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This study aims to create a description of the formation of character through boarding school education in students in pondok pesantren and to see the achievement of pesantren in instilling the value of these characters. The values of characters to be seen and implanted such as religious values, discipline, intelligence, helping others, honesty and responsibility. Character is a habit or behavior of a person. The value of the character implanted to students by way of boarding school. In this study, four respondents who previously had bad character values such as not performing the prayers, denied the parents, did not care about the environment and wished to win themselves, but after boarding school (pesantren) changed the value of the character for the better. The four respondents were two male students and two female students. Planting the value of these characters to the students by controlling, supervising and doing habituation to the existing routine in the pesantren environment. This research is a qualitative research using unstructured interview technique and observation. The results showed that the four respondents experienced a change and already have the value of existing characters on boarding school (pesantren) is.