RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IS A SOLUTION TO FACE A GLOBALIZATION

Education has become one of social important  aspect in human live  since the development of the culture, technology, and all aspects in human live  forced the people to be educated. By the time goes on the education in Indonesia has shown a significant development.

The establishment of the private school has helped the government to create a better education circumstance In Indonesia. It also govern in national rule of education “ pendidikan berbasis masyarakat adalah penyelangraan pendidikan berdasrkan kekhasan agama, social,budaya, aspirasi, dan potensi masyarakat sebagai perwujudan pendidikan dari, oleh, dan untuk masyarakat itu, UNDANG-UNDANG REPUBLIK INDONESIA NOMOR 20 TAHUN 2003 TENTANG SISTEM PENDIDIKAN NASIONAL.    

People get more option to select a school  for their children. The private school also offers a religious skill which is combined  with the school curriculum that emphasis the student on moral education. Students who study  at private school will get more acknowledgement than students who study in general school. In Indonesia it self, a method which combine a religious education  and national curriculum has been used by the MUHAMADYAH an Islamic foundation which care about the education in Indonesia since the colonial era. MUHAMADYAH aims to created a well educated person, it also establish a kindergarten, elementary school until university.

Theislamization of higher learning focused on four objectives: the student population, the faculty, the curriculum, and the general Islamic atmosphere to be created in campuses or in school. The religious notion that created in the school or campuses will make the student aware about how important education it self, the student will combine that there is a strong relationship  between the general acknowledge that they get from the class and the religious notion that they get from the school environment. The combination of the general education and religious skill will created a people who aware about the condition of this country, and  ready to be the leader of this country latter. a religious skill that practiced   In private school is almost as same as the religious education that use in boarding school where the religious skill added into the school curriculum.

Even though a religious education was claimed to be the perfect method more complete than other method but a dichotomy of it is still debated.  Government  especially ( a department of nationaleducation ) seems to look like confused to fix an amendment for the religious education . the problem is not whether a religious education is  difficult enough to apply and practice it in the school environment, but the main problem that still need to be consider is the examination, as the religious skill added into the school curriculum, the government especially ( the department of national education ) confused to fix what kind of examination that should be applied in a school, because the religious education has its own curriculum, its means a school which apply  a religious school as its curriculum cannot be equaled with the school which still adopted a general curriculum from ( diknas ) it is totally different, so the exam item also cannot be equaled. Imagine, how come two difference curriculum notion, and then two difference students from different school which adopted a religious education and not, get the examination together with the exam item which dominant to general education, sure there must be a misunderstanding In the student which comes from the school which adopted a religious education.

The separation like that which the government should be avoided because it is impossible to equal two types of different curriculum notion. In other word government must have a standard qualified for each curriculum, whether a religious skill curriculum or state curriculum in order to avoid the separation between the school which use a religious education as their school curriculum and the school who still prefer to use state curriculum, but there are still a lot of obstacles that retard in making the policy.

 A dichotomy of the advantage and the cost  of religious education is still debated. Muhamad noh a ministry of national education says that 55 percent of Indonesia students can`t read Koran ( an Islamic holy book ) he says that “ it is embarrassing because all of them are Muslim so the should be able to read Koran”..   it is good, in facing the globalization the students should must be provide with the emotional education as it is thought in religious curriculum if they don`t have an emotional intelligent they will get easier to be trapped in the globalization black hole.