By: Marwan Achmad)*
The government’s plan to issue a Presidential Regulation replacing the Minister of Education and Culture No. 23 of 2017 on five-day schools gets the pros and cons in the community. Nahdatul Ulama as one who refused the issuance of perpres assumed that full day school can turn off madrasah school diniyah. Because, with a full day school system, the study hours will be 8 hours per day or will reach the afternoon when the madrasah school begins in the afternoon.
Nevertheless, there are still many parties who support the publishing plan. This is because the number of positive benefits that can be taken from the implementation of full day school.
Basically, this presidential regulation will not necessarily force schools to implement school activities for only five days. Six-day school is still allowed to run the program, it just needs an agreement from all parties involved in running it.
In addition, the eight hours calculated as a student’s learning process have included various additional activities undertaken by students after their schooling activities. So that extra curricular activities, both inside and outside the classroom, will be counted as a learning process by a student, and it will be assessed by the teacher.
The policy is an implementation of the Character Education Reinforcement program (PPK) which focuses on five main values, namely religious, nationalist, mutual assistance, self-reliance and integrity. Therefore, children will be able to learn how to do activities that cultivate manners and skills in the 21st century.
Students need to be given wide opportunities to develop various interests after school activities, whether they are spiritual, sports, arts, and community. In the eight-hour lesson, the teacher will encourage students to learn by various methods such as role playing and from various learning sources, can be from artists, farmers, ustadz, priests.
Another positive impact with the issuance of a full day school perpres is the time of togetherness between the child and his or her parents more. This will impact on moral education from parent to child, where previously it can only be done one day to two days.
)* The author is CIDISS Contributor
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