Character values in the scope of education continue to strive for character content to be applied in schools both during learning and in students' daily lives. Character education can be contained through books that become students' handbooks. The currently circulating textbooks are expected to integrate character values in line with educational goals. Character values are a measure of good and bad that underlie the thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors that guide human behavior about the best way of life. The character values of responsibility and independence are almost widely found in Indonesian textbooks especially Vocational High School grade XI. This study aims to examine the content of responsibility and independent character contained in the Indonesian textbook grade XI Curriculum 2013, and the implementation of character content in the Indonesian textbook grade XI Curriculum 2013 towards strengthening students' character. This research uses a qualitative descriptive research. The data used in this study are Indonesian textbooks grade XI Curriculum 2013. The data collection technique in this study is a documentation study technique. The data analysis technique in this study is a content analysis technique. The results showed the content of the character of responsibility and independence contained in the Indonesian textbook grade XI Curriculum 2013. There are 20 data. Texts containing responsibility and independent characters are introductory texts, short story texts, biographical texts, and review texts. The text of the short story contains at most the characters of hard work. Literary texts are texts that have a lot of hard work characters. The character is very important to integrate because it will make students have good moral qualities.