%X A Holistic and Contextual Approach to Overcome Character Crisis in Indonesia. Indonesia has been confronting character crisis structural in nature as it occurs in all orders of society’s life. Life practice has lost its important values needed to build people with character. Such values as honesty, self-confidence, appreciation to diversity, and enthusiasms for learning and working have been decreasing. Actually, such values play an important role in solving problems that Indonesia is now facing, such as corruption, continuous-horizontal conflicts, inferior feelings, and low enthusiasms for learning and working. In relation to this, education can be a means to build people with character. It can be implemented with a holistic and contextual approach. Such an approach deals with not only the cognitive factor but also all potentials belonging to people. Principles of character education should be socialized and implemented in all levels of society. Keywords: character education, holistic and contextual approach %A Dr. Siti Irene Astuti D. %T PENDEKATAN HOLISTIK DAN KONTEKSTUAL DALAM MENGATASI KRISIS KARAKTER DI INDONESIA %L UNY3580 %J Cakrawala Pendidikan Edisi Dies 2010