Environmental Health-based Educational Policies at Public Junior High School 1 Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia as an Independent Adiwiyata School

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Adiwiyata is a program for Indonesian schools to encourage environmental-friendliness and ecological awareness. Public Junior High School 1 Karanganyar is a school in Central Java Province that won the Independent Adiwiyata School award. AIM: This research aims to describe: (1) The environmentally friendly policies, (2) the curriculum model of Islamic Religion Education subject that have ecologic orientation, (3) the participative-based school activities that color the construction of the Islamic Religion Education subject that have ecologic orientation, and (4) the management of facilities and infrastructure that support the construction of the Islamic Religion Education subject that have ecologic orientation in Public Junior High School 1 Karanganyar. METHODS: This study uses the method of constructivism paradigm. This descriptive research uses the qualitative approach. RESULT AND DISCUSSION: The environmentally-friendly school policies encompass the Curriculum of Educational Unit Level and the School Budget and Activity Plans, which contain efforts of environmental preservation. Results show that these policies are also contained in the vision of the Public Junior High School 1 Karanganyar, namely, “To create a generation that is religious, intelligent, have good character, and environmentally-friendly.” The curriculum model contains policies on environmental preservation. CONCLUSION: The participative-based school activities in PJHS 1 Karanganyar are supported by all school components, including in the form of partnerships. The management of the facilities and infrastructure that support ecologic orientation is quite good. Some educative slogans and posters contain ecologic messages put up in strategic places. There are green open spaces, a canteen that reduces plastic usage, and waste management facilities.