MADRASAH: QUALITY AND SOCIAL CHANGE (Case Study in Banjarmasin Indonesia)

Abstrak / Ringkasan

According to Indonesian Constitution of 1945, every citizent has his/her right to get
education. Consequently, Indonesian government has to provide educational
institutions for its nation, like school, madrasah and other forms of non-formal
education. Both school and madrasah are carried out in different management. School
management is on the hands of the Manistry of Education and Culture, madrasah is
managed under the responsibility of the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The difference,
however, presents dualism of educational system in Indonesia. As the result, madrasah
has no more progress, treated discriminatively, and marginalized. What a negative
action it has, nowadays madrasah still exists in this country. The purpose of this article
is to explain the quality of madrasah (plural: madrasahs) and their role as the agent of
social change. This is a field research of qualitative-quantitative approach carried out in
a provencial capital city, that is Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan Indonesia. The
madrasahs studied were 15 (n=15) with various levels and status including the
founding organizations that are responsible. The data were collected by questionaire,
interview, observation and documentary. By measuring the eight indicators of National
Education Standard consisting of content standard, process, outputs, teachers and
non-educational staff, structures and infrastructures, management, cost, and standard
of assesment, it is finally concluded that the quality of madrasahs was very good,
although a little difference found out among the educational levels of them, between
the state and private madrasahs. In addition, by understanding the students mind set,
value, belief, norm, behaviour and their moral or ethics, madrasahs also have played
the role largerly and significantly in social change, except in some aspects which have
been deeply rooted in their tradition like their belief on supernatural life, sacrality and
irrational power, that basically have not changed yet.

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