an attempt of transferring, introducing and bringing 3 M Del values to all of the academic circle especially Del students. The character will be developed from the knowing stage to acting to habituating, either in academic activities or other extracurricular activities. It also applies while participating in the learning process at Del campus and after leaving the campus.

The focus of character building education is to build students’ potential as one whole personality. The wholeness will be reflected from the students’ knowledge comprehension in line with their own majors at Del, such as Informatics, Electrical, Engineering Management, Biotechnology, Computer Engineering and Information System, in which Del values will be manifested in the comprehension process. In an implicit way, to be ordered, cultured and cheerful attitudes also the motto for the rules and regulations’ implementation according to minimum standard needed fulfilling. The focus of education is to manifest the learning environment and process so that students can actively develop their self-potentials as long as they breathe. The purpose of such character building education is to ensure each student can recognize and manifest Del values as well as make them part of whole and comprehensive “being”.

So as to bring the 3M values into reality, numerous regulations and rules of living at IT Del campus have been set up. The characters built and developed are expected not merely to be “ just follow the rules” characters. The character expected to come up with is the type having desires to do something better than merely obeying the rules.

To do good things should not be something enforced by the outsiders. One’s heart, soul and mind should unite together in doing activities (to do well should evolve into a habit (culture) anywhere and anytime, whereas the results of doing the activities and decision can comfort his or her feeling (feel happy).

To become ordered, cultured and cheerful will be strongly felt if the ways are manifested in a community life along with other living creatures. In IT Del campus such ways can be implemented in dorms. Living in communities at dorms have been applied and contemplated as a big family who support each other, work together, happily in ordered and cover the values of obligation like respect for each other, love for each other as a cultured big family, whereas there should be no feeling of being coerced in everything which needs togetherness reflecting happiness.

Mariana Simanjuntak