Relevancy and Urgency of Religion Education on The Faithfulness Formation of The Students

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to observe the extent of students’ understanding of Pancasila Education, especially the first principle, Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa and Religion Education towards the formation of Faithfulness of the Students. For this reason the method used is a quantitative research method which is carried out by distributing questionnaires to the respondents and then completing it by using path analysis. The results showed that Pancasila Education, especially the First Principle has no significant influence. It can be seen on the amounted 34,30%, while the effect of Religion Education on the Faithfulness Formation of the students is significant, which amounted to 59.4%. It can be concluded that Pancasila Education has smaller significant effect on the Faithfulness Formation of the students than Religion Education, which has significant effect. From the results of this study it became clear about the study of what types of education had a significant influence on the formation of the Faitfulness of the students. And the implication is that Religion Education should be delivered more intensively and seriously if we idealized to format faitfulness of our students as the young generation. Therefore, the students as the young generation not only having religion, but they have to be religious and faithful persons.