Strengthening of Religious Character Education Based on School Culture in the Indonesian Secondary School

Suyatno Suyatno,Fitri Nur Hayati,Edhy Susatya

doi:10.31757/euer.331

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This research aims to answer how the implementation of religious character education building based on school culture and conducted a successful program at SMAN 5 Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta 5 Public High School). This study is highly important to conduct since the religious character is an essential value in the learning process in Indonesia. The research subjects consisted of school principals, teachers, and students. Determination of the subjects carried out by purposive sampling. Data collection used interview, observation, and documentation. An interactively inductive data analysis technique performed data analysis with data reduction stages, data displays, and conclusion drawing. The results of the study showed that: 1) the implementation of religious character education building based on school culture was carried out through character building based on religious values, school climate based on religious values, extracurricular activities based on religious values, as well as building relationships between schools and the societies. 2) The impact of the strengthening program of character education produces two themes as follows: the growth of students’ religious awareness and the growth of tolerance among religious communities. The findings of this study indicated the importance of the school’s cultural base in implementing holistic religious character education programs in schools. This finding also strengthens the previous research findings, which had mentioned that the religious character is an essential character for students in a secondary school in Indonesia, and also strengthen that Indonesia’s society, in general, is religious people.

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Since passing Law Number 20 of 2003 about the National Education System, education for building the character toward the young generation always becomes the main topic in every curriculum development in Indonesia
This study aimed to describe the implementation of religious character education building based on school culture at SMAN 5 Yogyakarta and the level of success in implementing the program
Based on data analysis in the field, it was found that the stages of implementation carried out by SMAN 5 Yogyakarta in implementing the values of religious character through school culture including Character building based on religious values, school climate based on religious values, extracurricular activities based on religious values, as well as building relationships between schools and the societies

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Introduction

Since passing Law Number 20 of 2003 about the National Education System, education for building the character toward the young generation always becomes the main topic in every curriculum development in Indonesia. The core values of the competency-based curriculum (2004), school-based curriculum (2006), and curriculum 2013 (K-13) are so that the learning process in the class does not rule out the transfer of values to students; the alumni of educational institutions in Indonesia do not merely have intellectual intelligence but are offset by strong character. Schools have been deemed less successful in civilizing human values. The process of education in schools is directed to humans who have intellectual intelligence, life skills, and a good character. All components of education, such as curriculum, teacher, the system of assessment, are expected to focus on developing intellectual intelligence and pay attention to two other aspects, both psychomotor and affective. It is expected that the development of these three aspects will enable schools to give birth to 88 | HAYATI , SUYATNO , & SUSATYA alumni who can face the challenges of the times

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