Kemarin, hari kamis tanggal 23 Agustus 2007, kami mengundang orang tua/ wali iswa untuk berkumpul di gedung SDIT Ulul Albab. Diantara agenda kegiatan yang berhasil kami bahas adalah rencana agenda kegiatan bulan Ramadhan.
Garis besar rencana kegiatan bulan Ramadhan adlah sebagai berikut: Pesantren Kilat dikemas dengan nuansa yang berbeda. Ga ada ceramah dan model yang semacamnya. Untuk anak seusia SD kelas 1, 2, 3, akan lebih mengena jika kegiatan yang bersifat aplikatif.
Maka kegiatan bulan Ramadhan diwujudkan berupa:
1. Kunjungan dan Dialog Tokoh.
Siswa akan diajak sharing pengalaman dengan tokoh2 agama, masyarakat, dll. Tentang bagaimana masa kecil beliau, masa remaja, masa-masa sekolah, hingga sekarang. Anak-anak diberi kebebasan untuk bertanya. Diharapkan, mereka nantinya akan bisa mendapatkan pengalaman yang bisa diambil dari apa-apa yang telah dipaparkan oleh tokoh yang kita tunjuk.
2. Bakti Sosial
Siswa akan diajak untuk peduli kepada sesama. menyalurkan bantuan, walaupun nilainya tak seberapa, kepada dhuafa di sekitar sekolah atau ke panti asuhan yang ada di sekitar sekolah. Harapannya, nantinya mereka akan memiliki empati yang lebih terasah. Dengan pembinaan mental model begini, mudah-mudahan sejak dini, anak-anak memiliki sifat-sifat mulia yang bisa menjadi bekal hidup di masa mendatang.
Mohon doa dan dukungannya.
Selasa, 28 Agustus 2007
Rencana Agenda Bulan Ramadhan
Penekanan pada hafalan juz amma
Label: proses pembelajaranAlhamdulillah, sekitar sebulan sekolah mulai berjalan, sudah banyak kemajuan yang dicapai. Terutama pada hafalan juz amma. Sampai saat tulisan ini dibuat, rata-rata siswa sudah hafal 20 ayat dari surat An Naba.
Dengan segala keterbatasan yang kami miliki, kami berupaya menjaga amanah orang tua yang telah menitipkan anak-anaknya untuk kami didik di sekolah ini. Sekuat tenaga akan kami jaga amanah itu.
Kami sadar, dengan umur yang baru sebulan ini, masih banyak hal 2 yang belum bisa kami lakukan. Untuk itu kami memerlukan dorongan dan support dari orang tua, dewan guru, yayasan, dan semua pihak yang memungkinkan dan peduli terhadap pendidikan islam bagi anak-anak.
Sabtu, 04 Agustus 2007
International Symposium on the Future of Indonesia’s Islamic Education
International Symposium on the Future of Indonesia’s Islamic Education
Over 150 scholars, officials, teachers and international donors will work together over the next two days in Jakarta to develop strategies to “bridge the gap” between Islamic and general schools in Indonesia.
The International Symposium on Islamic Education was today opened by Ministry of Religious Affairs Secretary General, Professor Bahrul Hayat, and Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Bill Farmer, at Jakarta’s UIN Syarif Hidayatullah.
Professor Hayat said he hoped the symposium would generate a number of practical ways to “help bridge the gap between Islamic schools and general schools in Indonesia”. He said the forum would bring together a number of qualified Indonesian and international scholars to share their experiences and their ideas for taking Islamic education forward.
Issues to be discussed include ways to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Islamic schools and the role of Islamic schooling in the Indonesian Government’s plan for national education.
Another focus issue is how to implement the Grand Design for Nine Years of Basic Education in Indonesia, a strategy prepared jointly by the Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Religious Affairs earlier this year, and the potential progress to be achieved under the strategy by 2025.
Mr Farmer said he hoped the symposium would help stimulate real debate among officials, practitioners, scholars and donors on how to better shape and strengthen the Islamic education system.
“These issues are critical for Indonesia’s future, given the important role Islamic schools play in this country,” Mr Farmer said.
The Grand Design notes that Islamic schools provide basic education to more than 20 per cent of Indonesian children and more than 25 per cent of women. The largely autonomous network of Islamic schools is the longest existing education system in Indonesia.
The 24-25 July symposium is a joint initiative of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Australian Government, through its international development agency, AusAID.
The event - the Basic Education in Islamic Schools in Indonesia: Bridging the Gap – Vision 2025 Symposium - is being funded under a five-year A$30 million (IDR 225 billion) Australian Government program (LAPIS), which aims to improve the quality of basic Islamic education in Indonesia.
Further information:
Rohmat Mulyana – Ministry of Religious Affairs, mob 0813 9515 0099
Robert Kingham – Team Leader, Learning Assistance Program in Islamic Schools (LAPIS), mob 0816 793 576
(http://www.indonesia.embassy.gov.au/jakt/MR07_047.html)
Teacher Scholarship Program
Teacher Scholarship Program
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
This is a specific scholarship designed for those in SF USP schools who want to be teachers. Nonetheless, the subjects that the Foundation is currently focusing on are the Education Faculties majoring in Economics and Engineering. This scholarship is expected to provide more qualified teachers in the future, so that in long term, they can educate, train and produce future leaders for this nation.
Term and Requirements
The information described here is for the Teacher Scholarship Program in Economic and Applied Science for the academic year of 2006.
I. Basic Requirement
The interested applicants should be:
An Indonesian Citizen
Able to prove that the applicant is in need of financial assistance to continue his/her study by submitting a reference letter stating his/her financial condition and a copy of electricity bill and/or the lodging rental fee.
Admitted and is currently studying at the first semester of UPI in Bandung or UNNES in Semarang, majoring in Education
Able to use English fluently.
The scholarship will not be given to those are currently accepting other scholarship schemes.
II. Further Requirements
The applicant should be able to show that he/she has strong leadership skills.
The applicant should have the passion and commitment to develop the community and country.
The applicant must agree to undergo the selection process organized by the Sampoerna Foundation.
The awardee must agree to the terms and requirements in the Alumni Contribution Scheme, which will be elaborated further in Point XI. In addition, he/she must also take an active part in other mandatory and non-mandatory activities arranged by Sampoerna Foundation.
The applicant should obey all of the rules and regulations imposed by the Sampoerna Foundation for the scholarship's application.
The awardee has to agree to stay and work for 3 consecutive years in a state high school in Indonesia after the completion of his/her study so that he/she will be able to contribute his/her expertise and knowledge to improve the education quality of this country.
(http://www.sampoernafoundation.org/content/view/362/51/lang,en/)
Elementary Scholarship
Elementary Scholarship
Thursday, 25 May 2006
The Indonesian government has implemented a nine-year compulsory basic education program in a bid to create a better educated populace.
In the effort to help the successful implementation of the program, Sampoerna Foundation, in cooperation with the Directorate General of Primary and Secondary Education, Ministry of National Education, Republic of Indonesia, will provide 1,000 scholarships for elementary scholars across the nation annually.
This agreement was signed on 18th July 2005 between Elan Merdy (Chief Operating Officer of the Foundation) and Prof. Suryanto, PhD (Director General for the Management of Elementary and Secondary Education of the National Education Department).
The Foundation is committed to providing support for qualified students to complete their elementary education as initial part of the completion of the basic education requirement. For the distribution of the scholarships' funds, the Foundation is cooperating with Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) by facilitating the grant to BRI branches and units all across the archipelago.
(http://www.sampoernafoundation.org/content/view/211/51/lang,en/)
Education In Indonesia
Education In Indonesia
With the increasing coverage on education in these past few years, we have compiled a significant number of printed media reporting that focuses on issues related to teacher, school, student and the government’s policies in education. A special section is also dedicated for experts’ opinion regarding the intricate educational problems in this country and how to solve them.
Student
All of the newspaper articles that discuss about the condition of Indonesian students from numerous levels of education will feature here. Learn more about the hardship that the young generation have to suffer for education or you can also find out about the achievements of Indonesian children here.
Teacher
Teacher plays an important factor in influencing student's performance. Therefore, this section is dedicated to contain all information and discussion about teachers and their development. Also, issues and problems that most teachers encounter in their daily-profession will also be featured here.
School & University
When talking about schools, the most common image that comes into our mind is the run-down school located in the middle of the forest. Yet this tragedy stricks a lot closer to home now, with the increasing of damaged schools in Jakarta's area. Nonetheless, there are many issues that have not been properly discussed concerning schools. In this section, we will elaborate more by looking into the articles related to schools.
Opinion
This section features the opinion sector of numerous newspaper educational articles in Indonesia. These experts' opinions will give the readers some insights of what is currently happening the Indonesia's education sector.
Government
The government's role in ensuring the improvement of the education's sector in Indonesia is extremely crucial. Thus, it is only appropriate to include any news and updates from the government, particularly from the Ministry of National Education, regarding education in this part of this website.
(http://www.sampoernafoundation.org/content/section/6/48/lang,en/)
Promotion of Religious Education
Promotion of Religious Education
Religious education at basic level is an integral part of the national education covering madrasah ibtidaiah (MI), Islamic elementary schools, madrasah tsanawiah (Mts) the Islamic junior high schools, religious education in elementary schools (SD) and junior high schools (SLTP).
In Repelita VI, the increase in the crude participation number (APK) for MI is around 14% (the total attendance) for elementary schools until the end of Repelita VI is around 115%) and around 11% for MTs (the total attendance for junior high schools until the end of Repelita VI is around 66%.
In Law No. 2 of 1989 on the national education system, religion is part of the national education, which is based on Pancasila. Therefore, the role of Islamic schools is more important in the frame-work of teaching people the religious outlook besides mastering science and technology.
In 1997/98, the number of private religious schools was 22,868, while the state-run religious schools was only 1,025, compared to 7,430 and 787 schools respectively in the previous year.
The proportion in the number of state-run madrasahs and the private madrasah reflects the role of the private sectors. In 1997/98, 25.8 million families had a 7-12 year old while only 3.6 million were registered in religious private schools with an attendance of 13.93% compared to 37% in 1996/97.
In 1997/98, 13.4 million families had a 13 - 15 year old compared to 1.84 million noted in Madrasah Tsanawiah with an attendance of 13.75% in 1997/98, compared to 12.64% in 1996/97.
To boost accommodation power and expanding study opportunity, the Government expanded and rehabilitated 312 religious state school classrooms in 1997/98, compared to 300 classroom in 1996/97. The Government continues to add to the number and kinds of reading books, text-books for students and guide-books for teachers and supply various practical equipment.
In 1997/98, the Government supplied 713,000 copies of text-books and guide-books which was less than the 978,000 copies in 1996/97. The Government also supplied 2.9 million copies of text-books and guide-books for MTs, which is a 45% increase if compared with that in 1996/97, with only 2 million copies.
Entering the fourth year of Repelita VI, the Indonesian nation faced a tremendous economic crisis, starting from the middle of 1997. This situation has a great impact on various sectors of the community including the economy and education.
In 1997/98, the Government organized upgrading courses for 5,000 teachers and supervisors, provided 8.3 million copies of religious text-books for students and guide-books for teachers.
In improving the quality of religious education at schools, since 1990/91, the Government has imposed D2 standard courses for Moslem teachers. In 1997/98, 105,900 Moslem teachers attended D2 courses, the same number as in 1996/97. The 1,100 teachers, graduated from D2 standard courses in 1997/98, so that the cumulative number of graduates until 1997/98 was 73,400 teachers.
The Government requirement on D-2 standard courses also applied to Protestant, Catholic, Hindu and Buddhist teachers, since 1991/92.
In 1997/98, 17,300 teachers attended, which was an increase from the previous year with 15,800 teachers.
The number of D-2 graduates in 1997/98 amounted to 4,434 teachers, consisting of 2,000 Protestants, 400 Catholics, 2,000 Hindus and 34 Buddhists.
The D-3 standard courses for religious teachers, started in 1994/95, is still being maintained. In 1997/98, the D-3 standard courses were followed by 15,600 Moslem teachers and 680 Protestants teachers, which was the same as in the previous year.
The promotion of religious education for senior high schools (SLTA) is to improve the quality as well as equity of religious education for high schools which was 3,500 schools in 1997/98 consisting of 457 state schools and 3,083 private schools like in the previous year. The number of private high schools was 88% of the total number of high schools.
There were 481,300 high school students in 1997/98 broken down in 211,800 students in state high schools and 269,500 students in private high schools. If compared with that in 1996/97, it showed an increase of 6,400 students in accommodation and 3.6% in attendance which is the same as in 1996/97.
Since 1990/91, the Government introduced a special program for high schools (MAPK), stressing the choice on religious science and Arabic language in order to improve the quality of religious high schools.
In 1997/98, the new program was applied in 12 state-run madrasah aliyahs (MAN) locations namely in Ciamis, Yogyakarta, Jember, Padang Panjang, Ujung Pandang, Bandar Lampung, Martapura, Banda Aceh, Solo, Mataram, Palembang and Jombang.
In 1997/98, MANs were found in eight (8) locations, namely in Garut, Kendal, Jember, Medan, Bukittinggi, Banjarmasin, Watampone and Praya. Since 1997/98, MANs have been available in 27 provinces. This program is adjusted to meet the specific needs of the respective regions.
To promote religious education for public senior high schools in 1997/98, the Government upgraded 800 religious teachers and supplied 1,169 million copies of religious text-books.
Religious education in higher education is mainly directed towards preparing the students to become members of the community, with academic capability and leadership and an understanding towards the needs of development in accordance with the development of science and technology, loyal and with a great responsibility towards the future of the nation and the state.
High school attendance during Repelita VI is around 1.2% (projected at 13% in the last year of Repelita VI).
In 1997/98, the number of religious institutes (PTA) students reached 320,700 persons, consisting of 225,000 State-run PTA (PTAN) students and 98,500 private PTA (PTAS) students, which was increase by 40,300 students compared with that in 1996/97.
In 1997/98, the Government constructed 30,500 square meters of classrooms, language laboratories, libraries as well as other supporting means and supplied 177,700 copies of text-books for 14 IAIN (the State-run Islamic Religious Institutes).
In addition to the promotion of IAIN, the Government also assisted private-run religious institutes (PTAS), covering Islamic PTAS, Protestant PTAS, Catholic PTAS, Hindu PTAS and Buddhist PTAS.
The promotion of religious institutions and workers is aimed at enhancing the role of religious institutions of various religions in development and improving the quality of religious workers in the community. In the framework of promoting Islamic religious boarding schools (Pondok Pesantren-PP), in 1997/98, the Government consulted and upgraded 160 PP supervisors, granted financial aid, rehabilitated 450 PP buildings and provided 36,850 copies of library-books.
Religious development research conducted in 1997/98 covered the transformation of religious life after natural disasters, the alteration of religious habits in the fishermen community, research of ancient manuscripts, the study of religious guidance and the formation of religious maps.
In order to improve the quality of religious judiciary services in 1997/98, the Government educated 40 religious candidate judges, upgraded 30 senior judges and 300 substitute bailiffs.
Beside law counseling, infrastructure and other means as an integral part of the national law system, the expansion and rehabilitation of religious courts are included.
In 1997/98, the Government continued to rehabilitate 30 religious courts (25 religious courts and 5 religious appeal courts) and expanded 13 religious courts (4 religious courts and 9 religious appeal courts).
(http://www.jakweb.com/id/soc/religious/religious5.htm)
Sampoerna Foundation Increasing the Quality of 3 Madrasah in Rembang
Sampoerna Foundation Increasing the Quality of 3 Madrasah in Rembang
Monday, 26 February 2007
On 22nd February 2006, Sampoerna Foundation (SF) officially launched its educational quality improvement program for madrasah aliyah (Islamic high schools) in Rembang. The launch was signified by an MoU signing between Pondok Pesantren Raudlatuth Thalibin and Sampoerna Foundation, represented by the Head of Yayasan Al Ibriz, KH Yahya Cholil Staquf and Chief Operating Officer Sampoerna Foundation, Elan Merdy. The Raudlatuth Thalibin’s Head of Pesantren, a respected and influential Islamic leader, KH. A. Mustofa Bisri, or Gus Mus, was also present during the signing.
At the event, both parties agreed to appoint three madrasah aliyah as the pilot project of this program, consisting of Madrasah Raudlatuth Thalibin, Madrasah Aliyah Mualimin Mu’allimat and Madrasah Aliyah Negeri Rembang.
Elan explained that the main objective of the program is to improve the quality of education in Indonesia, including the Islamic schools which accommodate quite a significant number of students in Indonesia. ”There are several reasons why Sampoerna Foundation chose to launch this program. One of them is based on the fact from the Ministry of National Education that claims that 30% of Indonesian students study in madrasah”, Elan stated.
Eddy F. Henry, the Director of Program and Alumni Affairs of Sampoerna Foundation, also added that most of the students in the madrasah come from low-income families with no financial assistance to continue their studies. ”Just imagine how many millions of Indonesian students across Indonesia who do not have the chance to obtain good quality education. If we don’t do anything NOW, there is a great possibility that these students might be affected by the extremist group who offers them short-cut solutions to end their poverty. Therefore, Sampoerna Foundation is convinced that this is one of the effective ways to improve the quality of our human resources, while at the same time, to restore the image of Islam as the leader in culture, pluralism and peace,” Eddy stated.
According to Eddy, this madrasah quality improvement program has a similar concept with SF - United Schools Program (SF USP). Through this program, Sampoerna Foundation will provide several quality support to improve the teachers’ quality, develop the school management quality and basic education quality at the pesantren. In addition, Sampoerna Foundation also committed to enhance the quality of the learning and teaching activities and the extra curricular activities, while raising the standard of the school’s facilities and infrastructure.
The collaboration between Sampoerna Foundation and Pondok Pesantren is designed to improve the education quality of the madrasah aliyah that have partnered with the pesantren and regarded as a formal learning center for the santri (Islamic leaders) to study subject matters in addition to the religious content. In 2007, Sampoerna Foundation also plans to partner with the madrasah aliyah in Pondok Pesantren Annuqayah in Guluk-Guluk, Sumenep, Madura. It is expected that in 5 years period, 20 madrasah in Indonesia will join this program. ”We hope that this chosen madrasah will create a snowballing effect and encourage other madrasah from other provinces or regencies to improve their quality as well,“ Eddy stated.
In the meantime, the Foundation’s USP has been implemented in several state high schools in Musi Banyuasin, Balikpapan, Bukitinggi, Depok, Bandung, Denpasar, Surabaya, Malang, and Pasuruan.
(http://www.sampoernafoundation.org/content/view/644/126/lang,en/)
