The Role of Traditional Sports in Establishing Student Character through Physical Education, Sports, and Health Learning

The scope of physical education is all educational efforts through human activity or movement in the context of the acculturation process, especially in the transformation of values.Through physical education and sports, the educational learning process utilizes physical activity which is expected to produce holistic changes in individual quality, both in terms of physical, mental, and emotional.One way to fulfill the objectives of physical education and sports is by integrating traditional game sports equipment.Traditional sports have an important role in the process of forming and developing the character of students.This research aims to find out the important role of traditional sports in the formation of the character of students, especially in the physical education, sports, and health learning.The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative with a literature approach study by describing descriptions in the field which are then adapted to existing theories.The results of this study indicate that traditional sports games have an important role as an instrument in the formation of the character of students, especially in the physical education, sports, and health learning.The values contained in traditional sports games include responsibility, mutual respect among others, having a high spirit of cooperation and perseverance, being honest in behavior, having high integrity, and many other positive attitudes.This shows that traditional sports have a very important role in the process of forming the character of students.