The Aim of Islamic Education at Junior High School The Aim of Islamic Education at Senior High School

41 In this level, Islamic education is aimed to provide basic competency of the student about Islamic religion, developing the religious life, become devout people and obedient people to Allah SWT, and good manners whether personal or social member and civil society, to prepare student to attend secondary school. 4 According to explanations above, the regulation are still relevance and continuity, it has strengthened the aim of Islamic education on the final boundaries which is reached in elementary school. From this, the researcher can take two points, namely: 1. Provide basic competencies namely, intellectual, knowledge, personality, good manners, and the skill to live independently. 2. All the experience of the Islamic education at elementary school prepared to improve Islamic education at level secondary and high school.

B. The Aim of Islamic Education at Junior High School

In national education, the aim of national education is to reach the competency in every level of education, include in level junior high school or low secondary. At junior high school, Islamic education has the aim which related to the aim of national education. Directorate General of Islamic on Islamic education formulated the aim of Islamic education in secondary school, namely: 1. Islamic education is to grow and develop the student’s belief in giving, implant, knowledge development, comprehension, habit, experience, application on Islamic doctrine, so that those points bring the students becomes Moslem dynamic who straight to develop belief and student obedience to Allah SWT. 2. Islamic education is to embody religious people and behaving good moral who has the capacity knowledge, intellectual, productive, honesty, worship persistence, ethic, fair, discipline, tolerance, and they kept harmony whether as personal and social in developing religious culture in school community. 5 4 Departemen Agama RI, Kurikulum 2004 Sekolah Menengah Pertama, Jakarta: Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Dasar dan Menengah, 2004, p. 5. 5 Departemen Agama RI, Standar Isi dan Standar Kelulusan Pendidikan Agama Islam Sekolah Menengah Pertama Jakarta: Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Islam , 2008, p. 3-4. 42 At secondary school the student had been expected to do religious attitude through developing of spiritual potency, whether as personal or social. It meant to increase the spiritual potency of student, convey Islamic doctrine even civilize doctrine and religious values. 6 From the statements above, Islamic education has to increase spiritual potency and it is able to build a student personality in order to the students become devout human and obedient people even behaving human.

C. The Aim of Islamic Education at Senior High School

Likewise in last subject, Islamic education in elementary school has the aim to develop religious capacity for student. So that at this level focused in building religious attitude as personal. Then in senior high school, a student is able to know and practice the values of Islamic doctrine. In this level, Islamic education has been oriented to develop religious attitude in individual and social. At this level too, a student is able to make social interaction and practice the values in Islamic doctrine. As formulated in content standards and outcome standards that Islamic education at middle school is: 1. Islamic education is to growth and develop the student’s belief in giving, implant, knowledge development, comprehension, habit, experience, application on Islamic doctrine, so that those points the students become Moslem dynamic who straight to develop belief and student obedience to Allah SWT. 2. Islamic education is to embody a religious people and behaving good moral who has the capacity knowledge, intellectual, productive, honesty, worship persistence, ethic, fair, discipline, tolerance, and they kept harmony whether as personal or social in developing religious culture in school community. 7 6 Muhaimin, Nuansa Baru Pendidikan Islam, Jakarta: Raja Grafindo Persada, 2006, Edisi I, p. 169. 7 Departemen Agama RI, Standar Isi dan Standar Kelulusan Pendidikan Agama Islam Sekolah Menengah Atas Jakarta: Direktorat Jendral Pendidikan Islam , 2008, p. 3. 43 Furthermore, in Directorate General, the aim of Islamic education has been included in standards of outcome competency, namely: 1. Behaving in accordance with religious doctrine that he believes in. 2. Self developing optimally even reflecting as people in confidence and responsibility on his behavior and deed in social circle. 3. Behaving to appreciate the other religion. 4. Even communication self potency in social life. 8 From the explanations above, the aim of Islamic education is to improve the student experiences in moral, to create the religious attitude. In this level, the student not only in developing Islamic values individually, but it is in developing in social values which implanting Islamic values.

D. Creating the Religious Atmosphere at Public Schools